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The Vemmant of Israel
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Vol. 11 MAY, 1930. No. 3
excuse.” Rom. 1:18-20.
By the above we can see that even the heathen
may be saved throgh perfect honesty with God. He
can see by the things about him that there is an all
wise God over all creation. He is made with a con-
science; and for the proper use of which, he alone is
held accountable to God. Just to the extent that the
individual yields himself to that which he knows to
be right, to that extent he will be perfect, not in know-
ledge, but in obedience.
Paul says, “Know ye not that to whom ye yield
yourselves to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye
obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto
righteousness?” Rom. 6:16. We might put it this
way, if we have respect unto God’s law, we are His
servant, but if not, we are the servant of the devil.
The other day I learned of a family who are very
‘strict in keeping Sunday. Doing up all the work pos-
sible the day before to get ready for what they believ-
ed to be the Sabbath. They know no law for any other
day as their attention had never been called to the
fact that Saturday is the seventh day of the week and
not Sunday. Are they offenders, and condemned for
disobedience? Most certainly not. “For where no
law is, there is no trangression.” Rom. 5:15. As
a result of perfect honesty, a steady growth in knowl-
edge and grace will be obtained. This is not possible
while living in harmony with a church creed.
The fidelity to church discipline instead of the
Bible, is responsible for the loss of power in the
churches, over which so many are lamenting today.
It causes ministers to preach some things which they
have learned through study are not taught by the
Bible. To illustrate. The quakers teach that there
is no baptism but that of the Holy ghost; absolutely
contrary to the teachings of the Bible which says,
“Repent and be baptized every one of you, in the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ, for the remission of
sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost,”
Acts 2:38.
He who preaches that there is no baptism but
that of the Holy Ghost, after he discovers from the
above scripture and others that water baptism must
precede that of the Holy Ghost, is knowingly teach-
ing an untruth. Such teaching condemns the preach-
er and lowers the spirituality of the church until crim-
inals are at ease in its pews.
THE-REMNANT OF ISRAEL
Other church creeds state that the law was done
away at the cross.
discovers that this is an error, yet he thinks that he
must belong to the church in order to be saved. Paul
says, “Where there is no law, there is no transgres-
sion.” Then if we take away the law, we take away
the transgression and any thing would be right. The
result of such teaching would only be to encourage
sin,
Many ministers, in order to be in harmony with
the creed, will stand in the pulpit and teach that the-
law was annulled at the cross; while he at the same
time is a wilful transgressor. There is no other teach-
ing so far reaching in its evil effects. No wonder the
church has lost her power; and more than that, she
has “done her do” and is doomed to destruction. Bab-
vlon has become a “CAGE FOR EVERY UNCLEAN
AND HATEFUL BIRD” (wicked men.) Rev. 18:2.
And the wrath of God is soon to be visited upon her.
Some good people stand aghast at the situation,
and say, what shall we do? seeing the churches them-
selves have become so corrupt. I would say to such,
God has never authorized his people to place their
names on the book or an organized church. Of course
they all claim that God organized their church, but
that does not make it so. It still remains a fact that
they are all man organized.
All who repent and are baptized, endeavor to
keep the whole law honestly before God, earnestly
study and believe the word of God with an eye sing-
le to doing his will, and accept the atonement that
Christ made on the cross for our sins, have fulfilled
the requirements of God and are accepted of him.
Creeds and isms are not provided for in the word
of God and should have nothing to do with the life
of the true christian.
The name written on the church book of the
world has nothing whatever to do with it being writ-
ten on the books of heaven. The whole question re-
solves itself into that of character, and not a ques-
tion of whether or not you belong to this or that
church. TI once belonged to a church, and thought all
or nearly all that did not believe as I did were lost.
Since giving the Bible a more careful study, I am
compelled to change my mind considerably. The
Bible teaches us very definitely that his professed
people will apostatise in the last days, and all
churches are daughters of Babylon, and belong. to
her. God still has people in Babylon at the begin-
ning of the time of trouble that must be gathered.
‘Rev. 18:4; Jer. 51:6, 45.
The gathering out of the honest from the relig-
ious sets all over the world constitutes the gathering
of the remnant (last part) of God’s people. The
prophet Isaiah tells us that the gathering will be like
the gleaning of grapes among the branches. It will
be just one or two here and there. Isaiah 17:5, 6.
All of those who think that their church will be
saved, or will save them, will be sadly disappointed.
That there are honest souls in all churches, there is
no doubt: But as yet they have not had sufficient
light to step out. As we cannot know the heart of
man, we have no right to say, this one or that will be
lost. “Man looketh upon the outward appearance,
but God looketh upon the heart.”
The strictly honest soul who is constantly seeking
for added light, and places his confidence in God to
lead him into all truth is building a character that
will give him entrance into the kingdom of God
The ordinary lay member soon
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