XXXV

MEASURELESS AND ALL-SATISFYING PROVISIONS OF THE CREATOR, GOD, FOR THE ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF ALL the Needs of the Soul of Man

In the Hebrew revelation, the Bible, the word of the living God, are recounted over and over again, the marvelous and measureless provisions of the Creator, God, for the needs of His creature, Man, both for his body and his soul.

Accordingly, it is a comparatively easy task to specify the all-satisfying and all-sufficient provisions of the Creator for the supply of the following most apparent and doubtless the greatest needs of Man's soul, as specified in Chapter IV of this volume, namely:

I. An endless life of perfect love, joy, peace, and glory. 2. Boundless, all-satisfying, incontestable, ever-available, and everlasting possessions.

3. Absolutely true, unselfish, congenial, and transparent personal relationships, always abounding in words and acts of lovingkindness.

4. A home, and abiding place or condition of indescribable attractiveness, comfort and loveliness, and full of superlative joy and delight.

5. Ruling with unobstructed justice and harmony amidst surpassing splendor and glory.

6. An all-inclusive and perfect government, wherein the governing and the governed would be absolutely one

in purpose, plan, and execution; wherein the interests of all would be sacredly guarded and inviolably secure; and wherein the needs of all would be provided for without limit and constantly supplied to their utmost capacity with ever-unerring certainty.

7. A Supreme Governor, all-wise, all-just, all-beneficent and almighty; in fact, a perfect Governor, none other than the Creator Himself, who alone knows all the needs of Man and all the provisions for their adequate supply. He must also have a perfect (sinless) human nature taken upon Himself, or in Himself, as a medium of common approach, intercourse, understanding, and cooperation with Man.

Particular Needs of the Soul and the Provisions of the Creator, God, for Their Supply in Detail:

1. An Endless Life of Perfect Love, Joy, Peace, and Glory a Comprehensive Need of the Soul.

"Life Ever

a. An Endless Life a Need of the Soul. lasting" the Provision of the Creator for its Supply: (1) An endless life a need of the soul.

(2) Eternal life provided for its supply.

(3) It is available; but only through Jesus Christ. (4) It is adapted to the soul and this particular need. (5) It affords complete satisfaction.

(6) It is everlasting.

(7) It is all glorious.

Selections from the Bible, God's Word, as Proof of

Eternal Life:

I. "And at that time shall Michael stand

up,

the great

prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

2. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

3. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever" (Dan. 12: 1-3).

14. "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

15. That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

17. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved" (John 3: 14-17).

24. "Verily, verily, I (Jesus) say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

25. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

26. For as the Father hath life in Himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;

27. And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.

28. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

29. And shall come forth; they that have done good unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation" (John 5:24-29).

25. "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

26. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" (John 11:25, 26).

29. "And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,

30. Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting" (Luke 18:29, 30).

22. "But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

23. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Rom. 6:22, 23).

7. "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

8. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting" (Gal. 6:7, 8).

15. "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

16. Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

17. Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen" (I Tim. 1: 15-17).

24. "Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard

from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

25. And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life" (I John 2:24, 25).

II. "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

12. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

13. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God" (1 John 5: 11-13).

b. Perfect Love, Joy, Peace, and Glory, Needs of the Soul:

(1) Perfect love, joy, peace, and glory-needs of the soul.

(2) Perfect love, joy peace, and glory-provisions of the Creator for these needs.

(3) They are available; but only through Jesus Christ. (4) They are in every respect adapted to these needs. (5) They afford overwhelming satisfaction. (6) They are without limit.

(7) As supplies they are enrapturing.

The following selections are proofs of the heavenly and overwhelming provisions of the Creator, God, for the supply of the above specified needs of the soul:

First, Perfect Love, a Need of the Soul. "The Love of Christ Which Passeth Knowledge," the Provision of the Creator for Its Supply.

16. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16).