TEHILLIM 16

1 Preserve [Be shomer over] me, O El: for in Thee do I put my trust [hide myself].

Our first parents were put to the test by a subtle, low-reasoning, faithless serpent. We are put to the test by the mind of the serpent implanted in our nature. This serpent-mind prompts us to distrust God and to believe in ourselves, to judge according to appearances, to secure present pleasure regardless of consequences: in brief, to gratify, at any cost, the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life.

There would have been no trial for Adam had no commandment been given. So with us. God is proving us by the commandments that He has laid down. These are numerous and effect us in every relationship of life: as husbands, as wives, as parents, as children, as servants, or as neighbours.

As sincere men and women, let us in all these bearings of life find out what the will of the Lord is—like David let us not rest till we are able to say,

"With my whole heart have I sought thee, O let me not wander from thy precepts."

Fidelity to the divine law, week in and week out, is exceedingly irksome, but it is essential to eternal life.

"He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life."

Shall we complain because God has appointed probation before exaltation? Let us not be so unreasonable. Let us rejoice rather at the wisdom and beauty of the method. Let us remember that if we are faithful our day of exaltation will surely come.

Probation is not for ever. It will terminate both individually and racially. In no individual instance does it extend beyond a brief life-time, and racially it is within the compass of 7,000 years. In either case, is not this, in view of the eternal ages beyond, "a little while?"

The Christadelphian, Oct 1889

10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Here the "godly one" in death, the Spirit styles his flesh, or his soul. That dead flesh, or soul, was not the Holy One; but when that mortal and corruptible flesh, or soul, was made alive by the Spirit of AIL, it became the "Yahweh Elohim, the Holy One of Israel;" or Yahweh, and "His Holy One" -- the Light, the Fire, and the Flame of Israel. (Isa

"That which has been born out of the Spirit is spirit." The Spirit-Logos first became flesh; and at its resurrection, that flesh became spirit; and therefore, "the Holy One and the True One;" for the Spirit is holiness and truth. (Isa 10:17)

The glorified Jesus is the Logos or Divine Spirit, in Holy-Spirit flesh -- the Holy and True One. Before he was "perfected by Spirit," in speaking the words of the Spirit, he said, "I am the Way, THE TRUTH, and the Life;" and "he that hath seen me hath seen the Father;" and the reason he gave was that he was "in the Father, and the Father in him" (John xiv. 6, 9,10).

In reference to this Elohal manifestation of the truth, John says, "We know that the Son of the Deity hath come, and hath given to us understanding that we may know THE TRUE ONE -- and we are in THE TRUE ONE, in His Son Jesus Anointed: the same is the true Deity and the Life of the Aion;" or Aion Life (1 John v. 20). To be "in him" is "the Way;" therefore he is "the Way:" the True Deity is the Anointed Logos in flesh, styled "Jesus Anointed;" and therefore "the Truth;" and the Aion-Life is "Christ our life;" and therefore "the Life."

"The law was given through Moses, the gracious gift and the truth came through Jesus Anointed" (John i. 17). He that saw Jesus did not see that "gift and truth," which was DEITY. John plainly declares this in the next verse, for he says, "No one hath seen Deity (or the Godhead, the Fountain and Origin of all things) at any time: the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath revealed him." Paul also testifies the same thing in i Tim. vi. 16, saying, "No man hath seen, nor can see him."

The Revealer, then, is the Faithful and True Witness, and what he saith about the Deity, His purposes, and so forth, is "the truth;" and that truth in its power, wisdom, and fulness, was deposited in Jesus; for "it pleased the Father that all the fulness should dwell in him." The law contained the form of the knowledge and of the truth. It was only a shadow of future things; a figure for the time then present; the patterns of the things in the heavens; the antitypes of the true -- but the knowledge and the truth, and the heavenly things themselves, constituting "the body" or substance, are of "THE ANOINTED." Without the anointing there is nothing.

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