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swered, o faithless IN
generation! How hAT SV x
long shall be with eZso
you aud bear with MY son IS possessed
you? Bring him TO OF dumb spirit
Me-" They brought him, and immedi-
ately the spirit caused him to fall to
the ground. wallowing and foaming.
Jesus questioned how long he had
been thus. The father answered,
From a child" and that often the
spirit attempted to cast the boy into
the fire or into the water to destroy
him. But if thou canst do anything,
have compassion on us and help US"
"To Him That Believeth."
Jesus replied, "If thou canst believe:
all things are possible to him that be-
lieveth" How great stress the Lord
lays everywhere upon the exercise Of
faith in the Divine Power! Without
faith it is impossible to please God"
Those who cannot exercise the faith
cannot have the blessing which others
may have who do exercise faith,
This does not imply that people who
cannot now exercise faith viii never
get any blessing. On the contrary, by
and by, during Messiah's Kingdom,
the way of faith and obedience viii be
made SO plain, so simple, that all will
be able TO follow 1t and to gain re-
ward-but a lesser reward than that
now extended to those who can and do
exercise faith and obedience,
The reason for this is manifest God
is now seeking special class Of the
specially faithful and obedient, to be
heirs of God and joint-heirs with Jesus
in His glorious Messianic Kingdom, and
whom by and by He will use in bestow-
ing His blessing worldwide; and He
desires that in this class shall be only
such as can exercise absolute faith in
Him. In this and other miracles the
Lord required faith as the condition Of
the healing. He thus manifested forth
His coming glory. During the King
dom reign there will be such manifesto
ti0ns Of Divine Power and such assist
ance given to those willing to exercise
faith, that all may profit thereby and
experience the healings Of their flesh
and the casting out of every power of
Satan and sin.
The poor father realized from Jesus
words that lie must exercise faith else
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n his son could not
GA be recovered. With
N ENh tears he cried out,
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1 XyStNP vi got its reward. Jes-
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Q,SSsT1 WI. evil spirit to come
~ out of the boy and
enter no more into
'''"S 'gon ~" w him.
1t may be Won
dered why the Master permitted the
evil spirit to tear the boy and cause
him pain, in leaving him. If He had
power to cast him out, He also un-
d0ubtedly had power TO control the
manner Of his coming out. We can
only surmise therefore that Jesus, on
this and other occasions, allowed the
evil spirit a measure Of liberty In the
method of leaving, and that this was
for the very purpose Of demonstrating
how malicious and evil the spirit was
which had control; and thus the mir
acle was the more clearly seen, and
the Lord more praised
"Many Said, He is Dead"
The boy was left in an apparently
dead condition. but Jesus took him by
the hand and raised him up. The les
son for us in this is that it is not only
that the Adversary and his power be
cast out from humanity, that the poor
world needs, but they need Divine
power for their uplift out of the mire
of sin and death According to the
Scriptures, we are near the time when
Satan will be bound, when all the in
fiuences Of evil amongst humanity will
be restrained According to the Scrip
lures, also, this binding of Satan will
be accomplished in a great time of
trouble such as never was since there
was a nation" and humanity will be
feft In an almost dead condition. The
pride the hopes, the ambition of men
will perish in that awful trouble time.
but the Master will be present in King
dom power to uplift them.
Messiah's Kingdom will not only
bind the Adversary and forbid him to
re-enter humanity and interfere with
their affairs. but will for a thousand
years do an uplifting work amongst
the fallen and degraded members of
our race. lifting them up, up, up, until
they will fully attain the Divine stand
ard represented IN Father Adam
from which condition he originally fell
through disobedience, and return to
which condition has been secured for
all through the merit Of Jesus sacri-