Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Something momentous about the truth of justification by faith developed in the latter years of the 19th century. Fresh insights into this glorious truth came through two young ordained ministers who thought
through something that apparently no one else had clearly grasped. They
simply combined Paul’s idea of justification by faith with the truth
that we are now living in the great final cosmic Day of Atonement. The
world’s High Priest, Jesus Christ, had begun His last work of fully
reconciling alienated human hearts to God.

It was an antitypical work in the Most Holy Apartment of the heavenly
sanctuary that fulfilled the type in the ancient high priest’s work
when he entered the second apartment of the earthly tabernacle (see
Hebrews 9). Now Christ’s objective was not merely preparing people to
die and come up in the first resurrection (Rev. 20:6); now His work
prepares a people to meet their Lord in person at His second coming
(see 1 Thess. 4:16, 17), and be translated. Now every buried root of
enmity against God (Rom. 8:7) is to be cleansed. Only when the heart is
cleansed can we be in total oneness with the Lord. Only then can it be
said in all truth that “here are they that keep the commandments of
God, and the faith of Jesus” (Rev. 14:12).  Christ’s righteousness
is not merely legally imputed; now it is fully imparted.

This most precious message had within it the promise of fulfilling the
prophecy of the message that must “lighten the earth with glory.”
The reason was that it brought to parched human hearts what was in fact
long-awaited “showers from heaven of the latter rain.” There was
power in that message of justification by faith that delivered from the love
of self. Those who believed treated their richest gain as loss and
poured contempt on all their pride. This was refreshing to see in
ministers. It was the greatest sign of the nearness of the end. 

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