Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-05-04

N house. His text
I'M ES n was, "He was put
NJ eM#MA III to death in flesh,
WI N but quickened in
s - spirit II Peter
s39& f4Ns6HX3SN III. 49,. The speak.
er said:
In the past those Of us who contin-
ued to believe In the resurrection Of
the dead, held some inconsistent the
cries respecting the matter which serv-
ed to make the resurrection doctrine
the more absurd in the minds Of those
opposed. For instance, we claimed that
the Logos, the Son Of God, left the
heavenly or spirit nature and, accord
ing to the Scriptures, was made flesh,
and that He was resurrected from the
dead human or heshly being and
assembled to heaven with body Of flesh.
How absurd! Do not the Scriptures
particularly tell us that In His resur-
rection the Son was highly exalted by
the Father, far above angels. principal
tiles and powers and every name that
is named? Do they not tell us that
''fesh and blood cannot inherit the
Kingdom of Cod? Do they not tell
us that the elect Church. in order to
be the Bride of Messiah and His as
ISOLATE In the heavenly Kingdom. must
also be ''ch1nged," In order that she may
be made like Him, and "becausei flesh
and blood cannot inherit the King
DOM? We have been too careless in
our study Of the Divine Word.
1eqotten Of the Spirit-Then Born.
| Our difficulty on this subject arose
from our failure to understand that
hun,Gn and spirit natures are distinct,
and that God has provided two dis
tinctly different salvations for mankind
the salvation Of this Age being ex-
clusively spiritual, while that Of the
next Age will be exclusively human.
| The Logos, the Only Begotten Of the
Father, twas made flesh" gohn /. 14).
He was not spirit being incarcerated
In a body Of flesh and wearing it as a
garment, or living in 1t as house. He
became at his birth like others Of the
race, except that HE was holy. harm
less, separate from Sinners" while all
others are sinners, imperfect. Like
other men, the man Jesus was not
dual being a spirit being living in
human frame. He was merely the hu-
man.
| The Redeemer, however, became
dual being when He received the beget-
ting of the Holy Spirit at the time of
i His baptism. Thenceforth, for three
and half years, until His crucifxion,
He was dual being. The flesh was
the same; but the spirit begetting re-
ceived from the Father constituted
Him ne,o Ego new person. he not
only thereafter had new hopes. based
upon Divine promises, but He had
new mind or new will specially illu-
minated, quickened. enlightened by the
Holy Spirit.
"Above the Brightness Of the SUM-"
st. Paul. the last Of the twelve Apos-
ties to be called Ito take the place of
Judas, needed, as well as the others,
to be able to aoitness to the resurrec-
ton of Jesus. OF this he tells us,
saying, Gle was seen Of Cephas, then
of the twelve; after that, He was seen
Of above five hundred brethren at
once; after that He was seen of
James; then of all the Apostles; and,
last. of all. He was seen Of me also.
as Of one prematurely born" Il CORN
thians Nv, $50.
In the ordinary course of events st.
Paul would not have seen the Lord
self would come forth as member
of ''the Church of the First-born." he
therefore describes his view Of Jesus
on his way to Damascus as being like
that of one born before the time. In
other words, st. Paul saw the Lord as
He is and not as He a0ds.
The proper thought respecting the
resurrection Of our Lord and His pres
ent glory, shows us clearly that His
Kingdom. when 1T shall be establish
ed, will, indeed, be heavenly King
dom, spiritual one. From this stand
point only can we see the force of the
Apostles contrast. when he pictures
l " 10 uOW Cdus dAnO1IAOuS 0AN
scheming to be the Emperor of the
world, took the path of disobedience.
Satan indeed gained his desire and
Is the prince Of this world"-over
Sorry Empire. in which sin and death
reign. On the other hand. the Apostle
points us to the fact that our Redeem
er, loyal to the Heavenly Father. hum
bled himself to take the human ma
ture, to be crucifed; and that there
fore God has highly exalted Him and
will give to Him the Kingdom now
usurped by Satan, the Prince Of this
world"
Satan will be bound for the thou
sand years of Messiah's reign. The
spiritual Prince Of darkness will be
deposed and the spiritual Prince Of
Light and Truth, as the Fathers hon
ored Agent. will be inaugurated as
King of kings and Lord Of lords. And
/ ssHe must reign until He shall have