Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-09-28

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nces, and the i'm.
f(p4STOR RIISSFlDl mense audiences
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greet him are proof that the True Cos
pei which he breaches has to some ex-
tent found responsive chord in thou
sands OF Canadian hearts.
We report the Pastors second ad-
dress, which was from the text, more.
over, brethren, | declare unto you the
Gospel which preached unto you:
how that Christ died for our sins ac-
cording to the Scriptures; and that He
was buried, and that He rose again
the third day." Il Corinthians XIV, la
So complete a statement of the Gospel
In so few words Is wonderful With
out inspiration st. Paul, like the rest
of us, would have said more-would
have said too much. 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 fundamental, lmpor-
tant matter Failure to realize that
we are imperfect, born in sin, "shapen
in iniquity," has hlndered many from
seeing the nee essity for a 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 "sln is
transgresslon OF the Law" and God
would not give law to 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 a fall,
Just as the Bible declares
"chrlst 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 n just one, because
a Just God would not punish unjustly.
The Justice of death penalty implies
n high degree OF intelligence on the
pnrt of the sinner and that he was in n
condition in which he would not have
needed to die II he had not slnned.
This statement, that Christ died for
our sins" further implies that Christ
was not Of the fallen race, for had He
been sinner how could lie have died
for slnners-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 aud
dying we would have needed no one to
die for u.s. Were It not to rescue us
from sin and from death God would
not have sent His Son.
The 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 lie
arose from the dead on the third day.
And the Scriptures declare that lie
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, 81 am
He that llyeth and was dead and be
hold, lam alive foreyermore. Rev IL,
We have genuine Redemption, a
real Sacrifice, and the Redeemer is yet
to become the Great DelIverer OF the
world, whose deliverance from death
by resurrection cost the Redeemer
His life. AS by man came death,
BY the Man Christ Jesus comes the
resurrection Of the dead "for as all In
Adam die, even so all In Christ shall
be made allve-every man In his own
order"-I Corinthians xv, 2i-23
Ho Arose the Third Day.
Great Importance attaches to the
fact that the one who died for our
sins did not remain dead He de-
scended into Hell-Sheo, Hades, the
tomb-but His soul was not left there,
us the Scriptures declare. God the
Father raised Him from the dead on
the third day The importance OF
Chrlst's resurrection Is many-fold. 1t