The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20

l9s. IL In because the Lord loves yors
ana NIL the trials and difficulties that
H@ secs best to bring upon you ara
pgrpossd TO prepare you to be a Jewel
for mounting IN His glorious diadera.
When God accepts any one and be-
gets him with the Holy Spirit, that one
10 q jewel in the rough, and needs cut
ting and polishing. Each needs the
skill OF the great Master Workman I'M
order to be properly shaped and pre-
pared to show forth the glory Of God.
Just aS g. diamond properly cut will
radiete the glories Of tho sunlight, 80
Gods Jewels will show forth His
praises. After each Ia cut and polished
he Ia laid aside until the great Lapi-
dairy is ready to mount the jewels.
This Is the First Resurrection. Then
all these jewels will be mounted in fine
gold-symbolic Of the Divine nature
and placed In the glorious diadem
which is to be In the hand OF our God.
God GIeriHed In the Church.
Since the experiences through which
the Church has been passing through
out the Gospel Age are all working out
for us a far more exceeding and eter-
nal weight Of glory. let US take them
thankfully. joyfully. gladly. realizing
that u Heavenly Father knows bet
ter than we do what we need: and
that He has promised that His grace
will be sufficient, that He will not per-
NIT III to be tempted above what we
are able to bear, but will with the
temptation provide a way Of escape.
This is the message that we would
leave with you today-that the Church
Is In the Lords hands. and that He is
preparing each individual member to
be a jewel in His royal Diadem. When
this piece Of workmanship Is finished,
He will show 1t to the angels as the
basis Of one Of the greatest lessons
they have ever had. The angels who
remained loyal to God have never
known sin in the sense Of experiencing
1t personally. They have always been
holy. happy. obedient to Him. They
have seen how the redemption of man
kind manifeSts Gods Love: and HIS
willingness to exalt those Of mankind
who are obedient to Him now will be-
a further lesson to them.
In that Day. when they shall see
how the Lords blessing has eventual
" brought the Church to glory, the
angels Of God will all rejoice, even
though the Church will be on a still
higher plane than they-far above IN
gels. pr%incipalities and powers. and
Joint.heir with her Lord. The angels
are in full harmony with God, and
therefore will be ready to sing praises,
as the Scriptures set forth, saying, cat
the name Of Jesus every knee shall
bow, Of things in Heaven and things
in earth" When the Bride shall be
glorifed with her Bridegroom, all the
angelic hosts will low the knee; for
the Church will be on the highest plane
Of existence, associated with her Lord.
Whoever of the angelic hosts are loyal
to the Father and to the Son will also
be loyal to the Bride. the Lambs Wife,
in that glorious Kingdom.
"Bern In Zion"
The Psalmist foretells that "of Zion
IT. shall be said, This and that man
was born in her; and the Highest Him
self shall establish her" psalm $3.50
Zion represents the Kingdom In glory.
The Church in her glorifed condition
will be Zion. and every faithful saint
of God will be born in her. According
to the flesh, the Lords people were be-
| gotten and born; according to the Spir-
it they have been begotten again. But
until they experience their change
from earthly to Heavenly nature they
are not born again. This second birth,
the spirit birth, Is the First Resurrec-
ton. We have the begettng Of the
Spirit now, but the process In not yet.
completed; when 1t is. we shall be born
again. Then the record will be made
that this one and that one was born in
her, born In Zion.
In due time the world will get the
record. Then they will get the expla-
nation of what they cannot now under
stand. They will perceive that the
Church class were once blinded like
the rest of mankind, but that they had
their eyes opened in advance of the
others, and were loyal to what God
showed them and were blessed. Then
they will reason that If God would do
this for the Church, He will be willing
also to bless their own efforts-though
not In the same way that He has bless
ed the Church. sta
The Bible clearly indicates that our
Heavenly Father purposes to make
known to the world just who they r
that have made their calling and cleo
ton sure to a place in the Body OF
Christ. AS the world of mankind come
to realize that the peculiar people
whom they could not understand, sven
though they recognized that these were
honest and faithful to the principles OF
righteousness-were the Body Of Christ
In the flesh, they will think. The same
gracious Heavenly Father that reward
ed the Church. and took them to the
Heavenly plane. Is now dealing with
US through them. in Messiah's glorious
Kingdom; and He will give US the
blessings whichsH has promised u.s.
restitution to human perfection. IL we
are willing and obedient to His in
structions. Then the world will thank
God for His wonderful Plan OF saliva
ton.
For nearly nineteen centuries the
work of sealing and preparing the
jewel class has been in progress. Now
the Scriptures indicate that the time
has come Cor the mounting OF these