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T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
June 1926
I love you!! I love you 11! I am paying the price! I am paying the price!! I am paying the p r ice !!!” Satan was there. The serpent was bruising the heel of the “ Seed of the woman” (His human nature). This was the prophesied hour of Satan’s triumph, and the demons in hell rejoiced with him. But— the day is coming when Satan’s head will be bruised and Christ will be glorified in the fulfillment of the prophecy. Take away all of the empty crosses! Take them Off from the churches! Take them off from the gold chains! They are meaningless. There is but one cross that has a message for a lost world, and that is the cross of Christ, upon which is the Christ of the cross. Get your eyes fixed upon that and glory in the fact that there He paid the price of sin with His own blood and set us free!
CONSIDER TH E CHR IST OF TH E CROSS The words “ Christ” and “ Cross” are inseparably united. About seven hundred! and fifty times in the New Testament are the words “ Christ,” “ Jesus Christ,” and “ Christ Jesus” used, and in every instance with a particular and definite meaning, ij, “ Christ” means “ the Anointed One,” but the name is used by many to whom it is meaningless. To some, the cross suggests a gallows upon which men are hung, and Christ is to them a martyr to His convictions. But Christ was not a martyr to a cause, but the 1 ‘ Messenger of the Cross.” He carried this message from the courts of Heaven and delivered it to the world upon the cross of Cal vary. The message concerned humanity and announced the verdict of God’s wrath
upon the sinner because of his violation of God’s laws. The law of God, as embodied in the Ten Commandments, shows what God demands of every man, everywhere. To break one, is to break all. One lie makes a liar, and no liar can stand in the presence of GodJ Wrong conceptions of the meaning of the cross have come through the exhibition of empty crosses. Some are worn on gold chains; some are set upon churches. We need to visualize Christ upon the cross, and we need to realize that there God’s wrath was poured out upon Him. Do not miss the meaning of that word, “ Wrath.” It means, “ rage,” “ fury,” “ anger!” God-is a God of anger, a God of fury, a God of wrath, and you
“ Free from the law, oh happy condition! Jesus hath bled and there Is remission; Cursed by the law and bruised by the fall, Christ hath redeemed us— once for all!** TH E AM ER ICAN A SSO C IAT IO N FOR TH E AD V AN C EM E N T OF ATH E ISM Surely, this Twentieth Cen tury is making rapid strides when an organization, with the avowed purpose of destroying the faith of young people in our schools and colleges in God and His Word, is granted a charter by one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. Webster defines the words
Not all the blood of beasts, On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away its stain, But Christ, the Heavenly Lamb, Takes all our guilt away, A sacrifice of nobler name, And richer blood than they. * Our souls look back to see The burden Thou did’st bear. When hanging on the accursed tree, For all our guilt was there. Believing, we rejoice, To see the curse remove; And bless the Lamb with cheerful voice, And sing redeeming love. — I saac W atts (1709).
“ atheist” and “ atheism’ * as follows: “ Atheist. One who disputes or denies the existence of a God or a Supreme, Intelligent Being.” “ Atheism. (1) The disbelief or denial of the exist ence of a God or Supreme Intelligent Being. A fer ocious system that leaves nothing above us to excite our awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness. (2) God lessness.” . The President of this Association declares that its object is “ the building of a better civilization by operating as a wrecking agency, leaving to others the designing and establishing of a new order.” As a *‘ wrecking agency” such an association could not be surpassed, for it is a deadly blow not only at the very foundation of this nation, ^which was founded upon the Bible, but upon civilization itself. In the past God has stricken some of these Godless, growling grovellers, and He may do so again. We pity them from the depths of our hearts, for 1*it is a fearful
will never be conscious of the full meaning of the cross until this thought grips you. God hates sin! He has pronounced His edict against it: 4 The spul that sin- neth, it shall die.” When you think of the cross, think of Christ upon i t—God manifest in the flesh, the Righteous, Holy One-’—paying the penalty for sin by the outpouring of His own blood. The Christ of the cross is a victim. He hangs there between two thieves. Listen and you can hear them railing at Him: “ If Thou be the Christ, save Thyself and us.” But that is the impossible. Christ could fashion worlds and send them spinning through space, but He could not save Himself. Look at Him as He hangs there! The blood is dropping from His pierced fore head where the crown of thorns rests. It is dropping from His side, where the spear was thrust. It is drop ping from His hands and from His feet. Drop byi.drop, as the sky darkens, every drop saying, “ I love you!
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