Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-16

gotten Son, that whatsoever belieN.
eth on Him should net perish, but
have everlasting life" John SIG.
The thoughts of all the world are
, tl.l ning at this time to Gods great
Gift to the world-Do. not all the
world, either; fer after two thousand
Years the followers Of Jesus Christ
: have not been faithful enough to
Him to let more than one-third OF
the world know of His Name. we
can express it more truthfully thus
IN all the world, the thoughts OF
people are turning to Gods Gift;
for in every land there. is group
of those who have accepted God $
Christmas Gift and have been ana
are enjoying the blessings that come
with it. In common with them we
turn our thoughts to that day when
Col became man and dWelt
among us.
God All Powerful
There is a very striking resem-
blance between the first eighteen
verses OF John s gospel and the first
five books of the Bible. Recently we
made a study of the law TO discover
in it what revelation was made OIL
Jesus Christ When we had com
pieted the study we were surprlSei
tx, see that the law revealed Him as
Creator. the Light of the World, the
Seed of the Woman, the Only way
OF Salvation, Gods Provision Tor
the needs of men, and the Prophet
to declare God and bring men close
to Him. Our surprise was in find
ing that lust these characteristics
and in lust this order are those de-
clared of Him by John in the Pro
logue of His gospel.
I'm the beginning was the Word
and the Nord was with God and the
Word was God. The same was in
the beginning with God. All things
we're made by Him and without Him
was nothing made that hath been
made" So states the Spirit through
John. And that same Spirit speak"
ing through Moses said: In the be-
ginning God created the heavens and
the EARTH using ''Elohim,' the
the plural, for Hold. FL means the
mighty one, the all powerful. Elohim
is the plural. 1t was the Hrlune GOD,
all powerful, who created the heav-
ems and the earth by His fiat mot
by evolution in the beginning. by
faith we understand that the worlds
were made by the Word OF God, so
that things which are seen were
not made of things which do APP
pear" And in the beginning was
the Word and the Word was with
God and the Word was God. How
far back the beginning was is he
yond the comprehension of even the
imagination of man. Think back "a
million, 800 million (the longest guess
of the evolutionists), billion, a tril-
Lon, a quadrillion, a quintilliOn
yearS-and you are not yet in the
beginning" God always was. To
express il more actually, God always
lis" for there is no was" or will
be% with Him. The Spirit speaking
through both Moses and John re-
Veals to us the fact that the person
OIL the Godhead who was the active
agent in creation-thus revealing
the Almighty Powers the Word,
Gods means of expressing Himself
And Johns message gives us the
further revelation that the Word
"as the Christ.
AS the Creator of the heavens and
lie earth He was also the source
OF all life. In Him was life and
the life was the light of men" And
Noses also speaks of Him as the
Source OF all life, vegetable, animal
and spiritual.
Between verses one and two of the
first chapter of Genesis some catas-
trophe occurred The earth which
leo
1919 became waste and void. Some
thing happened which created this
disaster. 1t was the rebellion of
satan. Darkness followed; it always
results fl ON sin. AS on Calvary
when the Son of God was made sin
for us, a darkness that could be felt
covered the land because the light of
Gods face was shut out, so darkness
came here. And Gods first act in
brin ging order out of the wreckage
was Let light be" and light was.
1t could not have been sunlight, for
that did not appear until the fourth
day. 1t was the light of God shining
in the face of Jesus Christi In Him
was life and life was the light of
men. This was the true light that
liGhteth every man that cometh into
the world.
John now adds: He came unto
His own and they that were His own
received Him not. But as many as
received Him to them gave He power
to become the sons of God; even to
them that believed on His name. >"
And Moses, after the description of
the restoration Df the order out Of
chaos, tells of the creation of the man
in the image of God to whom God
gave dominion and with whom He
had communion until man refused
to do Gods will and insisted upon
having his own way. The first ques-
ton IN the Bible is when God came
down in the cool of the evening to
have communion with Adam and
not finding him, for he had hidden
himself from God said, "Where art
thou?" He came unto His own, and
His own received Him not because of
sin, rebellion, independence.
~,o God and Man
But God will not be thwarted; He
will not be turned aside in His search
for man; the shepherd seeks until
He finds. God wants to have fellow
ship with man and will not be turned
ASIDE II ON Ills purpose. SO when
man sinned and made fellowship inn
possible, God came and made proper
provision so that fellowship might
be possible again. He promised the
seed of the woman mot of mani
should bruise the serpents head: then
killed an animal-an innocent animal
that its life might be given for the
lives of those who were no longer
innocent, and With its skin made
them covering which was adequate
The Hebrew word translated atone
ment' all through the Old Testament
is a. word which means covering. -
God covered atonement for
their sins, Blessed is he whose
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.