How may I know that I am a quickened soul, that I am born again-a new creature in creation? ―R.H.
You may know this, not by what you feel, nor by the works you have done, but because you have really submitted to the righteousness of God in Christ―because you have received Christ Jesus the Son of God as your alone ground of justification. “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.” (1 John 5:1.) Resting in God’s word is the only true way of assurance.
What is the baptism of the Holy Ghost? ―R.H.
It is that action of the Holy Ghost on believers which forms them into one body in Christ. “By one Spirit are we all baptized into one body.” (1 Corinthians 12:13.)
What is it to be complete in Christ? How can I attain and realize that blessedness? ―H.
To be complete in Christ is to be filled to the full in Him. It is our present standing. It is not a question of attainment. All believers, whether weak or strong, young or old, are complete in Christ. We realize it by believing the fact which God has revealed to us in His word. He says, “Ye are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.” (Colossians 2:10.)
H. T. (Waterford) writes to know the meaning of the twenty-third verse of Matthew 10― “For ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.”
In this chapter the Lord sends unto the twelve apostles to preach the gospel of the kingdom, and with it to heal the sick, &c. Their ministry was to be confined to Israel. It was a further appeal of the Lord to that nation. “He came unto His own.” Had the cities of Israel received their testimony, Messiah was at hand to bring in the kingdom. Their ministry, however, was evidently soon interrupted; for in the twelfth chapter, we read, they go about to destroy Christ, and He pronounces them to be in a hopeless condition―a “generation of vipers.” There is, however, no doubt, after the Church is completed, and removed to meet Christ in the air, that a remnant of Israel will resume the same kind of ministry, and that Christ will actually be revealed from heaven before they shall have gone over the cities of Israel.
Which is scriptural, infant or adult baptism, or both? — G.T.
We reply neither. We have believers’ baptism in Scripture― “The Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.” (Acts 18:8.)
What are we to understand by the “little city, and few men in it,” &c., in Ecclesiastes 9:14, 16?
Does not this parabolic language touchingly describe the fall of man, thus getting under the power of Satan And is not the “poor wise man” Christ, who alone has wrought deliverance? How lamentably true is it that few seem to remember Him! To the believer, however, how precious it is to be having Him in remembrance! We know who said, “Do this in remembrance of ME.”