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Pastor RusselEs Sermon

etc. Those Ancient Worthless will
come forth from the tomb after the
completion of the Church, after her
establishment In glory. They will
come forth perfect men. Of human ma.
ture, the image and likeness Of God
in the flesh, as was Adam. Great will
be their degree of honor as they shall
be used of Messiah rs princes In all
the earth. for the blessing Of Israel
and all Of every nation. people, kin
dred and tongue.
Abraham's Seed the Elect.
But Abraham was to have still
higher Seed, numerically less, for 1t Is
written. "Thy Seed shall be as the
stars Of heaven, and as the sands OF
the seashore." That superior Abra-
hamlc Seed, las the stars Of heaven"
a spiritual Seed, must be developed
and glorifed first, before the blessing
can come to his earthly seed.
Saint Paul, explaining the situation.
says that the Law Covenant was add
ed to fill up the time between Abra-
ham and the proper time for the spir-
ltual Seed. The Christ II "was added
because Of transgressiOn iOn"-because sin
had abounded in the world and so de-
graded humanity that it was necessary
to lift up as a standard Of righteous
ness the Law Of the Ten Command
ments. to take the place Of the Di-
vine Law which was originally written
in Adams character, When he was
created in the image and likeness Of
God Adam needed no Tables Of Law
to teach him right from wrong, even
as God needs none.
Saint Paul explains further, saying,
'Israel hath not obtained that which
he seeketh for, but the election hath
obtained It, and the rest were blinded"
Romans xi, ~ Israel desired to be
the Bride Of Messlah-to have the very
choicest blessings which God had to
give. And Israel got that so far as its
people Were prepared therefor. The
"elect" obtained TIA remnant Of Is
rael, numerically small as compared to
the whole were found upon test to be
"Israelltes indeed In whom was no
gulle;" and these became the nucleus
of Messiahs Bride class.
Gospel Preached First to Jews.
That every lsraelite indeed might be
found the Gospel Message at first was
exclusively theirs, and the first Gen
tile convert Cornelius, was not admit
ted to Divine favor In this respect un.
til three and half years after the
cross. Yea, still later, when the Apos-
ties preached the Gospel to every crea-
ture, TO people Of every country and
nationality, vs. well az to the jew to
whom 1t was originally confined, they
stlll gave the Jew the preference up to
the year A, d. 10, when the Jewish
polity perlshed st. Paul declared this
publicly to the Jews, saying, "lt was
necessary that the Gospel be preached
first to you, but seeing ye count your.
selves unworthy OF the grace Of God,
10. we turn unto the Gentiles, for thus
It is written IN the Prophets"
We see, then, that the nucleus Of the
elect Church which should become The
Bride Of Christ at His second coming
was Jewish, and that Gods favor &c
the Gentlles was His permitting OF
them to come In and dll up the foreor
dalned number Of the elect Church
though only after all worthy Jews had
been called and accepted. And now
as Jesus foretold the Gospel or goot
news OF His coming Kingdom is belnl
preached In all the world for a wit
ness" to gather from every nation
people, kindred and tongue the sanity
ones TO be sharers with the Jewish MI
cleus In the great honor Of becoming
Messlahs Bride and jolnt-heir. We ar,
to clearly distinguish between the ioit
Rcssng Of these matters amongst al
nations, for the gathering out Of al
"elcct" few, and the blessing Of al
| huNloua uuhtl lut hluhhuH NHtNN
will come later on A failure to Sc,
this has caused confusion In many
minds.
Heirs Of tho Promise.
We must never lose sight Of the ker
mel Of this Gospel Message. The ulti
mate blessings OF the Messanic King
dom, through the Seed Of Abraham
viii be to all the families OF the earth
but previously, the Divine work IS III,
calling of the Seed OF Abraham, whlcl
Is TO do that work Of blessing Th
promise was not made to all the tami
lies OF the earth but TO Abraham ant
his Seed Hence the heirs OF the prom
lse are not all the families Of the earth
but the Seed Of Abraham.
TO the saints OF Galatla, who ha,
been Gentlles but had accepted Iesu
and We're trusting TO become Joint
heirs with Gods dear Son In His Mes
slanlc Kingdom as members OF vi
Bride Elect, Saint Paul writes, III y
be Chrlsts, then are ye Abraham
Seed, aud heirs according to the prom
ise" Galatians III, 20l How strang
that we should have lost sight of thl
great inheritance' With our Lord a
Abrahams Seed we shall inherit tn
earth; as II Is written, 81 will give The
, the heather for Thine inheritance, am
, the uttermost parts Of the earth 10
Thy possession"
No wonder the Apostles freQuentl
reminded the brethren OF this great Nj
herltance which God has In reserva
tlon for the faithful No wonder on
OF them writes, IAN things arc yours
for ye are Chrlsts; aud Christ /
! Godsw Adam and his entire rae
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