The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-08-16

the service OF God. his Truth, his
righteousness. his people. These few.
as we have seen, the Savior recog-
nizes as having Hfe-as having passed
from death unto life" John v, 24);
nevertheless their change was only a
legal one. Actually. according to the
flesh. they were still imperfect, fallen,
dying. But by Divine arrangement
their new minds. their new wills, were
accepted of God in Christ and their
flesh ignored as dead, and they were
begotten by God of the Holy Spirit as
New Creatures and became sons of
God. AS sons, they were free from
all the previous condemnation that
came upon them as members of
Adams race-freed through the impu-
tation Of the merit Of the Redeemer's
sacrifice applied on their behalf. Thus
they attained the liberty of the sons
Of God-freedom from sin-condemna-
ton. So we read Of them:-
HE came unto his own nation-
jews and his own received him not;
but to as many as received him, to
them gave he power liberty, privilege
to become sons Of God even to them
that believe on his name (his greatness
as Messiah), who were begotten not of
the will Of the flesh, nor Of man, but
Of God" John 1. 49,.
A similar procedure has been in prog
ress throughout all this Gospel Age
from Pentecost until now amongst the
world Of mankind judicially dead. 1t
has reached a considerable number;
but not many great. however. not
many wise, not many rich, not many
noble, not many learned, chiefly the
poor of this world and the mean
things. the ignoble things q CORN
thians /. 26-2S).
1--WE Are Saved by Hope"
While speaking Of believers begot-
ten of the Holy Spirit and New Crea-
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 compile
ton Of his salvation. He has received
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 h 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 Divine Nature"
Describing this First Resurrection"
Of the saints the Apostle says. at is
sown in dishonor. It is raised in glory;
1t is sown In weakness, it is raised in
power; it is sown a natural body, it is
raised a spiritual body" q Corinthians
XIV, 43, AZ. Respecting this glorious
consummation Of the hopes of the
Church. the Apostle declares it to be
the end Of our faith. the salvation of
our souls-"the grace (salvation) that
shall be brought unto you at the reve-
lation Of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ" q Peter l. 49,. For that glo-
rious time the Lords people are to
wait patiently, realizing that, as New
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
last has been preached to dead world
to world under sentence Of death
to a world dead in trespasses and In
sin and unworthy of Divine notice.
The message has not gone forth to
every creature yet The Divine pro-
mise 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
during Messiah's Kingdom of right
eousness, which will last for 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 comparatively
small proportion Of our race, even as
many as the Lord our God shall call"
The Redeemer says that they must
not only be thus called of Cody but
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 draso
him, and he that cometh unto me thus
DRAWN 1 will in no wise reject John
vi. A, 81. 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
the world who do not hear, neverthe-
less they are many in comparison to
the still fewer who accept the call IN
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 his Kingdom.
BY and by when all eyes and ears Of
understanding shall be opened and the
blessing Of the Lord through Messiah
shall be worldwide. it win not be
merely a calling to righteousness that
will be extended. A command will be
enforced by disciplines, stripes" ''cor-
rections in righteousness" to the in
tent that the "deGd' 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 &C.
cept Its terms Of conservation unto
death Of the flesh and are begotten of
the Holy Spirit as New Creatures.
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