Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1912 — THE SAVIORS TEACHINGS BROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE STUDIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE SAVIORS TEACHINGS BROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE STUDIES

“BROUGHT DOWN TO HELL.” Matthew xi, 20-30—Sept. 15. “Come unto Me, all that labor and are heavy laden, and 1 will give you rest.”— V. 88. CODAYS STUDY tells of how our Lord upbraided the city where most of His mighty works had been done, because they repented not. because they did Dot note the power of God in their midst and gladly receive the Message. Such, Jesus declared, will be less prepared to appreciate the Kingdom in the future than will some who have never known Him. Tyre and Sidon, heathen cities, would have repented with far less preaching. It is but in harmony with Divine Justice, therefore, that when the Great Day of God's favor and of the Messianic Kingdom shall dawn, the people of Tyre and Sidon shall have things still more favorable than the people of Chorazin gnd Bethsaida and Capernaum. Jesus declared that Capernaum had been exalted up to heaven—highly lifted up in point of privilege and Divine favor and blessing. This being true, it meant that in justice Capernaum’s fall would be proportionate. She would fall from the heights of heavenly privilege and favor down to hell—to the grave. Listen further to the reason for this denouncement: “If the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in Sodom, it would have remained unto this day; but I say. It shall be more tolerable for Sodom In the Day of Judgment than for thee.”

Let us not mistake the lesson: While only those who fully accept Christ and consecrate their lives to His service

will receive the spir-it-begetting, or any share in the Heavenly Kingdom, all the remainder of mankind wiio come to any knowledge of the Lord and His mercy and blessing, and who refrain from rendering homage and from striving to walk in God’s way, will propor-

tionately disadvantage themselves in respect to the future life and the great blessings and privileges and opportunities to be brought to all mankind through Messiah's Kingdom and its reign of a thousand years. **l Thank Thee, O Father." It was in Jesus’ day Us it has ever since been, that not many of the great or rich or wise or learned had ears to hear the Gospel Message. The difficulty with this class is that the things of the present life sb fill and satisfy that they have no hungering for the better things Thus it has been that the majority of the followers of Jesus Id every Age have been chiefly the poor of this world, rich in faith. But hearken again to the words of Jesus—how peculiarly they read: “1 thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and has revealed them unto babes; even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Thy sight” How strangely those

words once sounded to us. when we supposed that all who failed to receive the Message of Jesus, all who failed to make their “calling and election sure” to membership in the Bride class, would suffer an eternity of torture! How strange it seemed that Jesus should thank the Father that these things were hidden from some of the grandest and noblest and most brilliant of our face! But now. how clear! how plain! Jesus was preaching the Kingdom, and all who rejected His preaching rejected the Kingdom, and will lose it. This does not mean that they may not receive ultimately a blessing under that Kingdom, when it ahallrule the world, and when all that are in their graves shall come forth to receive those very blessings which Jesus died to procure for them—the blessings of a trial, or judgment of a thousand years to determine whether they will be accounted worthy of ever lasting life, or of everlasting death.

Few Know the Father or the Son. All men are to be brought to a knowledge of God. The Scriptures de Clare. “The knowledge of the glory of

God shall fill the whole earth.” Jesus declared that no one can know the Father except as he knows the Son. or as the Son reveals the Father to him. Hence those who have failed to recognize Jesus as the Son of God have not yet come to tho full appreciation

of their privileges. Blessed are our eyes, that now they see, and our ears that now they hear, that we may know Messiah, and through Him know the b'ather. We are g! .! that all mankind in due time will l:e brought to a clear know! edge and full opportunity. But oh. how mm !i greater is our blessing, besides the privilege of now being the sons of <:«-<!. and joint heirs in his glorious Kingdom: The spe -iai < al! of God throng.'! Jesus, therefore, is to the " poor, the Broken-hearted, the heav\ laden, the unsatisfied: "Come mc<. >.Me. all ye that labor and are In laden, and I will give you rgst.” I

“Not many great or rich hear the gospel now.”

"Come unto Me, all ye that labor.”