Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-09-19

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terms Of reconciliation and peace.
Then an offer was made to the natioh
of Israel, and to no other nation. Inc
offer of Israers Law Covenant was,
"He that doeth these things shan
live" God, Of course, knew that Is
rael could not keep perfectly the con-
dition of that great and wonderful
Law. The offer served as "a lesson 70
that nation respecting the imposslpn-
ity of any mans keeping the perfect
Law; and the same lesson comes 10 Us
Of this Gospel Dispensation. We see
that what the Jew could not do we
cannot do; where he failed we woulu
fail
Thus through the Law Covenant Goa
taught a great lesson to lsrael ana U
the Church; and He will ultimately
teach the same lesson to the world anu
to angels-proving that by the deeds OF
the Law no fallen flesh could be recoV-
cred and re-instated in Divine favor.
Four thousand years passed from
mans creation, and death re1gned
from Moses TO Christ as Thoroughly as
it had previously reigned from Adam
to Moses. The Law Covenant did not
stop the reign of sin and death. Some
thing more than a Law is necessary.
The Divine Program demands recoV-
cry from sin and death, and the Divine
Program purposes this recovery.
Nearly nineteen centuries have passed
since the first advent of our Lord, ana
still the reign of sin and death is IN
progress more than ever. The increase
Of knowledge has brought increase OF
sin; increase of population has brought
increase of death; until today the
world is in a terrible condition OF
mental, moral and physical dilapida'
ton, and ninety thousand go into the
tomb every twenty-four hours.
But a Remedy is In sight. 1t was
foretold through the Prophets, but II
began to operate In Jesus. His mirac-
ulous birth, His faithfulness and con-
secration unto death, His reward OF
resurrection and exaltation to the
right hand of the Majesty on High,
are all essential to mans recovery
essential to the overthrow of this reign
Of sin and death over our race.
We see still further developments
and preparations. The Scriptures in
form US that it is the Divine purpose
to have a multitudinous Messiah, Of
which the glorious Jesus is the Head
and the Church the Body.
We perceive that God for nearly
nineteen centuries has been calling
and drawing special class Of man
kind to constitute His Elect, the Bride
Glass, to be joint-heirs with His Son
in the Kingdom Of Glory which will
finally vanQuish sin and Satan and de
liver the willing and Obedient of man.
kind into the full liberty Of the chill
dren of God-freedom from sin and
death, and into the enjoyment Of life
everlasting and Divine favor.
The Dark and Marrow Path
This special class is required to
walk by faith and not by sight-to
walk in the narrow way" of self
denial and opposition to the world,
the flesh and the Adversary, in the
footsteps of Jesus. Ignorance, selfish
ness, sin, death, all go to make up the
deplorable conditions in the world and
to constitute the way a narrow one
in which this Elect class is required
to walk, in order to demonstrate their
full loyalty and obedience to the will
of God-even unto death. Evidently,
no such narrow way could have ex-
listed had God not permitted evil-sin.
Evidently, therefore, this Elect class
could not be developed and tested ex-
cept by the Divine permission of sin.
The very essence of their character
development is associated with the
Divine promise that "au things shall
work together for good to those who
love God, to the called ones according
to His purpose"
1t seemed wise to our Heavenly Fa-
Their that our Lord Jesus should learn
obedience through sufferings and be
tested in respect to His willingness to
endure suffering for righteousness
sake. How appropriate it is that the
same Father should make similar ar
rangements for all of the Church,
whom He will receive from amongst
the race of Adam to be members of
the Royal Priesthood under Jesus, the
High Priest of our order.
We see a necessity for this, not only
as respects our own testings and O.
thorough proof of our own heart-loyal-
ty to the Lord, but additionally we
see a wisdom on Gods part in thus
preparing a priesthood of the future
A priest, as recognized amongst the
Jews, was not merely one who offered
sacrifices, although every priest was
Of necessity a sacrifcer. The special
mission Of the priestly tribe amongst
the other tribes was that Of instruct
ing, helping, healing, teaching. And
so God is preparing a Royal Priest
hood for the Messianfc Age to bless,
to heal, to teach, to uplift all the,
willing and obedient.
The royalty Of the priesthood signi.
fies that it will no longer be a sacri-
ficing class, for all sacrificing will be
at an end. 1t will be a glorious class,
royal, Of the divine nature, and repre-
sentatives with our Lord Jesus of the
Divine power AS priests who will
have to do with judging and chasten-
ing, healing and helping humanity,
how much sympathy do we suppose
that these Royal Priests should have?
Are they not to be on the Divine
plane Of glory, members of the Body"
of Messiah?
Sins Lesson to Humanity
Humanity IS learning a great lesson
through the permission of sin. Pres
ent experiences teach the lesson that
the way of the transgressor is hard"
THE wages of sin is DEATH" 1.-THE soul
that sinneth it shall die" The exceed
ing sinfulness of sin is thus being dem
onstrated to humanity. Few profit by
the lesson in the present life. and
these are chiefly such as are called to
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