As stated in our previous post, “All that, by the Lord’s grace, we shall ultimately have through the “change” of the resurrection as members of the body of Christ – all the heavenly things, including full fellowship and communion with the Father and with our Lord – are reckoned as having their beginning in the present life. He, therefore, who knows not such a beginning of the new life, and its holy spirit now, has no reason whatever to believe…
“By grace are ye saved through faith.” (Eph 2:8) It was from his Roman prison that the Apostle Paul wrote the Epistle to the Ephesians, one of the most beautiful of all his letters to the churches; full of deep spiritual instruction. Its keynote is “IN Christ,” this expression, or its equivalents, occurring at least twenty times in this Epistle. As the first chapter points out that the Church is chosen IN Christ Jesus, so our lesson shows that we have life…
THE CLEANSING MAINTAINED. If our escape from sin and its condemnation is by a ransom for Adam’s sin, What shall we conclude concerning errors, omissions and transgressions now committed by those who have escaped and who have been JUSTIFIED from Adamic sin? Would not the least sin on our part bring us again under condemnation? And would not this require another sin-offering to ransom us afresh and enable us to again /escape from condemnation? The lack of a reasonable answer to these reasonable questions has confused many on…
ESCAPE FROM CONDEMNATION. We got into condemnation without our choice, but cannot get out of it without our choice, but the conditions for escape are so simple and easy that all shall be without excuse. It is simply “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.” But to believe on him means more than at first appears, perhaps. It does not mean that men shall simply believe that such a man lived and died, nor even that, in addition, he rose again…
FAITH AND WORKS. The relationship between faith and works is simple and clear when seen from a scriptural standpoint, yet very obscurely recognized by the great majority. Works can never justify us, nor so long as we are under the imperfections resultant from sin can God recognize works at all. He is perfect, and cannot accept or enjoy that which is imperfect. Since of the Adamic race there are none righteous, no not one, it follows that Jesus’ works only are well pleasing and acceptable to…
Let us now consider our previous question, viz., Why should God continue his blessings, of which life is the chief, to those who after knowing and being enabled to conform to his just requirements, will not do so? It is just: because God is under no obligation to man. Man is already his debtor ten thousand times; and if he will not render loving respect to his Creator’s wise and good commands, Justice would demand that those blessings be stopped….
Emerging from that blackness of error called Calvinism (with its heaven of blessing for the “little flock” and its eternal torment for all others, as taught by good but sadly deceived men – John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, Charles H. Spurgeon and others – ) into the glorious light of the goodness of God, shining in the face of Jesus Christ our Lord and revealed in the divine Plan of the Ages, the writer was subjected to the same attacks of…
We continue with the subject of, The Millennium and the End of Sin The Resurrection of Condemnation We continue once again with our look at the Millennium and the Judgement to come, and the article we were reviewing in our last post. “Are There Few That Be Saved?” We are told plainly that Christ is to “fill all things,” “far above all heavens” (Eph. 4:10), that in his Name will every knee bow, upon earth as well as in heaven…
We continue with the subject of, The Millennium and the End of Sin The Resurrection of Condemnation We continue once again with our look at the Millennium and the Judgement to come. “Are There Few That Be Saved?” The following excerpt comes from a book entitled, Future Probation in Christian Belief by Albert O. Hudson Since the Apostles “fell asleep” a number of Christian scholars, particularly those living during the 18th and 19th centuries, testified to their belief in a…
We continue with the subject of, The Millennium and the End of Sin Having considered what our Adventist friends believe the Church will be doing during the millennium (as not all believers, all who profess Christ are part of the Church, the bride of Christ nor will be going to heaven, See Matt 7:21-23), let us now consider what the scriptures say the Church will be doing during the millennium. It is evident that our friends don’t know why the…