King's Business - 1921-07

T HE K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S ferred upon him. Onehess is the thought that we get peculiarly connected with the church in its union with Christ. There are other instances where the typical teaching of the Old Testament brings before us this relationship of the church to Christ. It might be argued that according to the Epistles of Paul the church is not seen in the Old Testa­ ment, being a mystery hidden and not revealed. While we accept that fully, still the very words of Ephesians 3 indi­ cate that it was not made known as it is now revealed, and further we are told in 1 Cor> 10 that, what happened to Is­ rael was typical, v. 2 . Genesis 24 gives a remarkable type of the ministry of the Spirit in winning the church to be the bride for the Son. If we wish to find any type or illustra­ tion of Israel’s position, surely it is in the marriage of Abraham to Keturah later. Then Joseph’s marriage to Asenath brings out the Gentile position of the bride, her being taken during the rejec­ tion of the bridegroom, and then being associated with him on his throne. The book of Ruth gives on& of the most beautiful of Old Testament stories and presents Christ as the kinsmanr redeemer in the wealthy Boaz. The two essentials in such a redeemer were hav­ ing the "right and having the power to redeem the one sold. Christ as God has all the power (Heb. 1:2,) and as man He has the right (Heb. 2). The Gospel of Luke gives us this viéw of Him and His ministry, showing it to be for all mankind. Ruth, the Moabitess, is the one redeemed, an out cast who had no claim upon Boaz except through Naomi representing Israel. Naomi’s fall brought Ruth into the place she had (Romans 2 and 3). Through the union with Ruth came about the birth of David and the kingdom. Thé marriage with the bride will mean the ushering in of the king­ dom, and blessing to Israel. One of the last words of the Lord was:

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“I will come again and receive you unto Myself” (John 14:3). This has been given by one as taking His own into His arms and pressing them to his breast as a bridegroom would his bride. K. B. KOMPLIMENTS The following quotations are samples of what we almost daily receive from eafnest "people. From a Baptist Minister: “I do not fail to introduce the K. B. as opportuni­ ties afford. I believe that in the hands of God, it is a mighty instrument to quicken and encourage believers in this day of apostasy. Let your sword be al­ ways sharp, and do not keep it back from blood. Who knows but that God may use you to slay some of ffie giants of error of the day? Be strong! be strong!” From a Missionary in China: “I must tell you how much we appreciate the K. B. I am sharing it with quite a few missionaries in our district. We value so much its inspiring' loyalty to the Word of God and every month we find something helpful and useful in its art­ icles.” From a Presbyterian Minister: “Your publication has been a great blessing to me. It is a God-'send to this apostate generation and I trust and pray that you will never swerve from your fearless, uncompromising defense of the faith once for all delivered unto the saints.” From a Canada Minister: “The K. B. is the most helpful and inspiring of any magazine I have ever seen and during my experience of thirty years I have never seen its equal.” THE DAY’S RUDDER Let the day have a blessed baptism by giving your first waking thought into the bosom of God. The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.—Beecher.

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