The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-05-23

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dence over the salvation OF humanity
from sin, sickness. sorrow and death,
to perfection and Paradise restored.
world wide.
The New Creation Divine.
We have already mentioned the glo-
rious exaltation purposed of God for
the New Creation. St Peter tells us
that these will attain the divine ma
ture; and this attainment viii be
through. or by means of, the power of
God working in the heart as the result
of faith in ''the exceeding great and
precious promises" QI Peter i, A..
These will not be coerced into obedi-
ence-theirs will be voluntary submis-
sion to the Divine will. The test upon
them will be loyalty and faithfulness
to God to the very limit-to the ex-
IRENE of self-denial, and voluntary
humiliation In the service of right
eousness. following in the footsteps of
Jesus.
Indeed, Jesus is the first and the
Head of this New Creation. None
could attain it except by and through
His aid He is the Captain Of their
salvation. He is their Forerunner in
this great trace" to which, with Him,
they have been invited of God-the re-
ward of which, to the faithful lover
comers," will be ''glory. honor and i'm
mortality"
Seeking For Immortality.
The Apostle writes concerning the
Church, the elect little flock" of called,
chosen and faithful ones. He tells US
that by perseverance in well doing we
are to attain glory, honor and immor-
tally; and that this reward. to the
faithful. will come In the First Resur-
rection. when mortality shall be clothed
upon with Immortality; when the new
body, glorious and of the divine nature.
will be granted to each of the faithful.
as instead of the heshly and imper-
feet bodies of the present trial time
In other words. our trial is not to DEM
onstrate the perfection or imperfection
Of our flesh, for this is already known
to God and to us. and to all. I'm my
flesh dwelleth no perfection" The
trial is to demonstrate the loyalty of
the will and of the heart. 1t is faith
fitness In conquering the will of the
flesh and bringing into subsection to
the will of God all the powers of the
natural body, SO far as possible. 1t is
the test Of its loyalty to principle. to
righteousness, to God.
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declared before his death, 81 have
fought a good fight, l have finished my
course, l have kept the faith; hence
forth there is laid up for me a crown
Of Righteousness. which the Lord, the
righteous Judge, will give me at that
day. and not to me only. but to all
those also who love His appearing y
This includes all who are hungering
and thirsting and striving for that
righteousness which Messiah's King
dom is to bring to the Church through
the First Resurrection. Righteousness
will eventually be brought to the world
through the establishment of the Mes
sianic Kingdom, which will put down
all things contrary to the Divine will.
and uplift every person and principle
loyal to God
The Immortality for which the Apos-
tie declares the Church is to seek is of
a different kind entirely from that
which the world may expect. It is a
different kind even from that which
the angels possess. 1t Is the immor-
tality which is feature or quality of
the divine nature. This Immortality,
the Scriptures assure us, was original
~ possessed by the Heavenly Father
alone. We read, THE Father alone
hath immortality, dwelling in the
light which no man can approach,
Whom no man hath seen nor can see"
The Only Begotten of the Father, the
Lo0os, when made flesh, revealed the
Father to mankind John |, 49,. The
faithfulness of the Logos as the Man
Christ Jesus was rewarded by the Fa-
Their with glory, honor and immortal
ity-the divine nature
And this great privilege has been
given to an elect little fock," the
Bride class, to become associated with
Jesus in the sufferings of this present
time and in the glory to follow. The
invitation to the Church is to follow
the example of Jesus their Redeemer.
to walk in His steps, to sacrifice earth
ly interests and with Him become par
takers of the divine nature-glory. hon
or and Immortality Oh Peter /, A.. Our
Lord Jesus corroborates the same
thought, saying, "As the Father hath
inherent life Immortality In the high
est sense of the word-deathlessness
so hath He given unto the Son that
He should have inherent life," and
that He might give 1t unto whomso-
ever He would-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 it as a reward to His glorious
Son, 1.-THE Beginning of the creation
Of God" 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 inner
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 his
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 disobedi-
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. as these were enjoyed
by Adam before his transgression. All
the wilfully wicked, all not DESTROYS of
returning to fellowship with God
through the Redeemer, will be destroy
ed in the Second Death. The test will
be so thorough, so crucial, that God
declares that there shall be no more
crying. no more dying; which implies
that there will be no more sin-that
the lessons connected with human and
angelic transgression will be so thor
oughly learned that those found worthy
of eternal life will have their charac-