Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-11-28

XJ4Al N&sE We have uMler review, long az
kE@NN N~,EHs it is 70 he fonnd in harmony with
WMY A what ia written III the sacred vol
wv ~IN umn. However, where the HulA
Spirit silent, man may well h- dumb, with feet
and head bare, for the ground which he lreAds lie
holy ground. There are full roo many fagrant de
partureS from the trutn 10 occupy our tune upon
what might bp considered mere triviAlitrs.
In the consideration ot shis spc'ion to
Jesus At tn4 J ri4n. A jonas 54,trsn, Ia tho
sinners, pI see, says our TOR, Jesus, the Lamb
OF God, -,'otes~ an mprcr .bIr no~ manifested t
Israel, lhciu!h Jhns DtprI-n without sin,
thougn IN Al points tempt- we are-for it Is
here thai GOO the Father c"ntrsS,-+ Hun as in
whom He Is we'll pleased, ~hirh he could not do If
Jesus had sin in Him or on Him. This was also
true on the Holy Mount, when Jesus spoke OF His
exodus which H4 would shortly accomplish at
Jerusalem; for the Fa.her aulibiv owned Him, in
WHOM H. was still we'll pI-As'd. There came
time when Laid Him, for the Lord
laid on Him rn~ inqnlty Of All. ''He de-
livered for our offsnspe." 0 that dark night
when Jesus said TO Judas, ''ths Is your hour and
the pawtr Of darkness tn+n satan filed traitor
was to do his worst. For the time s fast approach
ing when Jesus IL to be numbered with the trans
stricken, afflicted, wounded for transgressions,
bruised for our iuquities the cnastlsement OF our
peace upon Him, with HIS stripes are
healed' the LORD is tolay Hrn the iniquity OF us
all, to Oruise him, to put him grief, make his
soul Offering for SIM for he is to pour out His
soul unto death. to bear the sins Of many, He ia
made to be sin.
He is to bear our sins in His own body on thetree
0nop nd OncA nj WA He ia uffAr rn uf
away sin by the sacrifice Of Himself ChrisL, our
true passover Is to be sacrificed for us; the culmD
ating moment Is Fastening with rapid stride for
life is be made curse for US, for ii s written
s'cursed is every one that hangeth ON tree" GAL
3:13. His atOning work began aud ended at CAL
vary; the darkness and Of this awful hour be-
tokened the adverted face OF the Father, when the
Son was forsaken by God
Here the crisis was reached in time, between the
compass ODate prayer OF suffering Savior, Father
forgive them for they know not what they do'' and
despiring, agODizing cry, my God, My God, Why
hast Thou fOrsaken Me.''
Jesus bore our sins. 1t was the sin on the sim
less One, that shrOuded into darkness the MONDAY
san, that rent the veil OF the temple 10 twain; that
made the earth to quake and the rocks to rend
Jesus condescended to the sinners place, whom He
came to save. II was in accord with the wiles Of
the devil from the beginning to attack the Word Of
the Father, whether in Eden or the wilderness. He
found weakness in the first Adam, He looked tor
weakness in the Adam who came from the Jordan
with the bendctiOn OF the Father, full OF the Holy
Ghost. Satan could not shake the confidence Of the
Son in the Word Of the Father.
How precious to contemplate One, who, stoop.
ing from the divine height to the limtless depth in
to which sin had brought depraved man, and then
could yet touch without faint every condition OF the
sinner, as be sought to WOO and win him; tempt
cd that He might sympathize with the woman ac-
cused by tbe Pharisees, in John eight, while in
faithinIness He rebnked her accnsers; that He
might deal in tenderness with poor self reliant,
Lord denying Peter, as be appoints time and place
for meeting the resurrection side Of the tomb.
In thettemptatiOns Of our Lard, as recorded in
Matthew and Luke, it is true that Satan's first
temptation was directed through the body Of our
Lord, Humanity speaking, had He been but man,
He had been most susceptible, bat His personality
had the marks Of GOdhood; these, John instructed