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his main thought is that of the union of the justified with their redeeming Lord as Head of a new race. Christ is the nexus or bond between; and thus His righteousness is of infinite value to all who are in Him. To summarize this first section: “Justi fication” is not God educating or inspiring the sinner, or even the sinner himself pre paring himself, up to acceptability, but the pronouncing of the believing sinner accept able before God, at peace with the law solely because of Another’s sake, because of the merit of Another whose moral per fections are reckoned unto him. T he B asis of J ustification How can a man be just with God? This is the supreme question we are now to face. The awful business of the law was to thun der out the commandment, “Thou shalt not sin,” and when man did sin, to declare that “the wages of sin is death” (cf. Rom. 6:23). After announcing the sentence of death, the law had no power to banish the sinner’s fears or to pay his debts; it stood stern and silent before the sinner whom it condemned. Unless forgiven and justified, the sinner must die. And this brings us to the two fold problem Paul declared to be solved by faith in Christ, namely, how can the guilty be forgiven? And how can the sinful be made holy ? Christ for us on the cross of fered the solution for the first problem; Christ in us by the Holy Spirit solved the other. [T o he concluded] Captain Wallis on the Pacific Coast Captain Reginald Wallis, a retired British army officer who, since the war, has been until recently the General Secre
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on the suffering Christ their own self-pity. Our Lord never asked for pity. In the darkest hours He never craved for pity from His judges. He thought of the sorrows and sufferings of others, of the weeping daugh ters of Jerusalem, of His mother, of the dying thief, and of His enemies. In our common thought of Him as One claiming compassion, we have missed this outward turning of our Lord which is so full of health. Jesus died to save us from ourselves and morbidity and self-pity. He died to make us happy and free, that we should no longer live unto ourselves but unto God. The crucifix is not the fitting symbol of real Christianity. The great significance of the cross is victory over suffering and self-pity and the destructive forces of life. We look back to remember the victory which Christ won over all the powers of evil, a victory which gained for us the joy of for giveness and the hope of eternal life. We should remember the tremendous price paid for our redemption; yet let us never forget that Jesus Christ is a living Saviour. We look not backward, but upward to One who “after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God.” On Calvary’s tree He dealt com pletely and finally with all our sin and guilt, “for by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.” Now with joy and gratitude we worship and serve our risen and ascended Lord who ever lives to make intercession for us and to give grace in every hour of need. portion pregnant with mystery,” says saintly Bishop Moule—Paul shows that we have one connecting principle or judicial nexus with Adam. All are under the penalty of death as the result of Adam’s transgression. We are born with an inherent corrupt na ture; hence, God deals with men as a guilty race. Through one man’s disobedience we are all born in sin. Yet such an imputation is not an infusion. Adam’s character is not transferred to us. We become personally responsible to God when inherited sin be comes practiced sin. 2. The Imputation of Our Sins to Christ. Isaiah, that evangelical prophet of the Old Testament, had a deep insight into this sublime truth when he wrote: “The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all” (Isa. 53:6). Oh, what condescending love was His to bear the sins of the world! He who knew no sin was made sin for us. But here again it was an imputation, and not an infusion. True; Christ was made sin, but not a sinner. Yes, and while the provision of His cross is for all sinners, let us not forget that the possession of it is only for those who repent and believe. 3. The Imputation of Christ’s Work and Worth to Us. The contrast and comparison between our standing in Adam and our new standing in Christ, summarizes the teaching of Ro mans 5:12-21. Paul gives us Adam as the illustration, and Christ as the Subject, for BASIC PRINCIPLES OF JUSTIFICATION [Continued from page 84]
tary of the Young Men’s Christian As sociation in Dublin, Ireland, will be on the West Coast (D. V.) April 27 to May 27, 1937. He is well known to many Amer ican audiences both through his . confer ence messages during earlier visits to this country and through his books. Of his most
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recently published volume, The Neva Ven ture, more than 125,000 copies were sold last year. In Dublin, Captain Wallis had the privilege of addressing from 2,500 to 3,000 young men every Sunday evening for a long period. In these meetings in the Y. M. C. A., many were born again. His vital, radiant ministry has been wonder fully used of God to win his hearers to the One whom he exalts. Captain Wallis’ Pacific Coast itinerary calls for engagements in the Vermont Ave nue Presbyterian Church and in the Church of the Open Door, Los Angeles, May 2 to 21, and under the auspices of the Portland Union Bible Classes, Portland, Ore., May 23 to 27. Persons wishing to contact Cap tain Wallis are asked to communicate with the Extension Department, Bible Institute of Los Angeles, 558 So. Hope St., Los Angeles, Calif.
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