Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-04-06
"CHRIST OUR PASSOVER is SACRIFICED FOR Vi

die a meritorious sacrifice, but it is necessary
additionally that all who would have profit
through His sacrifice must feed upon Him
must appropriate the merit OF HIS sscrl1ice
What did He lay down? What did he sur
render on our behalf7 We answer: he sacri-
feed the human nature and all OF It's rights
and interests. ne made this sacriIlce AoE US
both human rights and privileges. As per
feet man. holy, harmless and undefiled, sepa-
rate from sinners, He possessed the ful rignts
and privileges Of the perfect Adam, lest
. through disobedience. The man Christ Jesus
gave himself a sacrifice to redeem CT Duy
back the human nature. the human rights
lost by father Adam. This price He pai1 wnsn
He surrended all and died, the just for the
/ unjust" The eating of the lamb pictured or
typified the appropriation oy the nousen 9eiS,
of faith of those earthly rights and earthly
/ interests which were forfeited by Adams dis
obedience and redeemed by Jesus death In
other words. the eating Of the lamb s1gniIles
our appropriating justification from sin We
/ eat by faith and are, therefore, salo 10 oe
/ Justified by faith" BY faith we are per
mitted to count ourselves as fully re1nstated
in Gods favor through the merit OF Christs
sacrifice, even as we were barred from Divine
/ favor through the demerit Of Adams sin Inc
eating signifies the appreciation o. these
things and the appropriation OF them 10 our
selves. The more eat the more we appre-
ciate and the greater is our feeling on saus-
faction in respect to our freedom from con-
demr alton and our reinstatement in Divine IA
vor through the merit Of our passover Lar1o.
! The first borns Of the household OF faith,
/ stronger, more rugged, more advanced nat1r-
ally appropriated the more Of the Lamb BE-
sides this bitter herbs were provided Tor
| SHARPENING of the appetite. and these neros
represented the bitter trials and experiences
! OF the saints which more ana more snow ua
| our imperfection, and cultivate IN Us an ssp-
| preciation of the merit of our Lord as rully
4 covering our blemishes and fully SATISFYING
our every craving and making US fuiiy &C
| ceptable to our heavenly Father:
| THE BLOOD OF THE NEW COVENANT.
| Year by year for more than sixteen centuries
! the Jews by Divine direction had kept the
| Passover-not merely automatically represent
| he ~
It on the same night and the sprinklirg OF the
door-posts with the blood. but additionally
That feast represented the Joys and re5ocings,
the blessings and favors Of relationship to God.
based upon the merit Of the Passover lamb,
and its sacrifice and the eating thereof.
| Yet the Jews understood not the meaning OF
what they did. 1t was not necessary that they
should understand it. When Gods due time
that time came on the night in which our Lord
was betrayed, the night OF the 18th day OF the
first month, the very night OF the antitypical
killing Of the Passover lamb. Of which this
| evening will be the anniversary. Jesus said,
| with desire have desired to eat this pass
over with you before l suffer" duke z2:lS5
They had their usual Passover supper Of roast
lamb. and afterward our Lord introduced what
we Familiarity term 1.-THE Lords Supper" or
a new symbolization Of the Passover--antieyp-
icai.
What He introduced with His followers was
to take the place Of the Jewish ceremony with
them, to carry out the same thought, but ON q
higher plane, representing a clearer and
better understanding Of the matter. Instead OF
resenting our Lords flesh. This He distributed
to them, saying, This Is my body, which f.
given for you; this do in remembrance OF me"
| duke 22:19) The eating Of that unleavened
bread represented justification, their appro-
/ priating to themselves Of the merit OF Chrfstb
sacrifice. Then our Lord added new feature
for while all believers might partal1e Of the
bread and realize justification through the
merit Of His sacrifice, only a certain class OF
believers were invited to partake OF the blood
narily under the Jewish law the partaking OF
blood would represent blood-guiltiness or re-
sponsibiity for the death, but our Lord gave
/ His disciples fruit Of the vine symbolic OF
His blood. and urged upon them It's sppropr1a-
ton. saying. This cup is the new testament
in my blood, which is shed for you;' ana
! "for many" Drink ye all Of IT." Qluks
22:2O: Matt. 2s:27-2s).
This invitation to drink Of His blood signifies
a participation with Christ His members.
in sacrifice Of earthly life. earthly interests.
hopes aims, ambitions, everything. All who
accept this invitation to DRINK OF BIS
/ BLOOD thereby pledge their lives in the
same service for which He gave His life. It
will thus be seen that these undertake great
contract. This thought is entirely additional
to anything in the Jewish Passover type.
There is no intimation that any OF the house
hold" were to partake OF the blood Of slain
lamb. Nevertheless we who now accept our
Lords proposition to share in His blood and
lay down lives with Him in defense OF the
Truth, thereby mark ourselves as elder broth
the First-Born with our Lord. our Redeemer.
and prospectively the royal priesthood
The apostle points out these items to which
we have called attention, saying that the
Lords consecrated followers counted as
members Of the body Of Christ, the church.
under Jesus the head. He indicates that the
broken loaf represents primarily Lord
Jesus broken for us, and that secondarily the
church of Christ Of those who willingly
and joyfully yield themselves for the sake
Of and in the Lords cause He points cut
also that the cup Of Christ's blood in which
we are invited TO partake. signifies to us
common union" In the sufferings and afflic-
tions of Christ. so that whoever intelligently.
partakes Of the memorial supper represents
two things nameIy, % His faith in Jesus
his appreciation and participation in the
merits OF Jesus, by which he is justified.
CO He intimates that he is member OF the
body of Christ. all the members Of which
agree to be broken, member in that little
flock" whose faitnfulness is manifested by
, drinking of the Masters cup-sharing with
Hin in His sacrifice Note His words 'sThe
cup Of blessing which we bless, is 1t not the
communion OF the blood Of Christ? The bread
Of 1.-The tbe body Of Christ? For we, being many.
! are one bread. and one body; for we are all
partakers Of that one bread" Cor. 1O1s.
"As YE ARE UNLEAvENED."
II now we have before mental eyes the
apostles thought respecting Christ our Pass
, over and our association with Him as men,
bers Of HIS body in His sacrifice let US note
His further statement respecting leaven.
Everywhere throughout the Scriptures the
word leaven stands for corruption, as IN con-
trast with purity. And so in oUr text the
apostle exhorts the church that the old leayen.
the leaven Of wickedness, the leaven Of n.y.
pocricy the leaven of malice AMI pride, be
thoroughly purged out Of the church, that we
all together might be new lamp, new
lciass Of purified ones representing Messiah
. in the world as His members.
In the very beginning Of our experience in
accepting Christ at all appreciate His
purity and understand that II is by this
means that He enabled TO justify us 70
the Father BY faith were recognized as
fully passed from the impure, leavened condir
ton which we by nature to the uneav-
ened condition in which we stand as Justified
believers Since we have been accepted as
members Of the body Of Christ, TO be broken
with Him, to drink Of His cup, IL is all the
more recognized that we shall clearly see
tho difference between the leavened and the
uuleavened condition. an6 as we put away all
Ieayen all sin. all filthy communications out
of our mouths, yea, all impurity OF thought,
let MS take HIs exhortation to heart and rec
ognlze that thus only can we be and abide
members of the body OF Christ the 'Fiffi4
flock the sanctified in Cnirst-dead WIKI
Him dead to the world and more and more
alive to God and TO the heavenly things and
coming gloryi Christ our Passover, is slain;
LET US keep the celebration Let us rejoice
in our privileges-use them faithfully and
make our calling and our election sure
| Promoters of guessing contests should
| bar the weather man.