The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-03-09

The spirit which will be born from
above by the incoming of the Spirit
of truth to take the place of the
spirit of lies and error. This was all
SO simple and clear to Christ that
he was sorely surprised that Nico-
den1us didn't know it,. / think that
in all His life on earth Christ was
never SO astonished as He was at this
ignorance of Nicodemus. His question.
instead Of being an interrogatory,
was rather an exclamation Of painful
surprise, Art thou a master Of Is
real. and knowest mot these things?"
When Jesus was led up Of the Spir-
it into the wilderness to be tempted
by that old serpent, called the Devil
and Satan, which deceiveth the whole
world, who was cast out into the earth
and his angels were cast u with
him."-Rev. xii,9, then Christ, with
this actual personality before Him,
with 1.-The prince of the power Of the
air, the spirit hat now worketh in
the children Of disobedience," Eph.
ii, 2, with a personal knowledge of
that devil that dated back far beyond
lightning from heaven" with this
devil then and there present and
tempting Him, said unto him. face
to face: Get thee behind me. Sa-
tam That was the spirit of our
Savior in human form, speaking TO
Odldu PRESUMABLY III liz 1--WE u
form, in the words that you and I
use and understand. That was the
second ADAM with a spirit just like
the first Adams" before he fell,
speaking unterrified, commanding
ly and VIGOROUSLY to the
same Satan who had caused the
first Adams spirit to die Here
was the second Adam presenting a
living, practical, physical verification
of "the truth / am trying to tell from
our psychology and which shall make
US free And Christ was able thus
to present this truth" because His
Spirit withstood Satan; and Withstood
him in a ~thousand-fold more trying
tests than that by which our first an
cestor fell. Thus establishing that God
asked not too much Of our first par
ents nor more than they could have
easily endured.
On another memorable occasion
Christ used these identical words,
when speaking to Peter. Peter was
Christ's chief chosen human agency
for the establishment OF His Church
on earth. He was the greatest Of the
twelve in Christ's estimation. But
Whan this same Peter rebuked Jesus,
to whom he had just said: arr
the~Christ. the Son Of the living God"
for teaching the disciples that He
n be killed." Christ said to this
chosen child OF His: Get thee behind
me Satan Math. 1923; Mark 1888.
(Read these accounts carefully.) What
did He mean by this second and His
last use of these remarkable words:
Christ always used His words with
| God-like exactnesS and care to express
precisely and concisely just what He
meant. And here He meant that Peter,
whose physical form the Spirit Of the
Father, the Spirit of truth Whlch
shall guide you into all truth" had
inst lISe6 70 saw to us. lnOu
are the Christ. the Son of the
living Cod was Immediately in
tested by the very identical Satan
who had tempted Him in the will
grow. the price OF light, power ana
derness and was now using Peters
physical form. unconsciously to Peters
soul, to tempt Him again. And, that
satan might know that He recognized
him and obey Him as he had in the
wilderness. and that We might
see and learn the truth ana oecause
He was face to face again with the
same evil spirit to whom He had pre-
viously uttered these identical words,
He again said to him: Gel thee be-
hind me, SATAN
And he was teaching in n Of the
synagogues on the Sabbath.
And, behold, there was a woman
which had a spirit Of infirmity eigh-
teen years. and was. bowed together,
and could in no wise lift up herselI.
".And when Jesus saw her. He cali
ed her to. Him. and said unto her.
Woman. thou are loosed from thlne
infirmity.'
And He. laid His hands on her
and Immediately she was mace
straight, and gForified Cod And when
he ruler of the synagogue spoke TO
Him with indignation because He had
healed the woman on the Sabbatn
day Christ called him a "hypocrlte'
- -: C,,nhf NOT this woman,
| being a daughter Of Abraham, whom
Satan hath bound, 10, these eighteen
vea~e. he roosed from his bond on the
Sabbath dayc'-Luke viii, 1916.
This needs no comment. satan
bound the woman eighteen years. with