The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-24

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Our study for today is a most in
tereSting one. It points to the time
when Jesus reached the age of thirty
and was permitted to offer Himself
without spot to God as the worlds
Sine offering.
There the Redeemer became the
anti-typical Passover Lamb, the anti
typical bullock of the Atonement Day
Sin-offering- There He gave up His
life to the doing of the Fathers will;
there He as the Man Jesus died; there
He as the anti-typical bullock was
slain; there He was begotten of the
Holy Spirit and became the anti
typical Priest-the Sacrif1cer. Through
the following three and a half years
of His ministry He carried out this
conservation and completed it at Cal
vary, crying, 1T is finished"
When Jesus received the begetting
of the Holy Spirit at His baptism it
was the begetting to the divine nature.
and with it came great enlightenment
to His mind, as repreS ented in the
words, "And the heavens were opened
unto Him. Forthwith He could see
clearly into the Divine purposes re-
speeding Himself in a manner not pos
Slble to Him prior to His conservation.
At once the Master realized the full
import of the Day of AtOnement sac
rifices, of the Passover lamb slain, of
the prophecies that spoke of Himself
as being led as a lamb to the SlauEh-
ter. and Of His being the antitype of
the brazen serpent, lifted on high for
the healing of Adams Sin-bitten race.
Led of the Spirit-IntO Temptation.
AS these thoughts began to rush
into the Savior'S mind, He was first of
all pressed of the spirit (His own
spiriO to go apart for awhile and to
study out the full import of the Law
and the Prophets and His own obliga-
tions according to the Covenant He
had just made. For forty days and
nights His intense earnestness made
Him oblivious to almost everything
else. Apparently He neither ate nor
and He 'afterward hungered.''
Then 1t was that the Adversary APP
peared as a tempter-at the moment
of His physical weakness as the result
of fasting-when His soul was over
Whelmed wiki the realization of the
Importance OF the great contract He
had made and of what it would cost
Him to fulfill it's terms. 1t was the
severest test imaginable Would the
Redeemer prove loyal to God-to the
Divine Programme His covenant Of
conservation, unto death? Or would
He feel that the Father had poured too
bitter a cup for Him-that God had
made the tests of loyalty and obedi-
ence too severe-that it was neither
just nor loving to allow Him to enter
into such a contract?
How glad we are to note the loyalty
which triumphed over every tempta-
toni With the angels we acclaim,
worthy is the Lamb who was slain!'
To Him be glory, honor, dominion and
might everlastingl
Tempted as We Are.
The Savior was not tempted with
the habits OF a drunkard nor the weak
nesses of a debauchee or a libertine
neither are those the temptations which
come to us-His footstep followers. We
are to remember that the Scriptures
clearly dlfferentiate between us and the
world: 'sYe are not of the world even
as I am not of the world Tempted
like as we are, therefore signifies that
the temptations or trials which Jeho-
yah permits to come upon His cOnSe-
Grated people are of the same kind
that He permitted to come upon our
Redeemer.
1t is important, therefore, that we
notice the character of our tests. God
is not testing US to see whether cr
not our flesh is perfect, for He knew
all along that amongst men there is
none righteous, no not one The Faith
er'S tests for those whom He receives
as sons are tests of loyalty to Him,
loyalty to the principles of righteous
ress, to the Truth, to the Divine meth
ods-a refusal to take our own way OF
to seek our own glory at the expense
of Truth or of the Divine method.
Our Lord was indignant that it
should be thought for a moment that.
having left the heavenly glory to do
the Fathers will He should now prove
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the cross and the shame and the death
He should enter into a confederacy
with the great arch-enemy of right
eousness-Satan. He answered, Get
thee hence, Satan, for it is written:
Thou shalt worship the Lord, thy God,
and Him only shalt thou serve I will
not serve you nor cooperate with you
in any sense of the word Then the
Devil leaveth Him." We are to resist
the Adversary courageously that hs
may leave US permanently, seeing no
hone of winning rs