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a n » ] HE doctrine of the second coming of Christ, ¡which moulded the entire thought of His early "followers, has been practically ignored by many j modern Christians. An indefinite idea has silent- ly grown up among them that the departed ser-
vants of Christ go at death to their full and final reward, and that the Gospel will make progress among men until by its instrumentality, the whole world and all human hearts are brought to bow in unreserved homage to Christ. Such a doctrine leaves no place for His bodily return to earth; for His dead servants have, according to this, already attained their full consummation, and the whole purpose of God, as to His Kingdom, will be accomplished in the ordi- nary course of the Gospel. They who hold this viewsay little or nothing about the coming of Christ. It lies out- side "of their spiritual horizon. That which to the early Church was so much is nothing to them. The only safe remedy is to reinstate, by careful exegesis, the actual teach- ing of the New Testament. The time of Christ's return must be one of spiritual stagnation and retrogression." —By the Eminent Exegete, Agur Beet, Eng. M. E. Church.
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The Epistle of Jude Brief Report of an Address Delivered by Rev. B. R. Miller at the Montrose Bible Conference. /EU Afr » 1L4 w ® HIS brief letter of only one chapter is full of timely teaching and contains much that is important for God's chil- IIM
second chapter of Second Peter is very similar to this book of Jude, though perhaps the latter draws a little darker picture. One is sin, the other is com- plete apostasy. Jude seems to be car- ried in the Spirit to these last days of the age in which we live, and hence his admonition is of supreme importance now. Let us consider, first, what should be the faith of a loyal Christian in such a time, and second, what should be the attitude: WHAT TO BELIEVE It is strikingly true that Jude either directly or indirectly refers in this short letter to the most important fundamen- tal articles of the true Christian faith. First. We are to be Trinitarians, not Unitarians, for we have God the Father (verse I), Jesus Christ the Son (sev- eral verses), the Holy Spirit (verse 20), all spoken of here. We may not be able to explain to human intellect the Trinity, but we can accept it as a re- vealed truth. We cannot tell how through the process of digestion and as- similation the food we eat is converted-' some of it into flesh, some into blood, some into bone and muscle, and a little into brains we trust, yet the fact re- mains. Nor how in the animal king- dom by the same process in the case of a cow the food makes hair, in the case of a sheep it makes wool, and in the case of a goose it makes feathers. The fact of God, one God, manifesting Him- self in three personalities is a plain revelation of the Word. Let us accept it without question. Second. We are to believe in the deity of Jesus, the Son of the Father. In a half dozen verses in this epistle He is called LORD. This is very vital. He is either that or an impostor. He made Himself equal with God. The soft talk of the times that makes him a mere man though withal a good man, a mere teacher or example, is deadly to the faith. Any organization, or lodge, or meeting or anything which requires us to leave the Lord Jesus out as the Only Begotten Son of God, equal with the Father, is to be surely and positively avoided by those who are contending earnestly for the faith.
dren to understand. It has been called "the picture of the last days," the "preface to the book of Revelation," and shows the drift of the apostasy which makes the terrible judgments of the lat- ter book necessary. The fact that there is to be a fearful apostasy is plainly pre- dicted: "For that day (the day of the Christ) shall not come except there come a falling away first." (II. Thess. 2:3.) The definite article is in this passage and it should read THE falling away, or the apostasy. The general trend of Scrip- ture teaching is in harmony with this fact. Jude seems to have been swept out of his purpose to write of the "com- mon salvation," and gives himself to a strong exhortation that the saints should "contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints, (verse 3). This verse and expression is the key to the epistle. The reason for the exhortation is found in tracing out the references to certain false ones who would creep in and seek to under- mine the faith. "Certain men crept in unawares," "these filthy dreamers, "these speak evil of those things which they know not," "woe unto them, for they have gone in the way of Cain, (a way of Godless civilization and blood- less religion in evidence all through Christendom today), "these are spots in your love feasts, "Enoch prophesied of these," "these are murmurers, complain- ers walking after their own lusts," etc. (See verses 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16.) In contrast to those thus referred to in the third pers6n, note the pronoun of the second person indicating the Lord's own people to whom the exhortation comes: "Mercy unto you," "I gave all diligence to write unto you," "but be- loved remember ye the words," "but ye beloved, building up yourselves," "unto Him who is able to keep you from fall- ing," etc. (Verses 2, 3, 17, 20, 24). The faith thus assailed by enemies and to be contended for by Christians is not the creed of any denomination but the fun- damental truths embodied in the scrip- tures for all the saints of God. The
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Third. We are to believe in the historic accuracy of the Old Testament. Those very miraculous events which modern destructive criticism rejects as a lot of folk lore, and the mere fabu- lous traditions of by-gone ages, are the things used by Jude to illustrate his teaching and to give point to his solemn warnings, and he uses them as facts of actual history. Verse five covers the whole story of the Exodus with as many signs and wonders. Verse seven points to the overwhelming of Sodom and Go- morrha in the distant past, and today the salt Dead S'ea covers the scene of their destruction. Verse eleven speaks of the way of Cain, covering the history of the human race from the garden of Eden to the flood, also the strange case of the erring prophet Balaam, and the supernatural destruction of the rebel Korah and his companions. Are we prepared to accept all this as history in the face of the intellectual conceit of the day which laughs at it? Did the children of Israel cross the sea as by dry land, and drink water from the rock, and eat the manna and the quail as we are told? Did the dumb ass of the prophet speak with a man's voice and forbid his madness? A friend of mine used to say that we need today the voice of a prophet to forbid the madness of the asses who reject the Word of God. The fact that these supernatural events are thus used in this epistle is signifi- cant, and to fail to believe the record of the Old Testament is to strike a death blow at the New Testament, for "the New is by the Old contained, and the Old is by the New explained." Hence we are to "remember the words" as ad- monished in verse seventeen; words spoken by the apostles, yes, and then written by inspiration for our teaching, and words that stand squarely upon the record of the Old Testament and not so much as once intimate that the prophets and writers of old are not to be im- plicitly believed. One gets weary of the conceit and unbelief of men of no spiri- tual understanding who spend their time and talents undermining the faith in- stead of knowing personally the power of the Word of God and then preaching it. If we reject the Old Book with all that is involved we are tossed upon sea of human speculation and there is no telling where we may drift. We are re- minded of the homely and somewhat humorous illustration told by the la- mented Dr. J. H. Brooks, of a back- woods railroad in the South, using flat cars'to haul its freight, and employing
on its single train a conductor and a negro brakeman, the duty of the latter being to put off and on the freight at the little stations . On one occasion some one desired to ship a goat to a cer- tain point and putting a tag around its neck to indicate the station where it was to be put off the goat was lifted on the flat car and began his journey. Browsing around on top of the car the goat finally got his tag off in some way and swallowed it. Consequently the ne- gro brakeman failed to put him off and finding him still aboard at the end of the line the conductor began to swear at the brakeman, saying: "Sam, why in the world didn't you put that goat off where he belonged?" Scratching his head a moment, the darkey replied: "Well, boss, he done chawed up whar he gwine." And so if the Pentateuch, is a myth, if Isaiah and Daniel are un- reliable, if the Lord Jesus and the apos- tles were ignorant, then who knows anything, and no wonder the old world is ready to give up everything and say "eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die." Fourth. We are to believe in the ex- istence and power of a personal devil. (Verse 9). One against whom the angel Michael dare not bring a railing accusa- tion; an angel of light himself when it suits his purpose; a prince of demons, the powerful enemy of Christ, the seed of the woman, and the mighty opposer of God's blood-marked way of salvation. The flippant and light way in which many are accustomed to refer to Satan is a matter of deep concern to those who know the teaching of the Bible about him. He is humorously caricatured in pictures, and called "old Nick," "the old Boy," "Old Scratch," etc., and by the more serious minded ignorantly thought to be embodiment of all that is low, vi- cious and immoral. But not necessarily is he the opposer of morality, but rather one who fosters good movements, seek- ing to uplift the masses, improving the age, and the instigator and promoter of much of the religion of the world, ever seeking, however, to prevent the work of the Christ of the cross. Fifth, we are to accept the fact of the existence of angels and spirits, and can only account for many of the strange happenings of which we read as we un- derstand their workings in the superna- tural realm. (Verses 6 and 7). The chained angels of verse 6 are doubtless the "Sons of God" spoken of in the sixth of Genesis, whose sin was similar to that
24.) Activé service as the Lord leads will keep from spiritual stagnation. The highland streams are clear and limpid because of the movement of the waters over the steep declivities, while in the lowlands the lack of movement causes stagnation. Let us move out in service then not in the feverish energy of the flesh but restfully as God's Word and the Spirit direct us. Fifth, avoiding all that which being of flesh will cause our garments to become spotted, and unfit us to meet the Lord with gladness at His coming. (Verse 23.) Sixth, keep ever watching for the Lord's coming as that blessed hope and the focal point toward which all things are pointing, (verse 14.) The age to come will be far better than this one, and while now some may call us pessi- mistic, with the view of the glories to follow when He shall have come we know we are the true optimists. Seventh, and finally and very impor- tant, trust the Lord to keep you. Some one may say, if all these things you have described be true what will become of us? Who will be able to stand? The answer is in this blessed benediction of verses 24 and 25 : Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling." The revised version says "guard you from stumbling." It is His power that will keep us. We are to trust. A little boy walking on the icy pavement with his • father was warned to let the parent hold his hand, but in self confidence he re- fused and fell and hurt himself. Then reaching up he said, "Father, I believe T will take your hand," and grasping an extended finger in his little fist, trudged on. Presently he slipped again, and not being strong enough to hold up his- own weight he fell heavily the second time. Now he had learned his lesson, and he said, "Father, you hold my hand." When again the feet slipped he did not fall for the father's strong arm I upheld him. Even so, we are to hear a voice saying to us, "Fear not, I will hold | thy right hand." Thank God. Saints of God, amid the deepening shadows of a dark and evil age let us to the end trust Him fully and continue to "con- tend earnestly for the faith once for alt delivered to the saints."
attempted by some of the Sodomites, (Gen. 19) "going after strange flesh" and for this sin they have been prema- turely shut up in t i e pit. Modern spirit- ism in its manifold forms is seeking to bring about a repetition of these awful scenes of the days of Noah. Sixth, the certainty and tearfulness of punishment for those who fully and fin- ally persist in their rebellion against the Lord, is shown in verses 6, 7 and. 13, where three of the, strongest expressions regarding the falling of the righteous wrath of God are found: "Everlasting chains under darkness," "the vengeance of eternal fire," and "the blackness of darkness forever." Surely the Lord's servants should with deep concern warn the ungodly of the wrath to come. Seventh, we are to accept and hold fast the teaching of the second coming ,of Christ. (Verse..14 and 15.) A pre- ' millennial coming, too, for the word un- godly found four times in verse 15 indi- cates no converted world at His coming, and the fact that He is accompanied with His saints shows a previous translation of them to be in His presence.- Enoch's sermon on this subject is the first one on record, and the last prayer of the Bible is "Even so, come Lord Jesus." Other articles of the Christian's faith can easily be found in Jude, but these will suggest the searching for them. Now in view of all this what should be OUR ATTITUDE? First, giving heed to the Word. (Verse 17.) There is no explanation of the times in which we live apart from the teaching of the Bible. To ignore it is to fall into some snare of the ad- versary sure. Second, thus studying daily we are built up in the most holy faith, (verse 20) obtaining the knowledge of it in the Bible and then contending for it most earnestly, growing constantly in this grace wherein we stand. Third, 1 praying in the Holy Spirit, (verse 20.) One who studies the book daily, believing it to be the Word of God indeed, and accompanies this study with much prayer In the Holy Ghost, is not apt to go astray or miss the mark very far. Fourth, with a compassionate heart seeking to save the lost, (verses 23 and
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7 7 T H E V I S I O N S OP THE GOSPEL. O l it is doubtful if John made before- * ^ ^ hand a plan for the writing of the Gospel, or whether he had at any time k any regularly arranged divisions , in his own mind; nevertheless, the book is of a most logical character, not only in substance but in form, and yields very ^ readily to systematic, logical division. Many divisions have been proposed, and many of these are strikingly similar to • one another. The general divisions sug- gested by Canon Westcott are as fol- WWlows: First, THE PROLOGUE, Ch. 1: 1-18. The Word in His absolute, eternal being; and in relation to creation. Second, THE NARRATIVE. 1: 19; XXI: 23. The self-revelation of Christ to the world and to the disciples. The second division he subdivides as follows: I. T HE SELF - REVELAT ION OF CHR I ST TO THE WORLD. I: 19-XXI. 50. 1. The proclamation. I: 19-IV: 54. (1) The testimony of Christ. I: 19- II: 11. Of the Baptist. I: 19-24. Of the Disciples. 1:35-51. Signs (Water turned to wine). II: 1-11. (2) The work of Christ. II. 13-IV: 54. In Judea (Nicodemus). II: 13- III: 36. S'amaria (The woman of Sama- ria.) IV: 1-42. Galilee, (The nobleman's son healed.) IV: 43-54. Unbelief as yet passive. 2. THE CONFLICT. V: 1-XII: 50.. (1) The prelude (V, VI). (a) In Jerusalem. (The impotent man healed on the Sabbath) V. (b) In Galilee (The five thousand fed) VI. (2) The great controversy (VII-XII.) (a) The revelation of faith and unbelief. VII-X. The feast of Tabernacles, VII, VIII. The feast of Dedication (The blind man healed on the Sabbath) IX, X. The Son of the Father.
(b) The decisive judgment, XI, XII. The final sign and its issues. (The raising of Lazarus) XI. The close of Christ's public min- istry. XII. II. THE SELF-REVELATION OF CHRIST TO THE DISCIPLES. (XIII- XXI. 1. The last ministry of love. XIII- XVII. (1) The last acts of love VIII: 1-30. (2) The last discourses. XIII: 31-XVI: 33. In the chamber. XIII. 31-XIV. On the way. XV, XVI. (3) The prayer of consecration. XVII. 2. The victory through death. (XVIII-XX.) <1> The betrayal (XVIII: 1-11). (2) The double trial (XVIII: 12- XIX: 16.) (3) The end (XIX: 17-42.) 3. The epilogue. XXI. (1) The Lord and the body of disciples. (The miraculous draught of fishes) XXI: 1-14. (2) The Lord and individual dis- ciples. XXI: 15-23. The division proposed by Dean Alford is as follows (omitting his subdivisions) I.—PROLOGUE. In which is contain- ed the subject and substance of the whole Gospel. Ch. 1: 1-18. II. INTRODUCTION OF CHRIST TO THE WORLD. BY THE WITNESS OF JOHN. Ch. 1: 19-40. BY HIMSELF. Ch. 1: 41-11. 11.. III. FIRST MANIFESTATION OF HIMSELF AS THE SON OF GOD. IN JERUSALEM AND JUDEA. II: 12-IV: 54. IV. JESUS IN CONFLICT WITH THE JEWS. Chs. V, VI. V. JESUS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. The conflict at its height. Chs. VII-XX. VI. JESUS, DELIVERED TO DEATH, THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE, AND THE JUDGMENT. Chs. XI-XII. VII. JESUS AND HIS OWN. Chs. XIII-XX. 1. His love and the faith of His own. Chs. XIII-XVII.
(a). His love in condescension. (XIII: 1-30). (b). His love in keeping and completing the disciples in the faith. .(XIII: 31; XIV: 33). (c). His love in ' the exaltation of the Son of God. (XVII), 2. Jesus the Lord. The unbelief of Israel, now in its completion; the be- lief in His own. XVIII-XX. (a). His free self-surrender to His enemies, and to the unbelief of Israel. (XVIII: 1; XIX: 16). (b). His self- surrender to death, and divine testi- mony in death. (XIX: 16-42). (c). His manifestation of Himself as passed from death into liberty and life, and the completion of the disciples's faith worked thereby. (XX: 1-29). THE APPENDIX. XXI. The glimpse into the future. (a). The symbolic draught of fishes. (1-8). (b). The symbolic meal. (9-14). (c). The calling and its prospect. (15-23). (d). Conclusion. (24-25). Dean Alford gives Luthardt's division and evidently his own has been largely suggested by it. One of the more re- cent divisions suggested is that to be found in THE CENTURY BIBLE, the volume on St. John, edited by Rev. J. A. McClymont, D. D. I. THE PROLOGUE. I: 1-18. II. THE PUBLIC MINISTRY. 1: 19; X n : 50. I l l JESUS' MINISTRY TO HIS DISCIPLES ON THE EVE OF HIS SUFFERINGS. Xin-XVII. IV. GLORIFICATION OF JESUS IN HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION. XVIII-XX. V. THE EPILOGUE OR APPENDIX TO THE GOSPEL. XXI. All of these divisions of the Gospel should be carefully studied by the stu- dent and the Gospel itself read through (several times if possible) in the light of them before proceeding to the de- tailed study of the notes on the text itself which will begin in our next num- ber. However, we shall not follow altogether any one of these suggested divisions. The God whom men know outside of Jesus Christ is a poor, nebulous thing; an idea, not a reality; he, or rather it, is a film of cloud shaped into a vague form, through which you can see the stars.—Alexander MacClaren.
2. Final manifestation of Jesus as the Lord, in reference to the now-accom- plished rejection of Him by the unbelief of Israel to the sorely tried but eventual- ly confirmed faith of His own. XVII- XX. VIII. THE APPENDIX. THE GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE. XXI: 1-23. IX. IDENTIFICATION OF THE AUTHOR AND CONCLUSION. XXI: 24, 25. . The division of Prof. Luthardt of Leip- sic is: I. JESUS THE SON OF GOD. Chs. I to IV. 1. The Christ. (Ch. I: 1-18). 2. The introduction of Jesus unto the world. (I: 19-11: 11). By the testimony (a) Of the Baptist, I. 19-40. (b). Of Himself. I: 41-2; 11. 3. First revelation of Himself as the Son of God. ' (II. 12; IV: 54). (a). In Jerusalem and Judea II: 1'2; III: 36), (b). In Samaria and Galilee IV: 1-54). II. JESUS AND THE JEWS. Chs. V;; XII. 1. Jesus the life. Opening of the conflict. Chs. V, VI. (a). His divine work as the Son of God 1 —Beginning of opposition (V: 1- 47). (b). Jesus and life in the flesh, progress of belief and unbelief (VI: 1-71). 2. Jesus the light. Height of the conflict. VII- X. (a). He meets the unbelief of the Jews at Jerusalem (VII: 1152). (b). Opposition between Jesus and the Jews at its height. (VIII: 12-59). (c). Jesus the light of the. world for . salva- tion, and for judgment (IX-X). 3. The delivery of Jesus to death is the life and the Judgment of the world. XI, XII. (a). The raising from the dead XI: 1-57);. Prophetic announcement of the future. (XII: 1-36). (c). Final Judg- ment on Israel. (XII. 37-50). HI. JESUS AND HIS OWN. XIII-XX. 1. Jesus' love and the belief of His disciples. The assertion that Christ cannot be very God of very God in a sense infinite- ly beyond what may be truthfully said of !all other human beings, is sheer in- tellectual presumption, is indeed dogma- tism of the worst kind.—Gordon: Christ of Today.
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NE of our correspondents in the f l r j Bible Course, teaching in a State stepped into my. office on his way from his class in sociology, and the following conver- sation occurred: Pres.—I have a hard question to answer: Where did man get his intel- ligence? Miss—Why, from God—from his Cre- ator. Pres.i—Do you believe that? Miss—I certainly do. . , Pres.-—Why do you believe it? Miss—Because the Bible teaches it. Pres.—Then you believe that Adam and Eve story? Miss—I believe the Bible as it is written. Pres.—You believe that Adam was the first man and that God gave him intelligence? Miss—Yes. Mr. commands the respect of the students, and it is appalling to think of the teachers who are being sent out with such beliefs as he incul- cates. After Mr. : had' gone, my as- sistant, a sweet Christian girl, said thoughtfully: "I have often wondered—-that is, I don't understand—where Cain got his wife. Papa was saying the other day that he got her from a race of giants. If Adam was the first man, ho\v could that be?" A response to this correspondent will, we think, be welcome to readers of The King's Business. The historicity of the biblical account of Adam, his creation and career, is vital to the whole sacred volume. They who relegate that inspired history to Fairyland should frankly disavow all claim to the name "Christian" in any definite, historic sense. Throughout the Bible the story is assumed to be authen- tic reality. The whole superstructure of its history and doctrine is founded on it. The very suggestion of a plural- ity of primal progenitors is historical, doctrinal, and messianic chaos. That the race proceeded from one man, its condemnation from one spiritual stum- ble of that one federal head, and its re- covery from one covenant pledge to VJ7 school, writes: Yesterday, President
him, is Scripturally as certain as that the government of these United States of America and its constitutional his- tory originated in and is a development of the principles of the Declaration of Independence. And so, too, the destiny of the race is ruled by the same Genesis record; our history issues, as it began, in one final Edenic inclusion or exclu- sion. From Eden to Eden there is in Scripture no break. The at-one-ness. of the race founds the at-one-ment for the race. Because one blood flows ini us, therefore one Blood flows for us. No scientific fact justifies, not to say compels, any president, professor, or preacher to abandon the faith of the fathers and the Word of Inspiration, and substitute for history myth or alle- gory. Absolutely, there is not one fact, nor scintilla of one, to demand such a course. The objections are purely sub- jective, speculative, made in the inter- ests of an already discredited evolution- ary philosophy, a disconnected chain of reasoning, the gaps of which are filled only by as fantastic and unreal links as those of the funny man in his develop- ment cartoons. Prof. Haeckel, an "au- thority" in biological evolution, as great an enemy of Adam as the devil himself, was convicted of, and pleaded guilty to, changing -descriptive cuts (drawings) of organic forms to meet the necessities of his family tree, in which he derived mankind from brute ancestors. What the professor did with his cuts in his book, his fellow philos- ophers do with the facts in their imag- ination to make them fit a theory that nature repudiates. As for facts, they are continually coming to the stand in the interests of Adam's proprietorship in his estate. They certify that all men are physically alike, having the same structure, or- gans, blood, functions, and that they interbreed; that they have the same metaphysical attributes, reason, con- science, moral disposition; and that their racial distinctions, in color, fea- ture, traits, are infinitesimal compared with the differences between, say, the rat terrier and the Saint Bernard, the bulldog and the greyhound, which we know, with all their varied kind', large and small, sturdy, majestic, or gro- tesque, black, white, and yellow, come
(2 Co. 11:3; I Isa! 2-13). We fell in Adam because he was our common father; we rise iij Christ because He is : our i common Brother. Make another scheme of salvation if you will, but do not call it Christian. No doubt we should find the presi- dent above quoted, like others of his way of thinking, a strong advocate of the modern emphasis on ,the .universal Fatherhood of God, Brotherhood of Man, and Manhood of Woman. For such to deny the universal headship of Adam is nothing short of logical hari kari. It is the common fatherhood of Adam, "which was the son of God," that gives standing room for the senti- ment and practical duties of paternity and affiliation. This in turn rests on the Fatherhood of God, the Immediate Creator of Man. The amiable frater- nity universal which these men teach is reduced to a . vanishing point if men had an autocthonous origin (springing individually out of the ground). No world-wide brotherhood is possible apart from a world-wide fatherhood. We could no longer speak even of man- kind (kin), but only of men. Even the Good Samaritan would stand on slip- pery footing. As for woman, no longer "bone of man's bone and flesh of his flesh," psychology, physiology and his- tory would combine to deny her that equality which these sentimentalists preach; and her sublime relationship sketched in the fifth of Ephesians would be without moral, as without natural, and historical claims. brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh. Rom. 9:2-3. The Saviour prayed with strong crying and tears. Soul winners must know soul sorrow for the lost. They must have compassion for the Christless. Dr. J. H. Jowett says, in speaking on the verse—I fill up that which is be- hind of the afflictions of Christ. Col. 1: 24. The Gospel of a bleeding heart de- mands the ministry of bleeding hearts. As soon as we cease to bleed we cease to bless. Does the cry of the world's need pierce the heart and ring even through the fabric of our dreams? Do we fill up our Lord's sufferings with our own sufferings, or are we the unsympathetic ministers of a mighty passion? Why do you wish to return? Because I Evangelism
from and revert to the same original stock. The facts of Archeology range themselves in mass to tho defense of Adamic origin. They agree with the Bible, that the primal home of man is. Mesopotamia; that he has been civil- ized from the remotest beginnings; that monotheism and sound morality were his earliest creed and code; and there- fore, like his soul, must have been de- rived from the instruction of his Cre- ator; languages, too, so say the best informed savants, are variations of one original, and highly philosophical, tongue. As to the supernatural stumbling block: few, if any, scientific men of the first order now have the hardihood to deny the action of the Supernatural some time and some where (not to write these words in the plural). Their science demands a beginning, and a beginning, in the strict sense, is miracle in a stupendous sense. It is inconsistent for one who pro- fesses, at least, to believe in the New Testament, to doubt the Adam story. If God "has spoken unto us by His Son," why doubt that He spake to that other "son" (Lk. 3.38)? If He walked in Galilee, why not in Eden? (Gen. 3:8). Jesus endorsed the record of Genesis (Mt. 19:4; Jn. 8:44); as the second Head of humanity He also met the tempter (Mt. 4). Paul built the vica- rious salvation on the vicarious con- demnation (Ro. 5:12; 2 Co. 15:45), and confidently used the story of the Fall LESSON 9 • • r HERE can be no soul saving without i l l soul sacrificing. One reason for our ^ ^ lack of success in this work is our lack of sincerity. We are thinking of this work as a kind of holiday affair rather than a holy day sacrifice. We are wanting to win men without working for men. We would be glad to see them, saved, but would not want to pay any great price for their salvation. We read of Moses saying, "Yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written." Exodus 32: 32. You hear Paul saying "That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that my- self were accursed from Christ for my Personal
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can t sleep for thinking of them. My brethren I do not know how any Chris- tian service is to be fruitful if the ser- vant is not primarily baptized in the spirit of a suffering compassion. If we pray in cold blood we are no longer the ministers of the Cross. The min- isters of Calvary must suplícate in Woody sweat and their intercession must otten touch the points of agony When Henry Martyn reached the shores of India he made this entry in his Journal: "I desire to burn out for my God, and at the end of the far-off years the secret of his grand enthusiasm stood openly revealed. It is something of this deep devotion to Christ and love of lost souls that we need and must have if we are to be num- bered with the soul-savers. Dealing with Roman Catholics In our midst there are a large num- ber of persons who claim to be Chris- tians and yet who know but little or anything about the Lord Jesus Christ and nothing about the joy of assured salvation. Here are a few simple rules: 1. Deal with them as- with the un- saved;. If they claim to be Christians, &9S ? u t ^ t h e b a s i s oi their claims". See it it is Christ or the Church. 2. Do not attack the Catholic church. Give the truth and the errors will take care of themselves. 3. Show the necessity of the New Birth John 3:3-5-7. Show what the New Birth is. 2 Cor. 5:17; 2 Pet. 1-4 Many Roman Catholics believe that baptism is the New Birth. Read care- fully 1 Cor. 4:15 with 1 Cor. 1-14 and thep use Acts 8:13, 21, 23, to ¿rove that the baptism of Simon was not New Birth to him. 4. Give Scripture evidence of New Birth. 1 Jno. 2.20; 3:9; 14:17; 5:1-4. 5. Show how the sinner becomes a saint through the New Birth. Jno Í* l ü l i l i 1 3 f S ¡ 1 : 2 3 ; J a s - 1 : 1 8; 6. Prove that salvation is not by works. Rom. 4:5; 2 Tim. 1:9; Eph 2:8-9. p j 7 - Show that the children have the joy of assurance. Jno. 10:27-29- Acts 13.38-39; 1 Jno. 5:10-13, 3:14. " 8. Emphasize the necessity of Con- fession: (a) The Lord Jesus to men Rom. 10:9-10. (b) Sins to God. 1 Jno 1:9; Luke 15:21; Luke 5:8. 9. The Scripture teaches that there is but one mediator. 1 Tim. 2:5. 10. Encourage the reading of God's Word. Jno. 5:30. Not addressed to priests, but to the common people The early church read the Bible, and if so
why not now? Acts 17:11. The Holy Spirit is promised to us to teach and help. 1 Jno. 2:27. Ask them to read in their own Douay version the follow- ing texts: Jno. 5.30; 2 Tim. 3-13-17- Jas. 1:21-23; Mark 7:8-13; Jno. i : 7-8; Matt. 22:29. In addition the fol- lowing, taken from "Truth for You" by Rev. J. H. Sammis, will be helpful: Rome is criss-cross, with the Word of God in many things. Rome calls her clergy "Father" from priest to Pope. The Word says, "Call no man Father," Matt. 23:9. Rome has many lords, ^ rank above rank. The Word says, "If shall not be so among you " Mark 10:42-43; 1 Pet. 5:3; 1 Cor. 8:5. Rome claims to be over kings and rul- ers and above all authority. The Word says, "Submit" to kings and govern- ors, 1 Pet. 2.13-14; Rom. 14:1-4. Rome claims a kingdom in this world The Word says, "'My kingdom is not of this world," Jno. 18:36. Rome makes a great display of papal and princely millinery. The Word is against all that. Luke 7:35, 16:19; Pet. 3:3; Rev. 3:17. The Pope parades amid swords unsheathed' and brandished. The Word says to Peter, "Put up thy sword into its sheath." Jno. 18:11; Ezra 8-22 Rome's diplomats are the worst liars statesmen have to deal with. The Word says, "Put away lying." Eph. 4:25. Rome's rituals are in an unknown tongue. The Word disapproves of speaking in the Church in an unknown tongue. 1 Cor. 14:11, 15, 19. Rome discourages the use of the Bible by the people. The Word gives most honor to them that "search the Scriptures." Acts 17:11. Rome asks cash for all her functions. The Word says "Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." Rev. 22.17; 1 Pet. 1:18. Rome keeps the "cup" from the "laity." The Word says, "Drink all ye of it." Matt 26:27; Jno. 6:53. Rome bows to im- ages. The Word says, "Thou shalt not bow down to them." Ex. 20:4-5. Rome "forbids to marry," and "commands to abstain from meats." The Word pre- dicts these errors. 1 Tim. 4:3. Rome has many holy days and seasons Word says, . "Ye observe days months . . . I am afraid of you." 4:10. Rome makes dead men saints. The Word calls all God's peo- ple saints now. Ephl 1:1; Phil. 1:1- etc., etc. Rome asks a great sum' of money to make a saint. The Word makes saints for nothing. Acts 20-32 Note.—"Truth for You" is published by the Bible Institute and contains more valuable information to help than any other booklet we know. Price 10 cents. The and Gal. into
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as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name." "For by grace are ye saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves; it. is the gift of God." And we are saved unto God, for it is declared concerning the saved that "they shall see his face"; and when they see his face, "they shall be like him, for they shall see him as he is." Glorious consummation! And all this,lies open here in this book, "The word of God, which liveth and abideth forever." a failure, using the Lord's delay to dis- credit the prediction—a delay Peter ex- plains as due to the Lord's "long suffer- ing" toward the impentinent—just as He bore with the ungodly before the Flood. And the "slothful servant" uses the same argument, becoming worldly and unwatchful. But He will come. And if, as John tells us in his First Epistle, second chapter, "Worldliness and antichristianity" are the two great moral signs of "the last time," and that his day was a type of the time preceding the "parousia" of Christ, he is an unread and unobserving man who cannot see, as he looks over Christendom, that both these signs confront him everywhere in their appalling magnitude. We do well to give heed to the three great safe- guards against these destructive ele- ments in the last apostasy (1) "Love not the world nor the things that are in the world; if ¡any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him"; (2) "Let that abide in you which ye have heard from the beginning"—the "message," or pure, unadulterated Gos- pel of the coming King, if that remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son and in the Father;" and (3) the Holy spirit, or the "Unction" given to all true believers. "The anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you; but, as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth and no Jie—even as it hath taught you, so ye shall abide in Him." These three safeguards against worldliness and anti- chrstianity, viz., (1) the withdrawal of the heart from the world, (2) the un- veiling of the Word, and (3) the in- dwelling of the Spirit, are the security of the believer against the antichrist "lust," and the antichrist "lie" of the last times. How important they are for us today!
The Coming of the Lord By Nathaniel West
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