DHL! CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1912.
1'ACIE EIGHT.
Pastor
WHY CHRIST ROSE
FROHTHE DEAD
V.'fiaJ II Proved and What It
Guarantees.
THE CORE OF THE GOSPEL
Pastor Ruisall, In Hit Eaater 8armon,
Shows How tin Errora of Paeudo
8oience Hv Divided the Faith of
God'i People Into Many Dtnomina
tiona Explain tha Doctrin of Rae
urraction as Praianted by tht Bibla.
Tht Soul, Not tht Body, Comtt Forth,
Hrooklyn, N. T.,
Apr. 7. 1'astor
It n s e 1 1 of the
Brooklyn 'J'aber
uncle preached lu
(ho Academy of
Music today to
nearly tweutyfive
hundred hearera.
I IlH topic tl,
"Why C'hrlHt Arose
from tho Dend;"
Ms text, "If Christ
be not risen, thou
Is our preaching
vnlii, rind your fnllb also vain; yen,
mill we lire found false wltnessce of
Ood. Then they also which
are fitlli'ii asleep la Christ are porlsn
d." (1 Corliithliins xv, 14, 15, 18.) Ho
Hiild:
The fill III once delivered to thesalntg
by Ji'Him and the Apostles In respect to
the resurrection of the dead has been
very K'tiernlly lost. Christian people
profess a belief In the resurrection, be
cause they dud It stated In the Illble,
yet they are continually lu dllllculty
lu their endeavor to make the Scrip
tural teaching on the subject square
Willi souio of the unscrlpturul theories
received Into the Church, and Incor
porated Into many of the creeds during
the "Iiarlt Akcs."
St. I 'mil warned tho Church against
these huniun philosophies, and called
them "science, falsely to called," which
uiakea void the Word of Ood. Those
errors have been Instrumental In divid
ing the fnllb of (iod'a pcoplo Into nix
hundred denominations, will) six hun
dred different professions. If Uod'e
people could all come back to the aim
pllclly of the llllile's teaching In re
spect to the resurrection of tho dead,
all of these difference, would speedily
disappear. Cod's Word would be aeon
to be beautiful anil hiirmonloui, satis
factory to the consecrated Intellect, aa
none of our sectarian creeds are.
lteally the doctrine of tlio resurrec
tion of the dead has been repudiated
by all denominations, not wlllliiuly, not
Intentionally, but perforce, ns It were.
An opposite theory received and In
trenched In the minds gives no place
for the doctrine of the resurrection, aa
tho lllhlu presents It. Consequently
we have twisted the doctrine of the
resurrection and reclle, "I believe In
the resurrection of the body."
Yet even this perverted view of the
resurrection Is not satisfactory to those
who hold It They wish many a time
that the doctrine of the resurrection
were not In the Illble, si) much dif
ference does It cause. I'or Instance,
how Inconsistent It seems that they
should say, "I bellevo In the resurrec
tion of the body," nml then say, as
tunny do. I lying Is but going home, get
ting rid of the mortal llesli, and being
freed from Its limitations. If It Is a
blessing to die and get free from tho
limitations of the body, how could It
be a blessing to be reincarcerated In
the body, ami be obliged to keep It
through till eternity? 8ucli Is tho In
consistency of the resurrection, how
ever, from the general view.
Tha Bibla Raturraction Raaionabla.
There Is nothing Inconsistent In the
Illble presentation of the resurrection.
Not from the Illble. but from men,
conies the suggestion of the resurrec
tion of the '( Tho Illble Invariably
refers to the resurrection of the tout.
It Is the Jo ii I that .dies; as we read,
"The soul that slniieth, it shall die."
Ailiitu was created a living soul, but
his living soul came under tho death
sentence because he disobeyed Ood.
It uas his nml that was redeemed
from death, not his body. "I will re
deem thy Itc (look up the word life to
see If It Is from the Hebrew word
meaning mill, and If so, mid the word
after the word life. In piirentheslsl
from destruction "-I'salm clll. 4.
To accomplish this redemption we
read that Christ Jesus "poured out His
soul unto death;" "He iiniile Ills soul
nn offering for sin." Moreover, we are
particularly (old that It was the aoul
of Jesus that was raised from the
(lend: "Thou wilt not leave My soul hi
nrl." Kt. Peter quotes this statement
as prophetical of the resurrection of
Jesus, that Ills soul Was not left In
.- 1 1 oil raised Jesus flMm tho dead
on the third day. With what body do
they come? Is a totally different mira
tion Some of the dead souls. In the
rcsurnvtlon, will come forth with spir
it bodies, and oilier with humnn bod
ies, according to the Illble. Hut the
linKirtiiut point Is. (hat It la the (out,
the Mnf. tlut comes forth, that la rra
lirrtK ted - not the body. If Hie toxl
dies, ns the Illble declares, then mani
festly thf soul should be resurrected.
The dllllculty with us has been that
we "leive made void the Word of
dod" by our "traditions" We receiv
ed from tht (iiiH-laii philosophers a tra
dition which Socrates and I'lato both
advocated, namely, that when a hu
man being dies be d'tcs not really die.
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Tbe aoul, It Is claimed, cannot die, but,
whenever the soul gets out of the body,
the body dies. How Btrango It seema
that we all. as Intelligent, thoughtful
beings, have accepted this heathen
philosophy, without a word of Scrip
ture for its support, and with hundreds
of Scriptures to condemn Itt
We can see how the heathen philoso
phers might be led to conjure up such
a theory, because of their desire to be
lieve in a future life, and because they
bad no revelation from God respecting
a future life. They therefore tried
their beat to convince themselves that
man really does not die that no man
can die. The Bible theory is the very
reverse of this, namely, that a man la
not merely a body, that be Is a aoul, a
thinking, sentient being. Neither Is be
a bodiless being, and Indeed he cannot
be a being at all without a body. Ills
body may change, as science declares
It docs graduully, hour by hour, until
a complete change Is effected in seven
years.
Thus a man, a aoul, a sentient being,
may in a life of fifty years have slough
ed off gradually sufficient matter to
have composed seven bodies. But the
moment the sloughing off of this dy
ing matter and the substitution of liv
ing matter ccr.acs, we have death; and
as soon as the body dies the soul dies
that is, the Intelligent being ceases.
There can be no thinking without a
brain, no breathing without lungs, no
maintenance of life In any sense of the
word without a body.
This would have been a total de
struction of the soul had not Cod spe
cially provided, as the Prophet de
clares, that He would redeem man's
life, (soul) from destruction, through
the redemptive work accomplished by
Jesus lu giving His soul an offering for
man's sin, and thus making possible
man':! resurrection from the dead.
It Is In consequence of this Divine
provision through Christ for a resur
rection of humanity that the Scrip
tures speak of death as merely a fall
ing asleep for a time, to wait for the
new body In the resurrection, rather
than to speak of us as dying as the
brute beasts. The word ilecp Implies
that In tho Divine purpose a future life
I Intended, and will eventually be
given.
"But Now Is Christ Rittn."
St. Tnul does not leave the matter
of Christ's resurrection undecided. lie
positively alllrins that. "Christ Is risen
from tho dead," and that, thus risen,
"He Is the First-fruits of those that
slept," which implies that when lie wag
raised the others still slept Jesus slept
a part of those threo days, from the
time He died until the Father raised
tllm from the dead, from hadtt, from
ihcol, from the tomb, on the third day.
He, ns the First-fruits of the sleeping
ones, Is nn example and a guarantee
of the fulfillment of tho Divine prom
ise, that "there, shall be a resurrection
of the dead, both of the Just aud of the
unjust"
It behooves us to take a decided
stand, either with the Grecian philoso
phers and their theories, or with the
llllilo. The two are In conflict aud
whoever attempts to hold both Is In
confusion. If tho dead are not dead,
then no human being la dend. And If
no one Is dead, how could thore be a
resurrection of the dend?
The Inconsistency of (he theory held
respecting the resurrection of the My
has invited a very reasonablo and Just
criticism. The skoptlc asks. "How
could the body lie resurrected, after
It has gone to dust and after the dust
has been scattered to tho four winds?"
They tell us of a grave Hint was open
ed near an apple tree, and It was found
Hint a root from the tree had entered
tho coffin and practically absorbed the
corpse, from which It had produced
thousands of apples, which In turn
had been shipped to various parts of
tho world, some of tbo poorer grades
being fed to bogs, whose hams wero
cured and sent abroad and thus passed
Into other human beings, to become
parts of still other human bodies. The
question Is a proper one, but It Is an
unanswerable one from the standpoint
of our former misbelief and our poor
attempt to combine human philoso
phy and Idvlno Itnvelntlon.
Hut such a question brings no con
sternation to the Blblo student who
follows the Scrlptnres alone. The
Scriptures never speak of the resurrec
tion of our bodies. They do tell of (he
resurrection of the soul, and that In
the resurrection Clod glvcth It (the
soul) a body as It pleascth Him.
How reasonable It will be for the
world to be awakened In practically
tho condition lu which they went down
Into death I And theso will experience,
If willing and obedient, a gradual res
urrection or raising up to the Imuge
and likeness of Father Adam In his
perfection, nut some In tho resurroc
tlou will receive spirit bodies like unto
the angels, and some like unto the
body of Christ In Ills resurrection,
which Snul of Tarsus beheld "shining
alwve the brightness of the sun 'at
noonday."
The class that la promised a resur
rection In spirit bodies la tho Church
the milutly few who walk In the foot
steps of Jesus. The begetting of the
Holy Spirit which comes to these
changes their nature from earthly to
spiritual. If they are faithful to their
covenant their resurrection will be
to glory, honor aud Immortality, aa
explained by St Paul In the context,
any lug, "It la town to weakness, It la
raised In tower; It la sown In dUhon
or, It ka ruined In glory; It Is town an
animal body. It la raised a spirit
body."
This Is a description of the resurrec
tion which God has promised to all
the memtiom of the Body of Christ,
which la the Church. St. Paul de
clares that the members of this Body
fall asleep, to awaken In the glortoua
morning of the New Dispensation.
But he adds. "We shall not all sleep
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some will be nllve and remain till
the second coming of Jesus. These,
however, will not take precedence over
the sleeping ones, for. "The dead In
Christ shall rise Drat; then we which
are alive and remain "shall be changed
In a moment, In the twinkling of an
eye," because "flesh and blood
cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God."
As the death of Jesus was absolutely
necessary as the atoning price for hu
man sin, bo the resurrection of Jesus
was absolutely necessary, that He
might not remain dead through all
eternity, but be glorified, and In due
time, come again to effect the resur
rection of Ills Church and, subse
quently, the awakening and uplifting
of all the families of the earth.
Hearken to the special promise made
to the Church: "Blessed and holy Is he
that hath part In the First Resurrec
tion; on such the Second Death hath
no power, but they shall be priests of
God, and of Christ, and shall reign
with Him a thousand years." (Reve
lation xx, 0.) Also note the promise
of the world's resurrection: "There
shall be a resurrection, both of tho Just
and the unjust." (Acts xxlv, 15.)
Again, "They that have done evil"
shall come forth, that they moy enjoy
resurrection effected by "Judgments."
disciplines, chastisements, which wilt
develop In them character; and the
glory which will be attained will be
perfection a rnlslug up to all at first
possessed by Father Adam, lost
through disobedience, and redeemed by
the precious blood of Christ-John v,
28, 20, R. V.
"A Kind of Fint-Fruits."
Every Sunday is n aieniorlnl of the
resurrection of our Lord from the
dead, aud If a proper conception of the
Master's resurrection were kept In
mind we would not think of quarreling
with the expression "Kaster Sunday."
But alas, this name Easter Is asso
ciated with heathen philosophies and
Idolatries, which did bo much to make
the Word of God of none effect; and
the fact should be noted that It is the
name of a Greek goddess. The com
promising spirit Indueed some of the
early Church to odmlt tho heathen
philosophies aud to commingle with
theso tho Inspired teachings of tho Bl
blo; but now there is the loud call to
true Christians to rid themselves of
science and philosophy "falsely so
called," and to return to the Biblical
simplicity of the Divine Revelation.
Of this Revelation alone St. Peter
declares, "It Is able to make you wise
unto salvation," and to "give you nn
inheritance umong all them which ore
sanctified." Aud again, "The Word
of God is sufficient, that the man of
God may be thoroughly furnished unto
every good work." Let us today, then,
rejoice lu Him who died for our sins
and who rose on the third day for our
Justification.
Let us rid our minds of the foolish
thought that He did not really die, that
He only leemrtl to die that when the
Roman soldiers crucified Him, He sim
ply got out of Ills body, laughed at
them, and said, "1 have not died at all;
I could not die: you could uot kill Ale."
Let us remember rather the Divine
Word on the subject: "Christ died for
our sins"; "Ho poured out Ills soul
unto death"; "He made His bou. an of
fering for sin." Let us remember tho
assurnnco of the Bible that eventual
ly "He shall see tho fruits of the tra
vail of Ills soul aud shall be satisfied."
Let us rejoice also In the assurunco
of the Apostle that Ills soul was not
left In Kadct, i7ip.iI, death, but that God
raised Him from tho deud on the third
day.'
Nott an Additional Proof.
If Christ did not die, then the death
penalty upon Adam and his race has
not been met Those who claim that
Ho did not die, that merely Ills body
died, are llloglcnl. They protean to be
lieve that Jesus accomplished for us a
redemptive work, that He died, "The
Just for the unjust." If Christ, the
Redeemer, "poured out Ills soul unto
death, and if His resurrection meant
tho recovery of His soul or being out
of death, wherein Is the logic lu the
declaration of some that It Is not thus
with the Church nor with the world?
If Jesus did not go to Heaven vlj;i
He died If lie went Into air, Into
the grave. Into incol, Into death, who
has the temerity to say that others go
direct to Heaven or Hull or Purgatory?
Let us be consistent Tho wages of
sin la not rurgatory. nor a Hell of tor
turo, lu some fur off place. Ou the
contrary, "The wages of sin Is death."
The Redeemer died and roso; and this
la the assurance, that lie who raised
up Jesus from the dead will raise us
up also, by Jesus, through Ills spirit
and power; and not only so. but also
tbe world of mankind, all who were
Involved lu the death sentence upon
the first man.
Therefore, the entire world Is In
cluded In the death payment made by
the tiroat Redeemer, that "As by man
came death, by a man also shall come
the resurrwctlon of tho dead; for as all
In Adum die, even so all In Christ shall
be made alive." But. says the Apos
tle, while every man who will come
Into Christ shall be made alive, each
will come forth "In his own order."
The Christ company shall coiue forth
Brat "the Church of the First born,
whose names are written lu heaven."
Afterwards will come those who will
become His at, or during, Ills pres
enceduring the thousand years of
HI Kingdom glory. The opiKirtunlty
of that thousand years will mean to
every man the privilege of coining into
fellowship with the Redeemer and
King, Kmmanuel. Whoever will ac
cept the opportunity will receive the
blessing of an admission to Messlah'a
family. Aa tbe irviUe say, (hey will
become Hla. Under Ills heavenly
guidance aud blessing and regenerat
ing Influence, all aucb may attain again
to a full Image and likeness of God,
faet In Eden, redeemed at Calvary.
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