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ew heaven . . . new earth . . . new Jerusalem” ! The words apply to that long awaited day “when God shall wipe away all tears . . . and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain.” Glorious tomorrow, when the One on the throne shall have made “all things new” ! This prospect, all-resplendent, is often in danger of being lost to view in the murky haze of present things.
to exalt the Word of the living Lord. He would limit the efforts of thousands of present and former Institute stu dents who live to make Christ known in every land. The increased power of this vanquished foe, in view of the soon appearing of the Conqueror, is one of the new things with which believers in the Lord Jesus Christ have to contend. Only those who face these stern facts squarely will know the full meaning of the truth: “Greater is he that is in
So God graciously and re peatedly gives to His short sighted little children new things today to remind them of the new things of to morrow. Again and again, He mantles a sin-soiled earth in the glistening whiteness of heaven, that He may, in pic ture language, speak of the day when He will robe the whole universe in right eousness.. Again and again, the
you than he that is in the world,” for the One who is greater is the Christ of God. The Bible Institute of Los Angeles, in common with many an individual Christian, faces the new year hemmed in by diffi culty. How to provide for the needs of a student body, which is larger than that of any year since 1922, in a •school where tuition is al ways absolutely free, consti tutes a practical problem of
world around, whenever a yearning heart reaches out for God in Christ, divine revelation and personal regeneration combine to make one more “new creature,” one more to swell the number of those who will sing a new song in praise of Him “who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood.” Time after time, to the child of God there come new trials—sharp, piercing, inexplicable. “Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But re joice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings,” for the trial today looks forward to the “glory which shall be revealed” tomorrow. Added to all else, God now gives another new year. Its setting is a field of conquest, not a fragrant glade. Hard warfare lies ahead, for the adversary, who knows his time is short, would, if he could, drench with blood every spiritual battlefield of 1934. He would silence the testimony of every evangelical Christian. He would, through financial stringency, hinder the ministry of every institution like the Bible Institute of Los Angeles that seeks above all else
no small proportions. But assurance is found in the fact that for just such a situation as this, God has provided “a new thing.” The words are prophetic, and their literal ful fillment is unquestioned, but their present-day encourage ment cannot be overlooked: “Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring fo rth ; . . . I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” “A new thing . . . a way in the wilderness . . . now”! On the strength of the promise, the Bible Institute of Los Angeles goes forward rejoicing, realizing that the new volume of prayer, the new army of friends, the new willingness to sacrifice—all of which are necessary to the fulfillment' of the divine word, God Himself will pro vide through His own. For you who love the Lord and revere His Word, whose passion is to make Christ known, whose hope is “the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ,” God has some definite part in the outworking of His own marvelous “new thing” at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. What part will yours be?
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