in The Gospel Messenger vol.2 no.13 (1891)
WHAT GOD HAS REVEALED TO US as our duty in all the
relations of life, we should observe and practice. God is perfect
in all his attributes, just and holy, and what the Lord doeth is
right. Can we accept him as that character by faith? If so, where
do we find authority to strive about what he has done, or may
do? What is man by nature? The enemy of God, not subject to
his law, neither indeed can be. Already condemned, Jesus told man
that he was of his father, the devil, and his works he would do.
The Lord raised up Pharaoh and made him king of Egypt.
Was his condition any worse before God after Moses had delivered
the children of Israel from under his reign than it was
before he delivered them? So, also, in the case of those that had
Daniel put in the lion’s den, and the Hebrew children in the
furnace of fire. Was their case before the Lord any more
unsavorable after the act than it was before. So with those that
put our Saviour to death. They did the work of their father, the
devil, doing that that God had before appointed to be done. |
