The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-10-05
IS MILLENNIAL
DANNI5M OF COO?
Sermon Preached by Rev. C. w. tiud-
son, Phi. o., at the LOch Lynn
Baptist Church.
Continued from last week.

SLAMS 4 saws: In whom we have re
demption through his blood, the for
giveness OF sin, according to the riches
Of his grace. Heb. 9.I4, How much
more shall the blood Of Christ, who
through the eternal Spirit offered him
self without spot to God, purge your
conscience from dead works to serve
the living God. " Many other passages
could be quoted to show that only the
blood of Jesus Christ can cleanse from
sin and that when the cleansing is
done it is completed work. Therefore
when the claim is made that Christ did
not make a complete sacrifice the truth
of the Bible is denied and the assertion
of Christ on the cross that it was finish
ed is branded, to speak mildly, as mis-
take.
". They claim to be divine. That
is-claim to have the power Of God and
to be God,
l. They claim to forgive sins. Page
100 Tabernacle Shadows: The whole
world, purchased nv the precious blood
[human life) Of Christ, will present
themselves, for forgiveness Of tres
passes, to the Royal Priesthood (Rus-
settles, according to his teaching),
whose acceptance of their gifts or con-
secrations viii signify forgiveness.
While this ministry Of recon
ciliation belongs in its fullest sense to
the next age, when all the sacrifices Of
atonenent will have been completed,
yet even now, any member Of the
Royal Priesthood may soy to those
who believe and repent, Thy sins are
forgiven thee'-as did our head, by
faith looking forward as he did. to the
completion of the sacrifices for sins;
moreover these priests now know the
terms and conditions upon which for
giveness is promised, and can speak
authoritivelv when ever thcy see the
terms complied with. Their claim to
this power is based on the assertion that
if Christ. the head, has tha power to
forgive sins that they, the body, have
the same power. The reasoning is alb
surI. In the first place it is impossible
for anyone to forgive a sin committed
against another When Christ said,
Thy sins be forgiven thee. " he did il
on the assumption that the sin had been
committed against HIM as God. In the
second place, the head has the right to
do and can do many things which it is
impossible for any other part of the
BODY to do. One might as well say that
as The mouth eats the feet shall eat
also, or that as the brain thinks that the
thumbs should think also. The Scrip
lures say that each member of the body
has its own particular function and can
not and must not infringe on those Of
the other parts Of the body. Read the
fourth chapter Of Ephesians and you
will see that this is true. When Jesus
said, as it is recorded in John 20:23,
whatsoever sins ye remit, they are
RENTED unto them; whatsoever sins
We retain they are retained" as far as
we can learn from the context and the
after life of the disciples he did not re-
fer to the sins committed against God,
but only those committed against them
selves. We do not find single instance
of disciple saying to anyone, Thy
sins are forgiven thee. but on the con-
trary, Peter is found saying to Simon
the Sorcerer in Acts S:22, Repent
therefore of this thy Wickedness, and
pray GOD, if perhaps the thought of
thy heart may be forgiven thee" If
Peter had the power to forgive, why did
he tell him to pray to GOd for forgive
ness? The statement of Jesus in Mat
thew 1924 that he would give the keys
of the kingdom of heaven to Peter
meant, if | understand the passage cor
rectly, that Jesus entrusted to him and
to those who would follow after the
preaching of the gospel and the promis-
ed that those who accepted it when they
preached it should be saved and that
those who rejected it should be lost
Or, to state it in another way, that
those who were unbound from the fet-
tiers Of sin through his preaching should
be unbound in heaven and that those
remained bound, who would not obey
the gospel as preached on earth, would
not have a second chance. but would re-
main bound in the world to come. The
theory that the disciples had the power
to forgive sins in one that can be traced
back to the Roman Catholic church and
cannot be proven by Scripture.
2. They claim the right to receive
offerings and 5 acriices as God. On
page of Tabernacle Shadows we find
the following statement: The sacri-
fees offered by the people Israel-the
world on their own individual account,
after the Day of Atonement sacrifices,
tYplfied by the general offerings of
Israel, belong to the next age, and will
then be presented to the glorified royal
priesthood. Nevertheless this has a
very slight beginning now; thus the
worldly man possessed Of wealth is in
that sense a steward of Gods things
and may now use that mammon and
with it make for himself friends, that
when this age of Satan's domination is
ended, and the reign of Christ COM
mences lin which he shall no longer be
a steward, then those whom he thus
favored will bless him. If the worldly
stewards of wealth are wise, they would
use more of their means thus. used
to wonder where Russell got all the
money to carry on his propaganda
When | read this passage | found out.
He offers to sen salvation or forgiveness
to anyone who will pay for it with cold
cash. Here is his authority for it. He
refers to Matthew 1912, and if he
means it for quotationhe has it might
lily twisted. | will give it he has it.
For whosoever shall give even a cup
of cold water unto the least of these
priests, because he is such, shall by no
means lose his reward when the king
dom of Christ is organized and it's rule
begins. The passage in the Bible
reads: "And whatsoever shall give to
drink one of these little ones cup of cold
water only in the name of a disciple,
verify | say unto you, he shall in no
wise lose his reward. "
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