Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-20

nat1 immortality. uWPillnB III tue
light which no man can approach.
Whom no man hath seen nor can see."
The Only Begotten of the Father. the
Logos. when made desh. revealed the
Father to mankind tJohD |. 49,. The
faithfulneSs of the LODOs as the Man
Christ Jesus was rewarded 10y the Fa-
ther with glory. honor and immortal.
lty-the divine nature.
And this great privilege has been
given to I'm elect little 6nck," the
Bride class. 10 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 nnture-glory. hon
or and immortality OIL Peter 1, A.. Our
Lord Jesus corroborateS the same
thought. saying. "As the Father hath
inherent life Immortality In the high
est sense of the word-deathlessnessI.
so hath He given unto the Son that
He should have inherent life," and
that He might give It 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, 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sustenance was withdrawn.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 oti.
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 wllfully wicked, all not desirous 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 rNnnected with human and
angelic tran,rression will be so thor.
oughly learA ID that those found worthy
Of eternal lie will have their charac-
ters eternally fixed in respect to right
eOusness and sin, as Gods character
Is fixed and unchanged
Life and Immortality.
The Scriptures as we have already
lntimated. use the word immortality in
a more restricted sense than is com
mon in our general usage. They ap
ply the word to the Father and to the
Son, and to the Bride. the Lambs
Wife, The blessing Of everlasting life
provided for angels and for men found
obedient to the Divine will is Scrip.
turally called. not immortality, but
everlasting life.
Thus the Scriptures explain the two.
fold work of Christ: CI The work for
the world, in providing for all the will.
ing and obedient of mankind. ever.
lasting life: t2I the work for the
Church. in making possible for the will
ing and Obedient of the Bride class,
glory, honor and immortality. the d.
vine nature, The Scrptural express
sion is that Christ brought life and
immortality to light through the Cos.
pei" I'll Timothy /. l0l Everlasting
life was intimated in the remote past,
but not specifically stated. The dec.
laration that 1.-The Seed of the woman"
should "bruise the Serpents head" i'm.
piled recovery from sin and death.
victory over the Adversary. a release
Of mankind from the death penalty.
But 1t was not specific. The promise
Of God TO Abraham. that in his Seed
all the families of the earth should be
blessed. contained an intimation of q
Divine provision for the restoration of
humanity from death and the present
fallen condition. a restitution to eter.
nal life conditions, But there was
nothing specific In It The Prophets
also gave intimations Of coming bless
ings through great Messiah. but fall
ed to say that eternal life would be
the grand result.
Tho Glory to Come.
Not until the Savior appeared and
made His conservation unto death. on
behalf Of the race. was 1t proper for
even Him to give such assurances.
But after His conservation. during the
three and half years of His minis.
try, He declared His mission to be the
seeking and recoverY of TINT rhich