The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-08

| nat am. " no Snal deliver me
from this dead body?'-this body that is
| imperfect through inherited sin and
weaknesses. With our minds we serve
zoo Law and approve it; but with our
| oooles We come short. How shall We be
qeHEered? Are We hopeless as respects
OI'ihe approval and eternal life?
Eternal Life the Gift of God.
In our moment of perplexity we hear
Hod Message speaking peace through
Jesus christ The Message of Peace is
mat what we could not do for ourselves
I God has provided shall be done for us
| through our Lord Jesus. Our failure to
/ Keep the Law marks us as unworthy of
eternal life and worthy of the wages of
sln-not eternal torment, but death. God
| III mercy concluded to offer US eternal
| HE as gift-because Of our not actual
ly meriting it under His legal REQUIRE
| ments. Thus We read, The wages OF
sin is death; but the gift of God is eter-
nal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. ."
But the Gift is conditional as ex-
pressed in the words. through Jesus
Christ our Lord" Only those who ac-
cept Jesus Christ as the Way tho
Truth and the Life" may have the Dr.
vine gift of eternal life. Hence il will be
seen to be mistake to suppose that the
heathen at home or abroad can get eter-
nal life in ignorance of Christ. All the
scriptures confirm this, and declare not
only that We cannot save ourselves by
obedience to Gods Law. but that there
is none other name under Heaven given
amongst men, whereby we must be
saved through faith in His blood
But how is this done justly? and why
does God SO limit His gift of eternal
lie! Gods Law represents Himself and
cannot change. He cannot require less
than perfection. To do so would be to
NIL the Universe with depraved and i'm
perfect beings. God has a higher Plan
than this and declares AS the heavens
are higher than the earth. so are Nv
ways higher than your ways" He ex-
plains that His ultimate purpose is that
there shall be no imperfect creature in
all the Universe. All whose hearts are
loyal 10 Him and the principles of His
government shall be perfected and all
others shall be destroyed in the Second
Death.
Thus eventually every knee shall bow
and every tongue confess. to the glory
OF GOD. Then every creature in Heav-
en- and on earth shall be heard saving
Blessing and honor and glory and now.
er be unto Him that stitch upon the
Ihrone' and unto the Lamb, forever.
"He Are Bought with a Price,"
Possibly God could have arranged
some other way of dealing with sin and
sinners which would not have required
Jesus death as the Ransom-price, the
Redemption-p4ce. for sinners. But the
fact that this method was adopted by
our great Creator assures us that no
other method would have been 50 wise.
so just, so beneficial. God has provided
in Jesus for the satisfaction Of Divine
Justice as respects all of the condemned
human race who desire to return TO His
favor.
We agree with all the orthodox creeds
Of Christendom that only full repent
ance from sin. full faith in the Re-
deemer's sacrifice and a full consecra-
uoh OF heart and life to do Gods will
and nothing short of this attainment
will gain the salvation which God now
holds out TO mankind. To those who
prove faithful TO their Covenant of Sac
rllce the great reward is promised-I
glory nonor, immortality and joint-heir-
ship with our Lord in His MillenniaI
hlngdom and its work of blessing all the |
families Of the earth.
Our disagreement with all orthodox
Creeds Is In respect to what shall be
done with those who do not present |
themselves to God and who are not he
gotten OF the Holy Spirit. The creeds |
OF the Dark Ages misrepresented the
bloIe teachings respecting these and de-
clared that they are all to be consigned
10 Purgatory or TO Hell torment The
teaching of Gods Word is the very ra-
verse OF this The Scriptures declare. In
my SEED snail all the families of the
earth be blessed"-not damned. For the
thousand years Of Christ's Reign the
worlds uplifting. or resurrection vii
proceed. until the knowledge Of IN.
glory of God shall fill the whole earth as
the waters cover the sea "-Isaiah 1I:9:
2I4 ''
Love Mercy and Walk HumbIy.
1t may astonish some that God re-
quires even more than Justice. His legal
standard. In His permission of sin and
Its wage OF death He has shown His own g.
mercy by providing a Redcemer. And il
Is Tor the sinners good that God re-
qulrcS that all who will have full bene-
ut OF His mercy shall cultivate this 4
quality in their own hearts. As the sim
her' attempting to conform his life TO
the perfect standard. finds himself I'M
able TO keep Gods Law and Obliged to
come for mercy to the Throne of Heav-
emily Grace. he is informed that he can
nave that mercy only upon condition
that he exercise similar mercy toward
those who trespass against him. hi,
ideals and his interests.
Humility Is a quality very necessary to-
every creature. Pride is a foe which NOT
merely besets the weak and Imperfect.
but transformed the great angel of Light,
Lucifer, into Satan, the adversary of
God. We are glad. therefore, that DI-
vine Wisdom requires humility as one Of
The conditions Of our acceptance with
Him. This requirement assures us of
the security of the Divine Empire
against all treason in the future; for
none will be admitted to the eternal life ,
conditions, either now or during the !
Aessianic Reign, except the humble. Let ,
is hearken to the lesson of our text and I
10 the Apostles words, Humble your ,
selves under the mighty hand Of God,
hat He may exalt you in due time
Peter Sc.
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