The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-25

tie wage or penalty Of SID IS ieltl. and
/ that this IS the explanation Of lle gem
eral prevalence 81 human weakness
aud ffailfy. mental moral anu physicai
death. III our texi 81 Paul tells Us
that tie whole creation AL manklnd-
are Eroanlne and trayalling d pall now
because al Sin and rs death penalty
This has been III prog FOR SIS thous
sand years. Il comes not through De
Vine persecution of His creatures but
by naturat laws Of heredlty passing on.
the weakness. mental. moral and phys
ical, from parent to child, from genera
ton to generation. by Rtaw otnatnre.
God has simply permitted this Law to
take its course in dlsobedIent man.
Does God Pity us7
You may perhaps ask me It the God
who is loving, generous and kind does
not pity humanity in Its present dying
condition, even though We have come
into this state through the violation of
Divine law. Could not God of Love
do something for our aid?
That, my dear friends. is exactly
what / wish to point out. The Bible
declares that the Divine Law broken,
its sentence must stand unless In some
manner Justly satisfied. II a perfect
man could be found, willing to sacrl-
fee his life in repatriation for father
Adams dfsobedience and forfeited life.
then God could be just and accept the
sacrifice and allow Adam and the re-
malnder Of his race to go free from
the death sentence. But no such pei
feet man could be found. There is
none righteous, no, not one All were
born in sin: none therefore could give
TO God n ransom for his brother, as the
Scriptures declare. psalm xix. az
What then? God flguratiyely repre-
sents His sympathy, saying that he
looked down to see our condition and
he hearkened to the groaus Of tue
prisoners OF sin and death. He beheld
that there was none that could pity
or succor because all were under sell
tence. Then His own eye pitied and
His own Arm brought salvation, How
beautiful the picture of Divine COM
passion henrkening to the grooming
creation!
The Arm Of the Lord Revealed.
The Arm of God means, symbollcal-
ly. Divine Power. He revealed this
Arm in the arrangement which He
made for the payment of our death
penalty, in the sending Of His Son,
the Man Christ Jesus. who. "by the
grace Of God. tasted death for every
man. AS a perfect man had stnned,
Cod provided perfect man TO be the
Hedeemer, that as by man came
death. by n Man also should come the
resurrection of the dead: for as all in
Adam die. even so shall all in CHRIST
he made alive. every man in bis own
order.-I Corinthians Nv. %. by
Do you now catch glimpse of the
mercy, the compassion, the love Of the
Christian God to US, who appeals TO
the heart as being different from any
other god of whom you have ever hatt
| knowledge! Think of IL God, Infinite
in Power, as being careful Of Ills fall
en- creatures. and providing, even at
self.sacri6ce. for their recovery, s.,
But you will say. Where Is the re-
covery? Are We not stu sick, mental
ly, morally and nhystealIYsTa dying
race? What has tue death, OF Jesus
accomplished for US? That is a good
question; the answer to 1t viii bring
you much enlightenment respecting
Gods lowing character and glorious
Plan for humanity The Bible teaches
us that Jesus. who redeemed mankind.
is to be made tue great King. whose
Kingdom shall dominate the whole
world-"under the whole heavens"
Daniel vii. 2T.l It will not be 'aa
earthly kingdom: nor will the King be
visible to men. even as God is not vIsl-
Bile. because He is n Spirit. The great
| Messiah win be Invisible. He will be
invisible because He is Spirit. ''the
express Image of the Fathers per-
SON" tHebrews !, 81 The Kingdom
will be exercised through human agen'
cies and 1t will increase and spread I'M
I'm all shall know God truly. and un.
til every knee shall bow and every
tongue confess" to Him-but all who
will reject His grace shall perish to-
tally in the Second Death.
Waiting For the Sons of God.
My text declares that the relief for
the groaning creation waits for the
manifestation of the sons of God. We
have already seen that Jesus. as the
pre- eminent Son of God. died for our
sins and assembled to the right hand
Of Divine Majesty. where lie is wait
ing; aud meantime the grooming crea-
ton must wait also. for the same thing
for which He waits-for the sous of
God. Here is mutter which Seems to
have been for time hidden under the
rubbish OF the Dark Ages-the fact
that God not only fOreordaned Jesus.
the great Son of God, to be the worlds
Messiah, to deliver them from sin and
death, but that He also fOreOrdalned
the selection of Il special class from
amongst mankind. to be the Redeem