The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-01-18

toral Sermon at Washington Temple
The Message of the Hour-Not the
Burning of the World, but the Rolling
Away of che Curse and the upiifs OF
Humanity Will Result From the Mes
sianic Kingdom Of Thousand Years
Continued from last week.
Let Us Connect Up Our Text.
In the Eighth Psalm we find tire
Prophet expressing amazement at the
greatness of the Creator as manifest
ed in nature, especially in the starry
armament. He then expresses amaze
men.t that so great a Being should
take heed to humanity in its present
deplorable, fallen. sinful condition.
Prophetically he impliTs a knowledge
Of the fact that God from the begin
ming purposed a redemption for every
member of the race.
The Prophet then answers his own
question as to what man is, explain
ing that as he left the hand of his
Creator he was crowned with glory and
honor, as an earthly image Of MS Max
er, only little lower in gradaticn or
scale than the angels He was made
to have dominion over the earthly
works of God. The intimaIion is that
Gods visiting Of humanity in due time
viii mean the reclamation of the earth
~ dominion and its human king from
sin and death. Nothing in the proph-
ecy goes into detail, because it was not
then due time for details to be revealed.
Centuries Later st. Paul Commented.
ST. Paul declares, NOW is our sal
walton nearer than when we first be-
heved.'' The greater nearness should
make many features Of that salvation
much more conspicuous, Taking up
Davids prophecy, he shows that it i'm
plies human Restitution, the bringing
of mankind back to the image and like
ness Of God and to the full dominion
Of earth-the redemption fully offset
ting the curse. But" the Apostle pro-
ceeds, I'VE see not yet ali things put
under him" Hebrews 2:8.i Do we
see anything? Has any star of hope
ings? Yes! The Apostle declares, We
see Jesus. made a little lower than
the angels, crowned with glory and
honorjust as the first man Was-and
this in order that He might suffer
death-in order that He might be the
oil
man and his family, humanity
Thus we see that the foundation has
been laid for Gods return OF favor to
humanity-a sin-Offering and Atone
ment, covering Adam and all of his.
race. What grand superstructure OF
blessings will ultimately be erected
upon this broad and gracious founda-
ton! But we ask, Why the long delay
Of more than eighteen centuries rand
yet the work of uplifting the race OF
Adam from sin and death has only
been started-only the Church have
had their eyes and ears Of understand
ing opened, permitting them to come in
TO relationship with God through Christ.
Unless it be seen that the work OF
this Gospel Age has been specially to
select the Church, Christ's joint-heirs
In His Messianic Kingdom, no answer
can be given as to why the Almighty
has SO long delayed to bring to earth
he Heavenly Kfss3ess 4. rs blessings
t,rot+oy7 Fo. mi r,r.14.s,fi frt. arc still IN
ture. They cannot come until the First
fruits shall have been harvested, st,
james dis declares that the Church
is kind Of First-fruits unto God OF
Ills creatures. Through this First
fruits the Divine blessing will operate
amongst men for a thousand years, to
restore that Which was iost-humaD
perfection in the image and likeness OF
the Creator
st. Paul's argument proceeds along
this line. He declares that the first
feature Of the Divine Plan is to bring
many sons to glory-as joint-heirs Eite
Jesus. AS tests was made perfee&
through sufferings. so these following
Hin as their Captain and Leader, WatE-
ing in His steps, are also to BE- mace
perfect through sufferiEgs. for IF we
suffer with Him, we shalt also reign
with him. Heb. ZIG: , TIM. Dip
Proceeding, the Apostle discusses this
sanctifed class. Head and Body They
are sanctifed or set apart under q
special covenant. which reads. 'Gathas
Ny saints together unto Me. those si.,,;;
have made Covenant with Me 10y sac
riice. psalm 5o:5,i This specia.
sanctification or setting apart to sacr.-
ice marks this little company Of sofis
Of God as separate and distinct from
all others Of Gods creatures. With
their Lord and Head, they are heirs
Of God-joint-h with Jesus Christ