rob Jesus of His divine character, clothe Him with imposture, and then invite the world to sit with them at "His feet and learn how to be a Christian."

DIVISION IX

THE SON AS THE ADVOCATE

"For it is written, 'as I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.' So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God." Rom. 14, 10-12.

"For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil." Ecc. 12, 14.

"And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up their dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to their works." Rev. 20, 11-13.

"But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at naught thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ." Rom. 14, 10.

"For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son." John 5, 12.

"My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours alone, but also for the sins of the whole world." 1 John 2, 1-2.

"Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me." John 8, 15-16.

"Whoso therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before the Father which is in heaven. But whoso shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven." Matt. 10, 32-33.

"Who is he that condemneth? it is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." Rom. 8, 34.

CONSTRUCTION OF THE LAW

It is with no desire to introduce a new theology, that the character of Jesus the Son is discussed from this standpoint. The sole object sought is to get at the truth-to determine our exact relationship to Jesus Christ. All through the Scriptures, He is spoken of as a "redeemer," "savior," as "Lord of All,"

while in the passages just quoted, He is referred to as an advocate, an intercessor, and a judge. To the casual reader, these would seem to be incongruous, for how can one be a judge and an advocate at one and the same time? In one place, John has the Son say: "For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment to the Son," while in another place, he has him to say: "I judge no man.' The words "advocate" and "intercessor" imply three persons or entities: the one whose cause is to be advocated, the one who is to advocate it, and the one to whom the appeal is to be made. John and Paul recognize the truth of this in the passages quoted, and Jesus so states it in Matthew 10, 32-33, as follows, to wit:

"Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven."

Yet John quotes Jesus as saying, that God has committed all judgment to Him (John 5, 12), while in his first epistle, he describes Jesus as an advocate, taking His position before God the Father as an "advocate with the Father," to plead the cause of sinners, and Paul locates His position at the "the right

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hand of God." The same apostle, John, later in life, peers into heaven, and there sees God upon His "great white throne" judging mankind "according to their works." It may be well to ask what is the meaning of all this? We shall not get at the truth by detaching these paragraphs and considering them separately. Such a course will end in chaos, as it has already done in some instances. should not be the effort of the fair investigator to tear things apart to create disharmony, but rather to put things together to create harmony. The great problem then, in this instance, is to ascertain how one person can be an advocate and at the same time be a judge in the same case. Is Jesus to be the judge or the advocate of the world? How can He be both? The statements concerning Him are distinct, and the words used are of a simple character. Can they be harmonized? If not, then thinking men must discard them, and in their place must come discord and chaos, if not a complete breaking down of the claims of the Son as a redeemer.

THE SON BOTH JUDGE AND ADVOCATE

It must be evident to the candid mind that, by reason of the modus operandi of the Trinity,