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VII. THE RELEASE AND TRANSMISSION OF DIVINE LIFE

John 1:4, 5:26, 10:10-11, 11:25-26, 12:24.
I John 1:1-2. Heb. 2:14.

We have been tracing the warfare between the seeds—the death-struggle between
the bearers of the divine testimony and the minions of death and the devil, and the
desperate and feverish attempts of the author of death to prevent the coming of the

Author of life. Satan was well aware of the purpose of God—that the very Author of
life Himself should destroy death by tasting of it, and that by His resurrection and
victory over death that mystic thing called life, which was removed from this world by

the sin of Adam, would be restored and placed in circulation again.

We repeat that life perished from this cosmos when the regent king and queen
turned from the Father of lights to the father of lies and substituted the Satanic order
of death, based upon disobedience and self-will, for the divine order of life, based

upon faith and obedience.

There was not a sprig of life upon this earth from the time of the sin in Eden until

the blessed Babe of Bethlehem breathed of our Earth‟s atmosphere. Death and decay
blanketed the world with an inescapable blight.

Isaiah was commanded to “cry,” and he asked, “What shall I cry?” The reply came,

“All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the the field: the
grass withereth, the flower fadeth…but the word of our God shall stand forever”
(Isa.40:6-8).

We have spoken of the Old Testament saints as the bearers of the testimony of life.
Indeed they were, but they themselves did not actually possess the currency of life.
They possessed the promissory note of the living God for life and abundant life one
day when it should be released. “And these all, having obtained a good report through

faith, received not the promise.”

A careful study of the ninth chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews will give a clear
understanding of the principle. The Old Testament sacrifices and ordinances are there

shown to have no intrinsic value in the cleansing away of sins, but performed as an act
of obedience and faith in the One to Whom they pointed, they were of inestimable
value and “sanctified to the purifying of the flesh.” A ten-dollar bill issued by the

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