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Show OUR BODIES ARE GOD'S TEMPLES "Be Ya Filled With the I Spirit." The Unregenorato Their Privileges. "If the Spirit of God Dwell In You." Greater Privileges Greater Responsibilities Respon-sibilities Greater Honors and Glories. Saved to Human Perfection Saved to Spirit Perfection Earthly Glory. Heavenly Glory. B PTBi Providence, R. 1 , bwjb$'& 8 Russell preached smffih 11 here today Hi.s pmjMffKW ag? aa text was, "If any ' Ja man dellle t h e K sf hlm sba11 God de JH stroy; for the tern- jlFASTOR. RUSSELL) The istor declared de-clared that this 8crlpturo could not be applied Indiscriminately Indis-criminately to all men. Only the Church are the Temple of .God In the sense the Apostle here mentions; for only such as have beon regenerated, or begotten of the tloly Spirit, are sons of God. These have received a new life, and are Scrlpturally described as "Now Creatures in Christ" These have entered Into a covenant with God through the merit of Jesus, who lm putes Ills righteousness to them, Justifying Jus-tifying them freely from their un intentional Imperfections and weak nessea. Then tho Pastor pointed out the dls tlnctlon between these spirit-begotten New Creatures and the remainder ol mankind, however Just and well-in tentioned. He showed that ordlnarih we do not speak of humanity apart from their bodies; for. cut off from the body, they would be dead. We speak of such separation as dissolution. A the union of life (vitality) with organism or-ganism (body) forms the soul, or sentient sen-tient being, so their separation causes the soul to cease. Death would be tin-end tin-end of humnulty, had not God provld cd for the redemption of the race, and its restitution by resurrection. Restitution Resti-tution will be merely a bringing back of that which death is now destroying human, or earthly, being Next the speaker showed that any thing done, either deliberately or care lessly. to injure God workmanship would be sin. There Is a Divine Law to the effect that whoever sins shall suffer. Whoever deQles his body, el ther by impure thoughts, angry thoughts, malicious thoughts, or by misusing it contrary to Divine arrange ment. or by drinking or by gluttony, is defiling tho temple of his own soul-i soul-i the work of God. Every vile thought or act, every pan derinn to appetite, is sure to brlns de pravity of body or mind or both; and deprnvlty, he claimed. Is death at work. Unless such depravity be overcomr through Christ, the end will be ever lasting death, as is written, "The soui that slnneth, it shall die." The same prir. iple. said the Pastor, applies to all who do evil to others, either ei-ther by poisoning their minds or their morals, or by injuring their physical sj stems. Such do violence to God's work, and degrade their own manhood. The operation of Divine Law will surely sure-ly bring punishments, which, unheeded, will ultimately bring death "everlasting "everlast-ing destruction." We may warn every man along the broad Biblical line, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap," continued the speaker. Whoever sows to the flesh to sin, selfishness, mean-nes9to mean-nes9to the fallen propensities anger, malice, envy, hatred, strife, evil speaking, speak-ing, etc. will be sure to reap correspondingly corre-spondingly bitter experiences. This way. persisted in. will Anally bring him to the SecoDd Death. God's Temple the Church. The Fastor then briefly reviewed Israel's Is-rael's wilderness experiences. When God entered Into covenant relationship with the Israelites. He manifested Himself by the Shekinah Glory, which shone out from between the Cherubim covering the Mercy Seat in the Tabernacle. Taber-nacle. The Israelites drew near to God through His appointed servants, Aaron and his sons, who had access to God's presence. The Tabernacle was therefore the temple of God, but it was merely a tent. After the dedication of Solomon's Solo-mon's Temple. God appeared there instead, in-stead, and manifested His presence in the same manner. Then the Pastor explained fully that tho Church is God's antitypical Temple; Tem-ple; but that, as St Peter points out. it is not yet constructed ns a Temple Each consecrated child of God. begot ten of the Holy Spirit, Is a living stone in preparation for a place in that glorl ous Temple, soon to be constructed. These living stones are God's work manshlp. Ho works in them by tbi Spirit of Truth; and by His providence-He providence-He shapes them, polishes them, devel ops their characters, and makes them ready for the comiuc building. The Pastor believes St Paul's though' In the text to be that wherever God may dwell Is necessarily holy Hl-temple Hl-temple or His tabernacle; and that an wilful or intentional sin. depraviDj. that temple or tabernacle, would b an offense against God. If Cbrlstlnm who have received the begetting ol the Holy Spirit could but comprehem this lesson, it would have a powerfu fnflnoi ,M"" f'' |