Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-11-17
The Substance of a Sermon Preach
ed by Rev A. Malone, at Croft
ton, Ky, October the
le, 1885.


TEXT :--"But II the Spirit Of Him that raised
up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that
raised up Christ from the dead shall also
quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that |
dwellelh in you" Rom. s:ll.
The meaning of this passage turns
upon the word Quicken" Quicken |
is a translation of the Greek word |
ZoopoieS, which means, "to impart
life, to make alive, to preserve life"
The word "also" used in the text
shows that the thing done for Christ
shall be done for all in whom his
Spirit dwells. What then was done
for Christ? He was "raised up from
the dead" No believer in the New
Testament, since Thomas said, "My
Lord and my God" has ever doubt
ed the resurrection of the Lord Je-
sus Christ. How was Jesus raised
from the dead? Sand God hath
both raised up the Lord, and will al
so raise up as by his own power: L
Cor. Gala. The power then that
raised up Jesus from dead is pledged
for our resurrection. What power
is that? Let Paul answer: Sand
WHAT'S the exceeding greatness of
his power to us ward who believe,
according to the working of his
mighty power, which he wrought in
Christ, when he raised him from the
dead, and set him at his own right
hand in the heavenly places?" Eph.
l 10, 20. i4I.
The Sadducees, sect who denied
the resurrection, sought to entangle
the Master with what they thought
to be a knotty question touching the
resurrection of the dead. They came
TO him aud said, "Master, Moses
wrote unto us, If mans brother die
and leave his wife behind him, and
leave nc children, that his brother
should take his wife, and raise up
seed unto his brother. Now there
were seven brethren, and the first
took wife, and dying left no seed.
And the second took her, and died,
neither left he any seed; and the
third likewise. And the seven had
her and left no seed, last of all the
woman died also. In the resurrec-
ton therefore, when they shall rise,
whose wife shall she be of them2 for
the seven had her to wife. And Je-
sus answering said unto them; Do
| ye not therefore err, because ye
know not the Scriptures, neither. the
power of God? For when they shall
rise from the dead, they neither mar
ry, nor are given in marriage, but
are as the angels which are in Heav-
Ell. And as touching the dead, that
they rise; have We not read in the
book of Moses, how in the bush God
spake unto him saying, 81 am the
tGod of Abraham, and the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob. lie is
not the God of the dead, but the God
of the living, we therefore do greatly
err" Mark. IL 1927. Aa
In this case, the Sadducees were
met upon their own chosen ground,
and heard the resurrection proclaim
ed by the highest authority in the
world. But in the word resurrection
turks an genealogical meaning that
must not be overlooked. For resur-
rection is translation of the Greek
word, anastasis, which is derived
from anistemi. ARiStemi is from the
Greek, ana, "up," and histemi, "to
stand" The grand thought, or mean
ing, of aaaStdSis, is, "to stand up
The resurrection of the dead then,
means the standing up of the dead
nor will any scholar deny it. !.
The next passage to which | call
attention in proof of The resurrection
is the following: "But when thou
makest a feast, call the poor, the
MANNED, the lame, the blind, and thou
shalt be blessed for they cannot re-
compense thee, for thou shalt be re-
compensed at the resurrection Of the
just" Luke IA :13, IA. .,
Again, the Master says, ale thai
heareth my word, and believeth on
4 him that sent me, hath everlasting
life, and shall not come into condem-
nation, but is passed from death un
to life, Verify, verify say unto you
The hour is coming, and now is,whel
the dead shall hear the voice of tn,
Son of God /; and they that hear shall
live. For as the Father hath life il
himself, SO hath he given TO the Sol
, to have life in himself, and hath Civ
Ell him authority to execute Judg
ment also, because he is the Son o
man. Marvel not at this, for tin
! hour is coming, in which all that az
, in their graves shall hear his voice
and shall come forth they that hav,
done good, unto the resurrection o
= life, and they that have evil, unit,
the resurrection of damnation. JOIN
, :24-29. aou5.a -
Two points in this quotation CLAIM
our special attention, viz: l. Jesu
Christ, while on earth, exercise,
power over moral death, and CAV
> eternal life. 2. He promised, in vir
tue of the same power, that the dead
those in their graves, shall be raised
Why did Jesus make this promise
Because he is the resurrection ali,
the life. Hear him on this point, /"
f am the resurrection and the life; h
n that believeth in me, though he wer
: dead, yet shall he live" John IL :2t
q Peter and John taught the sam
h doctrine. Proof: Sand as the
i spake unto the people, the priests an
the captain of the temple, and til
Sadducees, came upon them, bein
grieyed that they taught the peopl
and preached through Jesus, the res
direction from the dead" Acts. A Il,
. The Pharisees, who believed in tn
e resurrection, and the Sadducees, VIII
. denied it, once made common caus
i against Paul, and drew him out {
the temple and brought him befor
i the council in Jerusalem. Blu
/ | whan ha narcoiua1 fhat nna ,,a,