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hath Immortality. dwelling 70 the
licht which no MIN can approach.
Whom no man hath seen nor Gun scr
The ONLY Begotien Of the Father, the
Looos. when made flesh, revealed the
rather to inahkIud iJohn / ISL The
failhfuliiess Of the Logps as ne NAN.
Christ esus was revealed By he r;
thst viii glory. honor ana inlmoFisi'
lIe divine natufe
iid this great btiyile Las been y
given to In elect little aoek. the ne
Bride class, to become associated WITH
Jesus In the suEerings Of thls present
time and In the glory 10 follow. The
Invitation to the Church Is TO follow
the example OF Jesus their Redeemer,
to walk in His. steps. to sacritiee earth,
II interests and with Him BECOME par;
takers Of the divine nature glory. hon
or and immortality I'll Peter !. y. Our
lord Jesus corroborates, the same
thought, saying, "As the Father hath
inherent life Immortality in the high
est sense Of the word deathlessnessl
so hath he given unto the Son that
He should have inherent life" and
that BE might give II unto whotnso'
ever He woutd-the Bride class. the
overcomers, "more than conquerors."
Everlasting Life For Humanity.
.
AS we have seen. the Almighty alone
possessed inherent Immortality until
He gave 1t us a reward 10 His glorious
Son. "The Beginning Of the creation
Of Cod" By and by, in the First Res
direction, when the elect ''overcomers"
shall enter upon this same plane Of
immortality, the opportunity to become
of this nature will be closed. so far as
the Scriptures declare.
The Immortality enjoyed by the an;
gels. otherwise spoken of In the Scrip
lures as everlasting life. Is not inher'
ent Immortality. but an eternal main
tenance in life by the Creator, subject
to the condition OF obedience and right
eousness.
In this same sense Of the word Adam
was immortal, but his immortality was
dependent upon his obedience. When
he disobeyed. Divine provision for bis
sustenance was withdrawn. He was
expelled from Eden that the sentence
Of death might take effect. dying thou
Shalt die" Similarly. Satan and 9TH
ers of the angels. because Of disoDedi'
ence, will be destroyed. hence their I'M.
mortality was conditional, as was that
Of humanity.
The redemption to be accomplished
by the Redeemer during His reign as
Messiah Is to reinstate all the willing
and obedIent in human perfection and
Divine favor, US these were enjoyed
by Adam before his transgresslon. All
the wllfully wicked. all DESTROYS Of
returning to fellowship with God
through the Redeemer, WIN be DESTROY
| ed in the Second Death. The test VIII
be SO thorough, SO crucial. that Goa
declares that there shall be, no mora
crying, no more dying; which implies
that there wlll,be no more sln-that
the lessons connected with human and
angelic transgresslonlwill be so thor
oughIyqlearned that those found worthy
or eternal life will have their chafas
tiers eternalIy fixed in respect to right,
eousness and sin, as Gods character
is fixed and upcbangeablem5 IL
a Life and Immortality. 2 i
The Scriptures, as we have already
intimated, use the word Immortality q
a more restricted sense than is cont;
mon in our general usage. They ap'
blythe word to the Father and to the
Son, and to the Bride, the Lambs
wife. The blessing of everlasting life
provided for angels and for men found
obedlent to the Divine viii is Scrip
turally called, not Immortality, but
everlasting life.
Thus the Scriptures explain the two
fold work Of Christ: ~ The work for
the world, in providing for all the Will
ing and obedlent of mankind, ever.
lasting life; C2D the work for the
Church, in making possible for the will
ing and obedlent of the Bride class,
glory, honor and Immortality, the di.
vine nature. The scriptural express
sion is that "Chrlst brought life ana
Immortality to light through the Cos
| pei" I'll Timothy !, 10l. Everlasting
life was intimated in the remote past
but not specifically stated. The dec
laration that "the Seed Of the woman
should ''bruise the serpent's head" i'm
piled a recovery from sin and DEATH
a victory over the Adversary. n release
| of mankind from the death penalty.
But 1t was not specific. The promise
of God to Abraham. that In his Seed
all the families Of the earth should be
blessed, contained an intimatlon Of q
Divine provision for the restoration OF
humanity from death and the present
fallen condition, restitution to eter'
nal life conditions. But there was
nothing specific in it The Prophets
also gave intmatlons of coming bless
ings through great Messiah, but fall'
ed to say that eternal life would be
the grand result.
The Glory TO Come.
Not until the Savior appeared and