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Pastor Russell's Sermon
GOD'S WRATH ALIKE
TO ALL SHINERS
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Bivisa Justice Is Mated Out
Impartially.
fASTOR RUSSELL EN ROUTE.
Pastor Ruttall Deolsrss That Mani
festations of Divint Displsasure Are
Everywhere About Us Since tha
Fall of Adam Daath Haa Bean tha
Penalty of 8in Etarnal Lift la Only
For Thoaa Who Obay tha Haavanly
Father! Commands.'
Los Angeles, De
cember 10th.
Pastor Russell
preached twice
1 here today. One
of his discourses,
on "The Wrath of
of God," was very
different from
what some of his
bearers would
have expected.
Many of his great
congregation were
, evidently convinc
ed of the truth of his position.
The committee of seven (Including
Pastor RusspIIi appointed by the Inter
national Bible Students Association
to Investigate and report on missions
in forelgu lands, have reached here.
Pastor Russell Is the chairman of
the Committee, which Is to sail from
San Francisco Wednesday next. Great
Interest Is being manifested every
where In this Committee and the
nonest report respecting foreign mis
sions which Its personnel guarantees.
Reports from the missions have been
so ' conflicting that, the missionary
funds have considerably fallen off, and
those who give their dimes, as well as I
those who give thousands, are awaiting
the report with keen Interest hoping,
of course. It may be every way favor
able, yet. portiap fearing-a little- the
reverse of this. Next to the Pastor In
prominence on the Committee Is Gen
eral Hall. T). S. A. Besides, there are
three merchants, one doctor, and Prof.
Robison. Secretary.
A Revolutionary Proposition.
His texts were. "The wrath of God:
Is revealed from heaven against all
unrighteousness;" "for all unrighteous
ness is sin." (Romans 1, 18; I ohn v,
17.) When the Pastor pointed out
that his texts ' declare a present reve
lation 1 of Divine wrath and not a
future one. his audience "sat up and
took notice." The wrath of God i
revealed., the Tastor emphasized, and
we see It all about us.'- Every ceme
tery witnesses to It so does every cof
fin, every hearse, every piece of crepe,
every doctor's sign. Pain, suffering,
speaks of disease; disease of decay;
decay of death working In the human
family and brlnidng all. rich and poor,
bond and free, to the grave, the great
prison house, from which none can es
cape until the resurrection, at the com
ing of Messiah.
Death, the penalty of sin. the mani
festation of God's wrath against sin,
began tb he revealed six thousand
years ago when our first parents dis
obeyed the Divine command. Every
day and every hour since, the world
has been witnessing that God's wrath
Is against It. that the death penalty is
being indicted. As the Scriptures de
clare, the world has been under a
Reign of Sin and Death. However
eympathetic and loving the Heavenly
Father ' bus been. He has allowed
stern Justice to mete out tills penalty
apilnst every member of our race. He
Is thus giving us a great lesson on
the exceeding sinfulness of 'sin Its
pernicious. Injurious Influence and re
sults under Divine Law. He wishes
this lesson to be so thoroughly - Im
pressed upon our nice that when In
due time lie shall bring In re.Het we
will never forget the lesson, ro all
eternity, but will bate sin and dread
It as our worst foe.
We may understand the Apostle to
lay special emphasis upon the word
"all" In our text-"The wrath of God
Is revealed against eU unrighteous
ness" not merely against great sins
and gross violence, but against every
form of slu even the slightest. Thus
the Scripture, declare that God's Law
Is one. and that a violation of It In
one point means the violation of the
eutlre Law. To break one command
would be sin and merit the death pen
alty: and to break all the command
ments would be sin and merit the
death penalty. Eternal life Is provid
ed only for those who are perfect and
who malutaln that perfection and har
mony with God by full obedience to
the Divine Law In every particular.
Do not misunderstand me to teach
that it makes no matter whether one
be a gross sinner or only a minor of
fender. In one way It viU matter, and
In another way it will not. Adam's
transgression was. In some respects, a
minor one, as compared to that of his
on Cain. Adam stole and ate a for
bidden apple, and the penalty was
death the very strongest penalty of
;od'a Law. If he had murdered his
wife the penalty would have been the
fame denth-not eternal torment.
Whatever' Adam's transgression. Di
vine Law would hare hindered him
from ever again coming back to God.
It would have cut him off from ever
lastlbg life, and he would have, need
of a Savior, Just the same for one sin
a for another. Murder would have
been sin. and the disobedient eating of
the apple was sin. aud slu cannot be
condoned by the Divine Law. It re
quired a Redeemer, and to be the Re
deemer He mnst suffer death, the pen
alty that was against Father Adam.
Now notice the case of Cain. Tie
was shapen In Iniquity; In sin did bis
mother conceive him: the condemna
tion upon our first parents extended to
him; be was born with a fallen na
ture, he, was born under the death
sentence. The killing of his brother
Abel did not increase the penalty,
which stood, the same death cutting
off from life. "The wages of sin Is
death"; "The soul that sinneth it shall
die."
Retribution Sowing and Rsaping.
There would have been no Message
sent to mankind exhorting to right
eousness and to turn from sin bad
God not Intended to redeem man by
the death of His Son; and redeeming
them means to give each and all of
the human family another opportuni
ty, another trial, another Judgment
to test their worthiness or unworthi
ness of everlasting life to prove to
what extent their acquaintance with
sin and Its penalty has taught them
the great lesson respecting the sinful
ness and undestrability of sin and the
sureness of its penalty death.
Accordingly, .for four thousand
years God sent no Message to the
world In general until Jesus came
and died, the Just for the unjust, and
thus made possible the release of
mankind from the death sentence a
resurrection from the dead. The only
exception to this rule was flod's Cove
nant with Israel, under which they
tried to gain eternal life by keeping
the Law. and became a great exam
ple of the fallen man's inability and
of the need of the Savior.
Light Shined In Darkness.
For more than eighteen centuries
this Message has been going forth
namely, that God has provided for the
race a redemption from the original
death sentence, and that there Is to
be a "resurrection of the dead, both
of the Just and the unjust." All man
kind who hear this Message are there
by warned that every act of the pres
ent life will have its weight, either
In tho uplifting or In the degrading of
his own character, .and thus bave a
bearing upon' his future Interests. It
Is In view of this future opportunity for
life or death everlasting that our con
duct In the present time has a bearing.
Those who bave the bearing ear and
the eyes of understanding opened, dis
cern, as the Apostle says, that In God s
estimation all unrighteousness Is sin-
however great or small. Those who
now accept God's Invitation are in
formed that If they make a consecra
tion of their lives to follow In Jesus'
footsteps. God will deal with them as
with new creatures, and no longer
Impute to them their share of Adam'a
condemnation, but treat them as hav
ing passed from death condemnation
to life Justification.
Moreover, their flesh will be reck
oned as dead; full arrangements will
be made for the covering over of all
their unintentional' weaknesses, and
their Judgment In God's sight will be
according to their Will or Intention. If
their Intentions , are perfect they will
be counted as perfect through the
merit of their Redeemer and Advo
cate. But St. Paul admonishes the
Church. Baying, "If we sin wilfully,
after that we have received a knowl
edge of the truth," "and hove tasted
of the good Word of God and the
powers of the Age to come and have
been made partakers of the Holy
Spirit. It Is Impossible to renew us
again to repentance" uiJfulne In
the matter would seal our case, how
ever small the transgression Just as
It sealed Adam's fate with his minor
transgression.
But let us not forget that the Apos
tle limits this possibility of sln-the
sin unto death to the Church to the
Spirit begotten ones. These, receiving
their share of the great Atonement
sacrifice of Jesus, and falling to con
form to the Divine requirement, come
under the Divine penalty a second
time, and theirs will be the Second
Death, from: which there will be no
resurrection, no recovery. Compare
Hebrews vl. 4-6 and x. 20-31.
Coming Events Cast Shadows Before.
It should be clear to ua then that. In
harmony with our texCi'the' whole
world Is now under the wrath of God,
which came upon the race through the
disobedience of our first parents; and
the only Ones who have escaped from
that wrath and gotten back Into bar
niony with God are the saintly few, be
gotteu of the Holy Spirit. The escape
of these from Divine wrath or ' the
death sentence la not actual, but by
faith. They reckon themselves as hav
ing passed "from death unto life."
As for the' remainder of the world,
they are not thus reckoued, for tliey
are yet In their slus. still children of
wrath and experiencing the penalty of
sin. The world will continue under
these conditions until the completion
of tho election of the Church, and then
the Redeemer, ' who now occupies the
position of Advocate toward the
Church, will assume a new Office; He.
with Ills Church associated with Him,
will become the great Mediator be
tween God and men. lie will mediate
for Israel and for all the families of
the earth appropriating the merit of
Hla sacrifice for the slus of the whole
world, even as In the beginning of this
Age He imputed this merit to the
Church for the covering of her sins.
Thenceforth, as soon as the. great
Illgb Priest shall have sealed that New
Covenant for tbe world, and the Fath
er shall have accepted It. the sins of
the world will be cancelled. That is
to say. death, the wrath of God re
vealed against all unrighteousness for
six thousand years, will Immediately
be, cancelled as .respects all who will
then avail themselves of the privilege
and enter Into tbe New Covenant re
lationship. '' The glorious Mediator of
that New Covenant will bind Satan for
a thousand .rears and scatter all the
Ignorance and superstition which now
darken tbe human mind and cause
misapprehensions of the Divine Word
and character. Simultaneously He will
let loose the blessed influences of truth
and enlightenment and the "whole
earth shall be filled with the light of
the knowledge of the glory of God."
Thenceforth tbe wrata .of God will
no longer be revealed against any on
account of Adam's transgression. It
will no longer be necessary to be sick
or In pain, or dying. On the contrary,
all may be making good, rapid prog
ress up, up. up out of weakness and
dying conditions, back toward the full
perfection of hnman nature which
Adam bad before be sinned, when be
was In the Image of his Creator.
There will still be the marks of the
wrath upon mankind, the weakness
and Imperfections of the human flesh.
These marks will not be fully blotted
out until toward the close of tbe thou
sand years of Messiah's reign. This
agrees fully with St. Peters words,
"That your, sins may be blotted out
when times of refreshing shall come
from the presence of the Lord." lActs
111, 19.) It Is therefore one thing to
bave our sins forgiven and to realize
that God Is no longer angry with us
but reconciled, and It Is quite another
thing to know our sins are blotted out.
. The sins of the Church are forgiven
the moment we are accepted of God
through Christ and made partakers of
the Holy Spirit and are styled chil
dren of God and heirs. But the
marks, the blemishes of sin. continue
with us as long as we have our pres
ent, imperfect bodies. This to the
Church will mean that the blotting
out of their sins will be In death, he-
cause the Church will be awakened In
the resurrection perfect, "spotless."
without blame." "lrreprovable." The
Apostle describes this resurrection as
the Chief Resurrection, saying. "It Is
sown In weakness. It Is raised in pow
er; It Is sown an animal body. It Is
raised a spiritual body." I Corinthians
xv, 44; Rev. xx. 6.
"The Wrath to Coma."
If we have seen what has constitut
ed the Divine wrath as It has been re
vealed for six thousand years, we will
be the better prepared to understand
what to look for In resjiect to any
future manifestations of Divine wrath
"wrath to come." We are to clearly
distinguish between the wrath of a
good man and the wrath of a bad
man, and bow these would manifest
themselves; and. similarly, we should
be able to discern between the wrath
of God and tbe wrath -of the devil.
Tbe wrath of God, as exhibited to us
for six thousand years on the pages
of history, has' been a, Just dealing
the abandonment to destruction of
those who are not worthy of everlast
ing life, by reason of disobedience to
Divine Law.
The redemption accomplished for
these through the death of Jesus will
eventually be gloriously worked out.
and give to every man a full oppor
tunity of recovery, harmony with God
and everlasting life. The reason why
God makes this provision for redemp
tion Is because only one man sinned,
wilfully and Intelligently. All the re
mainder of his children were "born In
sin" and under the death sentence.
The redemption therefore is In order
that every Individual may have nn
opportunity for reaching a decision as
to obedience or dlsobedleuce.
The lesson of sin and death is tnneht
first, in the few years of the preseut
life, and the marks of sin will go
over till the next Age. Those marks
will be deepened In proportion ns any
In the present life live below the
plnne of their knowledge of the Di
vine standard and In wilful opposition
thereto. While being Instructed re
specting the other side of the ques
tionthe Divine requirements and the
blessings attending them, mankind will
be given an individual trial or test, ro
demonstrate whether the great lesson
has been rightly learned. The willing
and obedient will get ' the reward of
eternal life, the unwilling and dlHobe
dient will receive tbe final penalty, the
Second Death. It will be final In that
God will make no provision for rescue
from thnt Second Death, It will be
"aTprtastliig destruction." Tbees. I.B.
As the wrath of the present time Is
the Divine death seutence 'upon the
race, so "the wrath to come" will .be'
the "second death sentence, which
will fall upoh all who ' sin wilfully,
after they have come to a knowledge
of the truth. With this "wrath to
come," in this complete sense, may
be Included Inferior manifestations of
Divine wrath; for lustunce. such ns
came upon the Jews in the end of
their Age destroying them ns a na
tionand such as Is to come npon
Christendom lu the end of this Age
Both of these are styled "days of
wrath." "days of vengeance." The Dl
vlue vengeance which overthrew the
Jewish polity took cognisance of the
fact that as a nation they had en
joyed great privileges for centuries.
It took note of the fact that they
had not lived up to their light and
privileges and were therefore deserv
ing of a corresponding national rbas
tlsement. which was ndmlnistered to
them. Of that time our Lord declares,
"These be the days of vengeance, that
pll things written in the Law and In
the rrophets concerning them should
be fulfilled." Justice owed them those
experiences, and tbe account lias been
squared.
In the end of this Age the "wroth"
Will come upon Christendom, because
Christendom In geuernl has not ap
preciated and used, as It might have
done, the wouderful privileges, bless
ings and enlightenments showered
upon her. She has the more responsi
bility because of her great light and
privileges, and so much the more will
be the claim of Divine Justice against
her, which will be settled In the great
"time of trouble" with which thin Age
will end. (Daniel sit, 1.)
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