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others shall be destroyed in the Second
Death. Thus. eventually. every knee
shall bow and every tongue confess to
the glory Of God. Then every creature
which is in heaven, and on the earth.
and under the earth, shall be heard
saying. Blessing. and honor and glory
| and power be unto him that stitch
upon the throne. and unto the Lamb
forever Revelation V. 49,.
You Are Bought With q Price.
Possibly God could have arranged
some other way of dealing with sin
and sinners which would not have re-
quired the death Of Jesus as the Ran
SOM price, the purchase price, the re-
demption price for sinners. But the
| fact that this method was adopted by
our great Creator assures us that no
other method would have been so
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 is
that all Of his human creatures shall
have opportunity Of full return to har-
mony with himself. provided they wish
to do so. provided their hearts, their
wills. are fully responsive to the letter
and spirit Of his Law-the require
! ments 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
creeds Of Christendom that only re-
pentance from sin and an endeavor TO
put it away from our thoughts and
words and deeds, combined with faith
in the Redeemer's sacrifice and full
conservation of heart and life to do
the Fathers withholding short Of
this attainment will gain the salvation
which God Is now holding out to man.
kind. TO such the Apostle explains that
the righteousness, the full demands Of
the Law Of God. his full requirement.
sis fulfilled in us who are walking not
after the flesh. but after the Spirit
(Romans viii d.. From the moment OF
our conservation and begetting Of the
holy Spirit God deals with this class
as with sous. He trains them in the
School of Christ. disciplining. chasten-
ing, proving them. testing the sincerity
of their conservation Vows and the
loyalty Of their hearts. 10 those who
prove faithful the great reward is
promised-glory. honor. immortality.
joint-heirship with the Lord Jesus
Christ in his Millennial Kingdom and
it's work Of blessing all the families OF
the earth Galatians iii. %; Revelation
iii. 21).
Our disagreement with all "orthodo6
creeds' is in respect TO what shall be
done with the unsaintly-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 misrepresented the teach
ings of the Bible in respect to these
and told us that they are all to be con-
signed for hundreds or thousands of
years TO Purgatory 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 be damned: but the re-
verse Of tbis-that they shall all be
blessed. All the sin-bind eyes shall be
opened. All the deaf ears of ignorance
shall be unStopped. For the bleSt
thousands years OF Christs reign the
worlds uplifting or resurrection will
.l,.I. I,1 lDfln ne
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
tidings of great misery which shall be
unto all people. Their message was
the reverse Of this: Fear not: behold.
We bring you good tidings Of great joy
which shall be unto all people" duke
ii, 10I. God who had due time" for
calling natural Israel and who had
also due time" for calling spiritual
Israel. has due time" for making
known the riches of his grace to the
non-clect world Of mankind. And the
elect of spiritual Israel aud of nat
ural Israel are to be the channels OF
this Divine grace and mercy, which,
during the NIillennial Age. will flow
as river of salvation, to which all
mankind will be invited to come and
drink freely.
Love Mercy and Walk Humbly.
1t may astonish some that God re-
quires even more than Justice. which
is his legal standard. In his permits
sion of sin and its wage Of death he
has shown the sinner his own mercy
or love. And it is for the sinners ben
eft and for the good Of all. that God
requires that all who will have the
full benefit Of his mercy shall be re-
CURED to cultivate this mercy quality
in their own hearts. AS the sinner
attempts to conform bis 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 will exercise similar mercy toward
those who trespass against him, his
ideals and interests.
Humility is quality very necessary
to every creature. Pride is a foe
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