The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1914-05-02

Promise Galatians 90 I
The Pastor first demonstrated from |
Scripture that mankind are under the
curse of death, and that they can come
under Gods blessing only by the bring +,
Ing In of new condition. Gods pur-
pose to lift the curse Is shown In His
Promise to Abraham, "In thy Seed
shall all the families of the earth be
blessed" This Seed will roll away the
curse and roll I'm the blessing OF life
Next the Pastor pointed out the
Scriptural evidence that the Logos left
Heaven and became a human being.
OF the Abrahamic stock In order TO be
come the promised Seed. Jesus, nc
cording to the flesh, could not he the
Messiah. the promised Seed; for nj
though II perfect Man, He could not
have been the Deliverer whom God |
had promised.
How Jesus Became tho Messiah.
Then the Pastor showed that Jesus
became the Messiah when baptized of
John In Jordan. There He presented
Himself living sacrifice, TO do un
meant, primarily, our Lords death as
the antityplcal Sln-offering Mankind
are under the death sentence pro.
nounced upon Adam; therefore their
Redeemer must taste death for man
kind before He could ask for their re.
lease from that penalty.
Our Lords ascension was another
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As St Paul declares, 1t was necessar,
for Jesus to appear In the presence o
God with the merit OF His sacrifice
I'm order that the Father might Civ,
the Church the benefit of the cleansing
which our Lord had accomplished
Many have not noticed. he claimed
that the Scriptures limit the work oi
the Gospel Age to the Church.
The Pastor also showed that after
Jesus had become the Spiritual Seed
of Abraham through His amounting Of
the Holy Spirit at Jordan. He began To
limited extent the work of blessing
But after He had assembled on High
He was then the Perfected One. so far
as He Himself was concerned. The
speaker demonstrated, however, that
the Scriptures clearly indicate that
God had purposed that Jesus have n
company of associates. TO be sharers
in the great work OF human upllft
These constitute the Gospel Church,
who are to he given glory, honor and
immortality in the First Resurrection
They also will become. ms members az
Abraham's Spiritual Seed, Joint heirs
In the Messianic Kingdom
The Development Of the Church.
Primarily. the Seed of Abraham, the
Pastor declared, was TO be the Spirit
ual Seed Christ and the Church on
the Divine plane. But Abrahams nat
ura seed-the Jews-will also have n
part In the blessing. This Is set forth
in Genesis 22;lG-1S, where God told
Abraham that his seed would be like
the stnrs and the sand on the seashore
The speaker then explained how
some from both Jews and Gentiles
have constituted this Spiritual Seed
The early Church was mainly Of jew
lsh origin. These had found that they
could not get everlasting life by keep
ing the Law. Therefore, as st Paul
declared, they must become dead TO II,
accept Christ as their Sin-offering and
consecrate themselves, in order to be.
come members of the Amounted Body.
The Genties were never under the
Law Covenant, the Pastor demonstrate
ed, ana therefore they came Into Christ
merely by presenting themselves living
sacrifices ms did the Jews. All who do
so by faith jew or Gentile-are be.
gotten of the Holy Spirit to Heavenly
| homes and ambitions Those who con
tlnue faithful unto death will receive
n place In the glorlhed Church OF
this Christ company Jesus was the
Head, and the faithful In Christ Jesus
! hlIN been the members since.
The Natural Seed OF Abraham.
The Pastor then showed that the
experiences OF the Jews thr""ghout
the Jewish Age had developed spe-
clal class, enumerated by St Paul I'm
Hebrews H. These Ancient Worthless
viii receive their promised better res
direction" I'm that they will awaken
perfect men; whereas the rest Of man
kind will require centuries TO attain
human perfection This Ancient
Worthy class will be associated with
the Messianic Kingdom MS its earthly
phase. The Heavenly phase win h.
invisible to humanity. The world vii