Questions and Answers By R. A. TORREY
3 :21) and the redeemed spirit now clothed upon with the redeemed body will forever be with Christ. If He is to be and reign on earth for a thousand years, we will be here, too, but I thought we were going to the place that He has prepared for us? We are going to the place which He has prepared for us, but during the thousand years we have access both to that heavenly place which He has prepared for us and to earth where He has set up His earthly throne. At the end of the thousand years there will be a new heaven and a new ear,th and the new Jerusalem our home will descend out of heaven (see Rev. 21: 10-27). cross was all. His friends even fled from Him and He had nothing. But what did God think of His failure? (Phil. 2:9-11). The successful life is the life that God ap proves and that leads to the endless life. 3. How Shall We Live Such a Life? This is answered by the verses of our text. Read them carefully, and have the two last committed to memory. God gives every one an opportunity to win a crown of life, and that crown no one wins who cannot say at ’last what Paul said to Tim othy. 4. A True and Tried Saying (1 Tim. 4:8). The way to success is not so hard for most as it has been for a few. God makes it far easier so that those who live godly lives are successful in the business of this life as in that to coriie.
When we die, do we not go immediately to be with the Lord? If so, how is it that when He comes those who have fallen asleep in Him shall rise? Won’t we De already with Him? Where are we in the meantime? When the believer dies, the body is laid in the ground and crumbles into dust, the spirit departs to be with Christ in con scious blessedness, absent from the body but at home with the Lord (2 Cor. 5 :8, R. V.). To thus be with the Lord in con scious blessedness is far better than our present state in our present mortal body (Phil. 1:23). At His return, the bodies which “sleep in the dust of the earth” (Dan. 12:2) are raised and transformed in to the likeness of His glorious body (Phil. The Fundamental Principles of Christianity. (Concluded from P ag e 270*) the meantime may I say that sin is the abominable thing which God hates. It is the thing that is standing between us and the. realization of life. The Spirit of God is constantly striving with us to give it up and to submit our lives to the government of the Divine love. Shall we answer this striving of God’s Spirit in Matheson’s im mortal words ? Junior Endeavor Topics. (Concluded from P ag e 2S7) Paul he was an old man in a Roman prison. All the world thought such a life a bad failure. But what did Paul say? (2 Tim. 4:6-8). The other life seemed more of a failure still, for Him, the Lord Jesus, a
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