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CONSEQUENCES OF ALL SIN
AND THE SAVING GRACE OF GOD
WE'RE TREATED YESTERDAY
MORNING.
FOR THE SON OF MAN is GOMEZ
This Is the Text for Humanity, "Ta
Save That Which Was
Lost"

Emphas1s on Great Themes" The
topic was Salvation-"For the Son of
Man is come to save that which was
lost Matt. xviii, IL. Mr. Stout said
In part
The Greeks have a legend that Minos,
King or Crete, exacted from Athens a
yearly tribute of seven young men and
seven maidens, who We're to be given to
the minotaur to satisfy it's appetite for
human flesh. On certain year Theseus
was chosen and set out with the sad
convoy, in his heart determined not
to be food for the beast, but to Stay
1t, and to save his companions from
death and his country from the awful
tribute. Into the labyrinth he went.
engaged the monster, and by heroic
effort slew it and became the hero Of
greece. We are to consider at this
hour not fable, but real conflict,
nero, and victory, a salvation that in
cludes the world, Savior who is the
Christ of God, hero whose deeds are
sung by the angels of light, the hosts
triumphant, and the saints on earth.
IL Is not our purpose to call attention
to the theories and conclusions Of Paul.
though that would be worth our while.
but to the teachings of Jesus, as found
In His sayings. The theme is given us
Q0aCn.
and darkness.
The study of salvation necessitates,
first, the consideration of that from
which we are saved, i. e., sin. The
herald angel declares to the shepherds
the purpose of the coming Messiah,
and 1t still comes with music to human
ears. Thou shald call His name Jesus
for He shall save His people from their
sins. Jesus rises to the conception of
His mission, and yet we are puzzled at
the first at His treatment of sin. Our
usual definition of sin is 'the trans
gression of the law but Jesus has it-
tie to say in reference to the transgres-
sion of law, in the shape of command
ments; His emphasis is on the trans
erosion of the spirit of obedience, the
law of love. He assumes that the in
dividua1 recognizes the right, and holds
him responsible for loyalty to that
knowledge. His emphasis is not on law
but on right; and sin is the
piness is normal but captivity and
heart breaking are abnormal. That
which has taken humanity away from
God from the normal Is sin; that which
separates the man from God or from
his highest life is sin; that which
comes in the way of your highest good
Is your bitterSt enemy. Since sin is
that enemy, then it is against sin that
Jesus conducts his campaign for the
salvation Of the race, from the cause
of the evils that make human life
horror, which is a salvation from the
horror itself; this is all through the
teachings of Jesus. and at the last He
says to His disciples, For this is my
blood of the New Testament which is
shed for many for the remission Of
SINS" The life, the teachings the pas
sion were all for the same purpose.
This salvation includes also a deliver
ance from the results of sin. An esti-
mate Of these results, as seen by Jesus,
may be obtained by a study first of
some of the startling statements of
Jesus, and afterward by a considera-
ton of some of His parallels. There is
one word which in the mind of the
Master includes the consequences of
sin, and this He uses in sounding forth
His warnings. This word is translated
in some places condemnation, and in
others damnation, and is the fruit of
sin. That this word is heavy with
awful meaning no one can deny. We
may differ as to what it includes, but
it certainly implies a consciousness on
the part OF the person, of a just con-
demnation, and also on the part Of the
judge who passes the sentence, and
certainly there is a penalty of the con-
death. Unless words can be entirely
stripped of their meaning the teaching
Of Jesus on this question is most APP
palling and should drive the sinner to
q Savior who can cave from sin itself
and from it's consequences as well.
The parallels affirm the same truth.
AS result of sin, the sinner, like the
sheep, is lost from that which is his
right, the fold, and the shepherd. The
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derer from God, who, through his sin.
has lost his home and the right to his
fathers loving care. Dives loses his
opportunities and lifts up his eyes in
hell, being in torment, as a result of his
transgression of the law Of love. The
picture of the judgment, parabolic in
form, reveals damnation as conse-
uuence Of the sin of uncharity. Yes,
the whole trend of Christ's teaching
lays the fullest emphasis on the ter
rible results of sin, from which men
must be saved.
Salvation lays equal stress on that to
which the sinner is saved-righteous-
ness, and the results Of righteousness.
AS sin is the cause of Paradise Lost,
so Christ is to be the agent through
which Paradise is to be regained. The
sinner is to come into the inheritance
from which sin had defrauded him.
HlSnICOuSICCO, I'LL ioI . lCe1NAAAAoo "a
which we presented on last Sabbath,
is as blessed as sin is cursed, and the
results are as glorious as the conse-
uuences Of transgression are appalling.
Nearly all the fearful warnings are
given in contrast, and the parallels en-
force the truth bye contrast so that
reference to them would be a retrac-
ing of the anne ground. The Pharisees
and the Publicans, the rich man and
Lazarus. the sheep and the goats, are
all contrasts which are intended to
depict as well the glories of the right
eousness to which men are saved, as
the perils of sin from which they are
delivered
With these contrasts In mind, we
turn our attention to the act of Jesus
growing out of His look at the problem.
He is the power Of powers, that lifted
up from the earth. shall draw all men
unto Him. He is the refuge to which
He calls q weary and heavy laden
world. He Is the light that shall flood
the world and change midnight to noon
day. 1t Is not our purpose to discuss
in this connection the mystery Of the
atonement, but to establish the fact
that Jesus taught that the purpose of
His mission was salvation from sin
and the consequences of 1t and such
salvation that the height and depth Of
1t the angels themselves have never
fathomed.