Doctrines to Be Emphasised in Evangelism 19 Thou knowest that I hope for mercy alone through Thy shed blood.’ ” Third, Resurrection. “If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain. * * * Ye are yet in your sins;” and “they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that are sleeping” (1 Cor. 15; 14-20). Jesus was “declared to be the Son of God with power * * * by the resurrection from the dead” (Rom. 1 :4 ) . Therefore the apostles and disciples went everywhere preaching “Jesus and the resur rection.” ( See Acts 2 : 24-32 ; 3 : 15 ; 4 :2, 10, 33 ; 5 : 30 ; 17 : 18, 32; 2 3 :6 ; 24:15, 21; 1 Cor. 15:3-8; 1 Peter 1:3-5.) “He was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification” (Rom. 4 :2 5 ) . “By the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities, and powers being made subject unto Him” (1 Peter 3 :22 ) . “Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, see ing He ever liveth to make intercession for them” (Heb. 7 :2 5 ) . Fourth, Justification. “Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time His righteousness: that He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus” (Rom. 3:24, 25, 26). “And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblame- able and unreproveable in His sight” (Col. 1:21, 22). “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect ? It is God that justifieth” (Rom. 8: 33), for “There is therefore now no con-
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