What We Mean by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 1, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 30.

What We Mean

By Editor

INQUIRY is made as to what we mean about “the awful crop of unregenerate men” who will soon come into prominence in the professed church of God. Just this: men can not possess the divine life unless they are brought into contact with the living God. But God hates a sham, abominates a lie, and will not be a party to a fraud. To come into contact with God, men must come to be, morally, where God is. They must know and feel and own up to the truth. The truth is that men are sinners and under condemnation; that God is holy, and can by no means clear the guilty; that God is also gracious, and has given His Son to “bear the sin of the world;” that this Son of God was manifested in human flesh; that deliverance from the guilt and condemnation of sin can only be obtained through faith in Jesus as the Son of God; and that any lower estimate of Jesus than that which makes Him equal to and one with the Father, is to reject God in the supreme revelation of Himself.

The man who does not own and feel he is a sinner before God, and who does not accept Jesus as God “in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself”—the One “who knew no sin,” who became “sin for us,” “that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him,”—that man is acting upon a lie. He can not get near God—can not have the touch that secures life. He is not born of God. He is an unregenerate man. How can the men who deny the Scriptures upon which our Lord put the stamp of infallibility, deny the fall of man, deny the Deity of Christ, and deny the redemption wrought through the blood of the Son of God, get near God for life?—Watchword and Truth.