Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-07-03

deemer if the Heavenly Father had
 made them the proposition and they
 had chosen to accept 1t. But Jehovah
 God gave the first offer to become
 mans redeemer to the very highest of
 all His creatures-His Only Begotten
 Son, the Logos, of whom we read that
 He was the Beginning of the creation
 of God, the First-born of every crea-
 ture, the Alpha and the Omega, the
 First and the Last.
 "For the Joy Set Before Him."
 It was not within the province of even Jehovah Himself to demand that one holy creature should die to rescue to redeem, humanity. The matter. therefore. was optional with the Logos; and if He had not chosen to accept the proposition, it doubtless would have been extended to others. But such was the love and loyalty of Gods Only Be gotten that to know the Fathers pleas ure in the matter was to cheerfully obey. It was joy to Him to serve in any manner and to further Gods will. l No doubt the Son would have done this without any suggestion of re- ward. but the Apostle suggests that |. great reward was proffered Him. He says, Who for the joy that was set before Him endured" His joyful obe- dience began when He exchanged the higher nature for the human. The same joy continued when. as the Man l ~ Nh,.io @I% and was faithfully obedient to the Fa- ther's will to the very last. saying. ''The cup which My Father hath pour ed for Me, shall 1 not drink it?"
 ] St. Paul further explains that it was | the, Redeemer's faithfulness and lOy- atty to the Father. in doing His will to the extent of laying down the human 1 life. that became the basis of His still higher exaltation-aboye His prehuman condition. The Apostle says. Where fore God also hath highly exalted Him. and given Him a name which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. of things in Heaven and things in earth" Thus. as the Apostle explains. He has been ex alted and qualified to be made q Prince and a Savior and able to grant forgive ness of sins to as many as will come unto the Father through Him.
 What Sin Forgiveness Means. Forgiveness of sin has two aspects: CD the cancellation of the legal con demnation: and (2l the recovery of the sinner from his loss. his lmperfection. Jesus came into the world to accom- plish both of these results. By His death He would legally satisfy the Di- vine Justice. giving His life as instead of Adams life. which was forfeited by sin. Then, according to the Fathers promise being raised from the death state 10 glorious state, with plenitude of power. He would use that power and opportunity for the release, or re cOvery. of mankind from the mental. moral and physical degradation brought about by sin.
 Thus We read that Jesus died that God might be just and yet be the Justif1er of all those who believe in Jesus-of all who shall become His dis ciples and follow His leading and di- rection. Again. we read that He came to seek and to save. to recover, that which was lost
 Sinners of Two Glasses Saved.
 It was just like our great Heavenly Father to take advantage of the oppor tunity of human salvation from sin to illustrate different characters amongst men and different degrees of His favor toward these. He foresaw that the great necessity of the world would be the Aessianic Kingdom. the powerful Reign of the Redeemer forcefully put ting down sin and all unrighteousness. scattering ignorance, darkness, super stitiOn. etc.
 He foresaw that some of the human family would need to have stripes. punishments, corrections in righteous ness, in order to teach them the great lesson that all unrighteousness Is sin: and that all sin brings degradation, sorrow. pain. death. according to Di- vine arrangement. MeSsiah'S King dom would be necessary to show how obedience to God would. on the con trary. bring gradual uplifting and recovery out of sin. sorrow. tears and death. eventually back to perfection.
 But while the great mass of mankind would need the severe lessons of the Millennium. the Reign of Christ, a cer- tain few would he able now to develop an eye of faith and an ear of faith by virtue of their desire to do Gods will l These would be dOubly precious in Gods sight: for without faith 1t is i'm | possible to please Him." and those who l could exercise faith under adverse con- | ditions would be His peculiar treasure. l Therefore God has arranged to gather l out this special class in advance. and | these He calls His Elect, the Church of | the Gospel Age
 This call. to which these respond, is ] not so forceful as will be the call of | the future; they must have hearing ] ears and attentive hearts to hear the | voice of God in the present time at all l Additionally. they must be both able | and willing to walk by faith. their path lighted only by the Lamp of Gods Word. "Thy Word is lamp to my