Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-07-09

fallen flesh. We viii find II iinposSiir
as New Creatures to attain the Ia
liberty of Sonsbip under present eondf
tons. because. as St Paul declares
1.-THE flesh liIsfeth against the SpiriI
and the two are contrary the one l.
the other" Galatians V. IL. We have
q constant fight TO resist the enslavine
influences of Sin--to maintain our l!b
erty as sons OF God. The victory will
not be fully attained until our resur
rection, when This corruptible must
put on interruption" Then our new
minds will receive new, perfect spirit
bodies, through which they can oper-
ate perfectly. and exercise. to the full.
true liberty, true freedom.
The full liberty of the Children Of
God, therefore, is not attained in this
present TIE. Dut VIII be attained IN The
resurrection, when we shall be per
fected in the Masters likeness. And
In this connection IL is well to note
that this is the liberty of the angels
also-liberty Of freedom from Sin,
from the power and domination of
error and superstition and weaknesses
through heredity. All the angels were
thus created, and father Adam and
mother Eve also were thus created, in
the full likeness of the children of
God Some lost their liberty by DISC
bedience; they became slaves to Sin
and Death, and have u more or less
bound by these conditions from then
until now So, then. THE liberty of
the children of Cod is absolute per-
fection-the ideal condition for which
the Church is striving.
The Dreaming Creation.
The Apostle in our text is discussing
The condition of the world of mankind
in general. He reminds us that the
whole creation groaueth and travaileth
in pain together until now" Romans
viii. 22) IL the nineteenth verse he
tells us what they are waiting for,
namely. The earnest expectation Of
the (human creature wateth for the
manifestation Of the SONS of God
The world of mankind is now euslaved
to Sin aud Death; they cannot help
themselves; they must wait until God 5
time for setting them free from this
bondage Gods time will come in con
nection with the Qualification of the
Church, and her manifestation with
her Lord in the glories of his Messiah
ic Kingdom. Then the sroaning crea-
ton will be set free from the bondage
of Sin and Death, under which it now
groans and travails.
Made Subject to Vanity.
The Apostle reminds us that the
slavery of mankind to Sin and Death
came upon the world through vanity,
or frailty, unwillingly. Our frailties
are the result OF sin and of the Divine
sentence. Father Adam was disobedi-
ent and our Creator, in sentencing him
to death. made the dying condition
such that ali OF his children would be
involved with him, as sinners, through
heredity, and thus sharers in his dying
condition. But God did not subject
our race TO this dying condition. this
slavery to Sin and Death, with the in.
ity to all eternity. much less with the
expectation Of sending Adam and his
race TO eternal torture. Rather, we
! are to understand that when God pro
nounced the death sentence upon ouI
race. interminGled with il was the
hope. the desire, on the part OF the
, Creator, that the result of that dealt
sentence should not be mans absolute
and eternal destruction, after the man
ner of the brute beast. In the Divine
purpose there mingles a hope-a desire
| and intention that all Of Adams rae,
who will learn the lesson Of righteous
ness may ultimately be delivered from
/ the bondage of Sip and Death, into the
/ true liberty II children Of God Ii wal
! TO secure, in Gods due time, for Adam
and his race, liberty from Sin anC
Death. that Christ died for our sins,
The Creation to Be Delivered.
Our minds now turn 10 the libert!
which, by Gods grace, came TO thii
nation in l776; and, similarly, some o
our nation look to the liberty that wal
accorded them by the Emancipation
Proclamation" But these emancipa
lions are nothing in comparison witt
the great Emancipation which Got
purposes shall come to all the worlt
of mankind through Christ. Enslave'
to Sin, through Father Adams disobe
dience, sold under sin" the purchas
of the race by the precious blood o
Christ is to be announced by the Grea
Judge who pronounced the sentence
This is glorious hope, a glorious pros
pect, but as yet it is merely a pros
pect Only the true Church has as We
been set free and she waits for perfeC
freedom through the First ResurreC
ton" THE whole world ieth in th
Wicked One" and still are slaves t
Sin and Death conditions in every way
The arrangement Of Divine Prov
dence for this great liberation of th
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