The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-03
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THE RISEN CHRIST
Mark 16:1-S; Matthew 2S:11-15
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Mark 16:1-S; Matthew 2S:11-15
December 6
Why seek We the living amongst the
dead? He is not here, but Is risen.--
Luke 24:5, s.
The resurrection of the dead Is an
astounding proposition. Its accomplish
ment will be the greatest manifestation
OF divine power ever made to angels and
10 men, The awakening of Jairus' daugh-
ter. of the widow of Mains son. of Lag
arus the friend of>Xesus, and others. are
nowhere styled resurrections of the dead
they were merely awakenings, the last
OF these being the most wonderful be-
cause, as related, Lazarus had been dead
Tour days, and putrefaction had set In.
The resurrection of the dead promised
IN the Bible is to bring back the person.
ahty and>the consciousness OF thousands
OF millions of humanity who have died.
VINO have gone to dust, under the d.
vine sentence, Dying, thou shalt de-,
Dust thout art, and unto dust shalt tbou
return There could be no resurrection
mo escape from the divine sentence
except In the way God has arranged:
namely, that Jesus took the place of the
original sinner. Adam. Purcha sing him
back from the death sentence meant the
purchase of all who died In him. Thus
we read that Christ died. the Just for
the unjust, that He might bring us back
to God.'-1 Peter s1s.
Fallacious ideas has gone abroad To
the effect that it will be the body merely
that will be resurrected--that God will
collect from the four winds every par
ticle OF dust which once composed a por-
tion OF human body, and will reorganize
the race out of these particles The alb
surdity Of this idea grows upon us as
we consider that the bodies of the dead
nave more or less gone into vegetation,
ana thus into other animals and other
humans. We have all heard the story
of the apple tree the roots of which
penetrated coffin and assumed the
shape of the corpse Its apples were
eaten by various people. and some by
swine. which. in turn, were shipped to
various parts. This we'll illustrates the
unreasonableness of the common misun-
Outstanding of the Bible teachings
The difficulty has been that we lost
sight of the Bible declaration that 1t is
the soul which dies. (Ezekiel 1874, ao.)
Our bodies are being renewed, Science
tolls us, every seven years The body
az WiitSh fAudfu Sl0Ileut tneTeIOTe, passed
away-and many other bodies--during his
lifetime. But his soul, his personality.
himself, died only once, $50 years old.
1t Is the soul that dies, that has been
redeemed, and that is to be resurrected
Thou sowest not that body which shall
be-
Our Lord No Longer Human
Christ as the Logos with the Father,
was a living soul. or being, on high
spirit plane. For mans sake He humbled
Himself-"took a bondsman's form, and
was found In fashion as a mana hui
man soul. As a human soul, or being, He
died-"He poured out His soul unto
DEATH" He made His soul an offering
for SIM" He shall see (the reward of
the travail. of His soul, and shall be
satisfied. Isaiah 53:10-12
1t was Jesus the soul that died, but
He was raised from the dead a soul OF a
higher order. At that time, as He had
foretold, He assembled up where He was
before; that is to say, He was put to
death In flesh, but quickened, made alive,
In spirit. Q Peter 3.1S He took the flesh
ly nature merely for the great purpose
OF giving mans redemption- price; and
after He had paid that ransom-price by
giving Himself UP to death, the Father
raised Him up to glory, honor, the d.
vine nature-far above angels principali-
named.--Philiippians 2:s-11.
From this viewpoint we are prepared
to understand why Jesus conducted
Himself so differently after His resur-
rection from what He had before. After
His resurrection He appeared and dis
appeared, we read. He showed Himself
to His disciples for few moments at
a time and then vanished from their
sight Never before had He done any
thing of the kind. After His resurrec.
tion He appeared in different bodies,
different forms, different clothing But
he never did this before His death To
Mary He appeared as the gardener. To
the two walking to Emmaus He ap-
peared as stranger He appeared not
only In different forms. but also In diff
ferent clothing for His clothing was
parted amongst the soldiers.
How evidently He was put to death
in flesh. but quickened in spiritw 1t was
the Spirit Jesus who showed Himself,
assuming different human forms and
clothing, as best suited the occasion,
This Spirit Being could. and did, come
into the assemblies of the disciples
when the doors were shut and fastened
for fear Of the Jews. He created, or ma
terialized, q body and clothing In their
presence; and after few moments He
vanished. dissolving the body and the
clothing. while He. the Spirit Being. re-
manned Invisible. Thus He was with the
disciples for 40 days before He ascend
ed yet they saw Him not, except few
minutes at time on seven different
occasions.
These 40 days were very necessary
for teaching the Jewish disciples. and
all of our Lords followers since, two
great lessons:
/. That He was no longer dead, but
alive.
2. That He was no longer a man, but
spirit. "Now the Lord ID that Spirit
Corinthians 3:17.