The way to the kingdom of heaven and what to do to be saved in it . ose who are willing tooccupy a plane of high spiritual life are blessed ofGod by adoption into the family of heaven. Toillustrate: There are thousands of people in this Statewho, though living where laws are all the time beingexecuted, yet live so correctly in their lives that theynever think of the law, and the law never searchesthem out. They are living above the law. So like-wise they w^ho live righteously, spiritually consid-ered, live above the law and in the special favor ofGod. These are under grace. St. Paul asks: Shal
The way to the kingdom of heaven and what to do to be saved in it . ose who are willing tooccupy a plane of high spiritual life are blessed ofGod by adoption into the family of heaven. Toillustrate: There are thousands of people in this Statewho, though living where laws are all the time beingexecuted, yet live so correctly in their lives that theynever think of the law, and the law never searchesthem out. They are living above the law. So like-wise they w^ho live righteously, spiritually consid-ered, live above the law and in the special favor ofGod. These are under grace. St. Paul asks: Shallwe sin, because we are not under the law, but undergrace? (Eom. vi. 15.) Then he answers: God for-bid! In the State of Georgia, no matter how correct-ly one has lived, if he violates the law he becomes en-tangled in its meshes. So also if we who are in thefavor or grace of God violate the laws of God, weleave the spiritual plane of Gods favor, and, as says (2 Pet. ii. 20), are again entangled andovercome, and the latter end is worse than the ELIJAH UNDER THE JUNIPER TREE. (168) The Way to the Kingdom of Heaven, 169 So, then, let us get the idea clearl}^: The kingdomof grace through Jesus Christ does not do away withGods hiws or give us any license to violate is a condition in which we receive the favor ofGod; it is a position in which God may extend afavor. The law, St. Paul tells us, was a schoolmasterto bring us up to this plane of Christ. (Gal. iii. 24.)When we reach the plane to which the law is designedto bring us, then we need be no longer under thelaw; we are ready for the favor. But if we shouldwant to go back and become entangled again withthose things in which we have triumphed, the oldschoolmaster is there with his rod to afflict us. Sowe all make our choice whether we live under thereign of law or under the reign of grace. If we liveunder the reign of law, we take what we can get;if we live under the reign of grace, we receive whatGod
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