The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-17

them with Himself in His MessianIo
mission. He brcathcs on them and
says. Receive yc the Holy Spirit"
They may not partake of His mission
without also partaking OF His power.
This Spirit clothes the messianiZed
with power from on high, to preach
repentance and remission OF sins In
Messinh's name. So we are not sur
prised to see that 1t is the Holy Spirit
who selects Paul and Barnabas for
missionaries and sends them forth
from the church in Antioch; that 1t is
the Spirit who forbids missionaries to
go into Asia. and the Spirit Of Jesus
which keeps them out or l3ythinia
So Impressed is Paul with the neccs-
sity for tho Spirit that he says "If
any man have not the Spirit OF Jesus,
he Is none OF His" You cannot BIO
messianized without having tho Mes
sianic Spirit. and 1t Is that Spirit that
bears witness with your spirit that
you are son of God: and "hercby
know VIC that He abidcth In us and
we In Him. by the Spirit which He
hath given u.s." So the Mcssinnic King
In his risen life puts the Spirit within
our reach. and bids US receive Him.
l'nrtukera In the McssIunic Glory,
The only hope Of the world for SAL
walton from sin lies In the movement
risen Messianic King. For IF we walk
In the light as He is in the light. we
have fellowship one with another. and
the blood of Jesus the Messiah, His
Son, cleanseth us from all sin In
vain do you tell me that the blood Of
Jesus Christ cleanseth from sin unless
you put mo into living fellowship with
| Him. So we have here offered saliva
| ton from sin as one OF the results of
brng ing men into the Kingdom of God
And this Is done by discipling them to
Jesus, the risen Messiah. Salvation
\ comes through relations which arc
/ purely personal The Aicssianic re-
llision offers to men risen Lord who
| may be known and made to operate In
their lives as Saviour II they will only
4 put themselves into relations OF fell
4 lowship with Him. The way of saliva
ton Is to corrclate your lifc with that
OF your Lord. as life on life acts and
reacts in personal fellowship of faith
and love. The disciple is added to tho
Lordi he is baptized Into Jesus tho
Messiah" into HIS death and resur-
rcctLon:" he puts on the Mcssinh," and
"reckons himself indeed to be dead
unto sin, but alive unto God in the
Messiah Jesus He counts all things
but loss that he may win the Messiah,
! and be found In Him, and may know
/ Him and tho power OF His resurrcc-
i tion, If by any means lie also may at
tain unto tho resurrection from tho
/ dead" He Is with his Messiall*"quick-
| encd together with Him. raised up with
i Him, and made to sit with Him in tho
i heaYenlies in tho Messiah jesus"
i Everywhere his salvation Is made to
Il depend on this personal union with tho
Messiah. 1t Is religion specially of
Z fcrcd to the sinful, and its call Is to
them rather than to the righteous.
3 The Messiah offers His fellowship spe-
cinlly to the lost. He is the advocate
Z and the propitiator of the sinner And
) now as He commissions His disciples
with Him ana breathcs on them tho
Messianic Spirit, He tells them that
through tho Mcssianc llfc-work now
bequenthcd to them still lies the
worlds only hope of salvation from sin.
1t is religion that has taken on itself
a stupcndous task, for men are all over
the world looking towards heaven and
praying. "Oh! rid me Of my sim" There
are many religions for tho righteous,
but only that Of the risen Lord for the
sinner. His fellowship SO messianizes
him who comes under its spell that he
is washed with u washing of resenrn-
i ton and renewing OF tho Messianlc
Spirit; and is granted In tho experience
; of faith q Righteousness which cometh
of God, SO that the justified ono may
live as a just one by faith. Since tho
, promise to Abraham. the friend OF God,
] who entertained Him in his tent at
Mamre, this has been tho gospel or tho
j, Messlanlc life for tho condemned world:
{ land it la tho worlds sole final and
: etlcacious hope for redemption from
, sin.