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T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
October 1926
tlanity is, “ O man, know thy Ood, In Christ.’* Yet we shall never know Him as the Saviour, it we do not know ourselves as the sinner. Man does wrong till he is right, and he cannot do right because he Is wrong. (2 ) Man Is a sinner because of his sinful ways and works. What’s bred in the bone will come out In the flesh. Sin has dulled the ears of man’s at tention, darkened the eyes of his un derstanding, depraved the heart of his affection, diverted the feet of his walk, warped the capacity of his Intellect, debased the soul of his nature, poison ed the tongue of his speech, paralyzed the ability of his will, contracted the hand of his energy, and shut him up in the prison house of condemnation. (Se4 Rom. 3 and find Scriptures for all jthe above descriptions). (3 ) Man is a sinner because of what he has not done. The meaning of the word “ sinner” is to “ miss the mark” (Rom. 3:23 ). Man has missed the mark of Cod's holy law, the holi ness of Cod’s nature, and the perfect ideal of His Son. Some of the most terrible punishments in Cod’s Word are said to come to those who do not "do,” i. e., not to love, not to obey, not to believe, not to aid, not to help, not to pray, and not to follow the Lord, are the things that cut and con demn. “ It is not the things you do, friend, But the things you leave undone, That cause the bitter heart-ache, At the setting of the sun.”« (4 ) Man is a sinner, because of Adam’s act of disobedience (Rom, 5:12 ). Cod looks upon two represent ative men: the First and the Last Adam. Romans 5 treats of the con sequence of the acts of these represent ative men— what we get as sinners in the one, and what we get as saints in the other. The following contrasts will illustrate: In the First Adam: Alienation—Cen. 3:24. Bondage— Cen. 3:17, 18. Condemnation— Rom. 5:16. Curse— Cen. 3:14. Death— Rom. 6:12. Enmity— Gen. 3:15. Fear— Gen. 3:10. Sin— Rom. 5:12. Sorrow—Cen. 3:16. Shame— Cen. 3:7. Judgment—Rom. 5:16. In the Last Adam: Nearness— Eph. 2:13. Liberty— Rom. 8:19. "No Condemnation”— Rom. 8:1. Blessing— Eph. 1:3. Life— Rom. 5:21,
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ners, by the unmaking of himself by sin— "Cod made man (Adam) up right,” but he has sought out many inventions (Eccl. 7 :29 ). (2 ) There is no exception in the human family as to the universal taint and tendency of sin in man, hence, his failure to do right— "There is not a just man (Adam) on earth, that doeth good, and snifteth not” (Eccl. 7:20; 1 Kings 8:46 ). “ There is none upright among men (Adam)” (Micah 7 :2 ). (3 ) All men, and “ all the man” of all the men of all time, are sinful: “ Ood saw the wickedness of man (Adam) that it was great in the (Continued on page 597)
Confidence— Rom. 8:15. Peace— Rom. 5:1. Salvation— Rom. 5:19. Joy— Rom. 5:11. Covering— Rom. 4:7-8. * Justification— Rom. 5:T8. In Adam All Sinned
Associative, or man’s frailty and sin. As one drop of poison in a glass of water will contaminate it, so Adam’s sin has transmitted its virus to all his posterity. The word for man in each of the following Scriptures is “ Adam,” and they at once identify Adam with his posterity and his posterity with him. (1 ) Man was not made a sinner, but he has made all his posterity sin
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