The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-30


and more. and this is the vision Of death
which he will hereafter carry with NM
For we know that If orr earthly house Of this
tabernacle were dissolved, have buildlng OF
God. a house not MADE with hands, eternal IN the
heavens.
For in this, we groan. earnestly desiring to be
clothed upon with cur house which IS from
III so be that being clothed we shall not be
found naked
being burdened not for that we would De uH-
clothed, but clothed upon, that mortailty might
be swallowed up of life.
Never again shall we find Paul referring
to any general resurrection at me as bi If
of a day in which all the dead shall AlSS
from their graves and the sea WIZ git We W ~
its dead No, hereafter for him neSath -
swallowed up in life, dying IS ltse's resut
rection. and to die is to depart and De Win
Christ, which is far better
FAITH FOR THE PRESENT.
but it is not only the future he mas
looked upon by faith, but the present Also
He has been thinking more and more Oh the
life of Christ, and his life has led him NOV
and more into sympathy with the spirit Oh
Christ, and he has come more and more
to understand how it is that Chrlst VIII
conquer the world His enemies have SAID
he has never seen Christ, has never heaIu
Christ teach; he is no apostle. We learn IL
mics. And as Luther earned liberty from
Romanism and Wesley from high church
ism, and as Beecher learned love from law
in Puritanism and Bushnell learned the
power of vision from the leSanSn Vi .NIW
England so Paul learned the power OF lne
gospel and the true character Oh III 80
from the very men who attacked ana as
sailed Him. ,.4
He says even if we had known Christ
after the flesh we should not care L Lot
q NINA tn
The spiritual vision is worth more imam t ~
material vision. The sight counts TOT no w
ing; the spiritual vision is the all IN an. we
look for Him. And neither do we LOOK lo ta
God to show Himself in a Messiah YET 70
come. We do not look for the reVeidtlou u
the divine in the by and by God was III
Christ. ,,
This is the first, think, clear enIncia-
ton by Paul of the divinity in Jesus Shllse'
at all events, none so clear as TINS peLoIe
And he will never lose from II, ne VIII never
grow away from it. Clearer ana pla -,pa,
more elaborate statements VIII CONF t tpo,
1t of the person and work OF ChIlsl' pue eASS
will grow out of this:
That God was in Christ, reconciling the world
unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses uhlo
them; and hath committed unto US the Woru Vi
reconciliation.
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as
though God did beseech you oy us: we pray you
in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled 10 Gou
For He hath made Him to be sin Tor US. Wno
knew sin; that might be made the right
eousness of God in Him.
ton be carried out? In what way, by what
process? All, there is but one way. II is py
having the same passion there was ~ ~
Christ for the truth. 1t Is by lie as wen
as by lip So hereafter shall find Pall
| dwelling on this; that he is to dle VIII
Christ in order that he may rise WIN
! Christ We shall find Paul saying that ne
| follows after, that he may know the suliS =
| ings of Christ and be conformed unto his
cTneed unto Sf fhe World and the World
me- We shall find him entering into tn'
! passion of Christ, not that by the passion
of Christ he will get the heavenly glory p ~
| and by, but because the passion Christ is
| the glory of Christ, and no man enters lnlo
| the glory of Christ who does not enter tne
| passion of a self-crucifying love. Ana ms
| he expresses in these paradoxeS OF CnrlsI-
! ian experiences:
In all things approving ourselves the minis
ters of God, in much patience, In aff1ictlons' IN
necessities, in dstresses.
J In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, IN Ia
| bors, in watchings, in Hastings;
BY pureness, by knowledge, by long suIerlng'
by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love I'M
| feigned.
BY the word of truth, by the power Of God, by
| the armor of Righteousness on the right hand and
| on the left.
By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good
| report: as deceivers, and yet true;
| AS unknown and yet well known; as dying,
| and behold we live; as chastened and not killed.
AS sorrowful, yet Away rejoicing; as poor, yet
making many rich; as having nothing, ana YET
possessing all things
do you remember how He who was the
| heir of God and of the worlds was so poor
that He had not where to lay His head? 10
| you remember how He who was so poor
| that He knew not where to lay His head
| yet has diffused wealth throughout Chris
| tendon, making many rich2 Do you re-
| member how he who was 50 little known
| that no Pagan history mentions His name
! has now name that is above every other
| name, at which yet every knee shall DOW
| and every tongue shall confess Him 70 bt
Lord to the glory of God the Father? Ther
| you will remember these paradoxies Of
Don q q
! yet we'll known; as poor, yet making many
| rich; as having nothing, yet possessing al
things.
s'If / understand Paul Alright, from this
| time we shall t'aa in him only the growth
Of these seeds a germs of his experience
! we shall find him explaining in philosophic
terms how one may have victory not only
futility of the law and explaining the glory
| of the gospel; interpreting faith and snow
ing how the mere aspiration and desire art
! er righteousness is counted by God as the
| beginning of righteousness; we shall hnc
him walking in life and rejoicing in the
anticipated coronation when he is TO oe
offered as sacrifice on the altar at Rome
finding in Christ's passion and death the
worlds hope and the churchs glory; see
| ing in Christ the very image and glory OF
| the infinite love of the Eternal Father; we
| shall find in Paul's later writings the elab-
| Grafton and fulfllment of the rich expert
| ences which are the fruit of the seeds OF
the divine life, which have been sowed by
| the free hand of God, in heart plowed
| and narrowed by trouble. Our subject next
| Sunday evening will be the Epistle to the
| Galatians, and Paul'S doctrine of liberty
| as interpreted therein and thereby"