El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-21

ing in glory we cannot but notice that tho
Spirit always speaks of deliverance for
Israel and Judgment upon her enemies
and blessing for her friends, and that Is
just the story here, In perfect accord with
the testimony of the prophets, "Surely
the Lord God will do nothing, but He re-
vealeth His secret unto His servants, tho
prophets" (Amos ill, y. Therefore II
we would know His purposes we must 60
to those to whom He has told them. We
therefore inquire, "Have the prophets said
anything about His judging the nations
or about sheep and goats?" AS we cannot
understand the first verse in the New Tes-
lament without considerable knowledge
Of the Old, so there are many other things
In the New Testament which require the
light of the Old Testament, and this judg-
ment of the nations is one of them. Any
one familiar with Joel iii, Zeph. Iii and
Eek. xxxiv will feel almost at homo in
our lesson and will not confound this
Judgment of living nations either with the
Judgment seat of Christ or that Of the
great white throne from. xiv, 10; II Cor.
v, 10; Rev. Xxx, 1877, the former for believ-
ers only and the latter for the rest of tho
dead, who take no part in the first resur-
rection, at the end of the thousand years
83, "a. "Come ye blessed Of My Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from
the foundation of the world" It seems
to me that our Lord must have had the
words in Eek. xxxiv in His mind. for
there we read Of sheep and goats, and Of
the Ill treatment Of the diseased and tho
sick, and of blessing that shall come to
other nations through Israel because they
were Israel's friends. The blessings of the
church in her oneness with Christ are
spoken of as prepared Before the founda-
ton of the world" John xvii, "a !; I Pet. /,
20; Eph. i, A, while the blessings Of other
nations through Israel seem to be From
the foundation of the world" (Rev. Kill,
8; xvii, 81. But without pressing this I
only ask that you distinguish between the
millennial kingdom of blessing to nations
through Israel and the kingdom of God
the Father to follow 1t.
So, SO. These are good works prepared
for all believers at all times, and there are
always plenty of opportunities for such as
are ready. Even Job testified that he de-
livered the poor and the fatherless and
such as had none to help.
$3.50. We do not need to keep count of
all the things we do for Him. We only
need to hold ourselves ready for any man.
ner of service, wholly at His command
ment, and just do as occasion serve us, az
the moments come and go, believing that
He prepares every occasion and notices
whether we are watching His way and
ready for His every call.
40. "And the King shall answer and say
unto them, Verify I say unto you, 1nas-
much as ye have done it unto one OF the
least of these, My brethren, ye have done
it unto Me-" Some of us think that we
would have been very glad to have minis
tered unto Him personally If we had lived
when He was on the earth. We would
have followed Him like the true disciples
and have hung upon His words We
would have ministered unto Him like
those women, and kept open house for
Him, like Martha and Mary. Let us learn
from His own lips in the words OF this
verse that whatever is done to one OF His
for loves sake is the same as II done to
Himself.
Al. "Then shall He say also unto them
on the left hand, Depart from Me, ye
cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for
the devil and his angels" He tells what
He Himself will say, for He is the King,
and there can be no mistake about 1t, and
whatsoever would teach that there Is no
devil and no everlasting fire is in partner
ship with the father of lies himself, for he
Is a liar and the father of it (John viii,
AZ, and began his work by questioning
the word Of God and making God a liar.
Notice that this awful place was not pre-
pared for man, but for the devil, for God
willeth not the death of a sinner.
42-45. "Inasmuch as ye did it not to
one of the least of these, ye did 1t not to
Me-" While we are reading, as we believe,
of Judgment of living nations with ref
erence to their good or bad treatment of
Israel, yet there are principles here which
are always the same. At all times it is
true that whatever is done or not done to
a child of God is looked upon as done or
not done to Christ Himself. The only
way to show love to God is to show love
to preople for Christ's sake. The only way
to prove our submission to God is by sub
mission to circumstances and to people
not only to the good and gentle, but also
to the forward Il Pet. ii, 49,
a. "And these shall go away into ever
lasting punishment, but the righteous into
life eternal" The words eternal and ever
lasting in this verse are the same, teach
ing that as is the life for duration SO is
the torment. Why should we criticise and
find fault with what we cannot under
stand? 1t is ours to believe God, to accept
His dear Son, to receive gladly what He
SO freely offers and to rejoice in Him ever
more, having perfect confidence In the
love that came from heaven to save US
and gladly yielding our whole being to
Him as thank offering. As to many of
His ways which are to US a great deep,
we not trust HimP "Shall not the
all the earth do right" (Gen.
Who are we that we should
Judgment on One who "a
He gave HimssH for use