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

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had finished the work of overcoming after the manner
of Christ's overcoming, who abolished death, and brought
to light life and immortality thru his gospel. He established
a law of spirit-life by which all might be made
free from the law of corruption, or the law of sin, sickness,
and death. The prophet Isaiah, as he looked across
the expanse of the centuries, saw that the inhabitants or
citizens of Christ's sovereignty would not say, "I am
sick," but that all who become citizens under his dominion
would be immune from sin, sickness, and death.
Jesus came to set up and
to establish the Kingdom
of God upon the earth; and he has made clear the necessary
steps to be taken in the establishing of a citizenship
in this Kingdom; but Ministers ordained of men continue
to exalt civic righteousness, which is of the law, and
when they preach they never get beyond its requirements
or its rewards and continue to quote, "It is appointed
unto all men once to die, "
which is true under the dispensation
of the Mosaic law, but not true under the dispensation
of the law of spirit-life, as demonstrated by the
Master who abolished death and brought to light life and
immortality. Neither Christ, nor his Apostles would ever
have died a natural death, but having the spirit of the
martyrs, they must needs suffer martyrdom. Paul testified
that the law of spirit-life had made him free from
the law of sin and death; and it took the executioner's ax
to end his career after the deadly viper had failed to end
it; and the boiling oil into which John was thrown had
no power to harm him; and tho tradition tells us he died
a natural death at an extreme old age, yet we believe it
not; and We truly think that the preponderance of evidence
shows he is of that number who having overcome
all enemies, and having attained to deific manhood is
privileged to go and come as he chooses, in absolute harmony
with the Infinite One.