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PAGE TWO.. ‘. 1 ¢orinthians 15:1--11.—April Subject —Jesus’ soul ressurr Text " This Jesus hath God raised ap, whereof we are all witnesses.” — Acts 2 ¢ Today's study leaves the words and the Easter scason, we are to consider jsurely die;” i our Lord's resurrection. At the very outset we are confronted with .vr»l tain errors which have gradually crystalized around the central truths ol God's word. One of these errors s the supposition that the resurrec- tion of the dead, which the scrip- tures hold forth as the hope of the ¢hurch and of the world, is to be a resurrection of the bodies which go down into death. This mistake has given ground for infidelity to sneer at this precious doctrtne of the Bible. We are asked, How could the dust which once con- stituted the bodies of thousands of willions of humanity ever be re- collected and rearranged so that we could say that those bodies were res- urrected? The infidel urges that ..|the state of the dead. . ¢ . v 2 ly Adam and all of his posterity, ev- WAty of NUISRILE Bnte YoR. entsn ry soul of man, will be granted a'Points out that the prophet could not by fishes and animals, and many oth- er corpses have been absorbed by veg- etation, which in turn has been eat- en time and again by man and beast, entering into the many organisms. The proposition is manifestly un- answerable, yet it does not refute the Bible teaching of the resurrection, but merely our creedal misapprehen- sions of the Bible teaching. What the Ixu nalty rHE PVENING TELEGRAM LAKFT LAND, FLAL, APRIL 6, 1912, « ci» @ S ‘the everlasting life promised. It was|®" R 'sin, therefore, that brought the death| Will receive the Kingdom. the death of the soul. It was Adam’s soul that sinned, it was Adam’s soul that died. it shall die..” The result of this Divine sentenc:ihad appeared in heaven on behalf or S upon man would have been extinctio: |those who desired to be His follow- that, resurrected, He was a Spirit Be manity as not being dead in the same sense that the bruite beasts are dead —actually. On the contrary, they :gz.sp'-uk of the souls of men as being This is a great mistake. He was the | o asleep—awaiting the resurrection, *'wlmn they shall be quickened to life, in conjunction with the bodies which had man by obedience continued in|God will supply at that timekearthlyl ted. |invine favor and in the enjoyment of |bodies to mankind in general, heav- lody, raised a spirit body. enly bodies for the saintly few who Jesus' Soul Resurrected. | — St. Peter on the day of Pentecost “In the day|declared that the tloly Spirit then be- Al i wotks of Jesus, and, appropriate 10linat thou eatest thereof thou shaltstowed came as a result of our Re- Pearances to .”‘5 faithful ones afte The soul that sinneth|deemer’s death and resurrection and !i8 resurrection, we should remem- ascension on high. It proved that He —he would have been on the same|ers, His Bride class. St. Peter argues plane as the brute, without a pro-|backwards to prove that while the Privileges and powers that spirit vision for eternul lite, had not Gol|sacrifice of Jesus, finished at calvary, in great mercy provided 4 redemptio:n |Was to pay for Divine reconciliation, ——that Jesus Christ by tae grace ou|nevertheless there could have been no God should taste death for every man The death which Jesus experienced |dead. reconciliation if Jesus had remained Hence he laid stress upon the was exactly the same kind as the one|fact of His resurrection, and he re- which destroyed Adam—the soul of {minds us that this was foretold. The Jesus died, as the ramsom price Prophet David declared, “Thou wilt tor the soul of Adam (including | Mot leave My soul in sheol, nor suffer Adam’s posterity). Thus we read of |Thine Holy One to see corruption.” Jesus, “He poured out His soul unto|—Acts 2:27. death;"” *“He made His soul an offcr- ing for sin.” St. Peter’s quotation of this, in the Greek, substitutes the word hades for | It is by virtue of this corresponding '$heol, showing that the two words price which Jesus paid that ultimate-,have the same meaning—the tomb, el release from the death penalty—a res- urrection from the dead. It will be a|S¢lf. because his soul was left in hades resurrection, not of the dead bodies, [and his fle": did see corruption. St but of the dead souls. In the resur-|Peter said, “David has not ascended rection God will give to each soul a|into heaven, and his sepulcher is with body as it has pleased Him—1 Cor. 15:38.. The few during this age who have become followers of Jesus, begotten af Bidle does teach is that the real man|the Holy Spirit, will be granted spirit is the soul, the being, and that he persists while gradually his body keeps changing—sloughing off. Scientists estimate that the human body undergoes a complete change ev- ery seven years, so that a man 50 years old will have lost seven differ- ent bodies through natural wastes. None of those bodies was the man himself, for he is the soul, the in- telligent personality, which used those different bodies. According to the Bible, the process of rejuvenation would have continued e\'erlastlnglylmen that the scriptures speak of hu- Spic-Span-New Laster Clothes For You These are simply the best designed, best made and best fitting clothes you ever put on, for the money. have all the fine points for which “PECK” Clothes are They are the sort of clothes that appeal to the famous. man who has good taste, seasoned with good sense. models are distinctive but free from extremes and extrav- bodies like to the Savior's. The re- mainder of mankind, not having been begotten of the Holy Spirit, will in the resurrection be granted human bodies, the same as they previously had; and their raising up will bring them eventually to all the perfection of the first Adam, unless they refuse the grace of God, in which event they will die the second death, from which there is to be no resurrection. It is because God has provided for such a resurrection of the souls of agancies either in styies or’ prices. 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St. Paul tells us that “He was put to death in the flesh but quickened in spirit.” He declared that Jesus, in His resurrection, was exalted_to a higher than human nature, to a high- er than the angelic nature—far above angels and principalities and powers —the divine nature. Our Difficulty Solved. that our Lord appeared as a man to They iples after His resurrm-liun' that He is still a human be-| | 1 His di prov ing, “a little lower than the angels.’ church's forerunner, and St. Paul ex-| plains the church’s resurrection, say- ing, “It is sown in weakness, it is, raised in power; it is sown an animal Hence "the resurrection of Jesus must have :‘vau as a spirit being. Again we ! read, “Now the Lord is that Spirit.” | —2 Cor. 3:17. In considering the Lord’s eight ap- ber that He had two purposes to serve: (1) He wished them to know {ing of the highest order, with all tne brings like the angels exercise. As angels could materialize and appear in the flesh and then disappear, and had done so in the past, so did Jesus. In order that they might not misun- derstand He appeared in different forms; on two of the occasions, in forms representing the Crucified One; cn the six other occasions, in various forms, as the gardener, the sojourner, etc. Inthe last verse of our study the apostle sums up the essense of his preaching, saying, “So we preach and €0 ye believe.,” This, in the first verse of our study, St. Paul calls the gos- ipel and the word ‘“gospel’” signifies “good tidings,” which St. Paul and the other apostles preached, namely, that God, in His own due time, four thousand years after sin had entered the world, had provided a Redeemer, who had died a ransom price for the man Adam. The Redeemer had risen that He might, as Jehovah’s Anoint- ed One, the Messiah, confer upon the human race the blessed opportunity for restitution to all that was lost in Adam, and redeemed at calvary. 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