A Distinction and a Difference The following is VERY IMPORTANT to grasp and to understand. The failure to rightly understand this has led to all matter of false and misleading theories and ideas commonly held by the professing church. But now, having examined the hope of immortality from the ordinary er of that word (everlasting life), and having found that everlasting life is God’s provision for all those of Adam’s race who will accept it in “due time” under…
The philosophy of a future life and everlasting life. “Beginning at the foundation of this New Testament assurance of Life Everlasting, we find to our astonishment that it first of all admonishes us that in and of ourselves we have nothing which would give us any hope of everlasting life – that the life of our race was forfeited by the disobedience of our father Adam; that although he was created perfect and was adapted to live forever, his sin…
“If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.” Job 14:14 “Our Savior Jesus Christ…hath abolished death and brought life [everlasting] AND immortality to light through the Gospel.” 2 Tim 1:10 There is a longing hope within men that death does not end all existence. There is an undefined hope that, somehow and somewhere, the life now begun will have a continuation. In some this hope turns to…
WE BEHELD HIS DIGNITY. The apostles and all believers who had intercourse with our Lord in the days of his flesh experienced, “beheld, his glory.” They beheld the grandeur, the nobility, the perfection of the “man Christ Jesus” – a perfection and glory seen in no other because all others were sinners, while he by virtue of special birth was holy, harmless, separate from sinners. The Word glory here represents the same thought as in Psa 8:5, where, speaking of Adam…
“HE WAS THE TRUE LIGHT.” As he was the Father’s Word or Messenger, he was also the Father’s Light, whose mission it was to reveal, to make known, the Father’s love, that thereby those who had eyes to see might be attracted, drawn, blessed. Alas, how many were blind! Eyes had they but they saw not, and understanding had they and appreciated not. Those who did see, who did appreciate, what a blessing they received! – not only those who…
“HE IS EXCEPTED WHICH DID PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIM.” 2 Cor 15:27; Eph 4:5,6 We are not from this statement to get the inference that the Son was superior to the Father, that the Father had created nothing previously because of lack of ability to create, but that the Father was pleased thus to recognize, honor and use this particular channel in his great work. The Apostle sets the whole matter straight, saying, “To us there is one God…
John 1:1-18 “In him was life; and that life was the light of men.” Our lesson is an epitomized statement of the entire plan of God in most comprehensive form, reaching from long before the creation of the earth down into the future to the grand consummation of the divine plan at the close of the Millennial age. The subject is wide enough, deep enough, high enough to furnish food for thought for a score of lessons. In considering…
WHAT MOSES SHOWED AT THE BUSH. Continuing to level his argument against the Sadducees – continuing to prove the general resurrection of mankind, and not merely the resurrection of the Church – our Lord adds, “Now that the dead are [to be] raised even Moses showed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, for he is not a God of the dead but of the…
DID THE RANSOM SECURE FULL RESURRECTION? We ask then, what did our Lord mean by limiting his answer to “they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that age and the resurrection”? Will not the whole world be accounted worthy to obtain full resurrection? Did not our Lord’s death purchase full resurrection for all the race? We answer, No. Our Lord’s death was the propitiation, the satisfaction, whereby the sins of the whole world shall be cancelled, and whereby, therefore,…
Amongst the Jews were three particular parties. The largest and in every way most important of these were known as Pharisees, who believed in a future life, to be attained by a resurrection at some future time, for which they waited. Second to these in importance, yet very much smaller, were the Sadducees, who boasted of their intellectual acumen, claiming that a man when he died had no preeminence above a brute, except in the honors done to his corpse…