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for he cannot pay his debt of obligation to God. “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit” (Matt. 7 :18 ). Like produces like. A nettle cannot be made into a rose tree, nor can man produce holiness to the Lord, since there dwelleth no good thing in him. “Except a man be born again, he cannot see,” or “enter the kingdom of God” (John 3:3-5). If a man is minus eyes and legs, how can he see or walk? Man’s sin has blinded the eyes of man’s understanding and crip pled the power of his will, so that he cannot understand the things of God nor walk in His ways. “A branch cannot bear fruit of itself” (John 15:4). A rootless branch is a fruitless one. So apart from Christ man cannot bring forth fruit unto God. “They that are in the flesh cannot please God” (Rom. 8 :8 ). They may please themselves or others, but they cannot rise to the plane of pleasing God. “Sacrifices” of ritual “can never take away sins” (Heb. 10:11). Many think that acts of religious observance will avail.for the removal of their sins, and gain acceptance with God, but He says that “can never” be. All this calls for someone apart from us, and beyond us, to act for us. There is only one who can thus act, and that one is Christ, who knowing the facts of the case, has stated the necessity of His own death. Voluntary in Its Giving 3. Christ taught that His death was voluntary in its giving. Five times in John 10 Christ says He “giveth His life for the sheep” (the word “giveth” is rendered “lay down” in the other passages; see John 10:11, 15, 17, 18). The word “lay down” or “giveth” means to set, to place, as the foundation for a house, as a candle in a stick, as a body in a tomb, and as a purpose to be carried out. Christ’s death was no accident. He said He would lay it down of Himself, and that no man had the power to take it from Him. His star of destiny was His death on Calvary. As the man who brought a burnt offering brought it of .“his own yoluntary w ill” (Lev. 1 :3 ), so Christ, without any compulsion except the impulsion of His own love for us, gave Himself for us. Listen to what He says further. “The Son of Man came to give His life a ransom for many” (Matt. 20:28 ), so He summarizes the purpose of His coming into the world. And again, He declares “The bread that I will give is My flesh” (John 6:51). And all through the New Testament we find the emphasis is on the fact that He “gave” Himself for us. Does not all this tell us of His providing and pulsating love, and of His intense desire to bless us? Substitutionary in Its Offering 4. Christ taught that His death was substitutionary in its offering. The Greek preposition “anti” is the one which expresses substitution, as all authorities are agreed. It signifies one thing set over against another, or in place of another, as the anti-Christ, who is the usurper who takes the place of Christ; or “anti” is used to express an equiva lent as the law recognized when it said, “An eye for an eye.” “Anti” only occurs twice in connection with Christ’s death directly. Once in 1 Timothy 2:6, and there it is part of another word, namely, “anti-lutron.” “Lutron” means a sum paid to loose something out of the market, and “anti” is instead of, therefore “anti-lutron” means a loosing price paid instead of others, for Christ is said to have “given Himself a ransom (anti-lutron) for all.” Christ practically used the same expression when He says, “The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to give His life a ransom for (anti) many” (Matt. 20:28). “Remission” means not merely the remitting or cancel ling of penalty, but the letting loose from the sins which
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