DAILI CAFHAL JOUBJIAL, SALEM, OltEGOS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. 1912.
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Pastor Russell's Sermon
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DIVINE REWARDS
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Parable cf tiie Sheep and Goats
Clearly Explained,
GOO'S MESSAGE TO MANKIND,
Pastor Russsll Corraota Some Mialn
tarpratationa of Holy Writ Etarnal
(Jfe la Gi't t God and tha Blow
ing Will Not Ba Confarrad on tha
Wilfully Wickad -The Church Will
Sit With tha Massiah Whan tha
World la Judgad.
Columbus, Ohio,
Sept 8. Pastor
Russell's text here
todny wns, "These
shall go awny luto
everlasting pun
ishment, but the
righteous into Ufa
eternal." Mat
thew xxv, 48. lie
snld:
We have been
In all sorts of con
fusion respecting
the future, be-
rmmn we have not studied tho Bible'
testimony critically. For thirteen cen
liirles thu Bible was almost unknown
Th l.lshoiw of the Church were erro
neously supposed to be successors of
AiwiutinH nnd to sneiik with tue
Divine liimilrntlon nnd authority
irintiiur wns. not vet Invented and
rtliicutloti wns conllned to a wealthy
iw No wonder the Inspired Mes
aage was lost In mass of human
tradition, much of which was devilish
iiimsense! We huve been gradually
'progressing from darkness to light,
though fettered by hobgoblin figures
nrwl .iuh other's threats and perver
fiinns of the Divine Message. It is
n r to snv that the Itlble is being
mom erliioallv studied today by ear
nost Christians of all denominations
than It ever was before. Tho result
at this study, and Ihe advantage! of
nnr tlnin. are manifesting themselves,
Divine harmonics arc filling beadB and
hearts once distracted by clashing
creeds. Take our
Text as an Illustration.
Once blltidlv we rend this Pnrable of
the Pheep and (Joats and applied It to
rewards and punishments as a result
of thhiL-s done in the present Age
Kmv vi see that lis proper application
hplnntM altiisether to the nest Age of
Messiah's Kingdom. It distinctly
tales this It Is Introduced thus:
whon i Knu of Mail shall come 111
Ills irldrv. and all the holy angels with
lllni. iArn ahull lie sit upon thoThrono
of Ills glory; and befnre IIIlii shall lie
ir.it h.'ivd all nation, and lie shall Sep
nnte Ihrm one from another as the
hepherd dlvldeth the sheep from the
coals."
The Church Is not Included In this
r,i It)., ii t II II tt relates, as we see, to
the world-"(l nations." Other Scrip
lurvs show us that when the nations
Khali thus iiiiilei-go their trial for life
or death everlasting Mo Cliurvh will be
Kloriiled As the llilde of Christ the
shall stt iriM Mini in Vis Throne and be
la ted In Ills work of Judging tho
world. Note how clearly St. l'aul ex
iini.tu. nils stivlne. "Know yo not
that the saints shall Judge the world?"
a tvrlnihlnn vl. 2.1 Thus It Is the
uwM's .ludguient Iay that ho else
where mentions, saying, "Cod hath ap
ixiluted a Day tfuturo-n thousand
ve.ir Dav-the Day of Christ), In tho
which He will Judge tlio world In
righteousness by (hat Man whom Ho
hath oiilulned."-Ai'ts xvll, 31.
A right understanding of the doc
trine of Klectlon helps us gradually to
n nroncr view of the Divine Program,
The Church Is being selected out of
the world according to faithfulness
nnd character-development. In prepara
lion for groat service for the non-elect
The Mpsslnnle Kingdom, with Christ
nnd the Church In control as tho Hoyal
I'rlesthood. Is npiwlnled for tho very
purost of blessing the non-elect
world-'all nations." For a thousand
years tho work of bringing nil to a
knowledge of Hie Truth will progress.
To (Ills end Satan will lie l)ound at (he
terv beginning of the thousand years
i mi i the light of the knowledge of (he
eloi-v of Cod will till (ho whole earth
.is i hi waters cover the great deep
With nil thus brought to a clear com
urelienslnn of righteousness each will
tn on, trial, and will either come Into
hartmmv with the Kingdom or remain
mi nllen and lover of sin. All the lat
er are III the parable classed as goats
. wavward ones -and will thus placo
-themselves at tho left hand of the
-K-inif-lii Ills disfavor. On the con-
irnrv. all who learn the ways of the
i. in! and come into accord therewith
nw farm holicallv styled "slieop" In tin
.vnifililo and by tlielr conduct will
i.ii. nim tlulr n'aces at the
King's right band, or place of favor.
, Shaao Goats Fire.
The Parable shows the conclusion
tha world's Judgment.' All Will
tlllran their Dlnces, either
J.IW
as sheep or as goats-cither In the
rm-.ir or In Ills disfavor. The
nhoep class will then hear His "Well
done." "Come, yo blessed of My Fa
ther," Inherit the Kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of tha
vorlil"-from the Bine the world wa
ataWlshed.-Mtthew nv, 21, 23. U.
Tha world 'waa made for mankind.
Adam being lt representative was tho
King of earth. lie lost Ma dominion
hn ha hrnl his relationship to bis
Creator and luil his right to eternal life i
by his disobedience. The sheep class
will represent all of Adams race
brought back to perfection by the proc
esses of lte.stltutlon during Messiah'!
reign. (Acta 111, 19-21.) To them will
come the dominion which Adam lost
and which Jesus redeemed at Calvary
and which He will gift to the worthy
ones at the conclusion of His tnou-
sand-ycar reign. Next, the fate of the
goat class Is stated not in literal lan
guage, but symbolically. Indeed, the
Prophet and the Apostle declared or
Jesus thut "He opened His moutb in
pnrablcs and that "without a para
ble spake He not unto the people.
In other words, everything that Jesns
said to tho people in general was fig
urative, in order that only those or
right condition of heart might be able
to understand Illin.
The message of the great King to the
goat class will be, "Depart from Me.
ye cursed. Into everlasting fire pre
pared for the Devil and bis angels."
(Matthew xxv. iU We might as well
Insist that the parable applies to literal
goats as to clnlm that this penalty is
lltornl fire. All who have studied tho
.nhinft will freelv admit that fire
itirniichout the Bible is used figurative
ly tn rpnri'spnt destruction. Fire Is
nnt iiK.d as a svnihol for Adamic death,
the sentence upon all of the race, be
cause God from the beginning purposed
the setting aside of that sentence
through the redemptive work of Jesus;
hence Adamic death Is not destruc
tion, but In tho Rible is styled, sym
hniirnllv. "falling asleep," and resur
roMirm la stvlfd "awakening from
sleen."
Rut when picturing the Second
nonth tlm Rible uses strong terms,
representing destruction In the fullest
unit most obso ute sense. Mam me
words used: "Perish," "Second Death,
Kii-rinittlnn Destruction." We even
nvorlnnked the nhiln explanation which
Toana irnvn us when He snld. "tne lane
of Ore. which Is the Second Death
Mlnvnlntlnn TT. 14.1 SL Peter. BUID
minr up tho fate of the Incorrigibly
irkad. snvs that tbev shall be destroy
ed like natural brute beasts. (II Peter
ii mi ftniv a htirrnhnn nf eternal tor
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mcnt hundreds of years old, could have
so alarmed us that we failed to note
tlioso matters lonit ago.
Mnnnwhiie. alas, while many of the
learned have abandoned the doctrine of
eternal torment, they have practically
abandoned everything else in the tiime
because they supposed the Bible to
toorh this Inconsistency. Let US not
,iimc ihom Into "n gher criticism
infidelity and total rejection of the in-
Bplratlon of God's Word, hut let us
Rirlntiiro with Scripture and
use our God-given reason within the
boundaries of God'a Message. 80 doing
wn are soelne more and more tho glor
ious perfection of our Fntlier's charac
ter and of His Inspired Word.
Raasonina by Contraat
Rnmn shallow thinkers have been
thrown off the track of religious inves
tlgatlon, reasoning thnt If there is a
heaven, there must of necessity be, a
h..ll of torment. But the contrast
which lh 7?iMe establishes in respect
to tho sinner nnd the saint Is Ife and
ifcnn nnd nnt hcarcn and hell. As a
mnilnr of fact the Bible nowhere
promises heaven to any except tho
Church nf tho First-borns, who are
now being called out of tho world for
association with Messiah In His King
dom The world of mankind never
lost heaven and Is nowhere promised
heaven
Adam's loss was an earthly Kden
human perfection. Jesus declares that
Ho "came to seek and lo .we that
which wns Inst." The work of Ills
KhiL-ilom for a thousand years will be
th-bringing of earth (o a Paradise
condition. And lie will restore all tho
willing and obedient of mankind to all
that irm lost, bringing (hem back
annln to tho image and likeness of
God In tho llcsh. Adam possessed
those nnalltles when ho was declared
by his Creator "very good." nnd was
plvin the dominion of earth
When Adam was placed on trial in
Eden ho was endowed with perfection
of life and organism as a man. t.ott
ii 1,1 not nun word to him nlxiut heaven
or hell, but did set before him life ami
death. If he would be obedient ho
should be privileged to maintain his
life and ail his perfections and bless
ings everlastingly. If ho would reliol
iralnat his Creator's laws and ho dls
obedient thereto he should dlo-bo cut
off from life. Ho was dlsoKdlent, and
was expelled from Kden Into the ac
cursed, or unfit earth, where he died a
slow dentil, battling with thorns nnd
thistles. This has been (ho fate of his
entire race-death-mental, moral and
physical decay to completion.
Life or DsathBlatsing or Cursing."
Addressing the people of old (hrongll
tho Prophet God declares, "I have set
beforo you life and death, blessing and
cursing-choose lift thnt ye may live
(Deuteronomy xxx, 10.1 Tho hope be
fore tho Israelites was of a resurrec-
tlon-a "better resurrection" to the
faithful. (Hebrew! xl, 33.) Not a word
was said to them In all the four thou
and rears down to Jesus' day resiHH-t
lug eternal tounont, or any hope of life
In nnv condition except In harmony
with God
When telling the object of Jesns
coming Into the world, nnd describing
nmn a redemption from the penalty of
death, we read, "God so loved the
world that lie gave His Only Begotten
Ron. thnt whosoever belleveth In Hint
might not perish, but bare everlasting
nr.." Mohn 111. 10.1 What right had
we or anybody to twist the word twrlsh.
which means dmlnietioH, to make it
mean everlasting life in torture? Such
perversion! and wresting of the Scrlp
M,r have brought treat discredit upon
our God and great confusion Into the
nilnda of IU! people. We should not!
with emphasis the coulrast bo force
fully stated In this most precious icxi
nnt noHsh. hut have everlasting life."
Certainly whoever gets the everlasting
life will not perish; whoever aoes noi
get It will perish. How plain God'i
Word!
Vntica again the various terms used
in nmnivl to tlm Savior and His work.
The word Savior signifies Llfe-Glver.
We would have seen the beauty or wis
If we had not been befogged a re
spects the penalty, death. Wboer
sees that " the wages of sin is acatn
must tierforce see that the great need
of the world Is a L!fe-Glver-to rescue
them from the death penalty by a res
urrection. Again, our Lord represents
Himself as the Great Physician wbo is
able not only to rescue from tho tomb,
but to heal all diseases, all the Im
perfections which come to mnnklnd as
Incidentals of the death penalty.
Hear agnln Jesus' words, "ne that
hath tho Son hath Ke: he that hath
not the Son shall not tee life, but the
wrath of God (as expressed in the
death penalty) abideth on hlra" to him
It hecomea tho Second Death. This ex-
nlnlna also the meaning of Jesus'
words, "Ye will not come unto Me that
ye may have life." And again, "I am
romo that thev might have life, and
hat thev might have U more abun
dantly." What can be plainer than
that "The wages of sin Is death, but
tho gift of God Is eternal life, through
Jesus Christ our Lord?" Romans
vl, 23.
"Into Evsrlasting Punlshmsnt."
We are asked. Does not the word
eeerlastlna. as applied to the goat class
signify aa long a period as the same
word applied to the sheep class? We
renlv. Most assuredly so. The punish
nient of sin is to be everlasting, and
the reward of righteousness Is to be
everlasting. There is no question on
this point The nuestlon Is, Vt hat t
the punishment for sin? The thought
less at once will say, Hre. torment
smoke, blazes, devils with horns and
tails and pitchforks, a la Danle's In
tern n.
But wn ask for a Scriptural answer
What does tha Bible Bay Js the punish
ment for sin? Nothing like Dante's
answer is to bo found In the Bible
however much we might Imagine that
It was printed In every page and that
we hnve read it Bcores or times, i ne
Bible Is most explicit. It declares,
"The wages of sin is death;" "All the
wicked will God destroy;" "The soul
that slnneth. It shall die;" "punished
with everlnstlng destruction." These
abundant and redundant Scriptural
testimonies on the subject should set
tie the matter of future punishment to
very reasonable mind especially when
there Is not a Scripture to the con
trary, either In the Old or In the New
Testament.
T dn Indeed remember certnln of on
T.ord's narahles which, taken literally
might mean tho literal cutting off of
a hand or foot, the literal plucking out
of the eye, the biting worms possessed
of Immortality, and literal blazes un
niieiii'hablo. These we hnve already
discussed and may yet. agnln refer to,
but not now. Wo content ourselves
with the generally accepted and ren
amiable proposition that parables are
never to be accepted ns teaching doc
trines, but at very most as Illustrating
them.
Tho Blblo contains not a sUiglo sug
gestlon of eternal torture ns a penalty
for sin. It tells of no place beyond
tho bounds of time and space whero
Dante's poem will find Its fulfilment.
It does toll of a Cod. of Infinite Justice.
Wisdom, Love and Power, whose de
cree Is that eventually nil the wicked
shall be destroyed; that eventually
there will not bo one Inharmonious
note throughout (lie VnlreiTe to mar
tho glorious harmony and perfection;
that every knee shall bow and pveVy
tongue confess to the. glory of God;
thnt there shall be no more dying, cry
ing, sighing; that God's will shall bo
done on earth even as It Is done In
heaven; that eventually, "Every crea
ture In heaven and In earth and under
the earth shall le heard saying. Praise.
glory, dominion and might be unto
Him that sltteth upon the Throne and ;
unto tho Lamb forever."
Analysing It Carefully. i
Let ns look Btlll more deeply Into
our text: Let us noto this word pun-1
Ishment In the Greek. It Is loIut. ,
Its usage In tho Greek classics signt-,
Am, to prune, to cut off. A secondary j
mennlng of the word Is, to restrain. ,
Death Is a most effectual restraint.
Tho punishment which God has pro-j
vlded for sinners is that they sunn oe ;
cut off from life, cut off from all dm ,
blessed privileges which God provided,
not for them, not for rebels, but for
sons In fellowship with Himself.
The punishment against Father
Adam was cutting off from Eden and
its blessings, from being the king or
nrth. from fellowship with His Cre
ator, from being ihe son of God, from
enjoying everlasting life. All this ou
ting off was Included In his deatn sen
tence. Jesus came that Adam and his
race might not everlastingly porlsh
that thev might be rescued from the
power of (be grave by a resurrection
of the dead, that all might thm.
through Hlai come to n full oppor
tunity :'or life everlasting. Neverthe
less the Divine Law still stands. 1 ne
wages of slu still Is death. Therefore
whoever shall receive the grace of God
In vain, whoever shall sin wilfully, In
tentlonally. after full enlightenment
shall again be cut off-'.bis time to nr
ish, because "Christ dlctb no more"
no more shall death have dominion over
Him. Tha opportunity which III.-
Kingdom shall grant for every crea
ture, for every memlier of Adam's race,
ro return to Divine fellowship and ever
lasting life, will be so complete as to
need no repetition. Those who die the
ftoonnd Death will ba without a reme
dy, will pexlah In everlastlnt destruc
tion.
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