The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-10-01

have said TOO mucn. Let us analyze
the text and see what 1t contains.
First Of all, it teaches that we are
sinners and that our sins are beyond
our own power to wash away.or eradi-
cate. This Is a fundamental, impor-
tant matter Failure to realize that
we are imperfect, born in sin, "shapen
in iniquity,' has hipdered many from
seeing the necessity for q Redeemer,
and therefore from accepting Jesus as
their Savior To say that we are sin
ners implies a time when righteous
ness prevailed in our ancestry. We do
not speak Of brutes as sinners, be-
cause the Scriptures say that "sin is
transgression of the Law" and God
would not give a law to a brute.
which could not comprehend that law.
Similarly the perfection Of our first
parents was implied in this term, be-
cause God would not give law to a
being not sufficiently Intelligent and
capable of keeping that law. Thus
this very simple statement, We are
sinners, implies the thought of fall.
just as the Bible declares.
"Christ Died For Our SINS"
For Christ to die for our sins implies
that our sins had a death-penalty at
tached to them. This again implies
that at the time that death penalty
was imposed 1t was just one, because
a just God would not punish unjustly.
The justice of a death penalty implies
a high degree of intelligence on the
part of the sinner and that he was In a
condition in which he would not have
needed to die if he had not sinned.
This statement, that Christ died for
our SINS" further implies that Christ
was not of the fallen race, for had He
been a sinner. how could He have died
for sinners-how could His death have
been Of any profit or advantage to
them? Thus our text teaches that Je-
sus was indeed the Lamb of God
which taketh away the sin of the
world" that God sent His Only Be-
gotten Son into the world that we
might not perish but have everlasting
life. The whole force and import of
this text is that human salvation is
secured by the death of Christ and His
resurrection. Were we not sinners and
dying we would have needed no one to
die for US. Were it not to rescue US
from sin and from death God would
not have sent His Son.
Tho Death Penalty Stated.
Here let us notice the force Of the
word death in our text. 1t did not
mean life in torment to our Redeemer.
! for the Scriptures bear clear testimony,
not only that He died, but that He
arose from the dead on the third day.
And the Scriptures declare that He
was not alive anywhere during those
three days This contradicts the
thought of some who claim that He
/ was the Heavenly Father Himself and
could not die-that He merely got out
Of the body on the cross and let the
body die and afterwards pretended
| that He had died. when He said, Il am
He that ive:h. and was dead and be
hold, am alive forevermore. Key. i. Is
| We have genuine Redemption. a
real Sacrifice. and the Redeemer is ye.
| to become the Great Deliverer of the
world. whose deliverance from death
by resurrection cost the Redeemer
| His life. AS by a man came death
| By the MSn Christ Jesus comes the
| resurrection Of the dead; for as all in
Adam de. even so all in Christ shall
he made aIive-every man in his own
ordpr"-I Corin.hia XIV. 2123.
He Arose ths Third Day.
Great importance attaches TO the
| fact that the One who died for ouI
sins did not remain dead He de
acended into Hell Shcol Hades. thf
tomb-b but His soul was not left there
| As the ScrintureS declare God this
Father raised Him from the dead on
he third day The Importance Of
Christs resurrection is many fold II
shows that He did not die sinner
but, on the contrary. maintained Hi
relationship with the Father-"holy
harmless, undetiled, separate from sin
ners." 1t shows that He kept the Law
otherwise He would have remained
dead like the remainder of the Jews.
More than this, the fact that He wal
raised from the dead to a higher
nature. a spirit being, ''partaker Of tht
Divine nature" proves that His sacri
fetal death was very pleasing and &C
ceptable in the Fathers sight; henc,
His high reward. And all this proves
Shat the Heavenly Fathers grea
promise to Abraham is in process o,
fulfilment Our Lords resurrection Il
the plane Of glory demonstrates to III
The greatness Of this Seed of Abraham
and His preparation for the great worl
foretold-the blessing of all the fami
lies of the earth
From this viewpoint we see the i'm
portance of His death and of Hi
resurrection, correlated The dealt
was necessary as mans Redemption
price. His exaltation to power an(
great glory was necessary for man.
deliverance from sin and death Herr
we have, then, the Gospel which st
Paul received and which he, In turn
dispensed-the true Gospel of which
he was not ashamed AS he wrot'
to the brethren at Rome, ~ am no
ashamed Of the Gospel Of Christ, fol
1t is the power of God unto salvation
to every one that believeth-to tn,
Jew first and also to the Greek"
Gospel In a Nut Shell.
As great oak may be said to be IL
an acorn. so the great Gospel Message
may be said to be In out text, as st
Paul declares. Every time we lool
at 1t, 1t seems little larger and 6
little more beautiful than before. VIZ
can almost see 1t grow-not that the
Gospel is growing, for 1t is the same
that God purposed In Himself before
the foundation of the world. 1t il
our appreciation of the Gospel thai
grows, in proportion as we grow II
| grace and in the knowledge Of tbs
| Divine Plan and In the Spirit of oul
| Lord; for without His Spirit, the Holy
| Spirit to enlighten our understanding
and to enable US to appreciate the ties
timonles of the Word, we would not
be able to comprehend ''the deep things
| Of God"
How plainly the Apostle states this
saying. 1.-The natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God
neither can he know them, be
cause they are spiritually discerned
but God hath revealed then
unto us by His Spirit. for the Spirit
searcheth all things, yea, the deer
things Of God."-I Cor. II, IA. 10.
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