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no. redemption for lost sinners, no sal-, vation for* guilty men. All our hopes rest, upon the fSet that He who was delivered up to death for our offenses was r e a l l y raised again for our justification. During the" time that the body of our Lord lay in Joseph’s new tomb, there was no one on earth who could be sure that redemption was an accomplished fact. If He had not risen, it would have‘been sure evidence that He was either deceived or a deceiver, for He had definitely predicted His resurrec tion, as well as His sacrificial death. The fact that He rose from the dead is in itself the proof that His great oblation upon the cross has satisfied the claims of divine righteousness and has met every requirement of infinite holiness. God has raised Him from ■the dead in token of the .satisfaction He has found in His. work, and He noW sets Him forth a Prince and a- Saviour. s A simple illustration may help to make clear what I am trying to say.. Let us imagine the case of a man convicted of a crime and sentenced to spend a certain period of time in prison, i In this particular instance, by some arrangement which of course I recognize would not be an ordinary thing, a substitute takes his place, agrees to serve out his sentence. In accordance with this understanding, the substitute is locked up in prison. Now as long as this man remains behind prison bars, the one in whose stead he is suffering can never be absolutely sure that the law may not yet lay hold of him and demand that he serve out at least part of the sen tence. But one day as he goes down the street, he comes face to face with the one who so generously agreed to become his representative before the law and to bear the punishment that his crime deserved. He learns that, having served the sentence, his. friend is now free. At once the offender’s mind is at rest He knows the law can have nothing further to say to
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and one can scarcely question but that these evidences of Christ’s love for His church will be seen upon His glorified body throughout all eternity. We gather from .Scripture that no others of the righteous dead wiH bear similar evidences upon their resurrec tion bodies of p a i n and suffering here on earth, for our blessed Lord is. going to present the church to Himself as “not having spot, or wrin kle, or any such thing.” But as the everlasting testimony to the reality of redemption, He will b e a r the marks of His passion throughout all thè ages to come.' When John* the Beloved gazed upon the Throne in glory, he saw in the midst of it “ a Lamb as it had been slain” (Rev. 5:6), or, as Weymouth so tenderly expresses it, “ a lamb that looked as though it had once been offered in sacrifice.”.' ‘-‘Thy wounds, Thy w o u n d s , Lord Jesus, Those deep dark wounds, they tell The sacrifice that frees us Frorn sin and death ancThell. These bind Thee once forever To all who own Thy grace. No power those bonds can sever, No time those scars efface.” The redeemed of the Lord will see in those scars the testimony,.to a love that was stronger than death and which the, many waters of judgment could not quench. To Thomas and thè other disciples, these were the sure evidences that He who appeared in their midst was actually the same Jesus whom they had k n o w n and loved before He went to the cross. He said to them, “Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.” The implication of Christ’s bodily resurrection is that if the power of God was put forth in raising Christ from the dead, it is folly to question His ability to raise up the dead bodies of His saints as well as of all men generally. In fact, s.o definite is the apostle as to this that he insists, “If the dead rise not,, then is not Christ raised” (v-.- 16); The Proof of Our Redemption What, then, would be the next im plication? Why, “If Christ be; not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins” (v. 17). In other words, if our Saviour did not come forth in triumph f r o m Joseph’s new tomb, then we have no gospel to preach to lost men. A dreaming poet like Ar nold may speak Of the body of Jesus still sleeping in a Syrian. tomb, but that is only the language of unbelief If it were true, then, there would be
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