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11 SCRIPTURE TRUTH 11 1 TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL VOLUME 1935 11 "A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun: It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none." 11 1\ THE CENTRAL BIBLE TRUTH DEPOT, 11 I 5, ROSE STREET, LONDON, E.C. 4. I INDEX Page Page A A A fey, Scnpture F<lets A WORM" YET JE- Jbout Eternal LIfe 162 HOVAH OF HOSTS F B Hole 1°4 Angels' Gospel, The 1°3 B Answers to Correspondents Begmmng and the End, Bethany and the The 34 Mount of all'eo;; 216 BIOGRAPHY IN PRO Blessmg of Esau, PHI-"CY A J T Mawson 36 The BLOOD OF CHRIST, THE CH 1\1 116 Chnst ~ New Name BRIMFUL OF GOODN~SS T Ohver 203 Cleansmg from all filthmess of flesh C and splnt Declared Son of God (,ANST THOU BY SEARCH by the Resurrec ING FIND OUT GOD ~ tIon 166 (poetry) H Wllson 102 Lye Salve 71 CHRIST THE ETERNAL How can the Church SON ~elected Ior be both the Bod} CHRISTIAN ESSENTIAl<:, R Turnbull 230 and the Bnde of Church's One Founda ChnsP bon, The 91 Hundred and forty COM~IUNION J T Mawson 121 four thousand, The COMPASSING THE MOUN- Interest III the Young TAIN InglIs Flemmg 56 John and Peter at thp CO'\IPRFHE1I.<;IVE VERSF :,epulchn" 191 A Inghs }lemJllg 195 ]ohn the BaptIst not Confidence (poetry) 9 an Apostle Confidence (poetry) 55 Joy at the Lord's CORRESPONDENCE Supper CLEANSING TertIUS dud Quartus h.lllgdom of God The CUT DOWN' - 'SET Must a Chnstian ON HIGH" F B Hole 279 purge himself from vessels to dlshon D our~ 143 Name of God \\ntten Death and the Samts of on the overcomer God 159 The 95 DEFEAT AND VICTORY F B Hole 151 PIllar In the Temple Dependence upon God 209 A 95 DEPTHS AND HEIGHTS Place of the Church L A Anderson 138 In the MIllenmum, DE\.CLOPMENT IN THE The 47 CHRISTIA'II LIFE J T Mawson -19 PropltIatlOn and Sub DIVr"I: DELIGHT H J Vme 32 !otItutlOn 286 DIVINE LOVE A H Storne 267 Question of man's Dn.[NE PRESENCE, THE James Green 189 free wIll The 45 Re\\ard III Heaven 106 E <..amson ~ Riddle 142 Take up HIS Cross 'EVERY CREATURE OF daIly" 1<)1 GOD IS GOOD" J T Mav.son 189 Temple of My God The" F \\ [ule It IS day-and the mght }alth, Hope and Love 150 YIeldmg ourselves to FIVE ForD CHALLEI\GE God and our "dls 71 A E P Bro\\n 221 Authonty and the ... FOREK1I.0WLEDGE OF \\ord The 161 GOD THE R McCallum 235 Scripture Truth G Page p :Page GLORY OF CHRIST, THE J. T. Mawson 225 PRESENCE OF THE HOLY GOD MOVES BEHIND THE SPIRIT, THE ... Inglis Fleming 16 SCENES ... Inglis Fleming 160 PROMISE, TrIE (poetry) W. M. Corner 192 GOD'S TRIUMPH AND R THE DEVIL'S DEFEAT J. T. Mawson I Reason and the \Vord 161 GRACE OF GOD, THE ... D. Ross 225 Receptivity 197 GRACIOUSNESS OF JE- REVELATION, EXPERI- HOVAH, THE F.W.G. 165 E~'KE, AND PRACTICE J. T. Mawson 145 GREAT HIGH PRIEST, Romans I. 120 THE C.H.M. 62 J. ROYAL BANQUET, THE T. .\la\\'son 193 GREAT SECRET, THE ... W. B. Dick 22 S H SALVATION AND SATIS- HEARKENING TO JAMES F. B. Hole 241 FACTION F. B. Hole IgS HEART'S DESIRE, THE Saviour's Name, The 2-1- (poetry) ... A. H. Lycett 190 Servant of the Lord, He shall divide the The 264 Spoil with the Strong 63 SERVICE (poetry) A. M. Chambers ;) "HIs STEPS" AND "FOL- SERVICE OF GOD, THE \V. R. Dick 251 LOWING HIS STEPS" F. B. Hole 82 "S01l1E HAVE FALLEN HOUSE OF THE LORD, ASLEEP" ... ]. T. i\lawson 61 THE F. B. Hole 127 SONSHIP '" J. McBroom I IIO, 132, 156, 18'i Spiritual Revelation 188 IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD, THE ... J. T. Mawson 214 T Indwelling Spirit, .The Il7 TS).;DER COlSscn:'NCE, A C.H.i\I. 212 "THAT THEY ALL MAY .'I will in ne. wise cast BE ONE" ... T. Oliver 43 out" 35 J "THE SON OF MAN" JEWS AND CANAAN, THE J. T. MawsoIl 92 AND "THE MAN OF JONATHAN J. Houston 134 THE EARTH" ... F. B. Hole SI ,'The Spirit and the K Bride say, Come" '" 215 KING, THE: HIS VIC- Two-fold Blessing, The 79 TORY, HIS CORONA- Two-fold Witness, The 210 TION, HIS PALACES ... F. B. Hole 175 THINGS MOST SURELY BELrEVED ... J. T. l'iIawson L No. 8. Atonement by LAST MESSAGE TO THE Blood 73 CHURCH, THE ... T. Oliver ." 88 No. g. The Resurrec- LOOKING UNTO JESUS tion of Christ 97 (poetry) J. A. O. Allan 96 No. 10. The Exalta- Lord's Supplies, The 60 tion of Christ 169 Love of Christ, The ... ISO No. IT. Our Great Love one Another 213 High Priest 203 N No. 12. The Judge of Quick and Dead 2;'1 NINE SIMPLE \VORDS Inglis Fleming 115 To BE CONTINUED \V. B. Dick 123 Not Forsaken 50 TREE OF LIFE, THE NOTES ON JOSEPH J. Houston 181 (poetry) '" J.N.D. 35 Notes on the Philippian Two YOUNG MEN OF Epistle 260 SCRIPTURE T. Oliver 20 o u ,iOur Father" 9 UNWEARIED T"OVE J. T. .YIawson 259 Our Pattern I I 9 W OUR PROSPECT E.W.T. 15 OUR SHADOW INFLUENCE Inglis Fleming 25:- \Ve ought to obey God 126 What do we remem- P ber? 264 PAEAN OF PRAISE, A ... VV. B. Dick 265 \VHAT IS MAl'\? H. \\'ilson ... 270 PARABLE AND A FACT, A J. T. Mawson 168 \VHAT IS REALLY LIFE? A. ]. Pollock 245 Peculiar People, A ... 34 VVHAT IS THE GOSPEL? D. R05s 217 POWER OF GOD, THE J. Purves ... 58 "\Vhen Moses raised his Prayer 172 hands" 8 Praying Always 259 "\VHO WILL SHOW US "PREACH HIM" Inglis Fleming 173 ANY GOOD?" ... F. B. Hole 27 PREACH THE RISEN "\VHY DO THE HEATHEN CHRIST T. T. Mawson lJ6 RAGE?" F. B. Hole ID PREPARED FOR SERVICE R. McCallum 6 Word of God, The ... II9 Scripture Urutb. VOL.xxvn 1935 - GOD'S TRIUMPH AND THE DEVIL'S DEFEAT. J. T. Mawson. HoW the devil must hate the will; I will strip him of his nobility, Epistle to the Ephesians; he rob him of his peace and make will certainly keep us from reading him hate his Maker, and if I suO' it if he can, for in no part of the ceed in this desperate enterprise, God Bible is his complete defeat so in simple justice will be compelled thoroughly exposed, and the riches to turn him out of Eden and con~ of God's grace so fully revealed. demn him and his progeny to my It may be the knowledge of this doom in hell, and so shall I gratify that has made him with devilish a double spite: God will lose the subtlety make some of us believe man He has created and loves and that it is an epistle too deep and I shall destroy the man whom I doctrinal for us. It is neither one hate because God loves him. nor the other; only let us be in The Triumph of God's grace to~ the right state of heart before God wards us. and we shall exult in it, for the very reading of it will bless us, even He accomplished his purpose so if we are unable to fathom the far, and he must have wondered depths that are in it. Who can do and exulted at the ease with which that but the Spirit of God? he did it; but what a surprise and a shock he must have got when first The devil is probably the greatest he read this Epistle to the Ephesian of all the creatures that in the be~ church, and discovered that some ginning God created, but he has of the children of fallen Adam could fallen from his first and high estate say, .. Blessed be the God and Father and his heart is full of hatred against God; he is God's adversary-his of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual bless~ name Satan means, the adversary ings in the heavenly places in Christ and he has set himself deliberately ] esus." The earthly paradise lost, and desperately to oppose and break yes, but the heavenly paradise up every purpose and work of God. opened; earthly blessing forfeited, When God created Adam and set yes, but heavenly blessing bestowed, him in Eden, and enriched him with and all those blessings not in a everything that His infinite bounty patched up Adam, who might fall could give, this great foe of God a second time into the devil's snare, saw with envious eye that God loved but in Christ Jesus, where the devil the man He had made and delighted cannot touch them and where they in him, and he plotted to ruin him can neither fail nor be lost. and rob God of him; and how well he appeared to succeed. He pro~ The devil's purpose was to make bably reasoned: If only I can make man like himself, unholy in nature that man whom God has favoured and unrighteous in act, and so bring above all His creatures, doubt His down upon his defiled and guilty goodness, and disobey His word, soul the wrath of God; what a and rebel against Him, as I have surprise he must have got when he clone, then I can do with him as I first read in this Epistle that God Scripture Truth hath chosen us in Christ, .. that we hast loved them, as Thou hast loved should be holy and without blame Me" said our Lord Jesus Christ before Him in love" (verse 5). Holy to His Father in John 17. in~tead of sinful; without blame in... stead of guilty; in love instead of And suppose the devil had stood under wrath] What a triumph for up and challenged God's right to God, what a defeat for the devil1 bless us with these infinitely greater blessings than Adam lost by his sin; The devil's expectation was that suppose he had said: "They are my man, when he had sinned, would lawful captives, slaves to sin and be driven far off from God, as under the condemnation of death, being for ever unsuited to His. pre::: and your enemies. You cannot bless sence, every link of relationship with them righteously and You must con", Him being broken; and that God demn them if You are still to be would never have His purposed and the just Ruler of the Universe." longed for delight in the sons of God's answer is, .. In whom [the men. What a jar he must have got BelovedJ they have redemption when he read, "Having predesti::: through His blood, even the for", nated us unto the adoption of children giveness of sins, according to the by Jesus Christ to Himself, to the riches of My grace " (verse 7). That praise of the glory of His grace, is conclusive and final; there is no wherein He hath made us accepted place now for discussion or argu::: in the Beloved" (verses 5, 6). "A~ ment; it is the last word, and the cepted in the Beloved"! Not even vindication of God in His mercy an unfalIen angel could have anti"" before the universe; and as to this cipated such grace towards men on matter the Accuser is for ever God's part; and no sin::,convicted silenced. The blood of the Beloved sinner could have thought of it, and answers every claim, it is the ever::: we may be sure that it never entered lasting righteous and unassailable into the head of the devil that God basis of all our blessings, and be:::: would act thus. How could he have cause of it God forgives with an guessed that his temporary triumph eternal forgiveness and we are re,. over man would give God the oppor>' deemed from all bondage with an tunity of lifting man into a closer eternal redemption; the devil is de'" and more glorious relationship than feated and the exceeding riches of ever Adam knew, for Adam did God's grace are fully disclosed. not know God as Father; and that The Triumph of Chri~t's Resurreclf they should stand in a favour that tion. no creature, either fallen or unlallen ever stood in before. even the favour Now consider the great conflict in which the Beloved stands! Acs between God and the devil from cepted in the Beloved, brought as another side of it. The Son of God near to God as He is, and to abide became man, sent forth into the for ever in the favour that rests world by the Father to be its upon Him1 And this is to be not Saviour, and having come into the only a blessed secret Ior our own world He had to meet the devil joy now, but it is to be publicly face to face. We may be sure that manifested; men, angels and devils the devil resented His presence in are to see it, That the world may the world of which he is the god 11 know that Thou hast sent Me, and and prince, and was determined if 3 God's 1riumph he could to ensnare Him as he had and fame and exaltation, and to done the first man. The conflict had obey God was His very life. to be waged; and Jesus, the Son of God, met the great Adversary, Now see the result as revealed who, flushed with 4,000 years of in our Epistle. The lowly Man of triumph over men, does not seem Sorrows had said, "that the world to have feared defeat. Jesus met may know that I love the Father, him, not with His Godhead authority and as He hath gzven Me command~ and power, but in His manhood's ment, even so I do. Arise, let us lowliness and weakness and His de::: go hence." And that hence was to pendence upon God. By man had Gethsemane, Gabbatha, Golgotha come Satan's victory and by man and death. But God has answered must come his defeat. Let us watch that great obedience and has acted in this conflict, for the glory of God mighty power towards Christ. He and our blessing hangs upon its has reached down into the depths issue. Satan chose his own time of death and has" raised Him from and battle ground, he appeared in the dead, and set Him at His own the desert when Jesus was weak with right hand in the heavenly places, hunger, haying fasted forty days, far above all principality, and power. but he could not prevail over Him. and might, and dominion, and every His deftest blows were parried and name that is named, not only in turned aside by one weapon only, this world, but also in that which the Word of God. Twice he was is to come: and hath put all things repulsed but he returned the third under His feet and gave Him to time to the attack, apparently con::: be Head over all things to the fident of success, for he knew men church, which is His body, the tul:; well, and he probably thought, In ness of Him that filleth all in all." the soul of the Son of God ambition The devil hoped to sway this uni,;: must lurk as it lurks in the soul of versal sceptre himself by subjugating every man. If he could only make Christ to his will, but having failed the prize big enough, for every man in his bold and impious design he has his price, he would surely gain now finds that the One who refused his greatest and final triumph. So to be lured from His obedience to he offered all he had to offer: the God by his wiles, has been set in~ kingdoms of this world and the finitely above him; He has received glory of them, for one moment's from God a higher honour and a homage. He would set the Son of greater glory than the devil was God at the head of all things; he able to offer Him. He has been would give Him the highest station; made head over all things. He should reach the pinnacle of glory by a short and easy way. \Ve may be sure that Satan would All should be His, if He would like to hide this fact from men; he but bow down before him and own does not want them to know that him as the giver. And what the Lamb of Calvary is Lord of Was the alternative? It was suf::: lords and King of kings, the sceptre fering, and shame; scourging and of Whose throne is a sceptre of spitting; it was death, even the death righteousness; he knows that this of the cross. And the Lord chose exaltation of Christ to the highest the alternative, for God and His place in the universe is the sure and glory were more to Him than ease certain pledg€ that all his works will Scripture Truth 4- be undone, that his authority over these words describe, yet they arc men will be for ever broken, and words surely that make our hearts that he himself will be finally con::: glow, and they have most thoroughly demned to the lake of Bre. Ephes=, exposed what the devil is. He has ians 1. 19:::23 is hard reading for been defeated in his efforts to hold the devil, but it is a most blessed us in everlasting darkness by this revelation to us who have been de'" revelation of the mercy, the love and livered by the Father, even now, the grace of God to us through " from the authority of darkness and Christ Jesus. And being enlightened translated into the kingdom of the and quickened, and redeemed, and Son of His love (Col. L 12, 13). sealed by the Holy Ghost, we, with JJ all believers, are now the body of The Triumph of the Churches form~ Christ. He is the Head, we are ation. His members, and we share in His And what of the church which is victories, for even Satan himself shall here spoken of as the body of shortly be bruised under our feet Christ? It is made up of those by the God of peace (Romans 16. who were once dead in trespasses 20). and sins, of you and me, and our like, who were children of disobedi"" When we come to chapter 4 we ence, who walked according to the learn that Christ has ascended up will of the prince of the power of on high, but that He first descended the air, and were children of wrath! into the lower parts of the earth. even, as others (ch. 2). The devil He went down into depths beneath held us for a while in his power which there was nothing, and has by the delusion that God was gone up to the highest heights of against us; that He was a hard glory. There is no realm through and austere master, to be dreaded which He has not passed triumphant::: and shunned; which had been the ly, and which He will not fill with devil's lie from the beginning. But the glory of God. Satan has bitten that darkness has been dispelled and the dust, he has not been able to we have been delivered from that hold any realm against Christ. From lie, for, God who is rich in mercy, the place into which He has gone, H for: His great love wherewith He having led the whole power of the loved us, even when we were dead enemy captive, He has given gifts in sins hath quickened us together unto men, and this for the building with Christ (by grace ye are saved:) up of the body of Christ, for the and hath raised us up together, and deliv'erance of its members from made us sit together in heavenly every lie of the enemy, for their places in Christ Jesus: that in the development in the knowledge of ages to come He might shew the the Son of God, and their unity exceeding riches of His grace in His and increase in love. And this is kindness toward us through Christ a present triumph, for in this world Jesus" (verse 4:::7). "Rich in where hatred and sin abounds, there mercy," "His great love," "the ex::: are men and women who once be::: ceeding riches of His grace," and longed to it, but are now no longer "His kindness towards us through of it, but are members of the body Christ Jesus," describe for us what of Christ, united to Him their glori:::' there is in God for us; we may fied Head, and in them His character have but poorly apprehended what is shining out in the darkness, and 5 God's Triumph they are edifying one another in church, and for it Christ gave Him~ love. Think of the triumph in that. self. He took all the blame of their sinfulness and gUilt, and bore The Triumph of the Churches Rap~ the judgment of it all, and He is ture. still keeping His church, and sancti~ fying it and cleansing it by the Thoughts of the church bring that word, and waiting for the day when vivid passage as to it in ch. 5, to He will present it to Himself, all~ mind, and I cannot pass it by. It glorious in the glory. tells us, "Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it; How will this come to pass? The le that He might sanctify and cleanse Lord Himself shall descend from it with the washing of watelf by the heaven with a shout, with the voice lVord, that He might present it to of the archangel, and the trump of Himself a glorious church, not hav~ God, and the dead in Christ shall ing spot or wrinkle, or any such rise first: then we which are alive and thing .. but that it should be holy remain shall be caught up together and without blemish" (verses 25:::27). with them in the clouds, to meet Verse 31 is a quotation from Genesis the Lord in the air: and so shall 2 regarding the bringing of Eve to we ever be with the Lord" (1 Thess. Adam, and our passage carries the 4. 16, 17). We shall meet Him. mind back to that event. It is well~ But why in the air? The air known that Adam in his deep sleep is the seat of the devil's power; is a foreshadowing of Christ in he is the prince of the power of death; and as the woman was the the air; it is from thence that he product of that sleep so is the church rules the darkness of this world a product of the deJth of Christ. and organises its spiritual wicked~ But the devil succeeded in beguiling ness, and it is there that we are to Eve through his subtilty and she meet our Lord. Could anything dragged Adam down in her fall; prove more conclusively how com:r she dragged him so low that he plete is his defeat? Christ wilI not only disobeyed God, but cast meet His church in the very seat all the blame of the tragedy upon of Satan's authority and carry it her whom he ought to have pro~ triumphantly through to His glory. tected with his very life. " Tht: That will be the day of Christ's woman whom Thou gavest to be supreme joy on which He will re~ with me, she gave me of the tree, ceive to the embrace of love that and I did eat," said he. He had passes all knowledge, His ransomed become a disobedient, selfish, coward~ and glorious church. Satan has ly sinner. What a contrast to Adam sought to corrupt the church as he is our Lord Jesus. He said to His corrupted Eve, but Christ has kept Father, "Those that Thou gavest Me her and will keep her. And the I have kept, and none of them is presentation day, the day of the lost" and they, and all who have marriage, will celebrate His triumph believed through their word, are the and the devil's defeat. Lord. shouldst Thou lead along a shadowed road. It is with Thee; And darker was the path Thy love once trod Alone, for love of me ! 6 PREPARED FOR SERVICE. R. McCallum. N oles of an Address to Sunday School Teachers. Exodus 2; Proverbs 22. 6. T HE remarkable history of the beyond estimate is the child who child Moses may well be a great has godly parents to impart to him encouragement and inspiration to us his first knowledge of divine things1 as workers among the young. Here No better instruction can come to was a cast:::out foundling who in any man, no deeper or more lasting the purposes of God was destined impression can be made than that to be the leader of God's chosen received at life's dawn from the people, and for the accomplishment mother wha knows God, and many of His purposes of grace God ifl. a man of God can thank his Father wondrous providence used the verv in heaven for the earliest training faith of the parents. True it is that received in a home of true piety. the faith of the godliest parents can But alas 1 how many there are, es:;: never save a child, but faith can pecially in these days, who receive understand and trust God's pur::: no such early impressions, and we poses and work for the child's bless::: as Sunday School teachers must re::: ing. Such faith honours God and gard ourselves as "in loco parentis" God honours it, and in our present and in faith lay hold of God's study we see the consummate wis::: purposes of grace for such as come dom and power of God at work under our care and influence. With in causing man's wrath to praise God nothing is impossible. He can Him, the arch:::enemy of God's take the most humble and equip people being foiled by his own him for the most exalted service, weapons. The child is taken from in spite of the most determined op::: the hovel of a slave and placed in position of evil forces. This is the the palace of the king himself; de::: message of the training of the child livered from the hands that sought l\10ses. Could we desire more en::: his death by being placed in the couraging knowledge than this? only hands that could accomplish his preservation: a child's tears Secondly, there was the prepara:;: the eloquent oratory of a mere babe tion received in the palace of the -the appeal of weakness touching King, the preparation received from a heart that was doubtless unaffected Egypt's learning. A questionable by the calamities of a nation, so equipment maybe, from some points that the Divine intention for His of view, for it is admittedly diffi:;: people might be achieved. cult to weigh the benefits against the disabilities resulting from train.." There was a three:::fold prepara:;: ing obtained in Egypt. Difficult tion for the work to which God often, admittedly, to say whether was calling him. Firstly, there was ultimate good or harm will accrue the instruction received at his to the servant of God by his train:;: mother's knee-a simple, intense and ing in the Colleges of this world. prayerful course. Short, one might Be assured of this, my dear young be tempted to think, to the point friend, that your usefulness in the of fruitlessness, yet signally cared service of God will not depend on for and blessed of God. Fortunate the quality of your degree in Science

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