GRACE AND GLORY!

Many people think of this free grace of God that it is free because they like to have it. But, it is free because God likes to give it, the freeness is on God's part. The riches of this eternal glory are God's, and it comes to us through a perfect Savior; and what we are called to is, not to the praise or the glory of our faith because we believed, but it is to behold the praise and glory of God shining unto us in the face of Jesus Christ. "God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ" (II Corinthians 4:6).

That eternal glory given to Him is in bringing many sons to glory to behold His face, to see Him, and be like unto Him, and behold that eternal glory He had with the Father before the worlds were, the Father's delight, the Father's darling, the Father's only begotten Son, by whom He created all things, and for whom He created all things, and into whose hand all things are given in heaven and on earth, that He should reign, and whose dominion He will show forth in a little while. "We see not yet all things put under Him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man."

We see not yet all the powers of earth and hell put under His feet, but we shall do by and by. "For He must reign, till He hath put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death" (I Corinthians 15:25, 26). Before that we find kings, and all in authority who have fought against Him, all people and all creatures who have fought and rebelled against Him, will be put under His feet. He must reign until He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power; and the last that will be put down is death itself.

-preacher Joseph Orton, 1874 A.D.

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