E ETERNAL IDEA
XIV. MORE LIGHT
XV. OVER-OVERCOMING

GOD THE GOD OF THE LIVING

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up.

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He
also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He
might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and
deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject
to bondage.

Who is like unto Thee, O most mighty LORD, for verily Thy truth is on
every side. Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit, or whither shall I
flee from Thy Presence? If I climb up into heaven, Thou art there. If
I go down unto the dead, Thou art there also. If I take the wings of
the morning and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there
also shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me.
Therefore when I sleep in the grave, I am in Thy cradle; and when I
shall arise up and awake, behold around me are Thy everlasting arms.

So not alone we land upon that shore:
'Twill be as though we had been there before;
We shall meet more we know
Than we can meet below,
And find our rest like some returning dove,
And be at home at once with our Eternal Love.

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GOD THE GOD OF THE LIVING[1]

"Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he
calls the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob. He is not a God of dead men, but of living men, for all live
unto Him."--LUKE xx. 37, 38.

It is very likely that some of us may have been perplexed in the study
of this passage at the answer which the Lord Jesus gave to the
Sadducees, and doubtful as to whether their difficulties and questions
were fairly met by the text that He quoted.

Certainly if we had been told to search the Scriptures for passages
bearing on the Future Life and the doctrine of the Resurrection, this
is about the last text that we should have thought of adducing; we
should never have detected in these verses a key that would unlock the
closed doors between two worlds and make sunlight be where previously
all was dark.

And even if we had been pointed to this passage containing the
revelation of God at the bush, we should probably only have seen in it
another of the magnificent affirmations of the Divine self-existence,
another of the grand "I Am's" which sound forth at times from the mount
of cloud and vision. We might even have gone