The Washington times., 1915-04-05

pear. The Scriptures clearly set forth
that our Redeemer,, prior to becoming
gotten of the Father, full of grace and
truth. His leaving the spirit plane to
become. man is scripturally described
as great humiliation. Is it reasonable
TO suppose that the Heavenly Father
would perpetuate to all eternity that
Illumination, after It had served It's pur-
pose? Surely not!
,,,ius, The BibIe . tells us why Jesus humbled
himself to the human nature-"a little
lower than the angels" A man had
sinned: and under the Divine Law the
Redeemer must be on the same plant
deem. Thus Jehovah particularly speci-
fied-"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a
tooth. a life for a life Hence the !,
death of an angel or of our Lord in HIS '
fected the payment of mans penalty
and the consequent release Of the con-
demned race. Thus again we read, "a
body hast Thou prepared Me'-"for the
No one questions that this applies ex-
clusively to our Lords experiences dur
ing the years in which He who was
rich became poor for our sakes. that we
rich" Surely it Is unsupposable that
the Father would arrange a Plan by
which our Redeemer's faithfulness in
accomplishing man 8 redemption would
cost Him an eternity Of poverty. humil-
iation. degradation to plane "a little
lower than the angels while the
Church would be made rich and would
attain a spirit state "far above angels
be made "partakers of the Divine ma
| ture.'-2 Peter IA.
God Highly Exalted Him."
The very same Apostle who tells Of
! ter to the climax, telling us Of His faith
| fulness. as the Man Christ Jesus, even
| unto the death of the cross. Then he
! adds an assurance of the Heavenly
Fathers faithfulness in not leaving His
| Son on a lower plane: Wherefore God
| also hath highly exalted Him. and hath
given Him a name above every name"
| philippians 2:S-1.
This is in harmony with our Lords
| words in His prayer to the Father. Ig-
noring the promises Of higher glory
as a reward for His faithfulness. He
the glory which had with Thee before
| the world was" John 17:5) In hu-
mility He asked no reward. but was
| quite content to serve the Fathers Plan
and then to return to His former glori-
sponse to that prayer was. .1 have
glorified Thee. and will glorify Thee
again. or further-the implication Of a
still higher glory than that which He
/ enjoyed before He was made flesh.
The Unconsecrated Cannot Under
stand.
In the consideration of spiritual prob
themselves. them When natural-minded
man undertakes to reason these sub.
jects out he finds them impossible OF
comprehension. St Paul explains TINS
ceiveth not the things of the Spirit Of
God, neither can he know them, be-
cause they are spiritually discerned.
q Corinthians 2:l4). He proceeds to tell
tkaX a1lv oof
such as have been begotten again by
the Holy Spirit. In their resurrection
all natural men will receive earthly or
human bodies, while all spiritual ones,
spirit bodies. as st. Paul explains In our
context. Werses $780,
Not all of my hearers can appreciate
this-only those begotten again by the
Holy Spirit. Others | ask TO consider
what say and to hold it. II they please.
until such time as, in Gods providence.
they may be begotten Of the Holy Spirit
and thus be enabled to understand spir-
Another class who have difficulty are
, ! spirit -begotten, but have been entangled
in their reasoning by the declaration or
fthe creeds respecting the resurrection
, of the body. It Is difficult to unlearn
error. When visiting foreign lands and
,, learning of the hold OF superstition upon
the heather, l concluded that we Chris
, tians experience just as much dlihcuits
heather in getting free from theirs.
, He Appeared and Disappeared.
,, During the forty days following our
Lords resurrection, His appearances to
: His disciples were but for few mo
: ments each time. and in various bodies
; once as a gardener, another time as
, traveller. a third time as stranger
!. these appearances would probably not
have exceeded four hours out OF the
entire forty days. We were not cr1tlca
students when we overlooked thest ,s
things, and forgot to ask ourselves why
:, these things were so.
Now we see more distinctly why our
Lord did as He did HIS disciples were
: natural men and could not appreciate
E could not receive the guiding Of the
:. Holy Spirit until our Lords ascension
and appearance in the Fathers presence
=, on behalf of the Church, to make salts
n faction for their sins and to make them
n acceptable joint-sacrifcers with Hin
! self Had Jesus ascended Immediately
after His Resurrection. the stunned and
o bewildered disciples would have had nc
= assurance OF His resurrection They
n would have found II impossible to &c
e out and tell the people that He had
!, risen from the dead when they had M
e proof to this effect.
i Even II Jesus had appeared to then
h as He did to Saul of Tarsus. this woulc
g not have been convincing and sattsfac
e tory. They might have said, Here is 6
s phenomenon, but how can we positively
/. associate 1t with the life and death o.
Is Jesus? Matters were different will
Saul He needed something to arous'
him thoroughly and to teach him 70
J. all time and others through him. tina
r the LCrd is not a man. but that Spirit
r Besides. the disciples We're able to giv'
IS Saul assurances of what they knew re
e specting Jesus resurrection and ascen
a sion.
lr Our Lord adopted the only reasonahl
ID way of convincing His disciples that II
r was no longer dead and that He W.
E. no longer human, but had been gloritI,
y and had become a spirit being. 1'k
lie two things were necessary. and the
Is were done at the same time.
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