The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-02-16
Eternal Life the Gift of God.


provided shall be done for Is through
our Lord Jesus Christ. Our failure to
keep the Law marks US as unworthy
of eternal life. and worthy of the
wages of sin7-not eternal torment. but
death. God In mercy concluded to Of
fer US eternal life as a gift: for we dc
not actually merit 1t under His legaI
requirements. Thus we read. 1.-THE
wages of sin Is death: but the gift OF
God Is eternal life through Jesus Christ
our Lord" (Romans 6:23.) What we
could not obtain legally under the Di
vine requirements God proffers us as q
gift. But the gift is conditional. as ex
pressed in the words. through Jesus
Christ our Lord"
Only those who accept Jesus Christ
as the Way. the Truth and the Life
may have Gods gift Of eternal life
Hence it will be seen that it is wholly
a mistake to suppose that the heather
at home or abroad can get eternal
life, the gift of God. in ignorance OF
Christ. All the Scriptures declare moi
only that we cannot save ourselves by
obedience to the terms of Gods Law
but that there is zone other name un.
der Heaven given amongst men, where.
by we must be straightforward faith
In His blood.
But how is this done justly? And
why does God so limit His gift of eter
nal life? We reply that Gods Law
represents Himself and cannot change
He CANNOT require less than perfection
To do so would be to fill the Universe
with imperfect and depraved beings.
God has a higher plan than this and
declares. AS the heavens are higher
than the earth. so are My ways higher
than your ways" isaiah $500 He
explains that His ultimate purpose is
that there shall be no imperfect crea-
ture In all His Universe. All whose
hearts are loyal to Him and to the
principles of His Government shall be
perfected. and all others shall he de
strOyed In the Second Death. Thus
eventually every knee shall bow and
every tongue confess. to the glory of
God" Then every creature which Is In
Heaven and on the earth. and such as
are in the sea, shall be heard saying,
Blessing and honor and glory and pow
er be unto Him that stitch upon the
Throne, and to the Lamb forever.
aye Are Bought With a Price"
Possibly God could have arranged
some other way Of dealing with sin
and sinners which would not have re-
quired the death of Jesus as the Ran.
sOm-price, the Redemption-price, for
sinners. But the fact that this meth
cd was adopted by u great Creator
assures us that N other method would
have been SO wise, SO just, so bene.
fetal. No other method would have
so fully demonstrated Gods Wisdom.
Justice. Love and Power.
In brief. then, Gods arrangement is
that all of His human creatures shall
have opportunity of full return to har.
mony with Himself. provided they
wish to do SO. provided their hearts,
their wills. are fully responsive to the
letter and the spirit of His Law-the
requirements set forth in our text.
God has provided in Jesus for the sat
isfaction of Divine Justice as respects
all OF the condemned race who desire
to return to His favor.
We agree with all the orthodox
creeds Of Christendom that only re-
pentance of sin and an endeavor to
put it away from our thoughts. words
and deeds. combined with faith In the
Redeemer's sacrifice and a full conse-
Grafton of heart and life to do the
Fathers will. are attachments nothing
short of which will gain the salvation
which God is now holding out to man
kind. To such as comply with these
conditions the Apostle explains that
the righteousness of the Law of God,
His full requirement, lis fulfilled In
us who walk not after the flesh. but
after the Spirit. Romans 81.
From the moment of our consecra-
ton and begetting of the Holy Spirit
God deals with this class as with
ions. He trains them in the School of
Christ, disciplining, Christening. prov
ing them, testing the sincerity of their
conservation VOWS and the loyalty of
their hearts. To those who prove
faithful the great reward is promised
glory, honor, immortality. joint-heir.
ship with Jesus Christ in His Millen-
NAL Kingdom and its work of blessing
all the families of the earth.
Our disagreement with all orthodox
creeds is respecting what shall be done
with the unsaintly-with those who do
not present themselves to God and who
are not begotten again of the Holy
Spirit. Our creeds of the Dark Ages
misrepresented the teachings of the Bi.
bic in respect to these and told us tina.
they are all to be consigned for hun
tory or for all eternity in Hell torment.
Not such is the teaching of Gods
Word, but the very reverse. as we have
previously shown.
The Scriptures do not declare, In thy
Seed shall all the families of the earth
be damned; but-the very reverse of
this-that they shall all be blessed. All
the sin-blinded eyes shall be opened.
All the deaf ears OF ignorance shall be
unstopped. During that blest thousand
years of Christ's Reign the worlds
uplifting or resurrection will pro-
coed, while the knowledge of the
glory of Gcd shall fill the whole earth.
The angels on the plains of Bethlehem
did % declare to the shepherds, Fear
greatly; for behold, we bring you bad
tidings of great misery which shall be
unto all people. Their message was
the very reverse of this: Fear not; be-
hold, we bring you Good Tidings of
great joy which shall be unto all peo-
pte."-Luke 2:1O. IL.
God. who had a due time for calling
Natural Israel and who had also a due
time for calling Spiritual Israel. has u
due time for making known the riches
of His grace to the non-elect world of
mankind. And the Elect of Spiritual
Israel and of Natural Israel are to be
the channels of this Divine mercy and
grace. which during the Millennial Age
will flow as a river of salvation. and to
which all mankind will be invited to
come and drink freely.
Love Mercy and Walk HumbIy.
1t may astonish some that God re-
quires eel more than Justice. which
In His legal standard. In His permits
sion Of sin and its wage Of death. He
has shown His own mercy and love.
and it is for the sinners benefit, and
for the good of all. hat God requires
that all who desire the full benefit of
mercy shall be required to cult
vate this mercy In their own hearts.
As the sinner attempts to conform his
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