[Songs in the Night - July 12]
These are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. John 20:31
THE only faith that will stand the test and bring
us off conquerors over the spirit of the world, the flesh,
and the Adversary, is the hope set before us in the
Gospel, of which Jesus as the Messiah is the center.
That is the hope of the world—the hope that Christ
having redeemed the world with his precious blood
will grant, in due time, a blessing of opportunity to
every creature, that whosoever will may come through
knowledge and obedience to life eternal, and that the
disobedient shall be destroyed in the second death.
A
further part of this hope of which Jesus, the Messiah,
is the center, is that those who are now called, the
obedient through faith, shall be joint-heirs with
the Master in the great kingdom which shall bless the
world.
No wonder the apostle said of this messianic
hope, this kingdom hope, "He that hath this hope in
him purifieth himself, even as he is pure." Z'05-188 R3580:5 (Hymn 215)