Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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BY NATHAN DAVIS
Fon our citizenship isin heaven: whence also we wait for a Savior, the
Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that
it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby
he is able even to subject all things unto himself.-Phil. iii 20-21.
ggvQvf1n§v¢gITIZENSHIP pertains to the obligations,
if K- rights, and privileges of a citizen. When
*I* *Q* our citizenship is transferred to, and estab-
'F Q' lished in heaven, then will all our physical
59'*"*"¥'i9 senses function in the heavenly world. Regeneration,
or the spiritual birth, is a guarantee or warrant
of this. For we know that when we have past out
of death into life-when we have past from the sovereignty
of the god of this world into the sovereignty of
the God of heaven, when we have escaped the bondage
of corruption into the sovereignty of Jesus Christ-we
shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God
ascending
and descending upon the Son of Man.
Civic righteousness, which is the righteousness of the
law, must come first, and afterwards the righteousness
of spirit-life when all are fellow-citizens of deific men
and of the household of God.
the pioneer in this forward movement.
Jesus Christ, himself, was
He established a
higher degree of righteousness than had ever been known
before. Under the gospel dispensation greater good has
been dispensed than in all previous ages. In no previous
age had any been regenerated or born of the Spirit.
None had ever attained to a finished righteousness, or