The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-13
thians i, 26-2S).
1--WE Are Saved by Hopes,

tCAA OA Tic 11Oly 0plIlI ana NEW Cr6d-
lures In Christ Jesus as having passed
from death unto life, the Bible, with
equal explicitness, tells us that the
resurrection of the mind, the will, of
the New Creature. is not the comple-
ton of his salvation. He has received
a great blessing, a great salvation:
but what he now enjoys is merely a
fore taste, an earnest" or hand pay
ment of the great blessing which he
Will receive eventually, if faithful to
his covenant unto death. The fruition
OF the hopes of the New Creation will
be attained in the end of this age at
the Second Coming of the Redeemer,
/ when he comes to set up his Kingdom
In power and great glory for the bless
Ing and salvation of the world. when
every knee shall bow and every
tongue confess psalm vi, 23). The
Scriptures point the New Creation, the
Body of Christ. the saints" the
church, to that illustrious day as the
time when they shall experience their
glorious change from earthly to heav-
emily conditions-when in a moment, in
the twinkling of an eye the resurrec-
ton power will lift them wholly out
of earthly conditions to the perfection
of the sDivine Nature
Describing this First Resurrection"
Of the saints the apostle says, sit is
sown In dishonor, it is raised in glory;
it is sown in weakness. it is raised in
power; 1t Is sown natural body, 1t is
raised spiritual body" q Corinthians
XIV, 43, 44). Respecting this glorious
contamination of the hopes of the
church. the apostle declares it to be
the end of our faith, the salvation of
our souls-'sthe grace (salvation) that
shall be brought unto you at the reve-
lation of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ" Il Peter |, 49,. For that glo-
rieus time the Lords people are to
Creatures, they are being tested by the
weaknesses and frailties of their old
bodies reckoned dead. They are to
show their loyalty to God by fighting
a good fight against the weaknesses. of
the flesh, against the allurements of
the world and the snares of the Ad-
versary.
This Light Upon Our Text.
Consider now. in the light of the
foregoing. the meaning of st. Peters
words used as our text We perceive
how the Gospel message from first to
to a world under sentence Of death
to a world dead in trespass and in
sin and unworthy of Divine notice
The message has not gone forth to
every creature yet. The Divine prom
Use is that eventually every eye shall
see and every ear shall be unstopped,
and then "the knowledge of the
Lord shall fill the whole earth" and
every knee shall bow and every
tongue confess But that will be
eousness, which shall last for a thou
sand years for the worlds uplifting.
That time has not yet come; hence
that glorious message which all must
hear and those glorious sights which
all must see and all confess are not
yet revealed. AS yet the message can
be appreciated only by a comparatively
small portion of our race, even as
many as the Lord our God shall call"
The Redeemer says that they must
ut nr7I.x ha fIrru Go0I .f sr>l hut
that they must be drawn" by him, in
order to be blessed during this age.
He says. No man can come unto me,
except the Father which sent me draw
him, and he that cometh unto me fthus
drawn) will in no wise reject (John
vi, A, 37). For these few OF the dead
world the Gospel in the present time
is intended. No others have the ear to
hear. But while those who hear are
few in comparison to the millions of
less they are many in comparison to
the still fewer who accept the call un-
der the conditions and. limitations of
the narrow way of self-sacrifice.
"Many are called, but few chosen" to
this high calling of Joint heirship with
the Redeemer In this Kingdom.
BY and by when all eyes and ears Of
understanding shall be opened and the
blessing of the Lord through Messiah
shall be world wide, it will not be
merely a Calling 10 righteousness that
will be extended. A command will be
enforced by disciplines. stripes" "cor-
rections in Righteousness" to the in
tent that the dead" world in general
may be blessed and be resurrected-
lifted up. up, up. out of sin and death
conditions to the human perfection be-
slowed upon Adam and his race in
creation. Only the unwilling and dis
obedient will die the Second Death,
from which there will be no redemp-
ton, no recovery.
Live in Flesh and in Spirit.
Those who hear the Gospel and ac-
cept its terms of conservation unto
death Of the flesh and are begotten of
the Holy Spirit as New Creatures.
"partakers of the Divine nature" have