EDITORIAL
On October 8, 1960, the Philadelphia College of Bible honored your editor with an award. The occasion was the Annual Alumni Homecoming Banquet. Dr. Charles C. Ryrie, president of the college, presented the award plaque to my wife who stood in for me. Dr. Ryrie read an explanatory letter which is reprinted below.
SERVICE HONOR AWARD
Presented to
ARTHUR E. GORDON '48
Confronted by circumstances that have crushed the spirit of many, Arthur E. Gordon not only determined in his heart to make the Lord his strength, but has given proof to the fact that Christ's strength is made perfect in weakness. (2 Corinthians 12:9).
Building a ministry upon a life of almost total paralysis, Arthur Gordon has been an example of courage and faith, and has been a source of inspiration to the physically afflicted and the shut-in.
Philadelphia College of Bible takes double pleasure in making this award. Having shared in Arthur Gordon's preparation, the college also shares in his victorious ministry which proclaims, "Now thanks be unto God which always causeth us to TRIUMPH in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of His knowledge by us in every place." (2 Corinthians 2:14).
PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF BIBLE
(Signed) Charles C. Ryrie, President
It is with humble gratitude I accept this honor--gratitude not only to the PCB but also to you my readers. Were it not for your faithfulness in praying and giving and even by just receiving our paper into your homes, we could have no ministry. So I want to share this honor with you who have helped make this ministry possible.
It shall be our great privilege in the future to lay this honor at the feet of our dear Lord who alone deserves all the honor and praise. Any small thing we may have done has been only by His grace and in His strength and by His direction and supply. Without Him we can do nothing. With Him all things are possible. Let's praise Him together for all He has done.
Your servant for Jesus' sake,
Arthur E. Gordon, Editor
My wife and I wish for you and yours at this Christmas Season the joy and peace of a Christ-centered Christmas.
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ADVENT
Christ came to earth--the living word--
He came with peace; man chose a sword.
The Prince of Peace! The angels sang
Of peace on earth, while heaven rang.
But men of sword led Him away
To Calvary's Cross, and on that day
They chose a world of war and strife,
Rejecting Christ, the Lord of life.
He comes again--O Christian, hear!
Surely His coming draweth near.
He brings a sword with which to smite
The enemies of truth and right.
He comes in God's eternal plan
As King of Kings, as One who can
Captives of Satan all release,
And bring to earth eternal peace.
His coming waits on me, on you--
On what we say and what we do
To help man know the Crucified,
That it was for our sins He died;
To lead lost sheep into the fold--
Those "other sheep" of whom Christ told--
Until the fold is full, and then
The Lord Christ will come back again.
Look up! and know the Blessed Hope!
Look out! and with the world's need cope.
Go forth and to that world proclaim
Salvation through the Saviour's name.
Seeing earth's strife, be not dismayed,
Nor in its dangers be afraid.
Soon will the cloven skies reveal
The Lord, who will the nations heal.
--Cosa Elizabeth Reynolds
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Dear Shut-In . . .
THE LORD'S SHUT-IN
By Philip C. Hanson
"Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not" (Jeremiah 33:3)
God has had His shut-ins in every age. Jeremiah, the ancient prophet, is the shut-in of our text. He was shut up in the prison court. It was not because of any sin in his life, nor disloyalty to his office, nor to his God. On the contrary, it was because of his uncompromising faithfulness to God.
Afflictions and difficulties in life do not necessarily reflect God's displeasure. Usually they indicate the exact opposite. The disciples once asked the Lord a strange question regarding an unfortunate man. "Who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" No doubt they never forgot the answer-- "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him."
"Many are the afflictions of the righteous." Our finite minds cannot comprehend the ways and workings of the infinite God. Being God's shut-in is a special calling. You, like Jeremiah, may be one of these favored few. We know that he was the Lord's shut-in, for God communed with him.
They were intimate friends. They were on speaking terms. Most of us are so busy running around doing what we may think is an indispensably good work that we don't have time to stop to listen to God's voice.
We will notice further from the text that the Lord conferred upon Jeremiah a special honor by making him a prayer partner. "Call unto Me, and I will answer thee." Jeremiah was a great prophet who could foretell, as well as forthtell, the message of God. He had few equals. But now it was God's plan that he should give himself to the important ministry of intercession. This teaches us the profound truth that prayer is the greatest ministry in which a child of God can engage.
In the early church the disciples suddenly discovered that they were too busy doing secondary service in the church, so they elected Spirit-filled deacons to do these things, and said, "We will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the Word" (Acts 6:14).
Years ago I heard Dr. R. A. Torrey give a series of blessed lectures on prayer. He remarked that people often asked him what he planned to do when he became too old to teach. His answer was, "I shall be busier that ever, for I shall give myself to prayer in behalf of students I have trained and for other Christian workers." Evidently he practiced what he preached, for the last entry made in his diary the day before the Lord took him Home was, "Now I shall have more time for prayer."
We must also notice that the Lord further confirmed His word to His dear shut-in friend by a reassuring promise, "I will answer thee."
God always answers the prayer of His children. Sometimes He even answers before they call (Isaiah 65:24). In Acts 12 we have an example of prayer being answered while they were calling.
Another glorious truth found in this text is that God confided in His shut-in. "I will show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not." The mysteries that God revealed to Jeremiah confounded many of his contemporaries.
God still reveals hidden mysteries to His own dear children who take time to listen. "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God" (I Corinthians 2:9-10).
Recently we visited a young lady of twenty summers who has been a shut-in during her entire life. It was like entering into the Holy of Holies. We were happily surprised to discover her rapturous joy in the Lord, but her spiritual discernment amazed us even more. Although she had never attended school or church she possessed a wide knowledge of Scriptural truth. She knew the Lord. She had been born of the Spirit. He had revealed "great and mighty things" to her.
The message to God's shut-in of long ago applies today also: "Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not."
Reprinted by permission of Good News Publishers, Westchester, Illinois.
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TRIALS
By Rev. George Headley, Pastor
Calvary Baptist Church
Reading, PA
BEFORE AN invention enters the field of useful service, it must be tested or tried so as to determine its measure of usefulness. Before a Christian brings praise and glory to his Lord he must go through trials. Note two of these trials:
I. THE TRIAL OF AFFLICTION
(2 Corinthians 8:2)
The Apostle Paul is writing to the Corinthian believers to encourage them to make a special offering to the poor saints of Jerusalem. To spur them to give, he uses the churches of Macedonia as an example, showing "how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality."
Now persons in great affliction are for the most part so occupied with their own troubles as to have little inclination to enter into the concerns of others. And if they be at the same time in a state of deep poverty, they seem by their situation, to be exempt from any obligation to relieve the needs of others. But note two things about these Christians:
1. Even though they were in great affliction, they still had the "abundance of joy." Oh, that Christians could learn to "rejoice in the Lord" (Philippians 4:4) in the time of affliction. The joy of the Lord is our strength, for "when I am weak then I am strong" because "the Lord is the strength of my life" (2 Corinthians 12:10; Psalm 27:1). His Word abiding within my heart makes me the possessor of His joy (John 15:11).
2. Though they themselves were in deep poverty, they has a burning desire and concern for the welfare of others. They entirely forgot their own suffering and trial. What an example for us to follow when going through trials of affliction. Perhaps you are going through great suffering of affliction as well as being in deep poverty. Are you questioning God's dealing with you, at the same time accusing Him of being unjust in His dealing with you? Or are you looking to the Lord, rejoicing in Him, and at the same time thinking of and praying for others? The Lord does not minimize your affliction, but He is greater and He is more precious than any experience through which you go in this life (Philippians 1:6). In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you (I Thessalonians 5:18). All things work together for good to them that love God, and that "good" is to conform you to the image of His Son (Romans 8:28,29), for it is God which worketh in you to will and to do of His good pleasure (Philippians 2:13).
II. THE FIERY TRIAL
(I Peter 4:12)
The New Testament abounds with warnings to expect "fiery, burning trials," and encouragement to endure them, with direction as to how we should conduct ourselves under them. We are taught in the Word to expect those who are born after the flesh only, to hate those who are born after the Spirit, and that "all who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution" (2 Timothy 3:12). When fiery trials come our way, let us not think it strange, as though some experience of ill-fortune accidently came upon us. God has seen fit to ordain that His people should be subjected to "fiery trials," but in them "He is faithful" (I Corinthians 10:13. May we receive them as our appointed lot, and submit to them, knowing He is with us never to leave nor to forsake us (Hebrews 13:5).
Our attitude should be a rejoicing one (I Peter 4:13), because we are partakers of Christ's sufferings. "If we be persecuted for righteousness' sake, rejoice ye, and leap for joy" (Matthew 5:10-12). Paul states that a true Christian will "glory in tribulations" (Romans 5:3); and that he himself actually "took pleasure in them" because it is through these that Christ's strength is displayed. James bids us "count it all joy when we fall into divers temptations," and further adds, "we count them happy that endure" (James 1:2; 5:11). Peter has the same view, for he states, "If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye" (I Peter 4:14). He calls it the "trial of our faith" (I Peter 1:7). Faith cannot be known to exist in the heart, unless there be some circumstances that give rise to the manifestation of it. Temptations can only be surmounted by strong faith. God Himself speaks as though He discovered Abraham's faith by means of the difficulties into which he was brought (Genesis 22:12). Our trials are much more precious than the trial of gold, for though gold will stand the trial of fire, yet it will perish at last; but faith will endure forever. The value and the brightness given to gold by the furnace are not to be compared with the purity and brightness which our faith derives from afflictions.
May our "great trial of affliction" and "the fiery trial" be the means of purifying our lives, so that we shall "show forth the praises of our Blessed Lord" (I Peter 2:9).
Reprinted by permission from "The Sunday School Builder: of The Calvary Baptist Church, Reading, PA
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A conqueror is one who wins by fighting; a "more than conqueror" is one who wins without fighting.
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If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and you are an immortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut?
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WELL DONE, HALF DONE, UNDONE
By Dr. William A. Mierop, Pastor
Hydewood Park Baptist Church
North Plainfield, NJ
WHAT IS THE highest compliment one can receive? It seems to me it is embodied in the words of Matthew 25:41, "Well done thou good and faithful servant." To provoke the pleasure of God is man's reaching his highest fulfillment. Jesus received the Father's crown of commendation when He heard those wonderful words. "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." (Matthew 3:17). The Lord Jesus never let the Father down. He always measured up to the divine standard, Our Lord honestly but modestly could state in John 15:1, "I am the TRUE vine." True, not as compared with untrue, but faithful as compared with infidelity. This statement is in contrast to Israel which while so greatly blessed had not proved faithful or grateful. (Isaiah 5:1-7).
The Bible is replete with illustrations of those who let the Lord down. Adam was the acme of creative perfection. God saw him as "good" (Genesis 1:26). God created the physical universe to support and sustain man but He created man for Himself. "The Lord's portion is His people" (Deuteronomy 32:9). But Adam was not long letting God down. He ate of the forbidden fruit and succumbed to sin.
Noah stood along in his generation (Genesis 6:5-8). But soon after the triumph of riding out the wrath of God in the ark he rapidly deteriorated (Genesis 9:20-24). He let God down.
Abraham who was singled out by God to be the progenitor of the Jewish race and who showed so much promise as a choice servant of the Lord yet lapsed spiritually and lied to the King of Gerar. He listened to the errant suggestion of his wife and let God down (Genesis 20).
Moses was ill-tempered and self-willed (Numbers 20:7-12). Samson, the Judge of Israel, married a heathen woman (Judges 16:15-21) leading to breaking his vow with God. David, the King of Israel, became a schemer, adulterer and murderer (II Samuel 11:22-27). All of these let God down.
These Old Testament illustrations are not isolated. Judas was an executive among the twelve Apostles. He was treasurer. Certainly he was highly favored to have been so closely associated with the Saviour. But when it came to a choice between his Lord and lucre he chose thirty dirty pieces of silver and let the Lord down. Peter stained his reputation for life by denying his Lord. Paul stepped out of the will of God when he went to Jerusalem. Demas (II Timothy 4:10) was a worldling who forsook the path of Christ.
The history of man is the History of infidelity. Man has always been a rebel. It is only as he allows Holy Spirit domination of his soul that he can do anything pleasing to the Lord. Let those of us who have named the name of Christ in salvation attain by the help of the Lord to those precious words of commendation "well done" instead of having an experience of "half done" or being in the unenviable position of "undone."
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SERMON SERIES
THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PETER
No. 16
Our Shepherd And Bishop
I Peter 2:22-25
THE CHURCH may boast of many shepherds and bishops but there is only One to whose name we prefix the capitals "S" and "B". The Lord Jesus Christ is the Shepherd and Bishop of our souls. This text is about Him.
THE EXAMPLE HE SET
"Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously" (22-23)
This could only be said of One. Jesus Christ was the Man who was sinless. For confirmation let's hear what His contemporaries had to say. Peter, one of His closest friends, says here in our text: "(He) did no sin." As if to make it more emphatic Peter uses the stronger negative which denies a thing absolutely. "Absolutely not," says he, "He did no sin." Never once had He fallen short of perfection.
Paul adds his testimony concerning Christ; "who," says he, "knew no sin."
His enemies voiced the same. Said Pilate, who tried Him, "I find no fault in this man." Said Judas, who betrayed Him, "I have betrayed the innocent blood." Said the centurion, who crucified Him, "Certainly this was a righteous man."
The greatest testimony of all, however, came from heaven at Jesus' baptism, when the Father said, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." Jesus concurs: "For I do always those things that please him." And speaking to some critics Jesus said, "Which of you convinceth (convicteth) me of sin?"
Specifically, Jesus was sinless in these respects: " . . . neither was guile found in his mouth . . . (he) reviled not again . . . he threatened not."
He never with words tried to trap His hearers. The fisherman puts a big, luscious worm on his hook and drops it into the stream. He does this not to feed the fish (though sometimes he does) but to catch them. The worm is bait. Jesus never used bait to catch men. He never held out to them something that might strike their fancy which when they would take, would prove to be not so pleasant. He always spoke truth in its purest form. He never spoke deceitfully. Although many tried by craft to catch Him up in His teachings, He never returned the same to them. Said the officers who were sent to apprehend Him, "Never man spake like this man." And surely no man ever had, or has.
" . . . who, when he was reviled, reviled not again." It wasn't enough that they nailed Him to a cross and left Him to die in that terrible manner, but "they that passed by reviled him." They heaped abuse upon Him. "The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth." But rather than returning the same to them, He spoke patiently, kindly: "Father, forgive them." To the repentant thief He promised: "Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise." He returned not railing for railing.
" . . . when he suffered, he threatened not." Not only did He not return evil words for evil words; neither did He return evil deeds for evil deeds. What is the first thing we hear from someone who has been wronged? "I'll get even with you, if it's the last thing I do!" This is pretty much what we expect to hear. Somehow such a response seems justified very often. But "he was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." He suffered unjustly, cruelly, but He threatened not His tormenters. In fact His suffering was the very thing which would prove to be the means of their salvation. So instead of threatening--
He "committed himself to him that judgeth righteously." He handed Himself and His cause over to God. God makes no mistakes. Vengeance belongs to Him. He sees the heart. He knows the intents. Jesus would be vindicated; His cause approved. David prophesied long before: "Thou wilt not . . . suffer thine Holy One to see corruption." And indeed Jesus saw no corruption but arose from the grave, victorious over death and hell. "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow . . . and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord."
They may have railed at Him once, but He has long since been justly vindicated by the One "that judgeth righteously." And what of the railers? They who, with the thief, turn to Him in repentance and faith are justified; they who continue in unbelief remain in their sins and are lost. He who knows their hearts approves or disapproves them according to what they do with His exalted Son.
Jesus set the example by His sinless life. Ours is to follow the example He set. But all who will be perfectly honest with themselves must admit that the example is too high for us. Of whom besides Jesus can it be honestly said, "he did no sin?" Can you say it of yourself? Can I say it of myself? Of course not! Knowing full well we could never attain His perfection, His high example, Christ made further provision for us. This is seen in --
THE SACRIFICE HE MADE
" . . . who his own self bare our sin in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed" (24).
Christ's crucifixion was no accident; it happened not by chance. It was planned. God planned this moment, ages before. It was for a definite purpose. When Christ was hung on the cross He was carrying, unbeknown to His crucifiers, a tremendous load of sin. " . . . who his own self bare (carried up) our sins in his own body on the tree."
He became for us by this act both Priest and Sacrifice. In the Old Testament economy when the people sinned, the God-appointed priest would take an appropriate animal and slay it and carry it up to the altar ("The brazen altar . . . was approached by an incline up which the priest bore the sacrifice." -- Wuest) where it was offered up before the Lord as a burnt-offering for sin. Our text says that Christ "bare" or "carried up" our sins upon His own body to the cross. As Priest He carried them up, as Sacrifice He Himself died for them. But not like the Old Testament priest who offered, and the sacrifices which were offered year by year, "this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God." "By one offering," says the Bible, "he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." "And their sins and iniquities," promises the Lord, "will I remember no more."
What does this mean to us practically? This brings us back to our first point where we were given an example to follow. Sinless perfection--the example. But how to live up to it is our problem. In our own strength, by our own efforts we cannot. But here we have the answer.
Christ took away our sins on the cross "that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness." We are here identified with Christ in His death. The people of Israel always identified themselves with the sacrifice by laying their hands upon the intended victim. Thus the substitute's death stood for their death. So with our Substitute we identify ourselves with Him in His death by placing the hand of faith upon Him. His death then stands for our death. He died upon the cross for sin, we died with Him unto sin. Paul testifies, "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me, and gave himself for me."
The only person who is free from sin is a dead person. Before our identification with Christ we were very much alive to sin. We enjoyed it, reveled in it, lived habitually in it. But when we were "crucified with Christ" we died to sin. Sin no longer reigned over us. We began to hate it, to turn from it in disgust. We became alive then to righteousness. It became the ruling principal in our lives. We fell in love with the right, wanting only its companionship. No longer did we struggle to follow Jesus' example, only to find we were too much alive to sin to do so, but by identification with Him we found a miracle performed within us where sin had lost its attraction and power, and righteousness had taken its place as the motivating force within us.
The text continues: " . . . by whose stripes ye were healed." This does not refer to healing of the body, the context would not allow for such an interpretation. It rather refers to spiritual healing--salvation. The word translated "stripes" means "a wound that trickles with blood." When they laid those flesh-ripping thongs across His back, smashed His face with their fists, tore out His beard by the handfuls, hung His emaciated body to die on the cross, it was that we might be spiritually healed or saved. The Devil had lashed and torn us, sin had beaten and bruised us, and we were left bleeding and dying (spiritually) and awaiting only an entrance into the abode of such unfortunates, where "there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." But by His stripes we were healed. The Devil was defeated, sin was taken away, death and hell were shut and barred to us, and what we deserved was put upon our Substitute. He bore the penalty and wrath of our sins. His stripes effected our eternal healing.
This is the sacrifice He made for us, but with the sacrifice comes an obligation.
THE OBLIGATION HE LEFT
"For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of our souls" (25).
It wasn't enough that Jesus set the example. It wasn't even enough that He made the sacrifice. We are obligated to appropriate His work. We must "return unto the Shepherd and Bishop." Note, it doesn't say return to the church, the ordinances, the Lord's work, or any other observance or organization. It says: "return unto the Shepherd and Bishop"--the Person, the Lord Jesus Christ. This return is by faith. The reason we need to return is that "(we) were as sheep going astray." And all of us were smitten with this wanderlust.
Isaiah says, "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way . . ." Paul adds: "There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way . . ." Like sheep lost in the wilderness, wandering farther and farther away, unknowingly approaching a sheer cliff, soon to be dashed to pieces on the jagged rocks below, we were all lost in the wilderness of sin and headed for the terrible abyss of hell. From the days of our Father Adam until now we have habitually strayed, farther and farther away from the Shepherd of our souls.
But then into the wilderness came a call from the One who came "to seek and to save that which was lost." The call became an effectual one by the sacrifice He made on the cross. "I am the good shepherd." said He, "the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep." We heard and understood and heeded His call; "for," says He, "they know His voice." "And the sheep follow him."
Our history was characterized by the words: "going astray." But one day we looked up, and behold, our great and good Shepherd had hunted us out, called us to Himself, and we gladly returned to Him to follow Him from the wilderness to the eternal pasturelands above.
And when we came to our Shepherd we discovered He was even more that a Shepherd, He was also the Bishop of souls. Bishop means "overseer." A Bishop then is one who looks out for the spiritual wellbeing of folks committed to his charge. By this definition Christ becomes the Guardian of our saved souls. He looks out continually for our welfare. He guards us and guides us and sometimes goads us. How blessed is this truth of the Shepherd and Bishop! To put it another way, He saves and keeps us. "(And) who shall separate us from the love of Christ . . . For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, now powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Christ's responsibility was to set the high example and to make the substitutionary sacrifice; which He did. This leaves us with the obligation as straying sinners to return by faith to the Savior and Keeper of our souls. To return means eternal life. To refuse means eternal death.
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UNTO THEM THAT LOOK FOR HIM
'Twas Christmas Eve, and all the whole world lay
In silent waiting, though it knew not why.
Dark, dark the night of sin and hopelessness!
From out that darkness shone the world's true light,
As Christ, the eternal Son of God, was born.
Jerusalem knew not its King had come,
And Bethlehem lay sleeping, dreaming not
From henceforth it would be the honored spot
Of all the earth. A few men kept their sheep
Upon a hill and, watching, saw the Light;
While sages from a foreign land drew near
In faith and expectation. Only two --
The aged ones who watched and prayed -- of all
The throngs in the great Temple, saw the Lord.
So few there were who watched for Christ; so few
Who knew Him as the King when He appeared.
Ah, but a step it was from Bethlehem
To Calvary, where the rejected King
Laid down His life. The great world knew Him not.
Again there is deep darkness o'er the earth;
Sin's shadows grim stalk up and down the world.
Again it is the evening just before
A glorious morn, because the time draws near
When Christ the King shall come once more to earth.
O radiant morn, when He shall take His place
Upon His throne! O blessed day when those
Who've watched for Him, shall reign with Him on earth!
But still the world goes on its selfish way,
And many in the temple of the Lord
Heed not the signs nor watch. How shall they know
The Lord when He appears? The King was born,
Was crucified, will come again.
What cares the world?
We care, O Son of God -- Thine own,
Washed in Thy Blood -- we wait and long to see
Thy precious face. Come quickly, Lord, we pray.
-- Cosa Elizabeth Reynolds
All poems appearing in Triumph by Miss Reynolds are from her book of poems,
"In The Heavenlies."
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