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ACE KUCR. DAILY CAPITA! JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, 8ATIRDAV, APRIL 20, 1911. JESUS NO LONGER A MAN Since His Resurrection He Is "The Lord of Glory," Begotten and Born of the Spirit, "Put to Death In Flesh, " Quickened In Spirit." London, April 23. -Pastor Itussell preached In Lon don Tnbernuele to day to a crowded bouse III? theme was the resurrect ed Lord, do' longer a man. but ascend ed where be was before made par taker of the divine nature. HI text was. "He was put to death In flesh, but quickened In spirit" (1 Peter ill. 18). The speaker said: In the paxt those of as who contin ued to believe In the resurrection of the dead, held some Inconsistent theories respecting the matter which served to make the resurrection doctrine the more absurd in the minds of those op posed. For Instance, wb claimed that the Lottos, the Son of God. left the heavenly or spirit nature and. Accord ing to the Scriptures, was mnde flesh, and that He waa resurrected from the dead a Imimin or fleshly being and as cended to heaven with a body of flesh. In the same breath we acknowledged that human nature Is a little lower than the angelic; and thus, while still winning to honor the Redeemer and to see wisdom and love In the Heavenly Father's Plan, we assumed tbut the Savior, since His ascension, has bad a body inferior to that of the angels nd out of harmony with Ills surround ings; and that this is to be to all eter nity a purt of the cost of human re demption. How absurd! , Do not the Scriptures particularly tell us that in His resur rection the Ron was highly exalted by the Father, far above angels, princi palities and powers and every name that is nnmed? Do they not tell us that "flesh and blood cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God?" Do they not tell us that the elect Church, In order to be the Bride of Messiah and Ills as sociate in the heavenly Kingdom, must be "chnnged. In n moment. In the twln IcIInir of an eye." In order that she may be made like nim. and because "flesh and blond mnnot Inherit the King dom"? We have been too careless in our study of the Divine Word. On this subject, as upon others, we have as sumed that our forefathers of the "Dark Ages" understood the matter thoroughly. We forgot that those who lost so much of the Holy Spirit that they could burn fellow-Christians at the stake were quite likely to be more or less confused on nil questions. But "the path of the Jimt Is as a shining light shining more and more unto the perfect day." and It Is now our priv ilege to learn the way of the Lord more perfectly, in the light now shining upon the Bible through the aid of our won derful concordances and other Bible tody helps. Begotten of the Spirit Thtn Born. Onr difficulty on this subject arose from our failure to understnnd that human and spirit natures are distinct, and that God has provided two dis tinctly different salvations for mnn-klud-the siilvntlon of this Age belnj; exclusively spiritual, while that of the next Age will be exclusively human. We are uot to think of these natures as blending, but. according to the Lord's Word, we are to view them as distinctly wpurute. Whoever Is of the human nature Is , earthly, fleshly, whether perfect or degraded. Whoever Is of the spirit nature Is heavenly, whether perfect or degraded. Thus, when "the Logot was mnde flesh and dwelt among us," He was human, though unblemished, And the fallen angels nre still spirit beings, although .jrut off from Divine favor and fellow tsMp. In other words, human nature la uot nn imperfect form of spirit na ture but a totally sepuruie uud distinct nature. The Logan, the Only Begotten of the ..Father, "was mnde flesh" (.lulin I. 14 t He wss uot a spirit being Incarcerated in o body of flesh aud wearing It as a garment or living In it us a house. He 'became like others of the race, except 'thnt "lie was holy, bnrnilcws, separate 1from sinners," while all others are sin ners. Imperfect. Like other nieu, the man Jesus was not a dual being a spirit being living hi a human frame. He was merely humnn. t ffSut the Kcdccuier heeante a dual being utoen Tie received the begetting of the Holy Spirit at the time ot Ills bap tlHUi. Thenceforth, fur three and a flalf years, until Uis crtnillxlot). lie whs dual. The flesh was the same: but the splrit hegettlng received from the Father constituted Him a neic Ego. a new person. He not only thereafter bad new hopes, based Uhii Divine promises, but ne hud a new mind or new will specially illuminated, quick enetl. enlightened by the Holy Spirit From the time of His baptism His flesh all that belonged to Ills human nature) was given up to die In the carrying mit of the Heavenly Fattier' purposes. Thenceforth the Splrlt-be-gotten One waited m-rrly for the ac complishment of His sncrl(l.-p accord ing to (lie Father's wl. and fur a new body, a glorious spirit body. In the res urrection Ills completing or perfect ing as a New Creature. ' Three end One-half Years Our Lord Wai a Dual Being. Hence, during the eriod of our Lord's ministry, for three aud a 'half years. He wus a dual ersouage. So far as form and organism were con cerned He was a mn n. but so far as mind mid purpose and Interests were cotx-erned He was changed a New Creature, u spirit being; earthly things hud passed away. The New Creuture followed the Instructions of the Divine Word and providences to the extent of mortify lug the flesh surrendering If fully for the accom plishment in It of the Divine will "The cup which My Father Imtb peine ed for Me shall I not drink It ?" The great Tvuclier lllmsilf gives US the picture of a biniiiiii birth ns illus trating the experiences through which He passed and the slmilur experiences through which nil of His faithful fol lowers must pass in order to reach the plane of heavenly glory. This pic ture contains three distinctive views Ill begetting -i'J. quickening (3i birth. These three 1171 were Illustrated by our Lord's own experiences. He was begotten of the Holy Spirit at the time of His consecration at baptism. He was quickened or energized by that Holy Spirit after His forty days' ex perience In the wilderness when He began nis active eervice as "the Mes senger of the Corennnt," selecting His Bride, the Churr-hi When He finished His sacrifice at Calvary the man Jesus was dead, and the New Creature Jesus, splrlt-begot-ten nnd quickened and developed, was three and a half years old. According to the Divine Program He slept In hade, the tomb, and on the third day was born from the dead, raised up by Divine power as a New Creature, being given a spirit body of divine nuture glory, honor, immortality; "Him hath God highly exalted" iPhl llpplnns II. Di. He did not lose Ills personality, Ills identity, and could therefore properly say. "I am He that Hveth and was dead" (Rev. 1, 18). "Now the Lord Is That Spirit." II Corinthians III. 17. Thus was our Lord "put to death in flesh nnd quickened in spirit" mnde alive in spirit, a Spirit Being. True. He was also quickened by the Spirit. It was the Father's Spirit or Power which raised Him from the dead, as the Scriptures declare (Romans vlil. 11). Indeed, as the Apostle reminds us. all the blessings of Divine providence are of the Father. From Him cometb every good and every perfect gift. He Who thus ascended up on high, the Prince of glory and partaker of the divine nature. Is the same. Who first descended to the earthly nnture. yea. Who was humbled even unto death, even the death of the Cross, and went to the tomb as the sinner's substitute or ransom-price. The forty days which Intervened between the Redeemer's resurrection and nis ascension taught two great lessons: (li That the crucified One was no longer held In the bonds of death, no longer a prisoner In the grave. (2) It also taught that the Risen One was different In many respects from what He was before ne died. No long er was He a man. No longer was He flesh. The body of flesh prepared for Him for the suffering of death had served Its purpose. He needed it no longer. The Father had raised Him up to the plane of glory again. As a quickening spirit He was with the dis ciples during the forty days, instruct ing them during the few moments of each of His seven or eight appearances. But He was teaching them equally when Invisible to them. He noted their perplexities. His several nppeurnnces were In different forms-ns a gardener, as a traveller, as a purchnser of fish on the shore of Lake Tiberias, calling out, "Have you any fish?" and then. "Drop the net on the other side." He "revealed" Himself to the disci ples In various ways in connection with those materializations nnd then straight way He "vanished" out of tbelr sight, to be present with them, unseen, for days. For Identification ne appeared on two occasions in a body bearing the marks of nis crucifixion. During those forty days the faithful Teacher estab lished the faltb of His followers In Himself as the glorified Messiah, their Heavenly Bridegroom. Who would Int er come ngnln nnd receive them unto Himself nnd at that time give to them also a slinllnr resurrection "change." that they should be like nim. "see Him as He is" and not ns ne was. and share nis glory-because "flesh nnd blood cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God" (1 Corinthians xv. fiOi. "Above the Brightness of the Sun," Sfe Paul, the Inst of the twelve Apos tles to be called (to take the place of Judasi, needed, as well as the others, to be able to witness to the resurrec tion of Jesus. Of this ne tells us. saying, "ne was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: after that He was seen of above five hundred brethren at once: after that He was seen of James; then of all the Apostles', nnd. last of all. He was seen of me also, as of one prematurely born" II Corinthians tv, 5-8i. In the ordinary course of events St. Pnul would nut have seen the Lord un til His resurrection, when he himself T,ould come forth as a member of "the Church of (he First-born " lie there fore describes his view of Jesus on his way "to Damascus as being like that of one born before the time. In other words. St. Paul saw the Lord as He in nnd not ns He was. lie saw the Lord of glory, and uot the uinu Jesus. The appearance was glorious Indeed. Id various parts of the RIb'e angels In their normal condition are pictured as brlght-shlnlng ones. Thus one of the Prophets fell as dead before an aogel of the Lord, whose face shone as the un. Thus John the Itf velator, granted a glimpse of the glorified Christ, fell as dead before Him. The effect of this great light above the brightness of the sun upon the eyes of Saul of Tarsus wns destructive and a miracle was necessary for their repalrment. Thus the Lord Identified Himself in glory with Ills former self, the man Jesus. These lessons of the Lord should not hare gone unheeded. We should not have thought of the glori fied Messiah as a man. The effect of the wrong thought has not only be clouded our appreciation of the Sa vior in glory, but has also confused many respecting His Second Advent. It Is safe to say that even yet the ma jority of those who are expecting the Second Coming of the Son of God and His establishment of His Messianic Throne are looking for Htm as a glori fied man, forgetting that He sacrificed Himself as a man, and that He took not back that sacrifice, but received exaltation to the more excellent glory than that which He bad left to become our Redeemer. These wrong expectations respecting Messiah's Kingdom have turned the hearts of many in a contrary direction. They have reasoned correctly that the establishment of an earthly Kingdom, with Christ the King In the flesh and His saints Jolnt-belrs with Him in His Throne, also in the flesh, and with an earthly court would be a condition of things inferior to the present oue and apparently very inadequate for the ac complishment of the great things which the Bible promises Messiah's Kingdom will sequre. The proper thought respecting the resurrection of our Lord and Ills pres ent glory shows us clearly that His Kingdom, when It shall be established, will, Indeed, be a heavenly Kingdom, a spiritual one. From this standpoint only can we see the force of the Apos tle's contrast, when he pictures to us how Satun, ambitious uud scheming to be the Emperor Of the world, took the path of disobedience. He Indeed gain ed his desire and Is the "Prince of this world" over a sorry Empire, in which sin nnd death reign. On the other hand, the Apostle points us to the fact that our Redeemer, loyal to the Heav enly Father to the core, bumbled Him self to take the human nature, to be crucified; and that therefore God has exalted Him and will give to Him the Kingdom now usurped by Satuu, the Prince of this world. Satan will be bound for the thousand years of Messiah's reign. The spirit ual Prince of darkness will be deposed and the spiritual Prince of Light and Truth, as the Father's honored Agent, will be inaugurated as King of kliigs and Lord of lords. And "lie must reign until He shall have put all ene mies under His feet" the last enemy being death. Adamlc death, the death introduced through the deceptive He of "Sntiin. whii wns a murderer from the beginning and abode not In the Truth" (Jobu vlil. 44i. St. Pnul. according to the Greek text, institutes a comparison between Sa tan's course and that of the Logon (Philippines II. Ot. He there Implies that Sutnn wns ambitious nnd sought to grasp Divine prerogatives, but that the Logos "did not meditate a usurpa tion to be equal with God." but. on the contrary, bumbled Himself and mnde Himself of no reputation. Nev ertheless, eventually, in the outwork ing of the Creator's great Program, the One who bumbled Himself will be the Exalted One. and the one who ex alted himself will be abased. The Apostle urges the Church to follow the example of Jesus "Humble your selves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exult you In due time" (I Peter v. fit. Church of the Firtt-borni. As the Only-Begotten of the Father was begotteu of the Holy Spirit at the time of His consecration, ns an embryo New Creature, and as He was born of the Spirit or perfected as a New Crea ture In Ills resurrection, so also the Scriptures indicate must be the course along which the Church Is to follow Him. None can be born of the Spirit unless first he hns been begotten of the Spirit nnd quickened of the Spirit. It Is through this spirit-begetting, quick ening nnd birth that the "elect of God." called during this Age to a change of nature, nre made New Creatures "members of the Anointed Oue." the Christ, the Messiah, the Mediator be tween God and the world, tinder-kings, underprlests. under-judges. In asso ciation with their Lord, the Chief Priest nnd Bridegroom. In the present life the new nnture Is merely begun, and. as the Apostle de clares, we have It ns a treasure In earthen vessels In earthly bodies. He again declares that all t be spirit-begot ten ones nre In a conflict in which It Is required that they shall prove them selves "overcomers." Their special conflict Is with their own flesh. The New Creature, the new will, must mor tify the deeds of the flesh, the desires of the flesh. 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