"The Path of the Just is as the Shining Light,
That Shineth More and More
Unto the Perfect Day."
SERIES VI
"Henceforth Know We no Man After the Flesh; Yea, Though We Have Known Christ After the Flesh, Yet Now Henceforth Know We Him [So] No More. Therefore, if Any Man be in Christ He is a New Creature; Old Things are Passed Away; Behold, All Things are Become New."—2 Cor. 5:16, 17
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PAUL S. L. JOHNSON
PHILADELPHIA, PA., U. S. A.
1937
IN THE INTEREST OF
HIS CONSECRATED SAINTS,
WAITING FOR THE ADOPTION,
— AND OF —
"ALL THAT IN EVERY PLACE CALL UPON THE LORD,"
"THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH,"
— AND OF —
THE GROANING CREATION, TRAVAILING AND WAITING FOR
THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD,
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"To make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery which from the
beginning of the world hath been hid in God," "Wherein He hath
abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having
made known unto us the mystery of His will, accord-
ing to His good pleasure which He hath pur-
posed in Himself; that in the dispensation
of the fulness of the times He
might gather together in one
all things, under
Christ."
Eph. 3:4, 5, 9; 1:8–10.
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COPYRIGHT 1937
BY PAUL S. L. JOHNSON
PREFACE.
WITH THIS volume the Editor and Publisher has completed his work of restoring to the Church the Studies In The Scriptures as the series was completed by our Pastor, the seventh volume published under that name not being a pen product of his, though it contains a large number of quotations from his writings. It is with special joy that the Editor and Publisher by Divine providence can restore this book to God's people, especially to God's Priesthood. Due to its hand-set type being in places too closely set to be reproduced in the same space by machine-set type, as in the case of the other volumes of this series, we had to delete here and there words whose omission would not materially affect the sense, and had to substitute shorter for longer synonymous words.
We deeply regret the necessity for so doing, but it had to be done to retain the same paging and to keep the same number of lines to the page, a thing needed if a pocket-sized edition is to appear, and if references to its paging, e.g., in the comments, would match. To illustrate: The pages of the hand-set editions of Vols. I to IV had 34 lines. In one case these in machine-set type grew into 39 lines and in not a few cases into 38 lines in Vol. I. These after being set up had to be brought down to 34 lines. To save expense we made our deletions and substitutions in the rest of the volumes before they were set up for this edition; and it being a new thing for us, our inexperience led us to delete and substitute more in Vol. II than was later found to have been absolutely necessary. In the rest of the volumes our experience with Vol. II enabled us to reduce our deletions and substitutions to a minimum. Considerations of economy in time and money forbade our using hand-set type, which was the only type in use when the volumes were originally published. We trust that this unavoidable feature of our work will not be too painful to our readers, as it certainly has been very painful to us. We are especially glad that Vol. VI needed but little of such deletions and substitutions, because our Pastor assured us that he considered it his ablest pen product.
We believe that this edition of Vol. VI will be found especially helpful because of the large Appendix added to it. Our notes are brief, and, generally speaking, bring up the three matters therein touched to our Pastor's mature position thereon. The topical and textual indices to the entire series added to
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this volume will greatly enhance the value of the entire work to its users—a fact that justifies the work and expense required therefore. Accordingly we send this book and its companions forth with the well-grounded hope that they will prove through their Appendices of greater usefulness to their users than if these had not been added. Dear brethren, let us show our gratitude and appreciation for these volumes by a faithful study, spread and practice of the teachings therein contained, and let us all heartily join therein and in prayer therefore with the Editor and Publisher.
PAUL S. L. JOHNSON.
Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A., Nov. 6, 1936.
THE AUTHOR'S FOREWORD.
MUCH OF THE WORK of every servant of God is done in the dark—that is to say, like the weaver of a beautiful carpet we stand at the back seeing little of the results of our labors, and trusting that in the Lord's due time we shall hear His "Well Done" and see some fruitage. "I shall be satisfied when I awake in Thy likeness."
Nevertheless, the Lord has very graciously given us encouragement in respect to the influence of this Volume in various parts of the world in the hearts of God's people. The pleasure has been ours of hearing from many respecting the blessings received from a better understanding of the justification, the sanctification, and the deliverance, promised to the Church in God's Word. Many others have told us of the blessings received from the Scriptural advice given to husbands and wives, parents and children, in respect to the ways of peace, righteousness and growth in grace. Many also have informed us of great blessings and aid in respect to the duties, privileges and obligations of Elders and Deacons, and the Scriptural order in the Ecclesia. We rejoice in these things and trust that the good work will go on under Divine guidance to the praise of our Lord and for the comfort and edification of His people.
We call attention to the fact that since this Volume was written the light has grown still clearer respecting God's great Covenants. We now see that the Law Covenant was a foreshadowing of the New (Law) Covenant, which is about to be established at the Second Coming of Jesus, by the great Mediator, Jesus the Head and the Church His Body—the antitype of Moses, who wrote: "A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you from amongst your brethren, like unto me." Moses was merely the type of this greater Prophet, and the Law Covenant which Moses mediated was merely a type or foreshadowing of the greater Law Covenant of the Millennial Age.
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God raised up Jesus the Head of this great Mediator first, when He raised Him from the dead. Since that time, He is raising up the Church as a New Creation; and when all the brethren of the Body of Christ shall have been gathered from the world through a knowledge of the Truth and sanctified by the Holy Spirit and been found worthy by faithfulness unto death, and shall have been raised up by the power of God from the earthly conditions to the Heavenly conditions as the Body of Christ, the great antitypical Melchizedek will be complete, a Priest upon His Throne—the great Mediator of the New Covenant will be enthroned in Divine power. Then the New Covenant will go into effect, as God said: "Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a New Covenant with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah."
The antitypical Mediator, after paying over to Divine Justice fully and forever the Ransom-price for Adam and his race, will assume full control, and under that New Covenant, thus sealed, will begin the work of blessing and restoring all the willing and obedient of Adam's race. All who will come into harmony with the Lord will be counted as part of the earthly seed of Abraham, until finally, by the end of the Millennium, all exercising faith and obedience will be known to the Lord as the seed of Abraham. "In becoming that seed, shall all the families of the earth bless themselves."
Inadvertently, the name New Covenant, which belongs to God's dealings with the world during the Millennium, has been used in respect to the Covenant which is now in operation during this Gospel Age with the Church. Our Covenant, of course, is a new covenant in the sense that it is different from the Jewish Covenant of Mt. Sinai, but it is not THE New Covenant. The Church's Covenant is referred to in the Bible as a "Covenant by Sacrifice." The keeping of these matters in mind will be of benefit to the readers of this Volume. All of these Covenants stand related to each other. All of them were represented and typified in Abraham and the Covenant which God made with him. The Church is styled Abraham's Spiritual Seed and likened to the stars of Heaven. The world of mankind as they come into harmony with God will become Abraham's earthly seed—as the sands of the seashore. The Spiritual will be the channel of blessing for the natural seed.
The subject of Justification has not changed, but it has expanded and clarified. If writing this Volume today, the author would make some slight variations of language, but without any real change as respects the meaning and application of the word Justification.
We now see that a justification to life is one thing, and a justification to more or less of friendship with God is another. Abraham, for instance, and the faithful before Pentecost, were justified to friendship with God and to have more or less communication with Him by prayer, etc.; but they could not
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have full justification until the Blood of Atonement had been shed, and until it had been presented to and accepted by Divine Justice—the Father. Just so the sinner today approaching God might be said to be in the way of justification—he would have more of God's favor than if he faced toward sin.
We once spoke of a sinner in this condition as being justified, because he believed in Jesus as his Redeemer and was reaching forward to a full consecration of himself. Now we see that while the sinner's attitude, like that of the Ancient Worthies, might be styled "tentative justification," it could not reach the condition of a full, complete justification from sin until the sinner had fully presented himself in consecration to our great High Priest, Jesus, and had been accepted of Him in the name of the Father. Then, under the covering of the imputed merit of Christ's sacrifice, the sinner would be acceptable to the Father under Christ's Robe and begotten of the Holy Spirit.
Fortunate it is for the masses who have heard of Jesus and partially believed, that their standing with the Lord is not that of full justification, that He refuses fully to justify any until they have become by covenant His disciples, His footstep followers. This is because justification can come only once to each individual, and if he should misuse that justification and fail to get eternal life, he would be in a worse state than if he had never been justified. If not justified and spirit-begotten in the present time, he is not of the Church, but will have a share in the merit of Christ's sacrifice and in the justification which His kingdom will offer to every member of the human family—aside from the Church—the Church receiving that better thing which God hath in reservation for them that love Him—glory, honor, immortality, the Divine nature.
To many it would not seem worth while to mention these fine distinctions upon the subject of justification; and yet, having received this clearer appreciation of the Divine Plan, we have pleasure in passing it on to all who hunger and thirst after righteousness—to all Bible students everywhere.
That the Lord may continue to bless this Volume to the good of His people, is the prayer of the author.
Your servant in the Lord,
CHARLES T. RUSSELL.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 1, 1916.
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CONTENTS.
STUDY I.
"IN THE BEGINNING."
VARIOUS BEGINNINGS. THE EARTH WAS. A CREATIVE WEEK FOR ITS ORDERING. THE LENGTH OF THE EPOCH-DAYS. PROF. DANA'S ADMISSION OF UNWARRANTED SPECULATIONS BY SCIENTISTS. PERSISTENCY OF SPECIES REFUTES EVOLUTION THEORY. MR. DARWIN'S PIGEONS. A THEORY OF COSMOGONY. LOYAL TESTIMONIES OF PROFS. SILLIMAN AND DANA. THE FIRST CREATIVE EPOCH-DAY. THE SECOND DITTO. THE THIRD DITTO. THE FOURTH DITTO. THE FIFTH DITTO. THE SIXTH DITTO. MAN, THE LORD OF EARTH, CREATED IN THE DAWNING OF THE SEVENTH EPOCH. SUMMARY OF "MEETING PLACE OF GEOLOGY AND HISTORY," BY SIR J. W. DAWSON, LL.D., F.R.S. THE SEVENTH EPOCH-DAY OF THE CREATIVE WEEK. ITS LENGTH. ITS REST. ITS OBJECT AND RESULT. THE GRAND JUBILEE, CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL, DUE AT ITS CLOSE....17
STUDY II.
THE NEW CREATION.
THE NEW CREATION SEPARATE AND DISTINCT FROM ALL OTHERS.WHY CHOSEN FROM AMONGST THE HUMAN CREATION RATHER THAN FROM OTHERS. THE OBJECT OF ITS ELECTION. PRESENT AND FUTURE MISSIONS. HOW BEGOTTEN AND BORN TO THE NEW NATURE. THE CLOSE RELATIONSHIP OF ALL ITS MEMBERS WITH EACH OTHER AND WITH THEIR CAPTAIN, HEAD AND BRIDEGROOM. DEVELOPMENT AND TESTS OF MEMBERSHIP. THE SIXTH, OR SPIRITUAL, SENSE OF THE NEW CREATION FOR THE DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITUAL THINGS. BY WHAT NAME SHOULD THE NEW CREATION BE KNOWN, IN ORDER TO BE LOYAL TO THE HEAD AND TO SEPARATE FROM NONE OF THE BRETHREN?....59
STUDY III.
THE CALL OF THE NEW CREATION.
NONE BUT THE "CALLED" ELIGIBLE. WHEN THIS "GREAT SALVATION" CALL BEGAN. A CALL TO REPENTANCE NOT A CALL TO THE DIVINE NATURE. THE JEWISH CALL. THE GOSPEL CALL. WHY NOT MANY "GREAT," "WISE" OR "MIGHTY" ARE CALLED. EXALTATION THE PREMIUM UPON TRUE HUMILITY. CHARACTER A CONDITION OF THE CALL. WORLD DURING MILLENNIUM NOT TO BE CALLED, BUT COMMANDED. TIME OF GOSPEL CALL LIMITED. THE NEW CREATION CALLED OR
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DRAWN BY THE FATHER. CHRIST OUR WISDOM. CHRIST OUR JUSTIFICATION. ACTUAL AND RECKONED JUSTIFICATION DIFFERENTIATED. DOES THE "NEW CREATION" NEED JUSTIFICATION? THE GROUND OF JUSTIFICATION. JUSTIFICATION OF THE ANCIENT WORTHIES DIFFERENT FROM OURS. MILLENNIAL AGE JUSTIFICATION. CHRIST MADE UNTO US SANCTIFICATION. SANCTIFICATION DURING MILLENNIAL AGE. TWO DISTINCT CONSECRATIONS IN LEVITICAL TYPES. NEITHER HAD INHERITANCE IN THE LAND. THE GREAT COMPANY. SANCTIFICATION OF TWO PARTS. MAN'S PART. GOD'S PART. EXPERIENCES VARY WITH TEMPERAMENTS, SANCTIFICATION NOT PERFECTION NOR EMOTION. "WHO HEALETH ALL THY DISEASES." NECESSITY OF THE THRONE OF GRACE. HOW JUSTIFICATION MERGES INTO SANCTIFICATION. CONSECRATION SINCE CLOSE OF THE "HIGH CALLING." THE CHURCH'S SALVATION OR DELIVERANCE....85
STUDY IV.
THE NEW CREATION PREDESTINATED.
GENERAL VIEW OF ELECTION. THE CORRECT THOUGHT. NO INJURY TO THE NON-ELECT. DISTINCTION BETWEEN "ELECT" AND "VERY ELECT." "THERE IS A SIN UNTO DEATH." "A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD." THE GREAT COMPANY. THEIR ROBES WASHED WHITE IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. THE ELECT VINE AND ITS BRANCHES. VARIOUS ELECTIONS IN THE PAST. NONE OF THESE WERE ETERNAL. JACOB AND ESAU TYPES. "JACOB HAVE I LOVED." "ESAU HAVE I HATED." PHARAOH. "EVEN FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE HAVE I RAISED THEE UP." GOD NEVER COERCES THE WILL. PHARAOH NO EXCEPTION TO THIS RULE. "GOD HARDENED PHARAOH'S HEART." THE NATION OF ISRAEL ELECTED. "WHAT ADVANTAGE, THEN, HATH THE JEW?MUCH EVERY WAY." THE ELECT "NEW CREATION." SIGNIFICANCE OF "GRACE." ILLUSTRATION OF "THE KING'S OWN." PREDESTINATED "TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON." "CALLED ONES ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE." QUALIFICATIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF CALLED ONES. "IF GOD BE FOR US." PARAPHRASE OF THE APOSTLE'S ARGUMENT. MAKING OUR CALLING AND ELECTION SURE. THE RACE-COURSE. "I PRESS DOWN UPON THE MARK." "KNOWING YOUR ELECTION OF GOD."....163
STUDY V.
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE NEW CREATION.
THE "LIVING STONES" FOR THE SPIRITUAL TEMPLE. THE NOMINAL VS. THE REAL NEW CREATION. THE "MYSTERY OF GOD" AND THE "MYSTERY OF INIQUITY." GREAT ANTICHRIST'S ORGANIZATION. THE SCRIPTURES TRUSTWORTHY. FREEDOM PERMITTED TO THE WORLD AND TO CHURCHIANITY. ORDER OUT OF CONFUSION. "IN DUE TIME." "THE ENDS OF THE AGES." THE VINE OF THE FATHER'S PLANTING. "THE TWELVE APOSTLES OF THE LAMB." PAUL THE SUCCESSOR OF JUDAS.
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NUMBER OF APOSTLES LIMITED TO TWELVE. THE APOSTOLIC COMMISSION. THE APOSTLES' STRONG CHARACTERS. THE APOSTLE PAUL "NOT ONE WHIT BEHIND" THE OTHER APOSTLES. THE INSPIRATION OF THE TWELVE. DIVINE SUPERVISION OF THE APOSTLES' WRITINGS. "UPON THIS ROCK WILL I BUILD MY CHURCH." HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS. KEYS OF AUTHORITY. APOSTOLIC INFALLIBILITY. OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED. "ONE IS YOUR MASTER." THE TRUE CHURCH IS "THE FLOCK OF GOD." APOSTLES, PROPHETS, EVANGELISTS, TEACHERS. THE LORD'S ORGANIZATION OF THE NEW CREATION ABSOLUTELY COMPLETE. HE IS ALSO ITS SUPERINTENDENT. GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT CEASED WITH THEIR NECESSITY. UNITY OF THE "FAITH ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS." UNITY OF FORCE, ANTICHRISTIAN BISHOPS, ELDERS, DEACONS. TRUE SIGNIFICANCE OF "PROPHET." HUMILITY ESSENTIAL TO ELDERSHIP. OTHER NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS. DEACONS, MINISTERS, SERVANTS. TEACHERS IN THE CHURCH. MANY SHOULD BE ABLE TO TEACH. "BE NOT MANY OF YOU TEACHERS, BRETHREN." "YE NEED NOT THAT ANY MAN TEACH YOU." "HIM THAT IS TAUGHT" AND "HIM THAT TEACHETH." WOMAN'S PROVINCE IN THE CHURCH. WOMEN AS FELLOW-WORKERS. "LET HER BE COVERED."....195
STUDY VI.
ORDER AND DISCIPLINE IN THE NEW CREATION.
MEANING OF ORDINATION. ONLY THE TWELVE MINISTERS PLENIPOTENTIARY. "CLERGY" AND "LAITY." CHOOSING ELDERS AND DEACONS. ORDAINING ELDERS IN EVERY ECCLESIA. WHO MAY ELECT ELDERS AND HOW. MAJORITIES NOT SUFFICIENT. VARIOUS MINISTRIES. A PAID MINISTRY? DISCIPLINE IN THE ECCLESIA. MISTAKEN CALLS TO PREACH. "WARN THEM THAT ARE UNRULY." TO ADMONISH NOT A GENERAL ORDER. PUBLIC REBUKES RARE. "SEE THAT NONE RENDER EVIL FOR EVIL." PROVOKING TO LOVE. "THE ASSEMBLING OF OURSELVES." VARIETY AND CHARACTER OF OUR MEETINGS. DOCTRINE STILL NECESSARY. OPPORTUNITIES FOR QUESTIONS. PROFITABLE MEETINGS ILLUSTRATED. "LET EVERY MAN BE FULLY PERSUADED IN HIS OWN MIND." FUNERAL SERVICES. TITHES, COLLECTIONS, CHARITIES....273
STUDY VII.
THE LAW OF THE NEW CREATION.
THE GIVING OF A LAW IMPLIES ABILITY TO KEEP THAT LAW. THE DIVINE LAW AS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN. A LAW OF LIFE COULD NOT BE GIVEN TO THE FALLEN RACE. REDEMPTION NOT OF LAW, BUT OF GRACE. LAW COVENANT FULFILLED AND NEW COVENANT SEALED BY THE ONE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST. SINAITIC LAW TO FLESHLY ISRAEL ONLY. THE LAW OF THE NEW COVENANT. THE COMMANDMENT UNDER WHICH THE SAINTS ARE DEVELOPED. NEW CREATION SEPARATE AND DISTINCT IN DIVINE RELATION AND IN COVENANT. GROWTH IN
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APPRECIATION OF THE PERFECT LAW. RUNNING FOR THE MARK AND STANDING FAST THEREAT. THE GOLDEN RULE. THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY....349
STUDY VIII.
THE REST, OR SABBATH OF THE NEW CREATION.
CHANGE OF DIVINE DEALING DATES FROM THE CROSS. THE APOSTLES PREACHING IN SYNAGOGUES ON SABBATH DAY NO INDORSEMENT OF JEWISH SABBATH OR SYSTEM AS BINDING ON THE NEW CREATION. THE BUILDING IN WHICH ONE PREACHES THE GOSPEL DOES NOT AFFECT HIS MESSAGE. NEITHER DOES THE DAY. ORIGIN OF FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK AS CHRISTIAN SABBATH. ITS OBSERVANCE BEGAN LONG BEFORE THE TIME OF CONSTANTINE. NEARLY ALL THE MANIFESTATIONS OF THE RISEN LORD WERE MADE ON THE FIRST DAY. THE GENERAL OBSERVANCE OF THE FIRST DAY AS A SABBATH A MATTER FOR GRATITUDE. IT IS NOT, HOWEVER, OF DIVINE APPOINTMENT. FRANCE AND THE NUMBER SEVEN. ISRAEL'S SABBATH TYPICAL. WHEN THE SABBATH OF THE NEW CREATION BEGAN, AND HOW IT CONTINUES....379
STUDY IX.
THE JUDGMENT OF THE NEW CREATION.
JEHOVAH THE GREAT JUDGE OF THE UNIVERSE. ALL BLESSINGS, FAVORS, ETC., ARE FROM JEHOVAH, THROUGH THE SON. THE NEW CREATION TO BE ASSOCIATES AND JOINT-HEIRS WITH CHRIST. "ALL POWER IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH IS GIVEN UNTO ME." THE FATHER'S JUDGMENT TO CONDEMNATION OF MAN KIND ALREADY EXPRESSED. THE JUDGMENT DURING THE MILLENNIUM ONE OF MERCY AND ASSISTANCE. THE FINAL EXECUTIVE JUDGMENT WILL BE JUSTICE WITHOUT MERCY. JUDGMENT OF NEW CREATION DURING THE GOSPEL AGE. NEW CREATION JUDGED BY THE PERFECT LAW OF LOVE. THE SUPERVISION OF THE GLORIOUS HEAD OVER THE BODY. "WITH WHAT JUDGMENT YE JUDGE, YE SHALL BE JUDGED." WE SHOULD JUDGE OURSELVES PROPERLY. "HE THAT JUDGETH ME IS THE LORD." THE CHURCH SHOULD JUDGE SOME MATTERS. "IF THY BROTHER TRESPASS AGAINST THEE." FORGIVE SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN TIMES. OFFENSES AGAINST THE CHURCH. WE MUST ALL APPEAR BEFORE THE TRIBUNAL OF CHRIST....395
STUDY X.
THE BAPTISM OF THE NEW CREATION.
BAPTISM IN THE SECOND CENTURY. SPONSORS IN BAPTISM. BAPTISMAL CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH OF ROME. INFANT BAPTISM, WHY INTRODUCED. SCRIPTURE TESTIMONY ON BAPTISM. "DISCIPLE" VIEW.
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"BAPTIST" VIEW. THE TRUE VIEW. BAPTISM INTO CHRIST'S DEATH. "BY ONE SPIRIT WE ARE ALL BAPTIZED INTO ONE BODY." THE BAPTISM OF FIRE. SYMBOLICAL BAPTISM IN WATER. IS SYMBOLIC BAPTISM NECESSARY? THE PROPER SYMBOL. WHO MAY ADMINISTER IT. THE FORM OF WORDS. REPETITION OF THE SYMBOL. "BAPTIZED FOR THE DEAD."....421
STUDY XI.
THE PASSOVER OF THE NEW CREATION.
THE YOKE OF EGYPT AND DELIVERANCE THEREFROM, IN TYPE AND ANTI-TYPE. "THE CHURCH OF THE FIRST-BORN." "WE, BEING MANY, ARE ONE LOAF." THE MEMORIAL STILL APPROPRIATE. WHO MAY CELEBRATE. WHO MAY OFFICIATE. AN ORDER OF SERVICE. EASTER PASSOVER. EXTRACTS FROM MCCLINTOCK AND STRONG'S ENCYCLOPEDIA....457
STUDY XII.
MARITAL AND OTHER PRIVILEGES AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE NEW CREATION.
VARIOUS OBLIGATIONS OF THE NEW CREATURE. "ALL ONE IN CHRIST JESUS." PROMISCUOUS ASSOCIATION NOT IMPLIED. MAN AND WOMAN IN THE DIVINE ORDER. MAN'S HEADSHIP NOT TYRANNY. MARRIAGE OF NEW CREATION. ADVICE TO THE NEW CREATURES IN THE VARIED CONDITIONS OF MARITAL UNION. IN THE EVENT OF DESERTION. CONSCIENCE THE FINAL TEST. EUNUCHS, VIRGINS, CELIBACY. "ONLY IN THE LORD." PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES....485
STUDY XIII.
PARENTAL OBLIGATIONS OF THE NEW CREATION.
GREAT OBLIGATIONS ATTACH TO THE EXERCISE OF PRO-CREATIVE POWERS. PRENATAL INFLUENCES. "TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO!" THE INFLUENCE OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS. THE CONFIDENCE OF CHILDREN. THE POWER OF SUGGESTION IN CHILD TRAINING. OUR CHILDREN IN THE TIME OF TROUBLE. PROPER AND IMPROPER AMUSEMENTS. MARRIAGE OF CHILDREN OF NEW CREATURES....519
STUDY XIV.
SUNDRY EARTHLY OBLIGATIONS OF THE NEW CREATION.
"PROVIDE THINGS HONEST IN THE SIGHT OF ALL MEN." "OWE NO MAN ANYTHING." "LEND, HOPING FOR NOTHING AGAIN." CHRISTIAN COURTESY. "TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR THE MORROW." "MY GOAL IS CHRIST, AND CHRIST ALONE." "IT IS EASIER FOR A CAMEL TO GO THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE, THAN FOR A RICH MAN TO ENTER
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INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD." INSURANCE. ORGANIZATIONS FOR MUTUAL BENEFIT, ETC. CONSCIENTIOUS MEDDLING. "BLESSING GOD AND CURSING MEN." SOCIAL OBLIGATIONS. "HONOR ALL MEN." SHALL THE NEW CREATION TAKE PART IN PUBLIC ELECTIONS? THE NEW CREATURE AND MORAL REFORMS.WEARING OF COSTLY APPAREL. LET US WAIT FOR THE ADORNMENT OF "GLORY, HONOR AND IMMORTALITY."....563
STUDY XV.
THE FOES AND BESETMENTS OF THE NEW CREATION.
"THE OLD MAN." THE WORLD AS AN ENEMY OF THE NEW CREATION. THE GREAT ADVERSARY. HE WAS A LIAR AND A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING. SATAN'S ASSOCIATES IN EVIL. LEGIONS OF DEMONS. HOW SATAN'S FIRST LIE IS PERPETUATED. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND THEOSOPHY. "WE WRESTLE NOT [MERELY] WITH FLESH AND BLOOD." THE MINISTRY OF EVIL. BESETMENTS OF THE ADVERSARY. "THE PRAYER OF FAITH SHALL SAVE THE SICK." "IF SATAN CAST OUT SATAN" HIS KINGDOM WANES. LOVE RIGHTEOUSNESS, HATE INIQUITY. MARK 16:9-20. THE NOMINAL CHURCH AS AN ADVERSARY TO THE NEW CREATION. THE ARMOR OF GOD....599
STUDY XVI.
THE PRESENT INHERITANCE OF THE NEW CREATION.
A FIRST-FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT. TRUE VERSUS FALSE HOPES. OUR HOPE. THE THIEF IN PARADISE. ST. PAUL'S EARNEST DESIRE. "OUR EARTHLY HOUSE" AND "OUR HOUSE FROM HEAVEN." THE TRANSFIGURATION SCENE. "THE FIRST THAT SHOULD RISE FROM THE DEAD." PRESENT JOYS OF THE NEW CREATION. "ASK, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE THAT YOUR JOY MAY BE FULL." FAITH, A FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT AND A PART OF THE INHERITANCE OF THE NEW CREATION....659
STUDY XVII.
THE RESURRECTION INHERITANCE OF THE NEW CREATION.
EYE AND EAR OF FAITH MUST BE TRAINED IN ORDER TO APPRECIATE SPIRITUAL THINGS WITH DISTINCTNESS. "AS ALL IN ADAM DIE, EVEN SO ALL IN CHRIST SHALL BE MADE ALIVE." THE AFTER RESURRECTION TO LIFE. ANASTASIS, RE-STANDING OR RESURRECTION. NOT A JUDGMENT, OR TRIAL, FOR PAST SINS; BUT ANOTHER TRIAL FOR LIFE. "ACCOUNTED WORTHY TO ATTAIN RESURRECTION." PUNISHMENT FOR SINS OF THIS LIFE." "SOME MEN'S SINS GO BEFORE TO JUDGMENT." "THUS IS THE [CHIEF] RESURRECTION OF THE [SPECIAL] DEAD." "IT DOTH NOT YET APPEAR WHAT WE SHALL BE." "WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM....693