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In nilence, then, the angel» stpod,
Reigion.
given by Moses 430 years jitter the
With folded wings on high ;
covenant with- Abraham had **ficen
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When Jest™ shed his precious blood
“ The Law, Not of the Promise.” signed, sealed and fully “ confirm • *.
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In Galatians iii. and ,jv? Paul
And through the Savior we have
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clearly and expressly shows that «IcJith,-it follows that the law could union With. God.
tlie Gospel of Christ, , which is the'
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power of
• luise, and could not have been All our interest in “. the blessing of
tells the Corinthians that the Gos
added to it. • Paul connects all the Abraham/’ or in the Gospel pro
pel is as follows : How that Christ
blessings of the Gospel to the mise, passes by.jiiMl over “"the hiw ”
died for our sins according to the
Gentiles, through Christ “ tlm-pro— directly” back to the promise of
Scriptures, and that he was buried
ndsed seed,” directly back to the “ the Seed,” which is Christ. For
and that he rose again the third
promise^ or covenant made with (verse 18) if we inherit through or
iuIay....jieeording....,tQ...ilm__
Abraham, that “ in thee and in thy Tiy THie law, we do not inherit
But how can it lie that the story ,of
seed shall all nations be blessed.” through or by' “the promise.” be
a violent death and a hasty burial
Now he says, that 430 years after cause if we inherit through the
and a resurrection from the dead is
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that Gbspel
'promise or covenant law (verse 17), it. would make the
‘'God’s charm ” by which lie draws
m.
was maide,
and “ 1 »ecause of ., trans promise ol none. effect; and ,-wd
men to him and gives them life.
gressions, the law was added.” would also inherit-through Israel- sftw; fumitaAn"Jjiur
This is not the charm. It must lie
vater of life clear as
Added to what, asks one ? It w.as But he saith nol “ anti to seeds’’ as river of
taught additionally that this was
ir
lies far but
back have
of the
might issues,
not perish,
ever
certainly added to those whose of many (that is, of Israel), but of ystal
done “ for our sins ami “according
lasting-life.
” John
iii. 1( i .- far
a back
of the
Redeemer,
“ transgressions ” had required it. one, “and to thy seed,” and that advent
to the Scriptures.”
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of rocks
'Rome,
such love, let
and aye
hills it
If it was the “transgressions” of* “seed was Christ. We have no of “Oh the for founding
Still more than all these, Paul
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Their before
lasting silence
break ; orbs of
the dazzling
-Abraham that was the ‘.‘liecause” inheritance “ through seeds,” or existed
says,
“
How
that
Christ
die«I
for
And all harmonious
human
tongues,
wheeled into
phice,
ami the our sills, was buried and rose again.”
of its being ad«led, then it was through Israel; and iio Christian is heaven
The
Savior
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s
praises
speak.
”
ever
re«piire<l
to
be,
or
is
yallc«l
- angels struck tlfe first note in the It then becomes a part of the
added to Abraham, as a matter of
Jestfsp anthem
tells the
that
“
»Hi
Israelite
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in
the
word
of
.God.
grand
of Jewish
creation Rabbi
new born.
course. But Abraham liftd been
coming
hi this Gtispe] to tell the sin mu7 the man-
Every one that was under the the
The cause
Savior of
in his
accents
of heavenly
dead some 400 years, so that it
world
sin tohl
ami d$ath
was the story
lore ner in whidx Christ did all these
music of has
that sweet
—could not—Or—“ beer
22—nf— friir-
God. “ Like
-the ‘ forjour sins.’ Yes, " Christ «bed '
himself.:
Go«l the
so water-
loved brom
the world
“ transgressions,” ami therefore it but Christ re«leemed the Jew (ami of
rock
which
followed
the Son
Is the just for the unjust that he ought
that In*
gave
liis only
begotten
could not have Been added to Abny; all sinnersj who a<-cepS him, from riven
through believetlC
all the years
of briny us.to God." This wiis the
that whosoever
in him
ham, nor to the covenant or pro the^cursy of the law, in- order that raelites
cause of. our c«iining to God. -Paul ’
mise that God made with him, for they might receive the adoption of wandering in the wilderness the says.this is the means “ by which
it could not have 1 teen • “ bec&use of sons. Servants were under law; love of God follows sinful.man in you are saved if ye keep in memoiy
the transgressions’’ of either Abryf- but children are free, 'The,, sdhW alibis dark paths of-sin'. “ They what I preached unto you.” Again
liam or “ the covenant ” that it was tlie bon< I woman was a servant ami all drank of that spiritual rock the Prince of Life says, “ Ami 1, if
added ; and so it Could not have represents the “ Israelite ” who is that followed them ami that rock 1 be lift«-«l up, will draw all men
l»een “ added ” either to Abraham “under law” ami “ in bondage?” as was Christ. They could not drink unto me ’♦ The Gospel is the
are also her children. But Abra till that rock was smitten) neither
or to the promise, or covenant.
cold«! men drink of the fountain <if medium through which the lifting
not in _ bonda«ni
But »us the law was added be • ham was “free” and
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up bf Jesus reaches us and brings
cause of somebody’s transgressions, to the law. nor any part of it. The life through Christ until “lie was
the |towei* of Go'l to bear upon us.
and we read that “ the,church (?) in fact that it was “ a<l<le«f” 430 years smitten of God ami attlicte«!.
God, therefore, draws men to him
the wilderness ” sinned so grievous after the Gospel promise proves > That mysterious, inexhaustable,
self by charming them. Again the
ly, that with the many (or most) of that Abraham was ignorant of it, unfathonable “ river of life ” follows
Savior says, “ I am the AJ.ay, the
them God was not well pleased, for ami was not under it. If Abraham every child of Adam in whatever
truth and the life,” or in -more
they
in the ha«l been under the Sabbath part of land, or haunts of vice ami wicked
* were overthrown
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modern English, “ 1 am the true
wilderness; bow can there be the it, Paul would luive cxce}itr-«l tlie ness he may lie, -until he, like the’
way of life,” 'This “ True way of
least doubt -or uncertainty as to fourth (-ornTiiiiridment of the law Israelites, reaches and crosses the
life ” is “ Chief among ten thousand,
'&hom it was added ! There can be when he sai«l “ it was a«lded, lie Jordan While they were toiling
and the one altogether loVely.” No
no more room for doubting as to cause of transgressions” It was on through a desert land.Vlo«! gave
whom it was added than there is not Abraham’s “ transgressions,” them bread from heaven and sent a "'under then that» men are drawn
to God by his Son since he is so
uncertainty as to whose sins was neither was it the “ transgressions ” stream of living water from the
.of Isaac, nor of “the see«l ” or the smitten rock to sustain them, but lovely. Through the Gospel of
the “ cause “ of its being added.
But Paul expressly says that it children of the seed; hut it was as soon as they ha«l jiasse.l the Christ we have the promise of the
forgiveness ..of our sins, and by
was not added to the Gospel pro the transgressions of “ the com-re- desert and crosseil.the Jonlan they
mise, or covenant with Abraham, gation in the wilderness,” the Israel were reaping hopes-fruition in a oltedience thereto, eternal life in the
and was no part of it. For the ites, that caused the law to lie “ laml that flowe«l with milk ami great beyond.
When one has come into the
I hen it was unnecessary
only parties to that covenant of given ; and it was only givtn to honey.
.Church of Christ lie lias only just
promise yvere God and Abraham ; them fitt tlm see«l XChrjst) •shiould to feed and clothe th«.*m by miracle,
com«-.
' ~- ami, therefore, they cease«!. Thus enlisted in the army of God and
ami no change in it, no adding
Though given 430 jA ars after the the lore oj Go<l has ever followed engaged in a. warfare for life.
thereto, or disannulling thereof, promise, “ the law was no< against
Having lieen reunite«! with God he
could be done, unless both, parties the promise,” (verse 21), for it was the children of men in every walk
is now a co-laborer with him, and-
were present. For speaking after not a«lded t«i that promise, ami did of life. ■ 3^r
lmt to return. Jesus said the thus advances “ from glory to
the usages ami manner of busines not ami could not affect the,pro
mise in any way. This one chapter love of Go«l sent him. into the world glory.” «fames says, “ Pure religion
men, Paul says (verse 15) that when is enough to silence the. clamor of
men make a covenant, and it is every uncircumcise«! Jew, and all to save men from perishing and and undefiled before God and the <
father is thh, to visit (take the «
“cm+lirmed ” or ratified by being, wlia..«.lesire- To' bT~umIer law/Lot" give them eternal life.
oversight)
of the fatherless and the *
signed and sealed, no other man, or who “ observe «lays ” in all time t«i I lie Savior left the palace throne,
widows in their affliction, and keep
And all hi» robes of light ;
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party, can disannul or add thereto. come. More an«m.
And down to earth in triumph camo,
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I himself unspotted from the world.”
Inasmuch, therefore, as the law was. -Salem, Or., July 15, lssj.
Io break tli’etiJinul night.
I This reunion with God manifests
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