El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-04
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
The Resurrection OF Christ.


At the First Baptist church yester-
day W. O. Millican preached third
sermon from the text, "Of His fulness
The following ia a digest of the
sermon:
Our theme is the fulness of Christ's
resurrection, of which all Christians
are partakers. The value of the resur-
rection lies not merely in it's historical
fact. but in the fact of our participa-
ton with him. Given this relation to
Christ and in the resurrection we find
the climax of all hope. Without it,
heavens gates are closed to all
mankind. of in this life only. we
have hope in Christ, we are of all
men most miserable For II one
with Christ, in his suffering, death and
burial, and he rises not. then are we
still buried with him. II he is held
forever in the confines of the grave,
then are we forever held away from
very oneness with Christ, that keeps us
where he is and makes that which
takes place in him. true to us likewise,
and which makes life SO uninviting to
US If Christ be not risen, becomes all
the more beautiful to US in the light
and experience of the resurrection.
''The soul that sinnetb. 1t shall die,
sayeth God. Showing that this penal
ty rested on US all, Christ voluntarily
put himself in oneness with us, went
with US into that awful separation from
God-God forsook him when he took
our place-that constitutes spiritual
death, such as all have died,
though as yet it may not have any ter
ror to the soul and such as shall be made
permanent, aye! eternal, and full of
conscious misery and burnings after
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to receive Christ into oneness with
them for his redemption.
By this act he broke the bonds OF
death, robbed the grave of its prey
and to all that receive him, shortened
the period OF this sepaT alton from God
and got a reprieve from that death that
otherwise..is eternal to soul and body.
God has accepted this temporary sepa-
ration of Christ from him as sufficient
storation of both soul and body to him.
Thus we see that this great miracle
has two great application to every
or would-be Christian.
First: 1t guarantees a resurrection
from spiritual death, to every one who |
will enter this union with Christ.
"Verily, verify, 1 say unto you," said
when the dead shall hear the voice of
the son of God and they that hear,
shall live" This, clearly, has refer-I
ence to those who are spiritually dead,
and is seen in another Immediate ref
erence, "Marvel not at this, 1.-THE above
''for theshour is coming, in
which all that are in the graves shall
near his voice, and shall come FORTH"
clearly. to those who are
Is rich in mercy, for his great
owe wherewith he loved US, even when
We were dead in sins, hath quickened
rs together with Christ.. and hath
raised US up together, and made US sit
together in heavenly places in Christ
Jesus Now here are three things:
First-Dead in sins, spiritual death,
separated from God, just as Christ was
when he took our place; when he was
OF God and buried away in
Joseph's tomb.
Second-Touched TO life, quicken
3D." even in this grave of spiritual
leath, just as Christ was before he
,ame forth from the tomb.
Third Elevated to union with
5od sin heavenly places" just as
Christ was brought back to his former
citation and union with God, after the
,eriod of separation, death, for us was
nded. The thought is this, our union
With Christ is so complete, that what
yer takes place in him takes place I
likewise in US, so that when he died, {
re died in him, when he WAS buried
re we're buried with him, when his ]
eparation from God was ended, ours
1as ended, when he was quickened and
atsed to life we "were raised together {
nth him. In short, just rs Christ be-
anne what we were and would be, in
ur- separation from God, so he hath
xalted US and made US, either in &C.