Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-29

body, glorious spirit body. In the res
urrectlon-His completing or perfect.
Ing as a New Creature.
Three and one-half Years Our Lord
Was Dual Being.
Hence. during tue period Of our
Lords ministry. for three and half
years. he was a dual parsonage. So
far as form and organism were con.
cerned He was man. but so far
as mind and purpose and interests
were concerned He was chdHged-a
New Creature. spirit being; earthly
things had passed away. The New
Creature followed the Instructions of
the Divine Word and providences TO
the extent of mortlfying the flesh
surrendering II fully for the accom-
plishment in It Of the Divine will!
The cup which My Father hath pour.
ed for Me shall | not drink it,"
The great Teucher Himself gives us
the picture Of human birth us illus
trating the experiences through which
| he passed and the similur experiences
through which all Of His faithful fol-
lowers must pass In order to reach
the plane Of heavenly glory. This pic
ture contains three distinctive views
~ begetting -I2' quickening-C3l birth.
These three STRIPS were illustrated by
our Lords own experiences. He was
begOtten Of the Holy Spirit at the time
Of His consecration at baptism. He
was quickened Or energized by that
Holy Spirit after His forty days ex-
perience in the wilderness when He
began His dctiUe service as the Mes
senger Of the Covenant" selecting His
Bride, the Church
When He finished His sacrifice at
Calvary the man Jesus was dead, and
the New Creature Jesus. spirit begot-
ten and qulckened and developed. was
three and half years old. According
to the Divine Program He slept in
hddes, the tomb. and on the third day
was born from the dead, raised up by
Divine power as New Creature.
being given a spirit body of divine
nature-glory, honor. immortality;
Him hath God highly exalted" Phi
llppians II. 9. He did not lose His
personality, His identity, and could
therefore properly say. 81 am He that
liveth and was dead" (Rev. I. 1Sl.
Nov the Lord Is That Spirit"
II Corinthians Ill, II.
Thus was our Lord put to death in
flesh and qulckened in spirit"-made
alive in spirit. Spirit Being. True.
He was also quickened bv the Spirit.
1t was the Fathers Spirit or Power
which raised Him from the dead. as
the Scriptures declare (Romans viii,
III. Indeed, as the Apostle reminds us.
all the blessings of Divine providence
are of the Father From Him cometh
every good and every perfect gift.
He Who thus ascended up on high,
the Prince of glory and partaker of the
divine nature is the same Who first
descended to the earthly nature. yea.
Who was humbled even unto death.
even the death of the Cross. and went
to the tomb as the sinners substitute
or ransom-price. The forty days which
interviewed between the Redeemer's
resurrection and His ascension taught
two great lessons:
Ql That the crucified One was no
longer held in the bonds of death, no
longer prisoner In the grave.
~ 1t also taught that the Risen One
was different in many respects from
what He was before He died No long
er was He a man. No longer was He
flesh. The body of flesh prepared for
Him for the suffering of death had
served its purpose. He needed it no
longer The Father had raised Him
up to the plane Of glory again. AS a
qlickenin0 spirit He was with the dis
cipes during the forty days, instruct
ing them during the few moments of
each Of His seven or eight appearances.
But He was teaching them equally
when invisible TO them. He noted their
perplexities. His several appearances
were IN different fOrms-as a gardener,
as traveller. as purchaser of fish
on the shore Of Lake Tiberias, calling
out, Have you any tish?' and then,
Drop the net ON the other side
He revealed" Himself to the disci-
Piles in various ways in connection with
those mdteridlisGtiOnS and then straight
way He vanished" out of their sight,
to be present with them. unseen. for
days. For Identification He appeared
on two occasions in a body bearing the
marks Of His cruci6xion. During those
forty days the faithful Teacher estab-
lished the faith Of His followers in
Himself as the gloritied Messiah, their
Heavenly Bridegroom. Who would lat
er come again and receive them unto
Himself and ut that time give to them
also similar resurrection change"
that they should be like Him. ''see Him
as He is" and not as He pdS. and share
His glory because flesh and blood
cannot inherit the Kingdom of God" q
Corinthians xv. 50l
"Above tho Brightness Of the Sum-"
ST. Paul. the last Of the twelve ApOs-
ties to be called ITO take the place Of
Judasl. needed. MS we'll as the others,
to be able to ,1itResS TO the resurrec-
ton Of Jesus OF this He tells us,
saying, HE was seen Of Cephas, then
of the twelve; after THAT He was seen
of above Ave hundred brethren at
once; after that He was seen Of James;
then OF all the Apostles; and. last Of
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