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

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not been used, we should not at this time be able to partake
of the nature of God. There would be an emptiness
in the soul, a want of a holy life-giving substance.
Living the life of regeneration is making the sanctuary
of our soul after the pattern of the heavens. The law of
God is written within our hearts, and thereby we become
the ark which contains the eternal laws, which has been
in existence from the beginning. We must change from
the law of generation to the law of regeneration. We no
longer feel the need of this outward form of religious
worship. We see how hard it was for Jesus the Christ to
change the Jews from the observance of the old ceremonial
law to his teachings; only a few accepted him as the
coming Messiah; the Israelitish nation never has accepted
him even to this day, and it never will, until "The sceptre
shall not depart from Judah,nor a lawgiver from between
his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering
of the people be [the regenerate man]."
As it was so difficult for the Christ to change the Jews,
so will it be for the Spirit of God, thru the regenerate
man; to change many of these so-called Christians. They
refuse to accept the purification of their sensual nature
thrua more perfect life, which would make them after
the pattern of the Holy Ones in the heavens. So they pre»
fer-to cling to the old physical body-worship of the past,
in preference to the Holy Spirit of God, which should
have its seat in the inner sanctuary of their soul-nature.
Paul says that man is the temple of the living God; and
when Christ suffered so intensely; and he expired upon the
cross in order to open the vision of their soul, "The veil
of the temple was rent in twain from top to bottom,"
for this reason there is no excuse for a misunderstanding
of his mission here in our day of enlightenment. But the
Christians of to-day cling tenaciously to the old physicalbody-worship
of the man Jesus, and are satisfied with