The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-07-04

|cr proceed from tho Father. He II the
Source and Fountain. the Father OF mon
clos. from whom cometh every good aud
perfect gift" His great Gift to man
kind Yves the Gift of His Son. our Lord
Jesus Christ. whom He sent into the
world to be mans Redeemer.
Three Gods. equal In power and glory,
could not DO said to send each other;
neither would they pray to each other.
as Jesus prayed to tho Father-''Who In
the days OF His flesh, when He had Of
Tered up prayers and applications with
strong cryin8s and tears unto Him lie
hovah] that was able to save Him from
death, was heard in that He feared"
(Hebrews v, ~ An angel was sent to
comfort Him and to assure Him Of the
Fathers love. that the Father had not
forsaken Him. that He was we'll pleasing
In His sight. and that He should have q
glorious resurrection by the Fathers
power in due time.
Our text proceeds to acknowledge our
Lord Jesus. saying to US. There IL ono
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ'-onIy one
THE Son Of the Highest" our gracious
Redeemer, 1.-THE chiefest among ten thou
sand, ana the one altogether lovely"-He
who Is to be the Bridegroom. the King OF
the future; He who Is shortly to receive
the Church to Himself as Bride and
Joint-heir in His Kingdom; He who. as
King Of the world and as Lord OF the
world, will reign for thousand years,
and. backed by Divine power, will bring
all into subsection to the Divine will.
1t Is He who will thus deliver up tho
Jehoyah may be All ana in all, and that
the glorifled Christ may be at the right
hand OF the Majesty on high-next to
the Father-and we as His g1orified Bride
next to HIM. at HIS right hand
Tho Logos-"First and Last"
The Scriptures very explicitly declare to
us that the Heavenly Father is from ever
lasting to everlasting-God. But not SO
His creatures. From time to time He has
exercised His Omnipotent Power and
Wisdom in q variety Of creations. Neces-
sarily, however. these had a beginning
one was first and the Bible most clearly
and repeatedly and distinctly tells us that
that first one, 1.-THE Beginning Of the Gre
alton Of God" was the Lo1os.
And the Bible explains that Jehovah's
First-Born Son was highly honored. in
that the Father used Him as the Channel
and Agency through whom all subsequent
creations were effected. He it was who
was given the honorable commission and
privilege Of being mans Redeemer, and
OF thereby proving His loyalty to Jehovah,
and OF being exalted to the divine nature,
far above angels, principalities and DOW
ers." From the very beginning He was
above all other creations effected through
Him; but by this last exaltation He at
talned, In His resurrection from the dead.
place far and away above all others
next to the Father-at Gods right hand,
where He shall ever remain without a
peer.
And, wonderful thought! The Call Of
TINS GOSPEL Age Is to become heirs OF
God, and toint-heirs with Jesus Christ
our Redeemer. by a manifestation Of His
spirit Of obedience to the Father, and
drinking the cup which the Father hath
poured, and thus attestng our loyalty to
Jehovah and to His perfect will in all
things, even unto death.
"The Losos Was God"
In the opening Of ST. Johns Gospel we
have record Of the greatness Of the
L01os. And It is much more clear and dis
tinct in the Greek than in our English.
The word logos. I remind you, signifies
the "toord." the message" and hence Is a
proper term for q special messenger. In
olden times kings addressed their people,
| not directly, but through such a messen-
| ger or to0os, who stood before the king,
| the latter being screened behind q lattice
| work AS the Io0os or messenger received
| the message from the king, he uttered or
| proclaimed 1t to the people; hence he was
styled the lo0os. tho Word.
! This is one Of the grandest titles given
! to our Redeemer. He was the Fathers
| lo0os. or Messenger, or Mouthpiece. He
was the Channel Of the Highest in all
| His dealings with the angels, and In His
| creative work; and later He became to
! men the Voice Of Him who speaketh
from on high, for God hath spoken to
mankind peace, through the blood Of the
cross of Christ
Let us read together the inspired rec
ord Of St John q, Ia. II. 10. 1D: 'In the
beginning was the Logos and the Logos was
with tho God and the Logos was q god.
The Same was In the beginning with tho
oil tpna T1o
that were made, and without Him was
not one thing made. And the Lo0os
was made flesh and dweIt amongst us,
and we beheld His glory, as the glory OF
the Only Begotten Of the Father, full Of
grace and truth" HE was In the world,
and the world was made by Him. and
the world knew Him not. He came to
His own [people-the Jews1 and His own
received Him not; but to many as re-
ceived Him, to them gave He liberty
Eprivilege] to become sons Of Cod tpar-
takers Of the divine nature--II Peter 4.
Al, even to those who believe on His
Name, who were begotten not Of blood,
nor of the will Of the flesh. nor Of the
will Of man, but of God-at Pentecost and
subsequently.
How beautiful. simple and straightfor-
ward and non-my sterious Is the Divine
record respecting the Father, the Son and
the Holy Spirit, and their absolute one
ness or harmony! How different from the
nonsense which for SO long we endeavored
to believe, because we thought it support
ed by the Biblel Good Brother Wesley
was one Of those honest souls who was
seriously troubled on the subject. He re-
marked that only the ono text / John 6:
7, could be used as' foundation for this
doctrine. He knew not that the difficulty
lay In an interpolation-an addition to the
Apostles words. 1t Is only In compare
lively recent years that the three original
Creek nann9CrDfa haUe hoen hro10hf n
light, namely, the Sinaitic, Vatican No.
1909 and the Alexandrian.
Tho Beginning of Gods Creation.
! Let us hearken to the Apostle Paule
| statement respecting our dear Redeemer
| and His glorious station. He uttered not
| q word favoring the absurd theory that
our Redeemer was His own Father and
His own Someone In person. He declared
In harmony with st. Johns statement
that our Lord Jesus was 1.-The Begin
ming Of the creation Of God" Revela-
| ton Ill. ~. st. Paul declared that .Je-