The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-06-26


and unreprovable, not only in the sight
of our Redeemer. but also in the sight
of our Heavenly Father. All, no won
der If we are astenished at the won
derful power and grace of God which
this declaration reveals!
We Are Gods Workmanship.
The same inspired pen explains else
where to us: "Ye are Gods husban
dry" We are Gods workmanship. q
Corinthians iii. 81 Let us not lose
sight of the thought that 1T is God
that worketh in us. both to will and
to do of His good pleasure" philip
plans ii. 49, While the Lord Jesus
Christ. as our Elder Brother and the
Captain of our Salvation and the active
Agent in our redemption through His
all of this work of our perfecting, new
artheless we are not to lose sight of
the fact that all things are Of the Fa-
Their, as all things are bp the Son. The
two are in perfect accord. but the
Scriptures assure us that the Plan it
Sell was tliC L dtbCt anu tiittt LIZ =
ciously invited the Son to the partici
patton which He enjoys.
When we think of the Divine crea
tive Power our minds so out to the
wheeling orbs which encircle our earth
to the millions Of suns and hundreds
of millions of planets which Gil the
space about us and which we call the
Universe: DAY unto day uttereth
speech, and night unto night showeth
knowledge; there is no speech nor Ian.
guage where their voice is not heard
declaring the omnipotence and omnis-
cience of our great God, their Creator.
We say that these are works worthy
of Creator, and we are surprised that
the Great Eternal should in any sense
of the word interest Himself and His
great Power in Transforming work
in connection with our hearts and lives.
Nevertheless, the more we consider ii
the more we are convinced that the
creation of angels was a greater dis
play of Divine Power than the crea-
ton of the worlds. Likewise the crea-
ton of man in the image of God was
a far greater creation than that Of the
material Universe, because man was
created in the image and likeness OF
His Creator-Adam was a miniature
copy of God in the flesh.
The Divine intention respecting
Adam and his race in general. the Bi.
BILE assures us, is Observation-Disclosures
ton eventually to all that was enjoyed
by our first parents in Eden and lost
through disobedience-sin. The Heay
emily Father has arranged that the sor-
rows and tears incidental to the reign
Of sin and death are not to be in vain
He purposed mans redemption and
restoration from before the. founda-
ton of the Notwithstanding as He
did the course of Adam as free agent
his disobedience and fall under the
death penalty.
Thus the Scriptures assure us that in
the Divine purpose Jesus was 1.-THE
Lamb slain from before the foundation
of the world" And they assure Us
that the Lamb who was slain is ulti
mately to be given the dominion over
the whole earth and for a thousand
years shall exercise a reign Of right
eousness, justice, love and power with
view to the reclamation and restitu
ton of all the willing and obedient OF
the human family-and the destruction
of all those who love sin and hate
righteousness and who therefore are
styled "corrupters of the earth."-Rev
citation xi, Is.
We Are Gods New Creation.
AS we have just seen, the great and
important work of human restitution
the Father has delivered over entire
to the Son, the worlds Redeemer; as
we read: He must reign until He shall
have put down all enemies" even
death. the last enemy. Then He will
deliver up the Kingdom to God, even
the Father, says st. Paul q CORN.
thians XIV, 24-2S) But our text is not
discussing that work of Restitution
which belongs to the coming Age OF
Messiah's glorious reign of righteous
ness On the contrary, it deals with
the specially favored and specially
blessed ones who during this Age are
being called, proved, tested. polished
prepared for joint-heirship with Jesus
in His Kingdom
These are special objects of Divine
care, whose blessing consists not III
restitution to earthly perfection and an
earthly Eden home or Paradise. These
are called of God with a high call
ing" heavenly callinG"-to be heirs
of God and joint-heirs with Jesus
Christ our Lord" Romans viii, H.
These. St Peter tells us. have been
granted exceeding great and precious
promises, that by these promises las
the Divine power or energy working
in theml they might become partakerS
of the divine n8ture.--II Peter /, 4.
All, now we perceive the special
sense in which Divine Power is being
exercised toward the called and cleo
Church from that which will be exer
cised toward the world in general
God is creating Il new order of beings
in the Universe--an order or class OF
the divine plane. which is far above
that of angels municipalities and pow
ers or any other plane in the whole
Universe This is the sense, then, il
which we are Gods workmanship anC
newly created Of Him in Christ Jesu.