The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-01-24

terry part will be gone from 1t for
ever. 1t will be in full accord with the
entire Bible in declaring, ITO US there
Is one God, the Father, of whom are all
things, and one Lord. Jesus Christ, by
whom are all things and we by him"
Il Corinthians Wilt, 81. How absurcly
the passage reads in our common YER
sion, stating that the Father and the
Son and the holy Spirit are bearing
witness In heaven that Jesus is the
Son of Cod
The pure Word of God presents
simply and beautifully the fact that
the great Creator, the Father Of all
mercies, is Jehovah God, and that he
has an only begotten Son who is yet to
be the Savior or Deliverer of all of
Adams race willing to accept the
grace of God provided in him. And
there Is one holy Spirit, "the spirit of
truth" 1.-The spirit of wisdom" "the
spirit of a sound mind" the spirit OF
power. energy. will, mind of the Father
which Is also the spirit of the Son,
and which must be also the spirit. dis
position. mind. will of all those who
now come unto the Father as sons
through the adoption which Is in
Christ Jesus.
The Only Begotten Honored.
Before the beginning Of the creation
of God, before the Only Begotten of
the Father became the Alpha Of Crea-
ton, the Father had wonderful pur-
poses In himself respecting all his
great plan for the everlasting future.
1t included this world, and mankind,
and the permission of sin. and the re-
demption of man from sin and its
penalty, and the restoration to be ae-
complished by Messiah's Kingdom and
the glorious work of eternity in fur
Their creations in world after world
But, as the Master declared, these
things the Father had kept in his own
power-in his own hand. He divulged
them not to the angels. nor even to his
| dearly beloved "only begotten Son."
| We have seen how this Divine secret.
Divine purpose. was symbolically rep
resented in the scroll In the hands
Of Jehovah, as pictured in Revelation
v, l. We have seen that this revela-
ton was delivered to the Lamb, the
Only Begotten One, after he had been
slain-after his conservation at Jordan,
and In its fulness after his death at
Calvary, when he assembled up on high,
| glorifed at the right hand of the
Fathers majesty.
| But before the Logos was made
flesh, before he undertook to be mans
Redeemer, the Heavenly Father set
before him the glorious proposition.
He infomed him that he had plan,
a scroll, and that the execution thereof
was to be given to one who would
| prove himself worthy, by demonstrate
ing his loyalty to the Divine will.
We read that God sent his only be-
| gotten Son into the world, but we are
not to understand from this that he
came under Divine commands, the re-
| fusal of which would have meant d.
vine displeasure and his own degrade
ton. On the contrary. we understand
the matter clearly when we heaiken
to the Apostles statement He de-
clares that Messiah left the glory,
which he had with the Father before
the world was, and humbled himself
to take upon himself mans form and
then consecrated himself even unto
death-all because of the joy that the
Father had set before him.
The joy set before the Logos was (D
That thus he might serve the Heaven
ly Fathers gracious purposes
~ That he might recover mankind
| from the state of sin and death into
which all were plunged by father
Adams one act of disobedience
(3) Additionally he was promised the
honor and distinction of the Messianic
Kingdom by and through which man.
kind would be blessed and uplifted
~ He was promised special Bride
class to be selected FROM among the
redeemed race of men--a class having
his own disposition of loyalty to God
| and to righteousness, and faithful I'M
to death-which like himself, would be
exalted In the chief resurrection from
re earthly to heavenly condition. far
boye principalities and powers and
every name that is named.
20 He was promised that his own
personal distinction would be to all
eternity participation in the qualities
of the divine nature; he would possess,
not only glory and honor but also in
| herent life, deathlessness. Immortality
For these joys, he left his glory. he
was made flesh, he sacrificed his
earthly life and, being raised from the
dead, he entered into his promised JOY
Since, he is waiting in expectation for
the completion of the Church, his
Bride, the members of his Body, as
sured that then the Father will give
him the heather for an inheritance
and the uttermost parts of the earth
for his possession, that he may bind
Satan. put down sin and uplift the
sinner and bring everlasting order out
Of earth's confusion by destroying the
wilfully wicked
A Gcd but Not the God.
AS all Bible scholars know, the word
elohim in the Old Testament Hebrew
| Is of plural form, somewhat like our
English word sheep. Thus we read in
Genesis, 1.-THE elohim Gods said, let
us make man in our image" This
would very properly apply to the
Heavenly Father and the Heavenly
Son, in full accord with our text.
without him 1.-THE Logos) was not
anything made that was made" The
word elohim signifies. literally. the
mighty, the poicerful. the great. Surely
it would be strictly proper to consider
the Lo0os mighty. great, powerful as
the active agent of the Almighty One.
Jehovah. who is also styled the Mighty
Elohim.
This word elohfm not only is used in
respect to the Heavenly Father and
his Heavenly Son, but it is also used
In respect to angels as the messengers
of God and of Christ, mighty to the do
ing Of the will of God psalm viii. 81.
Thou hast made man a little lower
than the angels (elohim)" Still fur
Their notice that this word elohim is
used in respect to men; when Divinely
| appointed and active as Gods agents
they were mighty, or elohim. Thus
we read of the seventy judges of Is
rael appointed by Moses, 1.-The master
shall bring him unto the judges (elo-
HIM" Exodus xxi, 81.
We have given very literal render
Ing of our text, showing the fine dis
tinction of the Greek original in a way
that our English version does not show
1t. AS Bible students we have not in
the past been sufficiently critical in
our study of Gods Word. but now, in
Divine providence, 1t is possible for
those even who have practically no