The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-12-03
HFreeIy Delivered Him Up"


Gods Gift was not completed in
DAerely arranging that His Son should
temporarily become mau. to be our
Redeemer. Indeed. the transfer of ma
ture from the heavenly to the earthly
was merely an incidental. made neces-
sary by the Divine Law: IAN eye for
an eye; tooth for tooth; a mans life
for mans life." And so we read that
the Father set before the Son 1.-THE
great JOY" the influence of which was
to lead the Son cheerfully to endure
the bitter experiences of His earthly
life. as we read: who. for the joy
that was set before Him. endured the
cross, despising the shame"
This Joy Is intimated to have been;
a. the Savior's pleasure In doing the
Fathers will; % The JOY Of bringing
many sons to glory-the Church; 49,
The pleasure and JOY of being the
worlds Restorer, delivering them from
the power of Satan. sin and death
These joys, commingling. were quite
sufficient. The Redeemer endured such
contradiction of sinners against Him
self as, eventually, brought Him to the
cross, saying, Not My will. but Thy
will, o Lord, be done" He realized that
ander the contract into which He has
entered, His loyalty to the Father
would mean His faithfulness unto
death, even the death of the cross
Wherefore, also, God hath highly ex.
allied Him, and given Him a name
above every name" philippians ii, 8
81 Thus the Reedeemer has attained
this glorious exaltation to the Fathers
right hand-to the Divine nature, glory
honor and immortality-as the result
Of His faithfulness
An Opposite Course From Satan's.
The Apostle, evidently, purposes to
draw our attention to the difference be
tween the course of Satan and that OF
the Logos IN respect to loyalty and
assumed that If he had a separate En-.
pire he could manage it better than
was the Divine arrangement. Lucifer
the morning star, said in his heart u
will ascend above the stars 1.-THE other
angelsl; will be as the Most High la
dictator, rulerl." Pursuing this am
bilious course, Satan beheld In our first
parents new order of beings. with
provocative powers designed to bring
into existence a race that would fill
the earth. Lucifer assayed to be ruler
over this human creation. He became
a rebel against the Divine arrangement
in so doing; he captured the first pair
by his Misrepresentation, and not only
did he thus become the prince of this
world" 6he present order of things),
but additionally, as Jesus explained, be
became the murderer Of the race
John viii, AZ He has, indeed, had a
reign of thousands of years, but with
what horrible results! The whole Gre
alton is 'groaning and Travelling in
pain" under the death sentence.
"Meditated Not a Usurpation."
St. Paul intimates that although the
Logos was still higher in glory and hon.
VI lHuu Auc1Iei, III tndI ne Was tuo
Only Begotten." the chief representa-
tive of Jehovah, nevertheless He was
humble. The Logos "meditated not a
usurpation to be like God" philip
plans, II, 6. Emphatic Diaglott) On
the contrary, he was very willing to ac-
cept the Divine proposal that He should
take the lower nature of man for a
time, in order to carry out the Fathers
Plan. How detestable the pride of
Lucifer, afterwards called Satanl On
the contrary, how beautiful is the hui
mility exhibited by the Redeemerl He
vas loyal to the core. BE would be