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rock and kill Him; but a i'H is h o u r was not yet come, He evaded His persecutors in’ a mysterious manner: “But He, p issing through the m idst of them, went His way.” In some way, unknown to us, He had a peculiar power of dis appearance and reappearance both be fore and afte r death; and we know for certain th a t the body He had before death was real flesh and bones and blood, for it was offered as a sacrifice upon the Cro&s. In th e words of the Apostle, who knew Jbsus as well as any5 man ever ‘.did, our g reat hope is: “We shall be like H im .” As He Went home to God from Mount Olivet in a body, in d John was a witness, so finally shall we be clothed upon' in the same man- ■ner, and shall be' for ever w ith .the Lord. “ For I know th a t my Redeemer liveth, and th a t Ijg shall stand :, a t the lattey day upon th e earth : and tfiough after my skin worms destroy th is body, yet in my flesh shall I see Clod.”,.:;:- ,;
wheat begins to grow it sends np a stalk, by and by th ere comes th e full corn in th e ear, bu t th e seed grain dies. The ,stalk and the Wheat are a manifold increase of the single corn th a t was cast into th e ' ground. The whole, however, is the sâme in identity, only th e re is a larger, fu ller1life, th e symbol of the glorified body of -the believer, as he rises again from the dead. “There is a natural, body, and th ere is a spiritual body” (1 Cor. 15:*44). But some one - m ight say tonight, and very likely th is thought is passing through the minds of many before me, How could Christ w ith a real body appear in the Upper Room, passing oiit and in, w ithout ever open ing th é door? This was not a new th ing for Christ to do. ' Before death, when He was in th e flesh, you remem ber, early in’His m inistry, when 'prekcksf* ing a t Nazareth, th e people w ere so en raged w ith His teaching, that, they wanted tò fling Him over a g reat high
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By Rev. G, W. McPherson, N. Y. City Tent Evangel RDING to Modernism tke ning of Christ is 'a contjn- is event which', culm inates death. Wé' shall examine pages, we shall n atu rally th ink th a t each human being’s resu rre ctio n . takes placé a t d eath” (Christian .Theology, page 410). Again, he states: S it . is most probable th a t the human .spirit will arise from death to the life beyond with an organism adapted, to its uses in f b a t life” (p. 409). And again: .“ It is not tau g h t that, Christ’s resurrec tion added a nèw element to human ' destiny” (p. 407):, These references'*
this theology as to its teachings con cerning th e R esurrection I | leads to a denial of thp resurrection of the body. The new theology teaches th a t God will never raise up man’s body from thé dust, in the Day called in Scripture, thè R esurrection Day, or the Bast Day, and give fé man a glorified, and imm ortal body. The nëw theology teaches th a t thè resurrection occurs at death, for both the righteous and th e wicked. The late Dr. C làrke says: “ If we accept th e view th a t has been expressed on previous
furnish us w ith a clear-v iew of the position of Modernism, as tp. th e r é s u r - ‘ reetion. Let us examine these teach ings in the light of Scripture and see if they have anything on which to stand. There is not a -h in t in Scripture th a t
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