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title “ Christ” puts divine valuation upon His sacrifice. 2. Design of His death, v. 3. As a sub stitute and sacrifice, bearing the pen- . alty due the sinner. 1 Peter 2:24. 3. Divine Declaration fulfilled, v. 3 “ Ac cording to Scriptures.” Every step in His life and death foretold. 4. Detention of His body. v. 4, a fact not to be overlooked. Laid in a grave a stone’s throw from the city, where multitudes went. Puts tremendous dif ficulty in the way of denial. See Matt. 27:64-66. ' 5. Deliverance from death’s power, v. 4. Without it His death would be no more to us than that of other saintly men. Without it, no church would have been formed. 6 .. Descent for His own, v. 23. Bringing a resurrection body for all who “are Christ’s” . . 7. Dominion of Christ in Eternity, v. 25. Glorious culmination of God’s purposes in Christ.—K. L. B.
How would we know that His death was accepted a s,the propitiation for our sins? 4. Perfect adjustment o f , the sinner. Rom. 4:25; 8 :33, 34. A living Christ, bearing the marks o f His suffering in the body for us, appears in heaven for us. 5. Placing of faith. 1 Cor. 15:14. No man could ground expectancy for sal vation upon a dead Christ. 6 . Producing of fruit. Rom. 7 :4. Power to do what His salvation does, could not come from a dead Saviour. 7. Promise of resurrection to believers. 1 Cor. 15:18, 19; Rom. 8:23. Without it, what hope have we beyond the grave?—K. L. B.
Seven Facts as to Christ. An Easter Sermon.
T ext : 1 Cor. 15:3-25. 1. Dignity of His Person, v. 3. “The CHRIST died.” The death of Jesus as a man would make no Gospel. The
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on through the 28th verse you will see that the whole setting is Jewish; and the great tribulation is principally Jewish. O f course, there will be misfortune upon other people in connection with those that overtake the Jews, but the whole tribulation is “the time o f Jacob’s trouble.” After the Church is completed and has been taken out o f this world God will deal again with the Jew. The tribulation will be connected with the manifestation of “the man o f sin,” and we are told in 2 Thess. 2:7, 8 , while" “the mys^ tery o f lawlessness doth work,” there is one that restrains the working of the mys-
Will, you please explain Matt. 24 : 21 , 22 , “F or' then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elecfk sake those days shall be short ened.” Do you understand that the 'great tribulation is to take place after the Church has been caught up into the air? The way to determine what anything means is to look at it in its context, that is, in its connection in the Bible. If you will read the whole passage from the 15th verse
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