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DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON. SATCTUUr, MARCH 23, 1011.
TWO DISTINCT SALVATIONS
JILL IN ONE OR THE OTHER
Every Human Being Is to Have a
Full, Fair, Intelligent Oppor
tunity For Eternal Life.
A SECOND CHANCE
FOR FATHER ADAM ONLY
London, March
11). TuRtor Rus
doll preached today
ut tliu London Tab
ernacle to an over
flowing house. Ills
text was taken
from Hebrews 11,
8: "So grtat salva
tion, which began
to be spoken by
our Lord, and was
con firmed unto us by those who heard
Him," The speaker said:
Id the past many of us misunder
stood these words "to great salvation"
end have thought them to apply
merely to an "elect" few of the salutly
followers of our great Redeemer. Sure
ly It should not be thought strange If
a closer examination of God's Word
would demonstrate to us that as the
heavens are higher than the earth, so
are Ills ways and plans higher than
ours (Isaiah Iv, 9). It should not
surprise us to find that our forefathers
were generally In considerable dark
ness la respect to "the length and
breadth and height and depth of the
love of God, which posseth all under
standing" (Ephesluns HI, 18, 10). It
should not surprise us to And that our
Savior will yet see the fruitage of the
travail of Ills ,soul and be satisfied
(Isaiah Mil, 11), and that this satis
faction will result from the salvation
of more than the "little flock," who
walk In Ills steps and who, like II im,
"present their bodies living sacrifices,
holy and acceptable to Uod," In the
service of Truth and righteousness.
There are several ways of treating
this thought, that more than an "elect"
few are eventually to reuch eternal life
through the Redeemer of mnnklnd.
One way. which many adopt, Is to
claim that our Lord and the Apostles
did not really mean to establish so
high a standard of alntnhlp as tbelr
words Imply, and then to. conclude that
the nnsnlutly will gain eternal life as
well aa the saintly all except the de
generately wicked. This view of mut
ters, which Is the common one. Is un
doubtedly prompted by sympathy for
friends, relntlves, neighbors and the
heathen; but It Is wholly contrary to
God's Word.
Another view still held by some Is
that everybody but the saintly will
suffer torture eternally and hopelessly.
The third theory which I desire to
present here is the one 1 licllcvo to be
In accord with every text of Scripture,
and In accord with Justice, Wisdom,
Love and rower Divine, and in accord'
with sanctified common nense, I have
time for only an outllue of this Dan,
which Is most comprehensive, as fol
lows: Th Saintly New Creation.
Salvation In no sense begnn before
the Redeemer's birth, forty-one hun
dred and twenty-eight years after the
fall of our first parents. In all that
long period nobody wus saved. The
Apostlo declares In our text that sal
vation began to be preached by Jesus.
Again we rend that Jesus brought life
and Immortality to Unlit through Ills
Gospel (H Timothy 1, 10). So, then,
life and Immortality and the Gospel
Message began to be preached by our
Lord and was not preached before Ills
day. Indeed we can see that If there
Is "none other Name given under hcav
en or amongst men whereby we must
be saved," than the name of Jesus,
then It could not have been preached;
nothing could he preached previously
except the Divine declaration that God
purposed In due time to redeem man
kind from sin ami death through a
Savior and a Great One Oue able to
save unto the uttermost all Hint would
come unto the Father through III in.
This reasoning Is surely truo to the
facts. Search all thiough the Old Tes
tament and there Is found no promise
of eternal life set forth except by the
Law given to the one little nation of
Israel. That Law declared that he
that doeth these things shall live by
big obedience thereto (Romans x, fi),
nud the Apostle assures us that Jews
died because none of them kept the
Law because no Imperfect human be
ing could possibly meet the require
ments of God's perfect Lnw. "Hy the
deeds of the Lnw shall no flesh be
justified In Ills sight" (Romans III, 20).
The Apostle, further explaining the
matter, sny, "Wherefore, tlieu, serveth
the Law?" He replies to his question,
"It was added because of transgres
sion until the promised Seed should
come" (Galatlans 111. 19).
The Promistd Std.
The Apostle's words direct our
thoughts back to Eden, when God de
clared that the Seed of the woman
would at some future time bruise the
Serpent's head. Hut that Seed did not
exist for over four thousand years
after, and has not yet crushed the Ser
pent's head"liHtroyed sin nnd the
Works of Satan.
The Apostle's words again remind us
of God's promise tu Abraham. "In thy
Beed shall all the families of the
earth be blessed" (Genesis xxvlil, 14).
Abraham was not thus blessed, nor
were any others thus blessed, howover
faithful they were. All the blessing
was to come through Ahruhnm's Seed
and could not be dispensed before His
coming. Hence the Apostle, referring
to Abraham. Isaac and Jacob and all
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follow his advice. He certainly knows best.
the faithful of past time, declared, "All
these died In fultb. not having tacelv
ed the promise" (Hebrews xl, 13) the
blessing reconciliation to God and
eiernni me.
And when Jesus came He did not at
tempt to bless the world, but on the
contrary. In Ills prayer, declared, I
pray not for the world, but for them
which thou bust given We" (John xvlU
0)-tbe saintly, the "very elect" iMnt
thew xxiv. 24i. These He called:
these lie taught "Israelites Indeed." '
These lie directed to give the same '
message to others, not for the conver- j
slon of the world, but for the calling,
instruction and edification of "the
Church, which Is the Body of Christ"
The message to these from first to
last was that they were called to suf
fer with Him. that they might also
reign with Him.
"Th Church Which It the Body of
Chriat."
In the past many of us have over
looked the fact that the Church are,
figuratively, "the Body of Christ" to
be hereafter, as the Apostle declares,
"the Church which is His Body." And
again. We are members In particular
of the Body of Christ, which Is the
Church (I Corinthians xil, 27). In a
word, then, the entire Christ Includes
the members of the Body with the glo
rious Head of the Body. And this
glorious Christ, which will be complet
ed by the close of this Gospel Age, will
as a whole be the promised Seed of
Abraham.
From this viewpoint we can see why
God's long-promised blessing has not
yet reached the world, but from this
viewpoint we can see that lie Is mere
ly selecting or electing the Church, the
Seed of Abraham. The promise to
Abraham Is. "In thy Seed shall
all the families of the earth be
blessed," and, us we have seen, the
Seed of Ahrahnm Is "Jesus the Head
and the Church Ills Body." In a
word, our previous view of the Divine
Plan was loo narrow. We snw the
election of the Church, but did not nee
God's gracious purposes for "All the
families of the earth." The Church,
ns the Scriptures declare. Is merely a
"first-fruits" unto G'nd of His crea
tures nnd Is not, by any means, the
entire hurvest. Let us here remember
St. Paul's explanation of this matter.
n declares. "We, brethren, as Isanc
was. are the children of the promise"
(Galatlans Ir, 2.8) the heirs of the
promise through ns all the families
of the earth are to be blessed.
No Second Chance In This.
It might Indeed be said In one sense
of the word that since father Adam
was placed on trial lu Eden with a
rownrd of eternal life before him or a
pennlty of- death, nnd thnt since he
lost his chance of eternal life by dis
obedience, therefore any chance of
eternal life coming to him or to any
member of bis race would, of neces
sity, be a second chance. This Is un
doubtedly true. From this standpoint
every member of the human family
must eventually have a second chance
for eternal life, because It was for
this very purpose that our Redeemer
Jeft the heavenly glory, was made
flesh, dwelt amongst us and "died, the
JiiHt for the unjust." Whoever enjoys
this second chance must expect no
more, because "Christ dleth no more."
But. as we hove alreudy seen, nobody
had n second chance for eternal life
prior to the coming of our Redeemer
Into the world. "He brought life and
immortality to light." He died, the
lust for the unjust, to make recon
ciliation for Iniquity and this mes
sage of so grent salvation began to be
spoken by our Lord.
The comparatively few who hnve
heard the Gospel since Jesus day
"Good tidings of grent Joy which shall
he unto all people", these, the compar
atively few, who have hoard of "the
only nnme given under heaven or
amongst men whereby we must bo
saved" are the only ones who in any
sense of the word have had their sec
ond chance. Indeed we might, Scrip
turally, limit the matter much further
and say thnt the Gospel has been hid
den from the majority of those who
heard It; their mental eyes nnd ears
being deaf und blind, they did not com
prehend the message, nnd therefore
could not reject It.
The "high calling" and "so great
salvation" which so few have re'ally
beard nnd seen Is referred to by our
great Redeemer saying, "Blessed are
your cyeH, for they see, and your
ears, for they hear." "The natural
man received) not the things of the
Spirit of God. neither can he know
them; because they nie spiritually dis
cerned. But God hath reveal
ed them unto us by His splvlt" (I Co
rinthians II, Mi. lu other word9, only
the Spirit-begotten ones are now on
trial for life everlasting or death ever
lasting. And only the faithful footstep
followers will gain the glory, honor.
Immortality nnd Jolirt-heirshlp with
nim In Ills Kingdom. These are the
"elect," the "very elect." These are
such as make their calling and elec
tion Hiiro by so running as to obtain
this great prize of membership In the
Body of Christ.
These elect ones experience a change
of nature, and In the future will not
lie human beings, but partakers of the
divine nature (11 Peter I, 4). They
v I It be inducted Into (he perfection
f the divine nature in the First Res
urrection, the chief resurrection, lu
which they will be changed In a mo
Jlient, In the twinkling of nn eye, be
cause llesh nnd blood cannot inherit
the Kingdom of God (I Corinthians
v. B0-r2.
Humm Salvation Is Restitution.
We all gagged at the thought that
the heathen and everybody except
""tuts would he consigned to nn eter
nity of torture, yet we all recognized
thnt hojiven Is uot a place of develop
ment hut a condition of perfection.
We were perplexed, mystified. We did
not follow our Bibles with sufficient
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owt Injury. Some went In the direc
tion of Unlversaltsm; others halfway,
and still others abandoned the Holy
Book. Now we see where we erred.
God has two salvations; one for the
Church and a totally different one for
the world. The salvation for the
Church is to heavenly nature, spirit
bodies, and Jolnt-helrsblp with the
Master in His Kingdom, which deb
and blood cannot Inherit, ns we have
already seen. The other sulvutlon, for
mankind, Is an earthly oue, called In
the Scriptures "Restitution." Man was
not an angel originally, not a spirit be
ing, but, as the Scriptures declare,
"The first man was of the earth
earthy."
it was that earthy man. perfect.
In the Image- of his Creator, for
whose hnpplness Eden was specially
prepared. By obedience to God he
might have continued to enjoy his
Eden home everlastingly. By disobedi
ence he first lost his fellowship with
God, then his Eden home, and after
nine hundred nnd thirty years of toil
ing wttb thorns and thistles In sweat
of face, the death penalty upon him
reached completion he died. Adam's
race, sharing his weaknesses by laws
of heredity, have also shared death
with blm.
"World Through Mim Might Be 6aved."
The Scriptures tell us that God's real
purpose In sending Jesus Into the
world was that the "world might
through Him be saved" not the
salvation of the Church; that was
an Incidental feature. Tbo Church
Is selected that as the Bride or Queen
during the Messianic Kingdom she
may be associated with her Lord, the
King, as the Seed of Abraham In the
blessing, the saving, of Adam and his
family, or so many of them ns shall be
willing, from sin and death conditions.
We remember the Master's words to
the effect thnt "He enmo to seek and
to save (recover) that which was lost."
We have Just seen that it was a hu
man life, human perfection and an
earthly home thnt were lost. It Is
these, then, that Jesus proposes In due
time to recover for Adam nnd his
family. The Messianic reign of Jesus
and his Body the Anointed, the
Christ, The Messiah will be for the
purpose of blessing Adam and all of
his race with glorious opportunities of
an earthly salvation. The uplifting,
restoring influences of Messiah's King
dom will nffect not only Adam and his
race, but also the earth Itself. Grad
ually raiadise Lost, ns a little garden
of Eden, will become Paradise Regained
as the world beautiful. Then the wil
derness shall blossom as a rose and
the solitary place shall be glnd.
"Timei of Restitution."
At our Lord's First Advent the "ac
ceptable time" began the time when
God, having accepted the sncrlflce of
Christ Jesus, beenme willing through
Him to accept the sacrifices of all who
desire to become nis disciples to take
up their croSjS and follow Him through
evil report and good report even unto
death. The entire. Gospel Age anti
types Israel's Day of Atonement, and
the sacrifices of our Lord nnd the
Church, Ills Body, are the "better sac
rifices," foreshadowed by the bullock
and the goat offered typically by the
Jews. This Is the acceptable year of
the Lord which Jesus declared (Isaiah
1x1, 2; Luke iv. 19). God's faithful
people of this acceptable day are
glad to be Invited to "present their
bodies living sacrifices, holy nnd ac
ceptable unto God" (Romans xil. 1).
In the end of this acceptable day will
come the end of nil opportunity to thus
sacrifice the human nature nnd become
Jolnt-helrs with Christ nnd pnrtnkers
of the heavenly nature.
Then will be Introduced a new period
atyled. In the Scriptures, "Times (or
years) of Restitution." The acceptable
day for the Church's sacrifice has last
ed for nearly nineteen centuries. And
we know how long the "Times of Resti
tution" will Inst nearly a thousand
years. St. Peter tells us Just when these
"Restitution Times" will begin. They
did not begin in his day. They hnve
not begun yet. They will begin as a
result of the Second Advent of Jesus,
the Messiah, and the establishment of
His Kingdom and righteousness, "Times
of refreshing shall come from the pres
ence of the Lord and He shall send
Jesus Christ, as' before was preached
unto you, whom the heavens must re
tain until the Times of Restitution of.
nil tilings which God hnth spoken by
the mouth of all . the holy prophets
since the world begnu. For Moses
verily said unto the futhers, A Proph
et like unto me (of whom I nm but
a type or figure) shall the Lord your
Uod rnlse up unto you froui. amongst
your brethren. Him shall ye .hear Mn
all things whatsoever Ho shnH Bppak
unto you. Aud It shall come to pass
that the soul thnt will not obey thnt
Prophet shall be destroyed ; from
amongst the people" (Acts ill. 16-23)-ln
the Second Death.
This great Prophet hns been In proc
ess of raising up for now nearly nlue
teen centuries. And when the Inst
member of His Body shall have passed
beyoud the veil. Ho will stand forth
in the glories of Ills Kingdom to rule,
Judge. Instinct, restore nnd bless all
the families of the earth with oppor
tunity for restoration to nil that was
lost In Eden and redeemed nt Calvary.
These "Restitution Times" are beauti
fully refenvd to In a poem known to
many of our renders, written by one
who wns particularly Identified' with
the Christian Standard office brethren:
A thousand years, earth's comlns glory;
"ris tho ,:ul day so Ioiik foretold;
'Tie the bilKht morn of Zlon'a Rlory
Prophets foresaw tn times of old.
It seems to me. Brother Editor, that
tn the foregoing there cannot be n very
wide difference of opinion ns between
your view and my own of the Bible's
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