Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-12-21
rnR WAGES or SIN Is DEATH

BID NKws: I notice In last Issue
of your paper IN announcement
that one B. r. Baxton will preach
on the subject: "The wages Of sin
10 death, and not Eternal Torment"
Az this 10 q double question, with
q positive and negative proposition,
Il appears IN incongruity. None, I
presume, will deny the affirmative
of this proposition, since the Bible
says In 90 many words "The wages
of sin 10 DEATH" but what 10 deathf
I am sure q correct answer TO this
question will relieve the gentleman
of the incongruity and leave him
an affirmative proposition with
abundant evidence Of Bible teach.
ing for proof.
Life and death are the two things
with which We all have to do. We are
either dead or alive; the one 10 the
opposite TO the other; without life
there can be no death; life must ex.
ist 1.-THE wages of Gin 10 death"
Here We End death the consequence
of Adams Sin. an the day thou
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die"
Man, then, must be redeemed from
death, the consequence of sin, or
abide Ia DEATH" But what 10 deathf
It's q "separation." In death We are
separated from life. Hence the ex.
preston passed out of death into
life" carried with Il the idea of q re.
storation to life that had been over.
come in death. Therefore "redemp.
ton" from q moral or spiritual
death, 10 Q restoration 70, Q spiritual
life. Redeem means buying back,
a returning to God, which 10 made
possible In Christ. Man, then, who
possesses the body. exists 40 q liv.
Jog entity, though abiding In death:
dead while he liveth. Hence Paul
says. "the first Adam became q liv.
ing soul; the last Adam q life. giving
spirit" The "living soui," having
lost spirit life 10 the full, must be
resurrected by the "iife-giving spir.
IT," or abide In death.
Mortal death 10 not the death that
separates from God, the source OF
all life, but when mortal death
comes, soul and body are separated
because the soul dors not die liter.
ally, as does the body. The soul
may have sinned, aud been separ.
ated from God. therefore dead spir.
itvaily. But the laws of the spirit
of life In Christ Jesus 10 the means
that makes us free from ain, and en-
ables az to present ourselves unto
God 40 alive from the dead. But
THE resurrection from the dead has
no reference 70 the body. Blessed
and holy 10 he that hath part 10
the frat resurrection; over these the
second death hath no power. save
the souls of the martyrs and such
40 worshiped the beast. This 10 the
fret resurrection. Over these the
second death hath NO power. This
teaches the fret resurrection from
death, "the wages of sin," 10 that Of
the soul, and 10 In harmony with
what Jesus said Ia John 5:A. HE
that hesreth my words and believ.
eth on Him that sent Nc, hath eteru-
al life, and cometh not into judg.
ment, but hath passed out of death
into life. The hour cometh, and
now 10, when the dead spiritually
dead shall hear the voice of the Son
of God, and they that hear lharken)
shall live.
But In the second resurrection, or
the resurrection of the body, all
haqe part In Il. All that are In the
tonbs shaH hear His voice and
come forth, some TO life and come
to judgment. They that have etern-
nal life cometh not into Judgment,
having passed out of death into
Iifa In the resurrection of the soul.
Paul says the outward man.
which 10 seen, 10 temporal, but the
inward man, which 10 not eeen, 10
sternai. Jesus says fear not them
that kill the body, but are not able
to kill the soul. These scriptures
make Q clear distinction between
soul and body. The soul. then, the
inward man, man proper, must be
redeemed from THE death In ain, or
be forever separated from eternal
life, (Which 10 . gift Of God, through
Jesus Christ. oar Lord.T spirit
life" then, can only be regained
through redemptloa 10 Christ
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