River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-05-28

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Hearts filed and
eyes became moist as the instructive
message was delivered.
What has been regarded by many as
a cruel fanaticism was pointed out by
the famous New Yorker as Divinely ar
ranged and as teaching a most beauti-
full and significant lesson respecting
the sacrifice of the anti-typical Isaac
namely, Christ and 1.-The Church. which
is His Body"
Pastor Russell's text was, IF We be
Christ's. her are ye Abraham's Seed
and heirs according to the Promise"
Galatians 1920.
The Pastor began by demonstrating
from Scripture that God calls III pres
ent condition a cursed one, that man
kind are under the curse of death, and
that the only way by which the world
can come under Gods blessing is by
the bringing in of a new condition.
And so when God said to Abraham,
"In thy Seed shall all the families of
the earth be blessed" He meant that
this Seed would roll away the curse of
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the full sense upon humanity.
Then the Pastor pointed out that the
Logos left the Heavenly courts and
became a human be~ing-taking a low
er nature than He had beforehand was
born of the stock of Abraham, in order
to become the promised Seed which
was to roll away the curse of death.
He next showed why Jesus, accord
ing to the flesh, could not be Messiah,
the promised Seed. Even i'll His per-
lection the Man Jesus could have done
nothing more for the world than to
guide many into happier conditions. He
could not have been the great Deliver
er who was to bless all the families of
earth-the dead as we'll as the living.
How Jesus Became the Messiah.
The Pastor explained how Jesus be-
came the Messiah when He was bap-
tized Of John at Jordan. He showed
that the water baptism was only the
symbol of the real baptism which took
place there; and to support his claim
he quoted the prophetic statement re-
speeding Jesus, "LO, l come to do Thy
will, O My God'-everything written
in the Book. Hebrews 1O:5-9) This
statement means that our Lord, by
becoming our Sacrifice, fulfilled the
types and shadows of the Law Cove
nant-various things that were not
commandments at all, but that were
foreshadcwed by the Jewish sacrifices.
For instance, the type showed that
before there could be IN atOnement for
sin, the bullock of the Sin-Offer1ng
must first be offered. Our Lord came
to be the a%ntitypical Sin-offering, to
present His perfect human nature-all
that He had-to give Himself in Gods
service as a sacrifice. The speaker
threw a new light on the Apostles
somewhat ambiguous statement, He
taketh away the first, that He may es-
tablish the second" declaring that the
correct thought is, He removes the type,
that He may establish the anti-type.
Our Lord came to set aside the type.
This He did when He presented Hin
self a living Sacrifice at Jordan to do
un~reservedly the Fathers will. This
meant, primarily, u Lords death, for
mankind were under the death SEN
tence pronounced upon their Father,
Adam. Therefore, 1t was necessary
that their Redeemer should taste death
for mankind before He could have
wherewith to satisfy the claims OF
Justice on Adams behalf and ask for
the release of Adam and his race.
Next the Pastor explained that when
our Lord cried on the cross, 1T is fin
ishedr' He merely meant that His own
personal work of the sacrifice of Him.
self was ended. Then came His resur-
rection and His manifestation to His
disciples, that they might know tina
He had risen from the dead. He ap-
peared and showed Himself under diff
ferent conditions to prove two things:
IN That He was no longer dead; C)
That He was changed from what He
had been before. The speaker dwelt
at length upon our Lords several mani
festations after His resurrection. He
pointed out that during the forty days
before our Lords ascension He showed
Himself only a few minutes at a time,
or perhaps an hour in all, and He ap-
peared and disappeared in a way that
no one but a spirit being could do. AS
st. Peter declared, He was put to