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JESUS SOUL REsURREcTED.
| Corinthians XIV, 1-11-April z.


Text: This Jesus hath God raised up.
whereof we are all witnesses. Acts
ii, 81
Today's study leaves the words and
works Of Jesus and, appropriate to
the Easter season. we are to consider
our Lords resurrection. At the very
outset we are confronted with certain
errors which have gradually crystal
lied around the central truths of
Gods Word. One Of these errors is
the supposition that the resurrection
Of the dead, which the Scriptures hold
forth as the hope of the Church and
of the world, is to be a resurrection of
the bodies which go down into death.
This mistake has given ground for
infidelity to sneer a this precious doc
trine of the Bible. We are asked,
How could the dust which once con-
sttuted the bodies of thousands of
millions of humanity ever be re-eoi-
lected and rearranged so that we
could say that those bodies were re-
surrected The infidel urges that
many of humanity have been eaten
by fishes and animals. and many 9TH
or corpses have been absorbed by
VI getation, which is turn has been
eaten time and again by man and
beast, entering into many organisms
The proposition is manifestly unan-
swerable Yet il does rot refttte tie
Bible teaching Of the resurrection. but
merely our ercedal misap prehenSious
of the Bible teaching What the Bihl,
does teach is that the real man is the
soul the being. and that he persists
while gradually his body keeps chang
Ing Struggling of.
II Was Mans Soul That Sinned-it
Was Mans Soul That Died.
Scientists estimate that the human
body lnderRoes complete change
every seven years. 80 that man
fifty years old win have lost seven
different bottles through natural
wastes None Of those bodies was
the man himself for he is the soul.
The intelligent personality, which
nsed those different bodies. According
10 the Bible, the process o. rejuvena-
lion would have continued everlasting
~ had man. by obedience, continued hi
Divine favor and IN enjoyment Of tho
everlasting life promised. II was sin,
therefore, that brought the death pen
altX--the death of tie soul. 1t was
Adams soul that sinued. it was Adams
soul that ded-"In the Gay that thou
eateth thereof thou shalt surely die"
'"rhe soul that sinneth, il shall die
The result OF this Divine sentence
upon man would have been extinction
he would have been OH the same
plane as the brute, without a provision
for eternal life. had mol God in great
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Jesus Christ by the grace OF God
should taste death for every man. The
death which Jesus experienced was ex-
actly the same kind as the one which
destroyed Adam--the soul OF Jesus
died. as the ransom-p price for tho
soul of Adam Gneludiug Adams pos
terity). Thus we read OF Jesus He
poured out His soul unto death: He
made His soul an offering for sim"
1t is by virtue of this corresponding
price which Jesus paid that ultimately
Adam and all of his pesteritg, every
soul Of man. viii be granted a release
from the death peraly-a resurrection
from the dead-uot of the dead bodies,
but of the dead souls. II The resurree-
ton God viii give to each soul p
body as it has pleased Him I Cor Ky,
IS.
The few during this Age who have
become followers of Jesus begotten of
the Holy Spirit. will be granted spirit
bodies like the Savior's. The remainder
Of mankind, not having been begotten
of the Holy Spirit, will in the resurree-
ton be granted human bodies, the
same as they previously had; and their
raising up will bring them eventually
60 all the perfection of the first Adam,
unless they refuse the grace oil God, il
which event they viii die the Second
Death. from which there is 20 be &c
resurrection.
IT is because God has provided for
such a resurrection Of the souls oi
men that the Scriptures speak of hu-
mainly as not being dead in the same
sense that the brute beasts are dead
actually. ON the contrary. they speak
of the souls Of men as being asleep