316 THE K I NG ' S BUS I NES S Sin separates. It caused separation in Eden. It has separated ever since. The veil in the temple barring access, points to the fact that sin separates. The wages of sin is separation. To be lost is to he forever separated, forsaken eternally. Could any way b.e devised whereby guilty sinners should not be forever forsaken? There was but one. “ He was wounded for our transgressions.” God “ laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.” . He was forsaken that we might not have to be forsaken. The sinless One suffered the pangs of hell in infinite force in our stead. Was His sacrifice acceptable? Is the work of the cross sufficient? Is it forever “ finished” for those who accept Him? How shall we know? The resurrection is the answer. “ He is declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead. ” Thus has God the Father said “ Amen” to the transaction of the cross. —K. L. B. RAT IO NAL IST S and Resurrection Bead the papers in our great cities Monday morning following Easter Sunday, and you will get the echo of many resurrection sermons. Ministers who have come out point blank for a literal bodily resurrection of the saints at the Lord’s second coming, will get a scant five lines. Those who air the modern liberal view of the resurrection will be featured. We give fair warning in good season against these unscriptural modem theories. The only hope of resurrection is that offered us in the Bible. All else is speculation. What the Bible says about it is exceedingly clear. The modernized teaching is that resurrection is from the dead, not from the grave. Resurrection then, we are told, takes place immediately at death. It has to do with the spirit, not the literal body. It is beyond our comprehension how men can make' positive statements of this kind while basing their sermons upon the Bible. There is not a thing in the Bible to warrant such teaching. The resurrection means resurrection of the body or means nothing. Give up the identity of the body and you give up resurrection altogether. The disembodied spirit continues to exist after death. It has never died. It needs no resurrection? The body is in the grave. The Lord Jesus said that “ all that are in the graves” should come forth (Jn. 5:28).» The spirit is not in the grave. It can only refer to the body. The scattered particles of the millions of bodies that have died present no difficulty to Him. The spirit will be united to the resurrection body in a new life. The body is to be redeemed as well as the soul (Rom. 8 :23). Satan is not to have so much as the dust of God’s children to gloat over. “ Though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see Gojl” (Job 19:26). We look for a Saviour who shall change our bodies, fashioning them after His own glorious body (Phil. 3:20, 21). Look at the pattern. The body of the Lord Jesus was placed in the tomb. The body was resurrected. In the body He was seen for forty days. It was tangible (Lk. 24 ¡39). It was recognizable (Jn. 20:20). It was different, to be sure, for it was a glorified body, but His resurrection
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