The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-10-12
PULPIT.
Gods P omise
Text The Blessing Of the
Lord. 1t Maketh Rich; and He
Addeth No Sorrow Therewith"
proverbs x, ~.
Proverbs K, ~.


Millennial Kingdom may rejoice there
in in advance. 1t is not the intima-
ton, however, that the Church shall
keep the restitution privileges. They
are credited to them so that they may
have something to offer" something
to sacrifice" By faith they receive
earthly rights and restitution blessings
and privileges. as Gods gift through
the Lord Jesus BY faith they make
sacrifice or surrender of those rights
to the divine nature and to joint-heir-
ship with Christ their Lord and Re-
deemer in his Millennial Kingdom. BY
faith, in return. they receive the beget-
ting of the holy Spirit. They are con-
tent, not satisfied They rejoice, though
oft it be in tribulation. Their assur-
ance is that present tribulations are
working patience experience. hope,
and preparing them for the actual
"glories which God hath in reserva-
ton for those that love him." Like
the Apostle, they hope for the actual
salvation or deliverance. ''the blessing
of the Lord which maketh rich" at
the coming of our Lord. when the
saints shall be united to him most pre-
ciously, as represented by the Scrip
tural figure of a Bride united to a
Bridegroom The marriage of the
Lamb will come, for his wife will have
made herself ready Revelation xix, q.
Let us glance backward and note
the earliest reference of the Scriptures
the earliest God-given limitations of
coming blessings.
~ Shortly after the fall the Lord de-
clared that ultimately the seed Of the
woman Cher posterity) would bruise
the serpent's head-would utterly de-
stroy sin, would triumph over sin and
Satan.
(2) Later on Enoch prophesied that
Messiah would come, and grant the
world a fresh trial for life or death
Jude 14). The original trial or judg
ment, for life or death, was through
the one man Adam; and his failure
and its penalty affected the condemna-
ton of his entire race, because all are
imperfect and hence sinners. The
promise of a Messiah, and that he
would grant the world fresh trial
was indeed a rainbow of hope to those
who could receive it.
81 1t was not until Abraham's time
that God really definitely outlined the
channel of the blessing which he pro-
posed ultimately to give to the race.
'the blessing Of the Lord, which
maketh rich" Let us examine this
prophetic outline Of coming blessing
The promise made to Abraham was
this, an thee and in thy seed shall all
the families of the earth be blessed"
Here we have something definite.
something tangible This promise was
renewed to Isaac also to Jacob and.
later on at Jacobs death. it passed to
all of his posterity. the nation of Is
rael In due time, in fulfillment of
this promise. Moses. as its mediator.
instituted the Law Covenant between
God and Israel Under that Covenant
It was stipulated that In order to in
herit eternal life and all the blessing
which Adam possessed aud lost, and
in order to inherit the promise made
to Abraham of the privilege of bless
ing all the families of the earth, the
Divine Law must be kept inviolate.
God must be loved with all the heart,
mind. soul, strength. and the neighbor
must be loved as ones self. Moses as
mediator of that Covenant might rem
der every assistance he was capable of
to that nation; but, alas. himself a
to lift Israel out of sin aud degrade
tion-unable to bring them to that
state of human perfection which would
enable them to keep that Law Cove
nant and inherit it's blessings! AS God
foreknew. they failed to keep their
part of the Covenant. "By deeds of
Law shall no flesh be justified" A
number of discouraged lsraeiites con-
tinued to hope for blessing through the
Abrahamic Covenant and. later on, the
Lord revealed to them that in due
time he would make New LawI
Covenant with them and that Messiah
would be its Mediator Jeremiah XXI,
81.
The promise of New Covenant i'm
piled. as St Paul points out, that God
knew that the Law Covenant would
not bring to Israel the hoped-for bless
ings Thenceforth their hopes cen
tered in the New Covenant. under
which the Lord promised that he would
entirely blot out their sins and take
away their stony heart and give them
a heart of flesh and that they should
be his people. Confirmatory to this
thought was the message sent to them
through Malachi the prophet, assuring
them that the messenger of the Cove
nant (the servant of the Covenant, the
Mediator of the Covenant, whom they
delighted in, the one they were hoping
for, would ere long, come to his peo-
pie. But the prophet intimated that
few of them would be ready to receive
him. He said, "Who shall stand when
he appeareth?"
The Lord crucified.
Expecting Messiah to appear in
very different way, Israel was unpre-
pared for TIE man of sorrow and &C.
quainted with grief" 'the Lamb of
God which faketh away the sin of the
world" They expected a great gen.
eral, a mighty leader, who would APP
peal to the learned, the wealthy. the
noble But our Lord appealed only
to those who were pure in heart, rs,
raelites indeed" Such alone had the
necessary faith to recognize him and
receive him The others crucified him,
but did it ignorantly. ST. Peter de-
clares, 81 wot that through ignorance
We did it, as did also your rulers. Ye
killed the Prince of life' (Acts iii,
15-1D. And ST. Paul says. Had they
known it, they would not have cruel
fed the Lord of glory" q Corinthians
ii. 81.
However our Lords crucifixion was
merely a fulfillment of another feature
Of the Divine Plan to make the bless
ing of all mankind the deeper and
broader
By virtue of keeping the Law, Jesus
would have had the right to earthly
perfection for himself, eternal life and
happiness. He also would have been
heir Of all the things that Adam pos
sessed and lost He might, therefore,
have established an earthly empire
and. by wise laws and regulations. he
might have done much for human up
lift-the very thing which people today
are wanting to bring about. But his
subjects would still have been under
the Divine condemnation of death. He
would merely have been the ruler. in
structor, Of fallen, dying men. Gods
promise of blessing meant more than