THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S the Father. In John 10:30 He said, “I and my Father are one,” :and in John 14:9 He even dared go so far as to say, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.” Beyond a question Jesus claimed to be God manifest in the flesh. Men put Him to death as a blas phemer for making that claim, and if He was not God manifest in the flesh, then the Jews, according to their own divinely given law, were right in put ting Him to death, only they should have put Him to death by stoning and not by crucifixion. Whoever denies the Deity of Christ justifies His execution. But before they put Him to death our Lord Jesus said in substance', “You will put me to death for making this claim, but three days after you have put me to death God will set the stamp of His endorsement upon the claim by raising me from the dead.” Put Him to death they did; lay Him in Joseph’s sepulcher they did; roll the stone to the door of the sepulcher they did; seal it with the Roman seal, which to break was death, they did; but when the hour that Jesus had foretold was come, the breath of God swept through that sleeping clay and Jesus rose from the dead, and God proclaimed more loudly and more clearly and unmistakably than even if you should hear His voice speaking from the opened heavens above New York today: “This man is what He claimed to be. He is my Son. He is God mani fest in the flesh. All men should honor ‘Him even as they honor the Father. All men should worship Him and adore Him even as they do me.” Ever since that glorious first day of the week when Jesus rose triumphant over the grave and death Unitarianism has had no, logical standing ground. In His resur rection is a complete answer to Uni tarianism in all its forms. But His sec ond coming, His Visible and Glorious Return will be God’s final answer to Unitarianism. Jesus Christ said under oath to the high priest that He was the Christ, the Son of God, and then
324 and university-bred and fostered vio lence, lust, outrage and general devil try, but the land of systematized and university-bred and fostered falsehood, but which is also demonstrably false in its fundamental postulates and in all its details. If you do not repent now the time is coming when all these pre dictions regarding the visible and glori ous return of our Lord will be fulfilled before your eyes and you will have to repent then when repentance is too late to bring salvation. HI. The Second Coining of Christ, the Visible and Glorious Return of Christ, God’s Final Answer to Uni- tarianism. In the third place the second coming of Christ will be God’s final answer to Unitarianism in all its forms. XJnitar- ianism has already been fully and sat isfactorily answered by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead can be proven to be, as I have proven it to be in my book, The Bible and Its Christ, the best established fact of history, but the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is conclusive answer to Unitarianism in all its forms. Some one will ask, “How is the resur rection of Christ from the dead an answer to Unitarianism?” Because Jesus Christ when He was here upon earth claimed to be the Son of God, claimed to be Divine, claimed to be the Son of God and claimed to be Divine not in the- sense in which many today are saying, “Oh yes, I believe Jesus is the Son of God, we are all eons of God. Oh, I believe Jesus Christ is Divine, we are all divine,” but claimed to be the Son of God and to be Divine in a sense in which no other is Divine. For example, in Mark 12:6 our Lord taught that while all the prophets of the old dispensation, even the greatest, were servants of God, that He was a Son and the only Son of God. In John 5:23 He taught that all men should honor Him, the Son, even as they honor God
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