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

endured patiently, we who are 1mper
feet may well exercise great patience
And so in our text the exhortation is
that we perceive how Jesus humbled
Himself, and that we should think it
great privilege and pleasure similarly
to experience humiliations.
The Rewards of Humility and Loyalty.
No doubt the Logos, the Beginning
of the Creation of God" the First
born of every creature" the one by
whom all things were made, had such
loyalty to the Father that He would
have been obedient, even had no re-
ward been attached to the invitation
given Him. But, ON the other hand
1t would not have been consistent with
kindness, love or justice for the Father
to demand of His Son such a sacrifice
Justice can make no such demand.
And IL Love makes such a suggestion
it should properly back up the sugges-
ton with some promise Of special
favor or blessing. According to the
Apostle, God did just this. He in
formed His Son that He would appre
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Him joy, hope.
The Apostle does not explain the de
tails of that hope, but we may infer
them: a. The joy of the Fathers
blessing in superlative sense. q
The joy of bringing many sons Of God
to the plane of glory as His Bride
class. 81 The joy of rescuing the
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sorrow, pain, death, and of uplifting
or resurrecting all the willing and ODE
dent of the race to human perfection
and all that was lost by Adam. ca
An exaltation to a still higher station
than that which He had left. He
would be made partaker of the Divine
nature, far above angels, principal ties
and powers, and above His own previ-
Gus high station as the Only Begotten
of the Father. the Logos-the Word
John 1:1-3.
Here we are. dear brethren, with the
Apostles words and the full scope of
his inspired testimony before us. He
tells us that if we desire to be of the
glorious Glass of more than conquer
ors, who will be honored by the Re
deemer, we must humble ourselves to
the doing of the Divine will to the
best of our ability, as our Redeemer
humbled Himself to do the Fathers
will perfectly Not that the Father
will accept anything less than perfec-
ton, but that our Redeemer will make
up to us by the imputation of His
righteousness for all that which we
lack through our share in Adams fall
and its consequence. In other words,
if we have the same loyalty of heart
that the Master had, we will do what
we can. and so doing shall be accepta-
BILE to the Father, through the Son.
Satan's Course In Contrast.
Notice, now, the contrast between
Satans course and that of the Lord
Jesus. Satan took the opposite course
from that which the Redeemer took.
Instead of humbling himself, willing
to do everything that would be pleas
ing to the Father, he was proud
naughty, and sought to exalt himself
Lucifer was rich before his rebellion
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Of God. Yet he was not so rich, had
not so high a station, as the Logos
who was the very chief of all of Gods
creation, through whom the Divine
energy operated in the creation of all
things that were made.
Mark well the course of pride. thai
led to Satan's sin, and will ultimately
lead to his degradation and destruc-
ton. Mark well also the course of
Jesus, as 1t led Him through obedience
to humiliation, and then to the highest
glory. Which example shall we fol
low? Which fate viii BE ours? Shall
we in humility walk in the footsteps
IF our Redeemer, and become His
5oint-heirs in His glory, honor and i'm
mortality? or shall we take the other
course of pride, and thus become disci-
pies Of the Adversary, and learn of
him, and reach his doom-destructio
In the Second Death?
The Apostle intimates that God tests
us upon certain general lines, general
principles operating His Government.
He that humbleth himself shall be
exalted, and he that exalteth himself
shall be abased." Beloved hearers, II
seems to me that with these illustra-
tons before us, it would be folly for
us to permit the seeds of pride or per
sonal ambition to take root in our
hearts. Let us be diligently on the
outlook to eradicate everything of the
Kind and ha oloSa cf11Houke nc 49,, NJ
ter, copying His course
There is a reason behind every Di-
vine command and regulation. Men
may make arbitrary rules and condi-
tons without justifiable cause. but we
may be sure that the great Creator has
a good reason for His every act and re-
quirement. In the present case we
can readily discern the necessity for
the Divine requirement of humility.
The Lord Jesus and His Church are in
vited by the great Jehovah to the very
highest position in the universe. next
to Himself. Such an exaltation would
be dangerous TO any one possessed of a
spirit of pride or selfish ambition. Who
can tell at what time the smolderng
uAC AiSht VI edh il4lO DldZe anu cause
confusion and disorder?
Consider Satan's case What might
have been the result had he been en-
trusted with so high position as that
now occupied by the glorified Jesus?
There would have been genuine re-
bellion in Heaven of the kind Milton
so foolishly imagined. How we can
see the wisdom of the Almighty in
testing those whom He would exalt to
His own Divine naturei Even His
well-beloved Son was required to dem
onstrate His faithfulness and loyalty
unto death-'even the [ignominiousl
death of the cross" So the Apostle
says that it became God. Fin bringing
many sons unto glory, to make the
Captain of their salvation perfect
through sufferings"-to prove Him per-
feet by the things which He suffered
to demonstrate that the things which
He had always professed and had al
ways done. expressed the sentiment of
His heart In the fullest and most abso
lutte sense.
Thus again we read. Though He
were a Son, yet learned He obedience
by the things which He suffered"
Hebrews 5:s.) Again we read that it
Uas hooansa of FIis faftIafu1noSs that