Page 852 1941 Articles of J.O.Smith
It pays to serve God and submit to his laws and commandments, always keeping yourself in the body of Christ, which is the church.
What do we have to fear? What do we have to be anxious about? Have we not already experienced and tasted the goodness of God?
Believe God’s Word. Trust completely in the Scriptures. They cannot be altered. We know and understand by faith that this is so.
Whatever the future holds, God will “show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
By the leading of His Spirit of God we are already incorporated in the dispensation and are only waiting for God to make enemies of Christ into His footstool. We see and understand all of this by faith, but according to our natural understanding we do not yet see that everything is subject to Him. This will come in its time. Before Him every knee will bow, both in heaven and on earth. Glorious kingdom of unity!
As it is written, “Your kingdom come, Your will be done”
The will of man can be strong, but if it is not in exact accordance with God’s will, then it will be broken sooner or later. This is our rich comfort for the times to come.
God is loving and righteous, and all sin and evil is heading for its destruction. Each one will reap what he or she sows. They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. Hatred begets hatred, but love and righteousness will give and abundant harvest of love and righteousness.
21far above all principality[g] and [h]power and [i]might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. Eph 1:21
10For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Eph 2:10
7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Eph 2:7
9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, 10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, [c]both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. Eph 1:9-10
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), Eph 2:4-5
It is no small matter to have been made alive. The law of Spirit of life has made us alive in Christ Jesus. God has raised us up with Him and made us sit together with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus. No power can bring us down from there. This life of Christ has conquered everyone and everything. God has seated Him as head of the church “far above all principality and power and might”