The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-09-27

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greet him are proof that the True Cos
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tent found a responsive, chord III thou
sands of Canadian hearts
We report the Pastors second adj
dress, which was from the text. More
over. brethren. declare unto you the
Gospel which preached unto you:s
how that Christ died for our sins &C.
cording to the Scriptures: and that He
was buried. and that He rose again
the third day" q Corinthians XIV. IA
So complete a statement of the Gospel
in so few words is wonderful. With
ont 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 it 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 hirdered many FROM
seeing the necessity for Redeemer.
and therefore from accepting Jesus as
their Savior. To say that we are sim
ners Implies 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 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 fall.
Just as the Bible declares. .
"Christ Died For Our Sins"
For Christ to die for our sins implies
that our sins had death-penalty at
tached to them. This again implies
that at the time that death penalty
was imposed it was just one, because
a just God would not punish unjustly
The justice of a death penalty implies
a high degree Of intelligence OH the
part of the sinner and that he was In a
condition In which he would not have
needed to die if be 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
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 Sou, 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 III
The Death Penalty Stated.
word death in our text. II 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. II am
He that liveth. and was dead. and be-
hold, lam alive foreverm0re." Rev. IL.
We have genuine Redemption. a
real Sacrifice. and the Redeemer is yet
to become tile 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 alive-every man in his own
order."-I Corinthians Nv. 21-23
He 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-Sheol. Hades. the
tomb-but His soul was not left there.
as the Scriptures declare. God the
Father raised Him from the dead on
the third day. tie Importance OF
Cbrist's resurrectic. Is many fold. II
shows that He did not die sinner
but, on the contrary, maintained His
relationship with the Father-"holy
harmless, undefiled. separate from sin
ners. 1t shows that He kept the Law
otherwise He would have remainee
dead like the remainder of the Jews
More than tllis. the fact that He was
raised from the dead to a highei
nature. spirit being, "partaker of the
Divine nature" proves that His sacri
fetal death was very pleasing and &C
ceptabie in the Fathers sight; hence
His high reward, And all this prove,
that the Heavenly Fathers grea,
promise to Abraham is in process OF
fulflment. Our Lords resurrection tt
the plane Of glory demonstrates to US
and His preparation for the great work