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and for me-then all human life
everywhere had come to its doom.
But the Father still reigned in
high heaven! And the FATHER had
LIFE INHERENT IN HIMSELF!
Life can only come
from
life!
And Christ Jesus was now DEAD!
His
life had gone from him–
poured out on Calvary's cross–
poured out from his veins! That's
where his life resided-in his
BLOOD, not in spirit! He did not
shed
a spirit
to save us from our
sins; He shed his BLOOo, and in so
doing GAVE HIS LIFE.
But, "as the Fatber hath life
in
himself;
so hath he given to the
Son to have life in himselr' (John
5:26).
God the Father
raised J esus from the
dead!
poured out while he was on the
cross! He had taken on a HUMAN
nature. He was God- but now God
changed INTO flesh and blood–
God WITH us-Emmanuel!
Yes, the Word was MAOE FLESH,
and
he
w
AS flesh and blood, not
justan immortal spirit IN a body of
flesh and blood.
We may argue that God is
immortal and could not die. But the
Scriptures reveal that Goo so
LOVEO us
that while
we were yet
sinners, The Eterna!, the
Logos,
who was with God and who
was
God in tbe Second Person, permit–
ted himself voluntarily to be
CHANCEO INTO a flesh-and-bJood
resurrected IMMORTAL, once
again
CHANG ED! As he had been
changed , converted INTO mortal
human Aesh and blood, subject to
death, and for the PURPOSE of
DYING FOR OUR SINS, now by a RES–
URRECTION FROM THE OEAO, HE
WAS AGAIN CHANGED, CONVERTED,
INTO IMMORTALITY-and he is
alive forevermore! Now a LIVING
Savior, nota DEAO Savior. He
was
dead-but only for three days and
three nights.
Now, How About YOU?
Do you realize WHAT a tremendous
price was paid that you might be
released from the death penalty of
YOUR SINS? The very
E ternal- the Spokesman
Not Resurrected
in
Same
Body
Jesus carne not in the nature
of angels- that
of the Godhead, and very
Goo himself-permitted
himself to be changed
into a mortal human–
stepped down , descended
to the human plane, suf–
fered, was tempted, per–
secuted , despised, re-
Now notice careful ly.
God the Father did not
cause Jesus Christ to get
back into the body that
had died.
is, spirit nature. He was a
human being. He was
made flesh- made
jected of men, crucified!
Sorne seem to believe
that it was only the
body
that died - that Jesus
human. He took on, at birth,
human nature.
1f
J esus had been
only
human, his death could
have paid tbe penalty for
but
one
other human
Christ never died-that
Christ was alive, and
preached to "spirits in
prison" during the three
days and nights bis BOOY
He, God, became
man-man so that he could
die for us, that
being who had incurred
that penalty by transgres–
sion of God's spiritual law
(Rom. 6:23). Since God
the Father created all
things by Jesus Christ
(Col. 1: 16), and since all
things, including man,
were made by J esus
Christ, he is our Maker
was dead. Wbat tbey
believe is that a BOOY
Christ lived in died, but
CHRIST HIMSELF never
died. Christ was God,
a nd , they a r gue, God
could not die!
They do not realize that Christ
had given up his immor tal life
inherent in divine glory and been
converted into human mortality for
the purpose of OEATH.
lf they are right, they are lost
and doomed to eternal punishment!
If Christ
did not die for t heir
sins- if it was only a mortal
body
that died- then we have no Savior,
and we are LOST.
Wh a t happened is that the
Logos- the
WORo-the Eternal–
was MAOE FLESH. He was converted
into, CIIA GEO
INTO,jlesh.
Now he
was
FLESH ANO BLOOO, exactly as
you and l .
His
lije
was in his blood, and he
gave his LIFE by the fact his blood
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our sins might be erased
and forgiven!
MAN, untiJ he BECAME a human
who could and did DIE. But God
the Father-God in the First Per–
son-still reigned in High Heaven;
and he RAISEO JESUS FROM THE
DEAo, not from life.
lt
was CHRIST HIMSELF who was
OEAO. He was REVIVEO. Nowhere
does the Scripture say he was alive
and active, or that God had him get
back into the human soov that had
died and was now resurrected.
Jesus Christ was OEAD. He was
as much out as a boxer knocked
senseless- much
more,
for the box–
er usually is not dead but only
unconscious. Jesus was DEAD-but
was REVIVEO!
And the resurrected body was no
longer human- it was the Christ
and therefore God; and his life that
he gave was of
greater value
than
the total of all human beings ( John
1: 1-3).
He died and for three days and
nights WAS DEAO! He wbo was IN
THE BEGINNING, and WAS Goo! He
stooped to human leve!, submitted to
DEATH- trusted the Father to
restore him to life!
That
is the PRtCE
paid for you and for me. He GAVE
himself for vou- and in so doing
bought and paid for you! And there–
fore,
you
BELONG TO HIM! WilJ
you
GIVE YOUSELF
tO him?
That is the only way of salva–
tion-the only way this GREATEST
PRICE EVER PAlO IN THE UNIVERSE
FROM ETERNITY can save you.
You must GIVE YOURSELF up!-
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