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peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.” That is the gospel of the kingdom. No evolution or de mocracy will bring it about, but “the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.” R estoration of H armony in N ature “Instead of the thorn
must be born again before he knows anything about a divine spark. There is no method of reformation, cul ture, or education, by which anything may be evolved from the natural man but what is in the natural man, and “God is not in all his thoughts.” But Jesus Christ comes into the believer’s heart as an abiding, controlling presence. The old nature remains as long as we are in this tabernacle, but He gives daily vic
tory and assurance that one day we shall be delivered from the very presence of sin. There is no place for evolution here. A R eturn to F ellow sh ip w ith G od When Adam and Eve sinned, they hid themselves from God and endeavored to make a covering for their nakedness, as men ever since have been hiding, hoping to make for them selves fit clothing with which to come into the presence of God. “But the Lord God made coats of skin” for Adam and Eve, and thereafter, when He looked upon them, He saw only the thing that was s l a i n . The believer is clothed with Jesus Christ— the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. We need not fear to come into His holy pres ence if we are clothed with His righteousness. P rovision for P eace and H armony We hear .much of the brotherhood of man, but there can be no brother hood without the love that manifests itself “in honor preferring one another.” Where can you find this outside that blessed body that is living in vital union with the Son of God? The precious words of the hymn, “Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love,
shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree.” Jesus Christ will not allow Satan to leave a sin gle evidence on earth that ‘he has ever been here. Not a thorn or a thistle shall remain to curse the earth. “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fai ling together; and a little child shall lead them . . . for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.” T h e G ospel a M isfit i n ' E volution This gospel can not be the product u f evolution, first, because the evolution ist can not fit it into his program. He has rejected it because it assumes the utter helplessness of man and compels him to ac knowledge his bankruptcy before God. Second,' the nature of sin remains un changed. Through all the centuries, it has been the same God-dishonoring, hu manity-cursing thing, a n d until you change the nature and demands of sin, the gospel that provides the remedy must remain un changed. Third, the gospel claims for itself divine origin. Its origin is never ascribed to the creative brain of man. It is “the gospel of Christ” and “the
When Saving Truth is Spurned B y P aul H utchens “They shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables” (2 Tim. 4:4). I Q rom saving truth men turn their ears away l l * And seek more soothing words their thoughts to sway. To “isms” and to cults with poison stings, To false religions and to worldly things They turn their fatuous hearts and thus begin To reap the baneful wages of their sin. They spurn the riches of His wealth above And on earth’s glittering lucre fix their love, But while they worship thus their chosen gold, Are turned to stringent poverty of soul. They turn away from truth that speaks of loss Which must be met by those who shun the cross. And (while hell’s messengers their fables spin, And weave perfidious webs to catch them in) No sooner turned, than quickly they are bound, And in the cords of unbelief are wound. They turn away from truth that warns of sin; And as they turn, earth’s pleasures set to win, Are caught in raging floods and borne away To sins own vortex eager for its prey. The fables and the lies to which men heed Can never fill their longing or their need. They are the gilded highways where the lost Who spurn the Word of truth at awful cost Are whirled along all heedless of their plight, And hastened to their doom—eternal night.
The fellowship of kindred minds is like to that above,” are foolishness to men of the world.
power of God.” Its power to redeem lies in the fact that it is the message of deity to a helpless race. Fourth, it works. It is not a “working hypothesis,” but has been tested and tried to the satisfaction of millions. I called on my old physician as he lay upon his death bed. He was an evolutionist, but he confessed to me that his belief afforded him no light at evening-time.
R ighteous G overnment for th e E arth We do not look for peace through democracy; we look for it through theocracy. The “last Adam” is to become the earth’s King! “The government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Coun sellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and
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