The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-12-13
Pastor RuSSell's Sermon

! the interests OF mankind in the Re
generation,
| Is Ii any wonder. in view OF the work
: that God has outlined for His Son and
| for the Church, that lie should consid-
er ii necessary to give us lessons and
! tests In faith. in loyalty. in obedience
Is 1t any wonder. in view OF the work
which He has for us to do for man.
kind. that He declares that the Re-
deemer Himself was given deep exper.
fences in suffering. that He might be a
! faithful and merciful High Priest in
the things Of God in relation to hu-
mainly: All. indeed. when we come
| to understand the high calling Of God
| to the Church and the great work Of
| God that is to be accomplished for and
| in the world Of mankind. we are amaz-
ed. Our souls cry out. True and right
eous are Thy ways. Lord God Al.
mighty. Who shall not come and wor-
ship before Thee when Thy
righteous dealings shall be made man
| ifest.'- Revelation Ky. 1.
The New Order of Things
Guided by the Divine Word. the eye
Of faith may see. not only the Church
| in great glory with her Lord. but also
| the operation of the Divine Plan in the
| blessing of humanity. First in the
Kingdom will be the Redeemer Hin
self. King of kings. and Lord Of lords.
Next to Him. as His Queen Consort,
will be the Elect Little Flock. the
| sanity ones Of all nations. having His
! Fathers name in their foreheads. I'm
seen Of men. their knowledge will be
Infinite, as it is written: ''He shall not
judge by the hearing of the ear, nei-
Their by the sight of the eye. but He
shall judge righteous Judgment
Then next to these will be the Great
Company. who will do a work of super
/ vising the affairs of the children OF
| Christ: for as mother may have a
] maid for an assistant, so also will the
Bride of Christ have these assistants.
| We read In the Scriptures that the
Bride lis all glorious Within" and that
| she shall be brought into the presence
Of the Great King, Jehovah. in raiment
..inwrought with gold Gold is sym
bolical of the Divine nature. We read
that ''the virgins, her companions that
| follow her" shall also be brought into
the Kings presence.-Psalm xiv. 9-15.
AS Isaac typifed our Lord Jesus. and
as Rebecca typiiied the Church. so Re
becca S maids typified these virgins,
her companions" a corresponding serv-
ice to the. Levites of old. All these
will be on the spirit plane-invtsi
to men. The Heavenly Host will be
| quite sufficient TO serve the interests
Of the redeemed race. whose regenera-
ton to human perfection will be their
work for thousand years.
"Prinees In All the EARTH
But while the Kingdom Of God will
be spiritual, it will have earthly repre-
sentatives. who will be perfect. and
thus ensamples Of what Regeneration
will mean to the willing and obe<lient.
These Princes God has already selected
from amongst men. They are compos.
ed of the Worthless of mankind who
lived before Pentecost, when the spirit
begettal first came to the Church IA q
result of Jesus appearing before the
Father as her Advocate-Psalm xiv. Ia
Who were these one-tfme fathers wh0
| become the children? The Scriptura
answer IL that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
and the Prophets were called the faith
ers: that when Jesus came He was
the child OF, David and Abraham ae-
cording to the flesh, through His moth
er: and that those Worthless. therefore,
were His fathers according to the flesh
But they are not His fathers according
TO the spirit. They have had nothing
whatever to do with His present gen
Grafton as New Creature, begotten Of
the Holy Spirit to the Divine nature
, They are His fathers no longer. They
in turn will get their life from the g!o-
rified Messiah; hence they will be His
children, receiving their everlasting
life from Him, the Redeemer, the Life
giyer, the Second Adam.
Because Of their loyalty and faithful,
ness to God in their day We have the
testimony that they pleased God. Nev.
ertheless they could not enter into any
blessings until the redemptive work Is
! finished. Neither could they follow
next to the Redeemer; for that place. tn
the Fathers program, was arranged for
the Bride, the Lambs Wife. Thus st.
Paul tells US that God has reserved
some better thing for US than for them
and, that they without us will not be
made perfect. "-Hebrews II, $40.
But when the Church has been glori-
fed. and the Kingdom shall have been
established on the spirit plane, the next
thing in order will be the blessing OF
the Ancient Worthless. They Will be
the first members Of the human family
| to receive resurrection, which will be
instantaneous. because they have al
ready been approved by the Divine
| standards. Not having been begotten
of the Holy Spirit, they will not be
spirit beings in the resurrection, but
perfect men. AS such these will be
Princes in all the earth, superior to the
remainder of the race. The Great Mes
siah will appoint them to be Princes.
chiefs or rulers amongst men. They
will constitute the earthly phase Of the
Kingdom Of Messiah. Men will see
them and receive their instructions
through them, but will not see the real,
spiritual Kingdom.
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