The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-03-24
PEOPLE PULPIT

THE LOST
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Teni. If thou h.da known. even thou. ii
ifaa in this Thy day. the thing. which belong
Unto thy peaeel But now they, are hid nom
thine eyes" Luke IN. 42)l.
centuries. Thank God the day is flcaf
utlhand. when, at the second coming OF
Messiah, his Kingdom shnll be turned
over to them. And then. us lie de-
clarcs. they Will be glad to say. Bless
eu Is lie that cometh iii the mime Of
the Lord" The long centuries or per.
sccutlon and separation from Gods
favor will have brought that people
to humber condition Of heart, where
they will be End to receive o s.Divlne
grace upon Divine terms. To this
great event st. Paul refers us In Iso
mans ri. oII-34.
Although God foreknew nil TINT Ind
happened the offer OF the Kingdom to
Israel was just as bonn-file. just as
genuine. as though he had not known
it.. God always does his part! What
ever failure there Is In any matter OF
contract belongs to humanity.
II thus we have before our minds
the origin of Palm Sunday and what
it sIgnlied us the climax Of the test OF
natural Israel in respect to Messiah,
We are prepared to. go further and to
note that in Gods providence there Is
a similar test for Us Christians.
Enemies For Your sakes!"
st. John emphasized particularly the
fact that the rejection of the Jewish
nation, because OF their rejection of
Messiah, did not apply to all the In
dlviduals OF that nation. AS the
Prophet Isalnh had foretold Romans
*, 211-3G3) there. was a small, faithful
section or remnant" This remnant
accepted Chrlst:and were by him dc.
cepted and became THE nucleus or
foundation Of Spiritual Israel on the
Day of Pentecost. Thus we rend. "He
came unto his, own (nation) and his
own received him not (as a nntion,;
but to MS many as received him. to
them gave he liberty privIlegel to he.
come SONS OF God. even TO them that
believed on his nntne; which were be-
gotten not Of blood, nor OF the wIllto;
the flesh, nor OF the will OF man, but
Of God"-at Pentecost (John /, 11-13,.
Thus so far ms the spiritual part Of
Gods great promise to Abraham IL
concerned 1t has passed from the Jew
ish nation; but there. still remains for
them m uInrtn,1c = an ~ III .,F .,nutle, -
which they win be Introduced Mt our
Lords second coming. Then their
sins will he cancelled and rs n people
the Hebrews will ;retiirn to Divine
favor aud will Inherit the earthly fea-
lures of the promise made to their
fathers. Then, through them. Gods
blessing will be, extended to all I'M
tions and peoples un4er 1srael's New
Covenant. which wilIfssthen beconre-pp -
erative Mt the hands of their great
Mediator-the SChristSS the Messiah Iii
glory. But by that time the election
Of the saints of this Gospel Age will be
complete and the Messiah iii glory will
include Jesus the Hend and the Church
his Body-joint-helrs with him in his
Kingdom-join~t- heirsSwith him iii the
spiritual features Of tile great Abra-
hamic promise Galatians iii. BOY.
All this Is clearly stated by tile
Apostle in Romans II, 2 53 30 But
somehow our eyes. OF understanding as
Christians have been holden SO that,
until OF late, We have not seen these
lengths and %breadths, these heights
aud depths, OF Divine Love and Wis
dom aud arrangement. The fact that
We now see these things Is n corrobo-
rntlve evidence Tint they are nigl, at
hand. Just SO 1t wds mt our Lords
first advent. Many things pertaining
to that time were completely hidden
until the time OF their fuldllment
came, and then only the "Wise vir-
gins" werc 30 blessed, SO assisted,
that they trimmed their lamps efrec-
lively and were enabled to see these
beauties In the Divine Plan.
The Time Of Our Visitation.
Apparently very few of Gods peo-
Pile. until recently. have noted the fact
that Spiritual Israel has had a parallel
history to TINT Of Natural Israel. Few
have seen that these are dealt with
all through the Scriptures rs type and
antitypc. Few have noticed that from
the death OF Jacob to the death or
Jesus finds Its exact parallel OF 1,S45h
years between the death OF Jesus and
our day. Few huve noticed that in
both cases there Is a nominal and a
real Israel. The nominal Jewish Y s
tenn was tried and nil but the "Isrnel- |
ties indeed failed. Likewise viii be
the experience OF Spiritual Israel. The
nominal Christian systems will be
tried, and all will fan except the splr.
it-bcgotten and faithful. As only "a !
remnant or small number were found
In the proper condition at the first
advent, SO the Scriptures clearly Init
mate that only n small number viii !,
be found sufficiently. SANITY and genl-