Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-06
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them III Oh every side. 1t is important
to tell men that they run counter to
that will, sometimes ignorantly; more
times knowingly. 1t is important to tell
men that whether broken ignorantly or
no, they will suffer for the violation.
These doctrines We ought TO preach with
all carnes,ncs sand sincerity, but this is
not gospel preaching.
What new thing did Paul have to
tell, the relating OF which could prop
crly be called glad tidings':
"For many generations the Jews had
been expecting great deliverance and
a great dclivcrcr 1t is true that there
were many among them who attached
no spiritual significance to this deliver
cr. They were a subject nation and
the deliverancc they looked forward to
was.a political delivcrance 1t was one
that would scatter their national enc
mics, give back to them their independ-
cnce, return to them their political pow
er and make 81 Jerusalem the capital
city and the metropolis of the world.
Then there were those, more spiritually
minded, who expected and looked for
ward to deliverance. more than po-
litical, which would compass through
the Jews the whole race of mankind.
But in one way or another they looked
forward to great deliverer and great
delverance.
Paul believed that this delverer had
come, bring deliverance with him. This
was the happening. the telling of which
constituted good news. This was his
gospel and in the fifteenth chapter of
Corinthians he tells us clearly what he
means by the gospel: Moreover, breth-
rem, declare unto you the gospel which
| preached unto you, which also We
have received, and wherein We stand
by which also ye are saved if ye keep
in memory what l preached unto you
unless we have believed in vain. For
! declared unto you. first of all, that
which also received, how that Christ
(that is the Messiah) died for our sins
according to the scriptures, and that
he was buried, and that he rose again
the third day according to the scrip
lures
This was not only news, but it was
good news 1t was the glad tidings that
dcliverer had come and that he had
brought deliverance with him. And the
evidence that he was the deliverer Law
i'll tn fact that though he had been put
to death by the sins of men and for the
sins of men, he had risen conqueror
and more than conqueror over death.
This is Pauls glad tidings, and it is
yours and mine.
"Whe nwe break this up into its !
parts, we find many elements in this
historic fact which make it glad tidings'
to the world. Paul has INTERPRETED these
tor us IN many passage. We have not |
the time to study them all this morn
ing. BIT | want to touch upon a few
things which have grown out of the !
historic fact that the deliverer has come,
that he has lived, suffered, died and has
risen again from the dead
"Man's thought of God has undergone
great change, and what is better vet
mans experience of God has been rev.
Paul visited Athens, the city of art |
and religion. He stood up-
on Mars hill and spoke to those folks |
who were alwsy anxious to hear some
new thing Men of Athens. I see on
are very religious. have looked upon
all the objects of your devotion. Among |
them I find one altar to the Unknown
God. whom, not knowing. We worship. |
Him declare I unto YOU
Paul finds in this deliverer reveal
ton of the true nature and character of |
God. A certain writer says that Paul
never entered into the scholastic de-
bates and divisions which have since
agltated the Christian world. He new
er spent any time discussing things that
neither he nor any one else knew any,
hing about. He did not consider whe-
ther Chrlst's relation to the Father was
a metaphysical or moral relation: nor
whether Christ was. begotten or made.
All these questions were foreign to his !
teaching. But they lay at the very
foundation of his teaching the afirma-
ton that God was in Christ. and that
Christ was the image of Gods person
and the revelation of his glory Well.
has not this been the faith of the Chris |
tan church from the first century to
the twentieth: the faith of all branches
Of the church. Roman Catholic and
Protestant, orthodox and liberal: the be-
lief that what ,Whrist was for three
short years of ministry, that God has
been through all the ages past and that
God will be for all age sto comel
DR.. Jefferson says that the browning
glory of our christianity is that it rep
resents God as revealing himself to me