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That Seventh Chapter of Romans

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Ruth A. Kenyon

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as the whole revelation of God in Christ, and that what God re­vealed in Christ is every true believer's heritage.

We believe in the Eternal God­head of the Father, Son and Holy Spir't.

We believe in the finished work of Jesus Christ.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, and His indwelling presence.

We believe healing is for us. We believe the miracles of the

Book of Acts are to be perpetu­ated.

We believe in the new kind of love that Jesus brought to be the law of the brethren, and we be­lleve that we are to walk in that love.

We believe in the great Com­mission.

We believe that Jesus Christ is the Head and Lord of the Body.

We believe in the second com­ing of our Lord.

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In order to understand this chapter, it is necessary that we get its setting and place in the Divine argument of redemption.

In this Book of Romans from chapter 1: 18 to 3:20, Paul is deal­ing with the question of sin, and in the fourteen indictments against natural man, found in chapter 3: 11-18, he has proven conclusively that no man has a right standing with God.

In chapter 3:21-30 he shows how a right standing with God is made possible through the propitiation which was set forth in the person of God's own ' Son, Jesus of Nazareth, and how God is able through that sacrifke to justify everyone who accepts that sacrifice on the principle of faith.

He brings the law and the prophets as two witnesses to prove that Jesus of Nazareth is a sacrifice satisfactory to God.

Set Right Through Faith In the fourth chapter he shows

that this right standing is avail­able purely upon the ground of faith, using Abraham as an illus­tration; for Abraham believed God and afterward received cir­cumcision as q seal of that faith.

Circumcision here stands as a type of the new birth, and Paul's argument is that the sinner be· lieves God's testimony concern­ing His Son, Jesus Christ, and as a seal of that faith God gives him the New Birth.

Then the Apostle is able to make this declaration: "Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was reckoned unto him; but for our sake also, unto whom it shall be reckoned, who believe on Him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up for o •r trespasses, and was raised for our justifi. cation."

Now notice the next verse, "Being therefore justified (set right) by faith (on the principle of faith), we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."

You see, the object of justi­fication is that we may enjoy peace, fellowship and commun­ion with God.

In chapter 5:2-11 Paul is show­ing God's exceeding grace, and how "He commendeth His. own love toward us (or has put His love beyond a doubt), in that, while we were yet sinners Christ died for us."

In 5: 12-21 He covers the whole plan, of redemption from the fall to the seating of Jesus Christ at the right hand of the Father, showing that sin was the door that Adam opened through which spiritual death, uniting man with the devil, entered and so passed down through Adam into all of his children.

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If you want to be of service you," but having "become serv­for the Master, form study ants to God, ye have your fruit groups in your home or church, unto sanctification." using these Bible Courses. He makes clear these three

We will gladly send enough points. lessons so each member of the In chapter 5: 17 he says, "For class may have a copy. if, by the trespass of the one,

death reigned through the one; much more shall they that re­ceive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, (or the gift of this right standing with God) reign in life through the one, even Jesus Christ."

Second, we are dead to sin, to law, and to Satanic dominion, and are "alive unto God in Christ Jesus."

We no longer have the con­sciousness of guilt, and penalty for sin, and are free from its dominion and power.

The Jews Under the Law This brings us to the seventh

chapter. Paul asks that same old question, "Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law)."

Thus in the seventh chapter we are coming to another great truth. For instance, "the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth."

He illustrates it by the wife in her union with her husband. The wife is under law to her husband until the husband dies. That husband is the Mosaic Law; the wife is the Jew; until the law has been fulfilled and set aside, the Jew cannot be married to or become united with Jesus Christ.

"But now we have been dis­charged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in new­ness of the spirit."

Now he gives us a picture of a Jew who is under law, unre­generate, seeking a right stand­ing with God on the principle of works. He asks the question, "ls the law sin?" Then he says, "God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin except through the law."

Here he ' ares that he was perfectly free and happy in his ignorance until the law came, but when the commandment came he saw the power of the sin that reigned in him and discovered that he was spiritually dead.

The commandment which told him that he ought to live and which commanded him to love God with all his heart, (a thing impossible for the natural man), he found to be his messenger of death. For when sin found it was discovered, it rose up in tremen­dous power and slew him, so that the law which was holy and good, coming from God the Father, filled him with conster­nation and fear of judgment.

Law Uncovers Sin

"Did then that which is good become death unto me?" Paul asks. No, he says, it was not the good that was death unto him, it simply showed him that he was already dead, for sin never was sinful until the command­ment came and showed it to be sin.

Then he discovered that he was sold under sin, and that the good things he would do he found himself unable to do, and the evil things which the law condemned and which he did not want to do, a power within him compelled him to do, so he cried out, "It is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me."

He knew that in him, that is, in his unregenerate flesh, dwelt no good thing. The law was pres­ent, that same law which makes it possible for a sinner to accept Jesus Christ as his Saviour, was in him, but to practice what he willed he had no strength. "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh." Then he found this to be a fact, that when he "would do good evil is present."

He delighted in the law just

"ABSORPTION IN JESUS HEALS"

Rev. Max Stowe

If Jesus were here now in the flesh before us how simple it would become to be healed. We would forget all about means to be healed, and we would lose all struggle and doubt. How very simple it would become! Healing would just become, - JESUS!

And good news, - that is just what healing is. If we try to make it more we needlessly complicate our being healed and thereby prevent it.

The principle way Satan tries to keep people from having Jesus' healing become effective is by complicating the practical means to be employed by the Christian to be healed.

The Christian strives to em­ploy the means correctly and completely and he becomes lost in a maze of methods and loses sight of Jesus, the Healer. In I Corinthians 1 :30 we read that Jesus "was made unto us wis­dom from God, and righteous­ness and sanctification and re-­demption."

Here we read that Jesus was made healing unto us. Redemp­tion meant salvation of both soul and body. Healing is an integral part of the atonement. (Isa. 53: 4-5). "HE is become our salva­tion." (Ps. 118: 14, 21 ). And it is also true that HE has become our healing.

The best secret of all as to practical methods of obtaining our healing is to be so taken up with the person of Jesus that we forget all rules, means and meth­ods and HE becomes our "all in all." (Col. 3:11).

Then we are actually healed as He becomes our very life. "Christ, w o is our life." (Col. 3:4). "To me to live is Christ." (Phil. 1 :21). "It is no longer I that live but Christ liveth in me." {Gal. 2:20). He really becomes our physical life and heals and keeps us well.

This is not "far beyond the range of possibilities for us," as Satan will tell us. Paul attained it, and he was a man of like pas­sions with us, and we have all He had. Many Christians experi­ence it every day now.

All we need to do is to forget means, methods and even faith, and to "look unto JESUS." As we become taken up with Him, He enters in larger measure, and His very life casts out sickness and weakness. Anybody can do it. Don't believe the devil. (John 8:44). The secret lies in becom­ing all taken up with JESUS.

as a Unitarian does, just as an honorable, high-minded man does. Yet he saw a different law warring against this noble pur­pose in him and bringing him into captivity to the power of sin which is in his members, and he cries, 'Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?"

Deliverance Through Christ

Listen, reader, in the next sen­tence he cries, (and the best translation reads thus), "I thank God deliverance has come through Jesus Christ our Lord."

This is not the language of a man who has passed from death unto life, but it is of one who is still under the awful bondage of an unregenerate heart.

When one attempts to prove that the seventh chapter of Ro­mans is the experience of a be­liever, of one who has passed from death unto life, one whom God calls a new creation, one over whom sin has no dominion and power, he has missed the mark.

JANUARY - FEBRUARY, 1955

Dear Pastors, Friends and Prayer-Partners:

These last three months have been especially strenuous ones. First, we attended the Rhodesian native and missionary confer­ence. How our hearts were moved for the needy ones who came seeking deliverance. hank God for the testimonies of heal­ing and deliverance from demon power. One poor, old woman begged me to pray that she might be given the Holy Spirit to live with her since every child and relative had died. I can see their faces now, the poor leper woman, the Nyasa man de­pressed by demons, the earnest faces of the preachers, and the shining, happy faces of the crowd as they sang the praises of God in that hot, crowded church.

While Ralph was in Nyasaland and Joy was at home caring for the three little ones, I took our local preacher's wife and went out into the mountains to visit places where we have churches that have never been visited be­cause of their inaccessability. In one place, forty-five miles away, they had not received my mes­sage saying I was coming, and when I reached the place, I found the wife had been very ill for three weeks. We prayed, and she was healed on the spot and arose to minister to us.

Down in a flei (a gully) we found a believer in what seemed like the last stages of T.B. He was just skin and bones and could not eat or care for himself. He told us that one night when he felt he was dying and Satan whispered that God had for­saken him, God gave him Ps. 91: 11 and told him He was send­ing me there to pray for him. He began to mend immediately and was soon able to go home.

As we went out TO 1he ne~ ..... 7t:.'l~---­

villages in that place we had some notable conversions. Among them was an aged sub-chief and his palsied, red-eyed wife and a one-legged man. As I was explaining the Way of Sal-vation out under a tree, the man suddenly cried out with joy, be-cause for many months he had sought the Lord and now he knew his search was over. These three, with others, walked seven miles to come and be baptized.

How these people respond to any love one shows them. In every place God ''confirmed the Word with signs following." An­other preacher's wife was mir­aculously healed the first day we were there.

Two Sundays ago R·alph went to dedicate a new church build­ing about sixty miles from Um­tali, while I went to see how the Central church was doing. We found those we had left in charge had been faithful and that new souls had been added to the church each week.

Last week-end we held a three.day meeting in another di­rection in the mountains fifty-five miles from here. The majority of people there are real heathen. Eight women and twelve men and boys repented and testified to their Salvation. God has given us favor with the chiefs in these parts. One of the chiefs attended our meeting and afterward told us he was very pleased to have us preach to his people. He has given us permission to build a church there.

We thank every one of you for your love and faithfulness and prayers. With all our hearts we say GOD BLESS YOU, and make you to increase more and more in every good work until Jesus comes.

Yours for the Kingdom, Ralph and Marion Haines Umtali, S. Rhodesia, Africa.

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Believing is simplified when we know that it means to Act upon the Word. Many questions and problems will go when we know that all we need to do is just act upon what God has told us in His Word.

His Word is a Revelation of what has already been prepared for us, and now as we know it and act upon it, it becomes a reality in our lives.

There is an example of this in the life of Abraham.

it difficult to comprehend, But we are not walking by human reason. We are walking by the Word, and all He asks is that we accept it and agree with it and He will do the rest.

It is not necessary to pray, in the usual sense of that word, for a thing that belongs to you. God declares that it is yours, and so you agree with Him and thank Him for it.

Here· is where many fail. They continue to plead with God to give them what He has already given them, instead of simply thanking Him for it and allowing Him to make it real to them.

God had promised that He would make out of him a great nation at a time when it was a physical impossibility from the "Giving thanks always for all standpoint of human reason. But things in the name of our Lord Abraham belie ,ed God so frrmly Jesus Christ to God, even the that when God asked him to sac- Father." Eph. 5:20. rifice his only son, he obeyed. This is co-operating with God He couldn't understand it, but he and acting upon His Word, for knew that God couldn't lie and our thanksgiving is an evidence was fully persuaded that what of our faith in the integrity of the He had promised He was able to Word. perform. We co-operate with God in our

Abraham believed in his heart thinking. and acted accordingly. God did He told Joshua to meditate on the rest. the Word day and night, for

"You see that faith co-oper- then his way would be prosper­ated with his good deeds, and by ous and he would have good his good deed$ was faith made success. And in Col. 3:2 Paul tells complete." James 2:22. (Wil- us, "Set your mind on the things liam's Trans.) that are above, not on the things

We have a picture here of that are upon the earth." Abraham's acting on the Word. In our meditation and thought He co-operated with God by his life, the Word must prevail over good deeds. In other words, he every situation. If sickness showed his faith in God by his ~omes, our minds turn to Is. 53:5, actions. He believed that God By his stripes we are healed." could ask him to slay his son and If strength is needed, we turn to still keep His promise. He Ps. 27: 1, "Jehovah is the strength obeyed God and saw Him keep of my life." If there is a mater­His Word. ial need, we think of Math. 6;32,

This action upon the Word is "For your heavenly Father know­necessary because it is this ac- eth that ye have need of all tion that completes, or perfects, these things." When Satan at-

f h I b · t t tempts to fill us with fear, we our ait · t r ngs it to 8 s a e meditate on Is. 41: l 0, "Fear thou of maturity so God is able to honor it. He has done His part not, for I am with thee." in Redemption. Now we do our Believing is an act of the will. part by accepting it and acting It is willing to have and enjoy upon it. all that belongs to us in Christ.

"Just as the body without the It is a determination to know spirit is dead, so faith without the freedom with which Christ good deeds is dead." (William's has set us free. Trans.) It is refusing to allow Satan to

What are these good deeds? hold us in bondage in any way. They are our entire daily con- It is taking a positive stand on

duct in thought, word and deed. God's Word in every circum­Our whole lives must be in stance. agreement with the Word. We We settle the thing, whatever think, talk and act our faith. This it is, in our hearts and minds,

.. is co-operating with God and act- and then we confess it with our ing upon His Word. mouths.

He has provided a Redemp- We co-operate with God in our tion that meets every need. "In words. whom we have our Redemp- " ... let us hold fast our con-tion." Eph. 1 :7. This is a state- fession." Heb. 4: 14. ment of fact; it is not a promise It is a Confession of a perfect of what He will do or of what Redemption and of a perfect de­He is able to do, but a statement liverance out of the authority of of what He has already done for Satan. His dominion over us is us. completely broken, and we think

It all belongs to us; it is ours and talk as though we believed now. " ... for everything be- it. longs to you, Paul, Apollos, Our Confession mu~t always Cephas, the world, life, death, agree with the Word, for we rise the present, the future - they all or fall to the level of it. belong to you." I Cor. 3:21. (Wil- God is working through His liam's Trans.) Word, and when we confess it,

You may not be enjoying it all, we are co-operating with Him and your human reason may find and increasing His power in our

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lives. Satan works through the senses and our human reason, and when we talk of our sick­ness and troubles, we are giving him a place and increasing his hold over us.

Sin has been put away; Satan has been conquered, and as New Creations we are to reckon our­selves as dead 10 sin and alive unto God in Christ Jesus. Rom. 6: 11.

Make this your Confession. Act upon it and God will make

if a reality to you!

JANUARY - FEBRUARY, 1955

Our Need of the Miraculous

E. W. Kenyon

Why is it that men are so fear­ful of the Supernatural?

The whole history of the Chos­en People and of the Church is made up of a series of Super­natural manifestations of Divine Power.

The Church is founded on a Miracle, its Founder was a Mir­acle, His life was a Miracle, His Ministry was a Miracle, His tra­gic death was a Miracle, and His Resurrection was the Miracle of the Ages.

The Birth of the Church was a Miracle, the first sermon and the attending phenomena of Pente­cost was a staggering Miracle that upset Judaism. The history of the first generation was a series of Miracles that overturned the Jewish nation and trans­formed the Roman Empire.

Every New Birth is a Miracle, every reception of the Holy Spirit is a Miracle, every victory over the Devil is a Miracle, every an­swer to prayer is a Miracle.

So you see that the Gospel is a Miracle performer, and is a living Miracle in its operations.

What we have written is true, it is the substance of the Faith of the Church. Now, why is it that the Church fights, or op­poses, that which called her into being, and keeps her in being?

. Why is it that our Theological Institutions ignore the Super­natural and seek to explain the Miracles on a rationalistic basis?

Why is it that a man who be-1 ieves in the Supernatural is not wanted in the ministry?

Why is it that a Skeptic can get a better Church ~nd be m r highly recommended by the "powers that be" than the man who believes?

Why is it that the "Higher Critic" is permitted to destroy the faith of the Church, and the man who believes in the verbal inspiration of the Scriptures is shut out?

Why is it that clear-headed business men will listen week after week while a preacher tears the heart out of the Bible and the faith out of the Church, when he knows that no Church can succeed without faith in the Bible and its Author, and not rise up and protest against it?

Who wants a religion that is not supernatural, who wants a God that does not or cannot hear and answer prayer?

Who wants a God that is not personally interested in our lives, who cannot help us in trouble and bear our burdens?

I want a religion that is Super­natural I I want a God who can be reached by prayer, who loves and cares for me!

WITNESS Glenn D. Clark

In this day of sin and strife, When the world is in despair;

More than ever Christian life, Must be witness of God's care.

As the faithful Paul of old; We must burn with fire and

zeal. We must speak with voices bold

Of His power to save and heal.

We must never be in shame Of the Gospel of our Lord;

For it always is the same, 'Tis the promise of His Word.

HOLLAND: N. V. Boekhandel W. ten Have, v.h. Hoveker's Boak• handel, Kalverstraat 154, Am­sterdam, Holland.

-------- In it is Salvation power, Psalms 37:4 "Delight thyself in To believers, every one.

Jehovah and he will give thee Christian, never let us cower the desires of thy heart." In the witness of God's Son.