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^ e v e r a l y e a r s a g o the Supreme Court o f the United States took on an entirely new complexion. It may be debated as to just when the liberals took the power from the conservative element in the Supreme Court. During the Roosevelt dynasty, F.D.R. became so completely frustrated with the historic inter pretations o f the Supreme Court that he made a frantic effort to increase the number o f justices from nine to fifteen. His effort got nowhere. However, with the passing o f time and the retirement or death o f justices, there has been apparently a cal culated determination to change the nature o f the Supreme Court to suit the fancies o f the liberal presidents that we have en joyed (? ) during recent years with the possible exception o f President Dwight D. Eisenhower. But regardless o f the recent history o f the Supreme Court, the fact remains that the ideologi cal liberal element is firmly entrenched in that august body. With out trying to oversimplify the problems confronting us today, it may be said that the current Supreme Court is responsible in large measure for much o f the foment that we see in our coun try on every hand. One such interpretation o f the law by the Supreme Court has magnified the “ right to dissent.” This has taken on all manner o f irresponsibility and lawlessness on the part o f dissenters. The newspapers recently carried news articles in connection with the dissenters’ riot at Columbia University. According to the news item, “ A very small militant minority demanded that the Uni versity abandon its plan for building a gymnasium in Morning- side Park. That unkempt trash-strewn area is supposed to be a recreation spot for Harlem. They demanded further that the University sever its ties with the Pentagon and that no students engaged in the uprising be disciplined.” The rioters locked up the University administrators for several hours, and it was re ported that these hoodlums threatened bloodshed unless their demands were met forthwith. However, the Columbia University president refused to yield on the last two points. He announced publicly that the student leaders would be disciplined. In other words, he dissented from the dissenters. Within two or three weeks after the fracas occurred at Columbia, a Los Angeles lawyer an nounced that he was going to bring suit against Columbia Uni versity for interfering with the dissenters by disciplining them. Whether the lawyer wins his case or not, the tragedy is that he is even allowed to bring such a case to trial. It must be kept in mind that in practically every instance o f civil disobedience it has been but a small handful o f dissidents who have been able THE KING'S BUSINESS
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THE SILVER TRUMPET Owen Barfield; Illustrated by Betty Beeby— Once in a wonderfully odd and unusual place called The Mountalny Castle, there lived two beautiful Princesses named Violetta and Gambetta, who looked so much alike the King appointed The Lord High Teller of the Other from the Which just to tell them apart; here was where The Little Fat Podger also lived, and cured the King’s megrims with his jokes, japes, jests, gibes and pranks, and his noodledum, nincompoopery, somersaults and capers. Here, one fine day, riding a white horse, and wearing glit- teringsilverarmour, and carryinga beautiful SilverTrumpet, came the handsome Prince Courtesy, who fell in love with Princess Violetta and became King. But they did NOT live happily ever after, and this is the story of what happened: of how The Silver Trumpet was lost; of the wicked Princess Gambetta and what she did; of the Amalgamated Princesses and their strange ways; of old Miss Thompson and her remarkable magic; of little Princess Lily, who was afraid of Toads; of brave Prince Peerio, who walked halfway around the world; and of how, at the end, The Silver Trumpet was found again, and happiness returned to stay at The Mountainy Castle. 160 Pages. Cloth $4.95 BETTY BEEBY has illustrated such earlier children’s books as The Child's Story Bible and Whistle Up The Bay. For The Silver Trumpet she has provided scores of imaginative and delight ful illustrations which will prove fascinating to children and adults alike. ^ -J. THE TENT OF GOD A theology of the Old Testament for young
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t h e r e are several very significant “Follow Me’s” ■ in the life of Simon Peter. The first was spoken by the Sea of Galilee, the last by the Sea o f Tiberias. Geographically, the Sea o f Galilee and the Sea of Tiberias are the same. But it took Simon Peter three years to move from the first “ Follow Me” to the last. Some Christians never get to Tiberias at all. Matthew gives us the first picture: “ And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon Called Peter, and Andrew his brother, cast ing a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.” Notice that they “ straight way” left their nets and followed Him. It sounds too easy. Peter still had much to learn. He followed but in his own self-sufficiency with many a hard lesson ahead of him. Another “ Follow me” comes later, on the great day when Peter makes his well-known confession. Jesus speaks o f His approaching death and Peter stumbles over it. He always did. Within a few moments the man who had said “ Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God” was saying of the coming crucifixion, “ Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto Thee.” Peter crashes from the heights to the depths within a few verses, from the mountain peaks o f confession in verse 16 to the swamps of contradiction in verse 22. In one verse, he is a spokesman for God, for our Lord said, “ Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee but my Father which is in heaven” ; and in the next few minutes, he is a spokesman for the devil for our Lord said, “Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God but those that be o f men.” It shows us that Peter is still far from coming to the end o f himself. He is still following from Gailiee in self-will and there must be a special hint for him in our Lord’s next words: “ If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and FOLLOW ME.” It is an other milepost on the way to Tiberias. The heart of the whole matter shows up at the Last Supper. Peter asks, “Lord, whither goest Thou?” Jesus answers, “Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; for thou shalt follow after ward.” Peter said, “Lord, WHY CANNOT I FOL LOW THEE NOW? I will lay down my life for thee.” But Jesus reminded him that soon he would deny his Lord. There is something deeper than first appears in this question, “Why cannot I follow thee now?” Peter was not ready to follow His Lord “even now,” right now, right away. He was not ready; there were lessons to be learned. So our Lord had said, “Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; BUT THOU SHALT FOLLOW AFTERWARDS.” Peter did follow afterwards even unto death but he was
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not ready yet. Some o f us wonder what hinders us from going all the way with Jesus. We think we are ready but He knows better. We have not come to “ the afterwards.” Jesus knew Peter, knew that soon he would go to sleep in the garden; then he would follow afar off; next he would warm him self at the enemy’s fire and finally swear and deny that he ever knew his Lord. He who thought he was ready for martyrdom would be finished oft by a servant girl! Our Lord knows us too and what pitfalls lie between Galilee and Tiberias. The key to Peter’s trouble is revealed in something else our Lord said on that solemn occasion. Only Luke tells us: Jesus said, “ Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren” (Luke 22:31, 32). Here is something of tremendous significance. For a moment our Lord pulls aside the curtain between us and the unseen world and we get a glimpse of the tug-of-war that Satan wages with God for the souls of men. We are reminded at once o f the Book of Job and Satan’s securing per mission to try out Job in the fires o f adversity. Peter, usually the mouth o f the twelve, is here the ear, says Matthew Henry. The first two “ you’s” are plural: “ Satan asked to have you all (all you disciples) that he might sift (all you disciples) as wheat, but I have prayed for you, Peter, that your faith, (Peter’s faith), fail not: and when you, Peter, have turned again, strengthen your breth ren.” What a drama is here set before us with three characters: “ SATAN hath desired to have YOU . . . but I . . . . ” Here are Satan, “ you,” which means any of us, and Christ. It is Christ or Antichrist and we are the prize Satan seeks with every snare. I do not pretend to understand all that is involved here in God’s permissive will but I rejoice in the blessed turn of the sentence: “ Satan hath desired to have you . . . BUT I have prayed for you.” “ If
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verted ; he is ready for the Tiberias “ Follow Me.” He has been sifted, he has come to the end o f him self. The crowing o f the cock on the night of his denial really marked in more ways than one the beginning o f a new day. There is an interesting little postscript. Peter saw John also following and asked, “Lord, and what shall this man do?” Jesus answered, “ I f I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me.” It is easy to become too occupied with what happens to other disciples. Our business is not the future of John but the following of Jesus. Peter’s concern was not evil but we must beware of being sidetracked by secondary con siderations. Worrying about John may make us lose sight of Jesus. “ Follow me yourself” is what our Lord said. It is easy to wonder about this preacher and that movement and burn up a lot of time and energy talking about John. It is easy now to understand why Peter was not ready when he asked, “Why cannot I follow Thee now?” Until he reached Tiberias, almost everything he said was a mistake: “We have left all and followed thee; what shall we have there fore?” “Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee” ; “The crowd press thee and sayest thou, Who touched me?” ; “ Though all men deny thee, yet will not I” ; “ Thou shalt never wash my feet.” No wonder we read, “ Peter said . . . not knowing what he said” (Luke 9:33). What made the difference? He had come to the end of his boastful self-sufficiency, broken in re pentance, not bragging any more o f his willing ness to die, but now humbly allowing his Lord to do the talking. But something else tells us the secret of his new power. We read that Jesus breathed on them and said unto them, “ Receive ye the Holy Spirit” (John 20:22). And then came Pentecost and Simon becomes truly Péter, the Rock. Not that he was perfect because he still made mistakes as at Antioch. But at Galilee he forsook his nets and boat; at Tiberias he forsook himself. Are you a Galilean disciple following “ straight way” in your own strength? You ask, “Why cannot I follow Thee now?” you are not ready. “Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” You will sleep in the garden. You will follow afar off. You will warm by the enemy’s fire, where most of our church-members can always be found. No wonder you soon deny your Lord. You must come to the Afterwards, you must be sifted and con verted. Then you will meet the Lord afresh and He will breathe His Spirit upon you and bid you follow Him again not in boasted self-sacrifice but in crucifixion with Him. Tiberias disciples are few and far between. It is so much easier to leave nets and boats than to deny oneself. But that is the price of the last “ Follow Me.” I E 13
any man sin, we have an advocate with the Fa ther, Jesus Christ the righteous.” We may fall into Satan’s hands for testing as did Job and Peter but within God’s permissive will the devil can go only so far. Even then he may defeat his own purpose. In Peter’s case, Satan wanted to winnow out the wheat but our Lord over-ruled so that instead he winnowed out the chaff and left the wheat. Peter was purged of his pride, brought to bitter repentance and converted, turned from his own self-sufficiency. His faith was eclipsed— indeed such is the meaning of “ fail” here—but not extinct. Peter failed his Lord but the Lord did not for get Peter. After the resurrection, the angel said to the women at the empty tomb, “Go tell his dis ciples AND PETER, He goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see Him, as He said unto you.” This is peculiar to Mark and if Peter sup plied Mark with material, how touching! Far from forgetting the wayward disciple, Jesus singled him out. Then followed a private meeting with Peter (Luke 24:34; I Cor. 15:5). We do not know what took place but evidently Peter was made ready for Tiberias. So we arrive finally at that blessed inter view at the end o f a long trail. The risen Lord addresses His disciple as “ Simon, son o f Jonas.” Nothing is said about Peter, the rock. All Bible students know how our Lord asked, “Lovest thou me?” using the word for Divine love. Peter, broken and undone, cannot rise to that lofty term but can profess only a humbler affection. The third time— three questions for three denials—Jesus uses Pet er’s own word and cuts him to the heart. Along with the three questions come three commands, “ Feed my lambs, Tend my sheep, Feed my sheep.” It amounts to the same thing our Lord had said long before, “ Strengthen thy brethren” for now Peter is converted. Only the man who has come to the “ afterwards” and has been turned from self to the Saviour can strengthen the brethren and feed the sheep. Then follows a statement that reminds us of earlier conversations. Heretofore when our Lord spoke o f His own crucifixion, Peter always stum bled over it. He stumbled right after his historic confession and at the Last Supper. Now our Lord speaks of Peter’s own crucifixion that lay ahead. “ Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdest thyself and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, FOLLOW ME.” You will observe that Peter makes no bold claims this time. He who had confidently said, “ I will lay down my life for thee” lets the Lord say it now. Now he has reached the “ afterwards” ; he is con- SEPTEMBER, 1968
revelation of the one ground of man’s acceptance with Himself. 1. In Genesis 4:4., the Lamb is Sanctioned. 2. In Genesis 22:13, the Lamb is Substituted. 3. In Exodus 12:6, the Lamb is Slain. 4. In Isaiah 54:4-10, the Lamb is Suffering. 5. In John 1 :29, the Lamb is Specified. 6. In Revelation 5 :6-14, the Lamb is Saluted. 7. In Revelation 22:1, the Lamb is Sovereign. The far-reaching effects of the Death o f Christ are seen in the orderly development and outreach of the sacrifices: 1. In Genesis, chapters 4 and 22, the Lamb avails for the indi vidual. 2. In Exodus 12, the Lamb avails for a household. 3. In Isaiah 53, the Lamb avails for a nation. 4. In John 1:29, the Lamb avails for the world. Let us look now at the beautiful type of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb o f God, as seen in the Passover lamb of Exodus, chap ter twelve. The Passover lamb had to be “without blemish, a male . . .” (vs. 5). The identical expression is used by the Apostle Peter, where he writes, “ Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not re deemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradi tion from your fathers ; But with the precious blood o f Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” (I Peter 1:18, 19). Occasionally there comes across our path a person who rejects Christ and excuses himself be cause he claims to know too many Christians who are hypo crites. Salvation is not found in Christians but in Christ. There are no perfect Christians. God found no sinless persons in the earth. That is why He had to send One from Heaven. “Christians may sin less, but they are not sin- THE KING'S BUSINESS
Now what are we to learn from this? The Passover undoubtedly represents the Death of Christ, for, says Paul: “ Christ our pass- over is sacrificed for us” (I Co rinthians 5 :7). Just as God made the night of the Passover to mark a new beginning for Israel, and the seventh month to become the first month with the past six months blotted out, even so the first four thousand years of hu man history and man’s failure are blotted out by the Death of Jesus Christ at Calvary. Israel’s new beginning was upon a new foun dation, a lamb without blemish. In the same manner the Death o f God’s Son, the Lamb of God (John 1:29), becomes the new foundation and ground for man’s deliverance from the bondage of sin. When a man is bom again, the birthday of that soul marks the beginning of months, the new birthday being relatively more important than the day o f nat ural birth. Belief in the finished work o f Christ on the Cross is the pivotal point of transition from the old, unregenerate life to the new life in Christ, “ There fore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). All attempted worship is futile before conversion, but the very moment a believing sinner appropriates the death o f the Lord Jesus Christ the sinful past is forever blotted out. The Passover Lamb is the ac knowledged type of the Death of Christ, the basis of God’s great salvation, for Christ crucified is the very foundation stone of our redemption. The Death of the world’s Saviour was neither ac cidental nor coincidental; it was divinely intentional. He is “ the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13:8). A safe way to study the Bible is to follow closely God’s law of “ Progressive R e v e la t ion ” or “ Progressive Mention.” Follow the repeated mentioning of the “Lamb” in Scripture and you will be following God’s progressive
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“ These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD ’S p a s so v e r ” (Leviticus 23:4, 5). T he P assover F east , first in or der, symbolically typified the foundation for the full accom plishment of the divine plan. The slain Lamb was the starting point of all God’s dealings in the re demption of Israel as a nation. When the Book of Exodus com mences, Israel is a nation in bond age and slavery. For more than four hundred years the people had been in Egypt under the tyr anny of a Pharaoh who knew not Joseph. Exodus, chapter twelve, records the beginning o f Israel’s redemption on the night of the passover. The institution of the Passover introduces these words from Je hovah, “ This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you” (Exodus 12:2). At the time the Passover was insti tuted nationally, Israel was in the seventh month (Abib) o f her c iv il y ea r (of Deut. 16:1), but in Leviticus twenty-three, God is going to rearrange the Jewish calendar to make the sev enth month become the first month. It was altogether a new beginning. 14
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God’s unblemished Lamb when he encountered Him in the wilder ness (Matt. 4:1-11). Judas, the false disciple who betrayed Jesus but walked as physically close to our Lord as any one else, testified, “ I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood” (Matt. 27:4). In this closing scene o f the life of Judas his remorse and restitution are too late to do him any good, but the recorded testimony which he gave of our Lord was both timely and timeless. Having kept company with our Lord, Judas knew well His righteous, flawless character. Both the Roman governor and his wife bore witness to the sin less perfection of the Lamb of God. Pilate said, “ I find no fault in this man” (Luke 23:4), and, “ I am innocent of the blood of this just person” (Matt. 27:23). His wife added, “Have thou noth ing to do with that just man” (Matt. 27:19). Upon Pilate fell the grave responsibility of giving or withholding the death penalty, and although notorious for his corruption, he could speak no ill of Jesus Christ. Twelve types in the Passover Lamb of Exodus were fulfilled in the Person and work of Jesus Christ, but we will but men tion only a few here. There were the manner and the time of the death of the Lamb, that is, it was slain by the people “between the evenings” (verse 6 R.V. cf Matt. 27:21-25, 45; Luke 23:44). The Blood of the Lamb had to be sprinkled and applied by faith (verse 7 c f Romans 3:25; I John 1:7). The Lamb was roasted with fire (verse 8 c f of Psalm 22:14, 15). The people feasted upon the Lamb (verse 8 cf I Cor. 11:25, 26). Those who failed to meet the conditions for partaking of the sacrifice were cut off in judgment (verse 19 cf of I Cor. 11:27-32; Heb. 10:26-31). From the very loftiest heights of Heaven to the very lowest de scents of Hell comes the testi mony that Jesus Christ is God’s Lamb without blemish.
less.” None save Jesus is perfect. Had there been one flaw in Jesus Christ, He would have been unfit as a sacrifice for sin, but He was God’s perfect Lamb. He knew no sin (2 Corinthians 5 :21 ) He did no sin (I Peter 2 :2 2 ). In Him was no sin (I John 3 :5 ). He prayed that others might be for given, but He never prayed for forgiveness for Himself since there were no sins in Him to be confessed or forgiven. He never dissuaded anyone from believing that He was sinless. While He never offered sacrifices for Him self, He offered Himself a sinless sacrifice for the sins of the world. The Passover Lamb was to be kept religiously from the tenth day o f the month until the four teenth day of the month for care ful scrutiny (vss. 3, 6). Now the life of our Lord Jesus Christ was truly a period o f testing. His life could never save us, but it was necessary to His death. It was a period of hostile, and therefore searching scrutiny. If the slight est deviation from holiness were to be seen in Him, He could be neither the anti-type of the Pass- over Lamb nor the Saviour for sinners. His earthly life provided ample time and sufficient oppor tunity for scrutiny and minute examination. The life o f our Lord had to pass, first, the highest standards of Almighty God. Abraham said: “ God will provide Himself a lamb” (Genesis 22:8). The Fa ther had to be satisfied, and in deed He was, for He testified, “ This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:17). Heaven approved Him. Next, our Lord would be as siduously watched by Satan and the demons, but even they would not be able to charge Him with sin. The demons testified, “ I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God” (Mark 1:24), recogniz ing both the Deity and the sin lessness of Jesus Christ. (In this they are better theologians than some ministers and teachers of religion.) Satan himself witnessed
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