The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-04-22

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"Humble your
selves therefore under the mighty hand
Of God. that He may exalt you in due
f1me."-1 Peter SO.
The Pastor declared that the Bible
everywhere holds up the Lord Jesus
Christ as the glorious Pattern of what
IL most pleasing to the Heavenly Fa-
Their, Pattern therefore to be copied
by all who would abide in Gods favor.
He reminded his hearers that there
are certain steps necessary before any
can come into the favor of God, and
properly be called His children, or said
TO be under His supervision and care
or be permitted to address Him in
prayer, or to consider themselves heirs
Of His favors and blessings. This is
made very clear by the Apostles and
also by Jesus Himself, said the Pastor
The Apostles declare the necessity of
an Advocate with the Father. before
any can approach Him, come into His
presence or receive any favor from
Him. Jesus expressed this same
thought, saying. mo man cometh unto
Lne bdlner, out Dy Me.
As a matter of fact, therefore. a
comparatively small proportion of hui
mainly have any Of Gods favors at
the present time, said the Pastor But
we rejoice in the breadth of the Mes
sage, which assures US that in Gods
"due time" all shall be brought to
knowledge of Messiah, and privileged
through Him to enjoy the gift of God
everlasting life But what is coming
and what is here now are two differ
emit matters. No one has authority to
make the Narrow Way a Broad Way,
nor to say that many will find it when
the Scriptures declare, Few there be
that find it" Our consolation is that
this Narrow Way leads to special
glory, honor. Immortality and the Di
vine Nature, and will develop a spe
cfal, elect class. Then subsequently,
this select class will be used of the
Lord in blessing the non-eect many
with a great, but inferior blessing.
The Pastor demonstrated that his
text relates not to the world in gen
eral, but merely to the consecrated
few who during this Age hear the in
vitation, accept it, and become foot
step followers of Jesus. These have
their sins forgiven as a result of faith
in the precious blood of Christ and of
conservation to do the will of God
These then have the Redeemer as their
Advocate with the Father, and are ac
cepted in the Beloved as His brethren
These are the prospective members
of the Bride OF Christ, who by the
Lords grace may now suffer with
their Redeemer in cross-bearing. and
by and by share with Him His glori-
GUS Kingdom. These are begotten of
the Father through the Holy Spirit,
and thus become New Creatures in.
Christ. No longer are they to be
classed as members of the human
family, but as spiritual sous of God
Of new order, higher than the angels,
but not yet perfected Their perfect
ing cannot take place until their pro
dictionary trial shall have ended, and
1t will not end until death In the
glorious First Resurrection, therefore
these will be perfect, as sons Of God on
the Divine plane, associates and joint
heirs with their Lord and Redeemer.
To These Our Text Applies.
These are exhorted to come with
holiness to the Throne of Heavenly
Grace, to obtain mercy, and find grace
to help In every time of need. These
and only these, may know that their
prayers are always heard. As Jesus
said, "Their messengers do always have
access to My Fathers presence" MAT
thew 1S:10.) The exhortations of the
Apostle are to these alone-not to the
world.
In our context the Apostle holds up
the Lord Jesus as the great Pattern of
humility, the example for all of His
followers, admonishing that they
should walk in His steps, If they would
have the Divine favor that He enjoys
and attain with Him to joint-heirship
In His glorious Kingdom He was
rich, yet in obedience to the Fathers
win He laid aside the riches of His
Heavenly estate, and became poor-not
merely appeared poor. He laid aside
Or divesteS Himself Of His spirit con
dition and glory, and took instead hu-
man conditions.
From being above the angels, He of
His own volition took a nature and
place "a little lower than the angels"
And He did this, knowing it was only
a preliminary step. He knew that the
particular steps of self-denial and suf-
fering were to follow. He humbled
Himself to become man, because a
man-Adam-had sinned, and through
him race had come under sentence of
death, and could not extricate itself.
Only an uncondemned man could re
deem the condemned one. For this
purpose Jesus left His glory, and twas
found in fashion as a man."
The Logos did not become a sinful
man, blemished or imperfect man.
On the contrary, He was holy, harm
less, undefiled and separate from sin
ners." Otherwise, He could not have
been the Redeemer Being sinless, how
ever, this perfect One would suffer all
the more from the shame and igno-
miny connected with the mission He
undertook
As 1t was not a babe, but man.
that had sinned and was to be redeem
ed, therefore Jesus needed to wait I'M
I'll He reached manhood's estate-thirty
years-before He could begin His min
istry. Promptly at thirty He made
His conservation, and symbolized It'll
by water immersion at Jordan. Then
He went forth, declaring the Message
which He knew would be misunder-
stood-the Message of Gods Love, the
Message that there must be a sacrificed
for sin, the Message that He was the
Ein-Onfering, the Message that as re-
suit Of that Sin-Offering, blessed fruit |
age afterward would come, in the Mil
lennial Kingdom, which would bless
all the families of the earth.
As He foreknew, mankind, even the
best prepared-the Jewish people
were not ready for the Message Thus. |
as He foresaw and as the Scriptures |
foretold, they crucified Him-ignorant-l |
ly-for as st. Paul declares: Had they
known 1t they would not have crucihed
the Lord of glory Il Corinthians 2:S) |
st. Paul reminds us that we should !