The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-28
come 20 all humanity through the sec
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come 10 All humanity through tne sec
ond Adam. the Lord.
The Riches of Gods Grace.
Our Great Creator is rich in grace,
the Apostle tells US. He not only pur-
posed to recover mankind from the dis.
advantages Of the fall, but additionally
took advantage of the circumstances
connected with the permission OF sin
to give an especial opportunity to any
Of the sinners to manifest, il they
would. special loyalty to Himself. God
might have placed a different penalty
against sin. He might have excluded
u first parents from Eden for a year
and then have returned them, or He
might have simply banished the race
from Eden, and have allowed all to
live without sentence Of death against
us, Had He done so, Jesus would not
have needed to die for mans redemp-
tion. Because the sentence Of death
had been imposed, however, it must be
Cancelled before the race could be re-
stored to perfection and to Gods IA
Vor.
It is evident, then, that God wished
TO have the death penalty upon our
race. so as to make necessary the death
Of His Son. This, in turn, meant that
the Father invited the Son to, become
mans Redeemer, and that the Son &C.
cepted the offer, and came into this
world for that very purpose. This i'm.
piled that the Father would reward
Him with a high exaltation, in recog-
milton of His loyalty and obedience un-
to death, even of the cross Thus Je-
sus suffered for u sins, and entered
into His glory.
But God had a further Plan. Hence
He sent Jesus to die for the world
nearly two thousand years before He
was ready to deal with the world. And
that long period of nearly two thou.
sand years has since been devoted to
the calling out of the Church, to be the
Bride Of Christ, and Joint-heir in His
Kingdom. This Church is described
as a Little Flock, a sanity few, who
through much tribulation are walking
in the footsteps of the Redeemer, aud
ultimately will be accounted therefore
as worthy to share with Him In His
glories-on the spirit plane.
This election Of the Church in no
sense or degree hinders the great work
of God for the world. On the con
trary. God in His Wisdom has made
the election of the Church to be a help
full and connective link in His great
Plan for blessing and restoring man
kind to human perfection and earthly
Eden.-Acts 1921.
The Bible Triumphant.
We are all witnesses to the confu.
sion which has prevailed amongst us
as the people Of God. Our difficulties
have been connected with this prob.
lem of eternal torture, and a redemp-
ton and recovery therefrom. Row
glad we are, as children of God and
students of His Word, for the light
that is now shining upon us! This
does not mean that we have made the
light, and may therefore boast Of it.
1t means that as In the dawning Of
the natural day the darkness fees
gradually, so now in the dawning Of
the New Dispensation, Messiah's Day.
a thousand years long, the light of
Divine Truth is shining more and
more clearly. 1t is scattering our dark.
ness and our fears, and enabling us,
as people Of God, more and more to
love the great Fountain Of blessing,
from whom cometh every good and
every perfect gift.
Now we see that the faults which
have been found with the Bible belong
not to it. 1t is consistent. 1t contains
the Divine Plan, or Program, so CON.
p~rehensive and so beautiful as to be
heart-assuring that it is of God and
not of man. No human mind could
possibly devise the glorious features
Of Gods Plan, providing a place on
the Heavenly plane. for the elect
Church, and a place on the earthly
plane for Adam and all his race-as
many Of them as will accept the offer,
when clearly and distinctly presented
to them, when the blind eyes shall be
opened and all the deaf ears shall be
unstopped.-Isaiah S5:5. 6.
We see, then, my dear brethren, that
the death of Christ is, by Gods ar
rangement. the most important fact
in the whole worlds history. The one
Dext in Importance Is His resurrection
from the dead and ascension to glory.
His work for man will be at His Second
Coming: He will establish His Heaven
~ Kingdom. and rule, bless and upiift
the world to all that was lost in Adam
and redeemed at Calyary-the Bride 81
Christ sharing with her Lord in all
that great and wonderful work. being
qualified thereto by her share With
Him in the First Resurrection.-Rev~
lation 20:4.
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