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shall bow :; ld every tongue confess tu
the glory uf God. Then every creature
which Is ip hpnvcn. aud ON the par,h.
ana under the earth. shall hr heard
saying. blessing. nnd honor aud glory
and power hp unto him that silipth
| upon the throne. aud uuIo the Lamb
forever ltevclnlion Y. 49,
You A'e Ceu5ht With a Price.
Possibly God could have arranged
some other way of dealing with SIN
ana sinners which would not have re-
/ quirpd the death of Jesus ns the Ran.
som prize, the purchase price. the re-
demp,ion price for sinners. Bu the
fact that this method wuS adopted by
/ our great Creator assures us that no
other method would have been 50
| wise. so just. SO beneficial. No other
method would have SO fully demon
strated Gods wisdom. Justice. Love
and Power.
In brief. then. Gods arrangement IL
that all uf his human creatures shall
have opportunity Of full return To hnr.
mony with himself. provi.led they wish
to do 80. provided their hearts. their
wills. are fully responsive to the letter
and spirit OF his l.nw-the require
mpnts set forth In our text. God has
provided In Jesus for the satisfaction
Of Divine Justice as respects all Of the
condemned race who desire to return
to his favor.
We agree with all the orthodox
crecds of ChriStrndom that only re
/ pentancp from sin aud an pndeavOr to
put II away from our thoughts and
words and deeds. combined with faith
in the Re!rrmrr's sacrifice and full
conservation of heart and life to do
| the Fathers will nothing short Of
tins attainment will gain the salvation
which God is now holding out 10 man
kind. TO Su b he Apostle explains hat
the righteousness. the full demands of
the Law of God. his full requirement.
lis fulfilled In us who are walking not
after the flesh. but after the Spirit
Nlomnns viii ~. From the moment Of
our conservation and begetting of the
holy Spirit God deals with this class
ns with sons. He trains them In the
School of Christ. disciplining. chnsten-
Ing. proving them, testing the sincerity
of their conservation Vows and the
loyalty OF their hearts. 70 those who
prove faithful the great reward Is
promised glory. honor, immortality,
loint-heirship with the Lord Jesus
! Christ in his MillPnninl Kingdom and
its work of blessing all the families of
the earth Galatians iii. 20; Revelation
ILL., 21I
! Our disagreement with all "orthodoX
creeds" Is in respect to what shall he
done with the unsalntly with those
who do not present themselves TO God
and who are not begotten again of
the holy Spirit. Our creeds Of the
dark ages mlsrepresented the teach.
lngs of the Bible in respect to these
ana told us that they are all to he con-
signed for hundreds or thousands of
years to Purgntory or for all eternity
In hell torment. Not such Is the teach
ing of Gods Word. but the very re-
verse. as we have previously shown.
The Scriptures do not declare. In thee
and In thy Seed shall all the families
Of the earth he damncd: but the re-
verse OF thls-thnt they shall ali be
blessed. All the sin-bIind eyes shall be
opened. All the deaf ears of ignorance
shall be unstopoed. For the best
thousands years os Christ's reign the
worlds uplifting or resurrection will
proceed. while the knowledge OF the
glory Of God shall fill the whole earth.
The angels on the plains of Bethlehem
did not declare to the shepherds. Fear
greatly. for behold, we bring you bad
tldlngs of great misery which shall be
unto al people. Their message was
the reverse Of this: "Fear not; behold.
we brlrs you good Hdinys of great joy
which shall be unto all people, duke
IL, 10,. GVd who had due time" for
calling natural Israel and who had
also due time" for calling spiritual
Israel. has a due time" for making
known the riches of his grace to the
non-elect world of mankind. And the
"eect" of spiritual Israel and of nat
ural Israel are to be the channels of
this Divine grace and mercy. which,
during the Millennial Age, will flow
as river of salvation. to which all
mankind will be invited to come and
drink freely.
Love Mercy and Walk Humby,
1t may astonish some that God re-
qulres even more than Justice. which
Is his legal standard, In his pcrmis-
sion of sin and its wage of death he
has shown the sinner his own mercy
or love. And II Is for the sinners ben
eft and for the good of all, that God
requires that all who viii have the
full benefit of his mercy shall be re-
qulred TO cultivate this mercy quality
In their own hearts AS the sinner
attempts TO conform his life TO the
perfect standard and finds himself un-
able to keep Gods Law and obliged to
come for mercy to the Throne of
Grace, he is Informed that he can have
that mercy only upon condition that
he viii exercise similar mercy toward
those who trespass against him, his
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