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Show 1 WHY SEVEN WOMEN ! DESIRE ONE HUSBAND A Symbolical Bible Picture of Present-Day Religious Conditions Woman a Symbol f tb Church Jewish Jew-ish Marriage Typic4 of th Union of Christ and Hia Churoh The Trua Church a Betrothed Virgin The Marriage of the Lamb" Who Are the Sevan Women? Who la tie One Man? Why He Turna From Them. Ww'lfr- "-' -'K R0'0-11'8 text fo-"KlLctB. fo-"KlLctB. ' m 's' "S('ven "Hlft gtL hold of one .Mas fM ,n Lhat r)ay: My" Bm3 oar own bread and "V jffflSB Tear 0Tir 0"n ap. mm natnr, to takeaway rlPASIOR. r?U5SELLlJ o u r reproach."- ' Isaiah 4.1. The Pastor ehowcyl that thronghont roe tcnprnre a woninn is me pvmooi I of the Church a pure woman of a pun Chuivh, a corrupt woman of a false Church. Our Lord compared the true Church In the. end of the Gospel Age lo company of virgins some wise and some foolish Dd Himself to I I the br1degr'..m St. Paul amplifier the i ' fljrurn, declaring, "I have espoused you! the consecrated 'hurcli ns a ohaste 1 virgin uhtO "ne htisb.ind. which If , Christ." cj Corinthians 11:2.) Here ! ns In our Lord's parable of the Ten Vlr-gins, Vlr-gins, t h Jewlsn marriage is set forth' typical 'if the union between Christ i 1 and the Chnrch a very different hg-ore hg-ore from our murrioge custom In olden time, when a betrothal took place, leal ,-ind binding documents were signed by t for the contracting pflrties. but DO actual marriage oe- ourrcil for about n yenr. While waiting wait-ing for the bridegroom to take her t-hls t-hls own house, the espoused vlrglD wn expected to le as faithful to hot espousal ss Ls imw expected of nuy true wife We Bee the harmony be-tween be-tween (h.s custom iind our Lord's deal ings wiiii iii church. No one . -j... i.. i to uur Lrtl who has not entered into a definite contract with llim The Lords pari of this contract is the sssurnnce through the Scriptures thut If faithful the Church Bball be QIs o nl bcir in His Millennial Millen-nial Kingdom, The Church's part is n covenant of consecration, loyalty e-v u unto death The interim between our personal a?retitii nee of our Lord's gm-dous gm-dous promises by a fnii consecration of our nil to Him and His Berrlee until we actually die corresponds to the ie-trothal ie-trothal period of the .IiwlHh maltb u. But the more exact f ultil ment of the figure L found in the history of the Church ns n whole. Our Lord's vlrpin Church was espoused to Hlni at Pentecost, Pente-cost, and hns since been waiting for the Bride-groom's coming and her res urrecll"ii change to glory, honor and immortality the union, the raarringe. "Seven Women In That Day." Then tlie Pastor proceeded to explain the meaning of Ids text. The nnmber aeven is well recognized throughout the Scripturi-s ns a symbol of completeness; complete-ness; and so it uaay here signify all the churclxv of tbls world excluding ths tnie Church, which is not of thk world, and iv hi eh doe not follow Its course. "We have conie to the time when nil the various sects ami denominations feel the reproach of their situation, broagbt about by the confusion of doctrines doc-trines amongst the different branches of ChurchiahJty. The heathen are Inquiring In-quiring how It comes that there are so many kinds of Christian and tbnt they all get their various theories out of the Sanaa Book This Is a reproach that Ls keeulv felt dt tlie ladln? minds of all denominations. The one Man of the text Tery prop-erlv prop-erlv represents our Iord. the Heavenly Heaven-ly Bridegroom. I'ho text tdgutfles that I ail the nominal churehea have come to the place where they deatre to be calk ed merely the churches of Christ bat wish nothing more to do with Him. Ther desire to hold their sectarian names, bet ttiey wish also to be called Christians their chief aaseL For the j foctrines of Christ they care nothing and for any thought of redemption and ; covering of sinB through the merit of 1 His Mood they care nothing. They desire de-sire merely His name. Nt So With the Trwa CKuroh. The more these women desire to eat their own bread and to wear apparel of their own furnlshinent. the more will the true one of the Lord's peopie amongst them And that they have neither nei-ther lot nor part there. The truo Chnrch does not wish to eat her own bread; she dewns the Bread from Heaven. 8be does not prefer her own theories, her own plans of salvation, but that which God has provided-thbags provided-thbags new and old from the Storehouse Store-house of Dlvino Truth, Neither does Bhe desire to wear her own apparel, fox she has come to understand that all her righteousness Is as filthy rags. More and more ls the true Church learning; to appreciate the robe given her by the Heavenly Bridegroom the wedding gnrmeut More and more does she trust In the merit of her Redeemer, Redeem-er, the covering of whose Justification wo symbolized by the skies of the aao riflce given to Adam and Eve as the covering of their nakedneaa. |