The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-04-15

tre uafurnl men. cXccpt Sucn ~ nave
bocn bcgotten by the Holy Spirit All
natural men win. in their resurrection,
receive earthly. or fifmnn bodies. while
all spiritual ones, New Creatures in
Christ. Will receive spirit bodies. rs Sc.
Paul explains in our context, verses
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Those Of my hearers, therefore. who
have never accepted Christ. and mnde
q full consecrition Of their all to be His
disciples. following in His footsteps.
may know thiit they have not been be-
gotten OF the dolly Spirit Cbecause only
upon these terms are any begotten of
the SPIRIT. These, therefore, will
ask TO consider what say, and hold It,
if they please, tentatively, until such
time as, IN Gods providence, they may
be begotten Of the Holy Spirit, and
thus be enabled to understand spiritual
matters such rs this.
Another class who have difficulty on
this subject are the splrit-begotten ones
who hnve been entangled in their rea.
soning by the declaration Of the creeds
respecting the resurrection of the body.
IL Is difficult to unlearn error. When
visiting various lands and learning OF
the hold bf superstition upon the hea-
thens. aid to myself, believe that
we Chri' tians experience just as much
difficulty In unlcarning our errors as
these h)athens do IN getting free from
theirs.
The Unoonsecratod Cannot Understand
Spiritual Problems.
Coming to the point Of what is to be
resurrected we note the fact that our
Lord appeared I'm body of flesh, and
showed the disciples the print Of the
nails and the hole made by the spear.
But we, perhaps, failed to note that
only twice did lie thus appear, and but
for few moments each time. His
other six or seven appearances during
that forty days were also very brief,
and in various bodles-once as gar
| dener, another time as n traveler-IIis
| third time as stranger on the shore,
| and to Saul of Tarsus. as n spirit be-
ing, OF more than angelic brightness,
"shlnlng above the brightness Of the
sun at MONDAY" We overlooked the
fact that these appearances, II all put
together, would probably not have ex-
ceeded four hours out OF the entire for.
ty days in which our Lord tarried with
| His disciples after His resurrection
and before His ascension. We were
not critical students when we over.
looked those things, and forgot ia
ask ourselves why these things were
so.
Now we see more distinctly why ouT
Lord did as He did. His disciples were
j natural men and therefore could moi
appreciate spiritual things. Further
more. they could not receive the guid
ing of the Holy Spirit until the Lords
ascension and appearance In the pres
ence OF the Father on behalf OF Ills
Church, to make satisfaction for theil
sins, and TO make them acceptable
ioint-sacrificers with Him. Meantime
had Jesus not tarried those forty days
had He ascended Immediately afte
His resurrection-the disciples, stunned
;. and bewildered, would have had n,
assurance of His resurrection. The.
would have found 1t impossible to g
out and tell the people that He ha
risen from the dead when they had n
proof TO this effect
And even IL Jesus had appeared I
them as lie did TO Saul of Tarsu'
above the bright shining OF the SUI
this would not have been convincin
and satisfactory They might hav
said, Here is n phenomenon, but hoy
, can we positively associate 1t with th
life and death of Jesus? Matters wer
, different with Saul of Tarsus. II
, needed something to thoroughly arous
him and to teach him for all time
, and others through him. that the Lor
! is not n Man. but that Spirit" B,
sides, some of the disciples who Il
ready believed were able to give SaI
} of Tarsus assurances OF what the
! knew respecting the resurrection c
> Jesus and His ascension.
No Foolish Suggestions In Bible Abol
the Resurrection.
The Lord adopted the only reason
| NDle way VI hViplhb iiio hiSNiplSo
: understand that He was no longc
Z, dead-that He had risen from the dea
2 and that He was no longer human
but had been glorifled, and had becom
9 spirit being. The two things weT
necessary and they We're done at til
3 same time.
: Even on the occasions when our Lor
+ appeared In body like to the one err
4 CITED, He took care that the manife
D tation should be under such condition
as would positively prove that lie ha
become a spirit being He came int
: the room where they were while I'll
door was shut, and after few word
with them He vanished from the
i tight. as no human being could hay
done and as He never did during III
Q earthly career. That the Apostle
taught the thought is well evidence
o BY St Paurs argument on the sui