Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-04-23

jewels. If you RS His child find that
the cutting process goes on in your
life. it is because the Lord loves you:
| and all the trials and difficulties that
He sees best to bring upon you are
pnrposed to prepare you to be jewel
for mounting in His glorious diadem.
When God accepts any one and be-
gets him with the Holy Spirit. that one
is jewel in the rough. and needs cut
ting and polishing. Each needs the
| skill of the great Master Workman in
order to be properly shaped and pre-
pared to show forth the glory of God
Just as a diamond properly cut will
| radiate the glories of the sunlight. SO
Gods jewels will show forth His
praises. After each is cut and polished
he is 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 Glorified 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 our Heavenly Father knows bet
ter than we do what we need: and
that He has promised that His grace
will l,.,c ffSa;n hot 10
nit US to be tempted above what we
are able to bear. but will with the
temptation provide 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 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
it personally. They have always been
holy. happy. obedient to Him. They
| have seen how the redemption of man
kind menifests Gods Love: and His
willingness to eSalt 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
| ly 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 an
\ gels. principalities and powers. and
Joint-heir with her Lord The angels
are in full harmony with God. and
therefore will be ready to sing praises
rs the Scriptures set forth, saying. AT
the name of Jesus every knee shall
bow. of things in Heaven and things
in earth" When the Bride shall be
elorifet1 with her Bridegroom. all the
angelic hosts will bow 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.
born 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 SI:5l
Zion represents the Kingdom in glory
The Church in her glorified condition
will be Zion. and every faithful saint
Of God will be born i'll 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
Me not born again. This second birth
the spirit birth. is the First Resurrec
ton. We have the begetting of the
Spirit now. but the process is not vel
completed: when it is we shall be borI
again. Then the record will be made
that this one and that one was born il
her. born in Zion.
I'm due time the world will! get til,
record. Then they will get the eXpia
nation of what they canno, now under
stand. They will perceive that thu
Church class were once blinded Xix,
the rest of mankind but that they hat
their eyes opened in advance of TIN
others. and We're loyal To what Cox
showed them and We're blessed Thel
they will reason that if God would d.
: this for the Church. He will be Willing
also to bless their own efforts though
not iii the same Way that He has bless
ed the Church.
The Bible clearly indicates that on
Heavenly Father purposes to maxi
'. known to the world Just who they ar
u that have made their calling and cleo
ton sure 10 Il place III the Body .
y Christ. As the world Of mankind com
= to re:ilize that the peculiar people
0 whom they could not understand eve
though they recognized that these wer
/ honest and faithful 10 the principles O
q righteous ness were the Body of Chris
: in the flesh. they will think. The sam
gracious Heavenly Father that reward
q ed the Church. and took them to tn
e Heavenly plane. is now dealing wit
$, us through them, in MeSSiah'S SlOriou