the ransom

We continue once again with our subject, Death and Resurrection From a review of the position held by many in the professing church concerning the bodily resurrection of our Lord (as noted in the comments quoted in our previous post) it is evident that most have little understanding of the...

THE RANSOM SACRIFICE BASIS OF WORLD'S HOPE These Scriptures very clearly teach that the ransom sacrifice of the Man Christ Jesus fully offsets what the disobedience of Adam brought upon all men. The elect Church, the called out ones (the sanctified), receive the full benefit of that sacrifice...

WHY MEN DIE It is a principle of God's law that every perfect, righteous creature is entitled to life. It follows that every unrighteous creature has no legal right to life. God enforced his judgment against Adam in a gradual manner, viz. -- by forcing Adam out of Eden, where the food was...

DIVINE METHOD OF DEALING WITH THE CHURCH Now, my dear brethren, we have before our minds the Ransom, the necessity for it, the time when the Sacrifice for sin was made, and the time when the merit of that sacrifice is to be applied for the world of mankind. But, meantime, the Church receives...

WHY THE DELAY OF OVER NINETEEN CENTURIES Just here someone may ask, "Why is it that our Lord did not make application of the merit of His sacrifice at Pentecost? Why this long delay of nineteen hundred and more years before He begins this work of blessing the world?" We reply, if it had not...

HOW THIS ECONOMY OPERATES This economical feature of the Divine Plan is a most wonderful thought. By one man's disobedience God permitted the results of that transgression to affect all of Adam’s children. All mankind were involved under the original sin of the one man. "Wherefore as by one...

THE ECONOMY OF THE DIVINE PLAN Often when a child I wondered why God did not give all mankind the same opportunity that He gave Adam, why all were not permitted to come into Eden and have a fair chance as Adam had. But in later years when I came to see the beauty of the doctrine of the Ransom...

THE DOCTRINE OF INCARNATION UN-SCRIPTURAL But we had greatly been troubled about the subject of incarnation, as even some of the Truth people seem to be; for they still misuse this word. There is nothing in the Bible on this subject, and there is no truth in this doctrine. *Incarnation means...

ECONOMY SHOWN IN RESPECT TO REDEMPTION This Divine quality of economy is manifested even in the great Plan for human salvation. When first my mind grasped this thought, I exclaimed, "Wonderful! Nobody but our Heavenly Father Himself would have thought about this principle!" Having been reared...

If you learn any of the first principle doctrines see to it that you learn this one, it is of the UPMOST IMPORTANCE and with a proper understanding will spare you from becoming entangled in most of the predominant errors, “foul spirits” (impure principles and doctrines) dwelling within the...

Continued from previous post. “Now the free gift (justification to life) is not like the offense. For if through the offense of one (man, Adam) many be dead (under condemnation to death), much more the grace of God (the gracious plan of salvation), and the gift by grace, which is by one man...

“It was necessary [in accordance with God’s will] that man [should] learn obedience—not only to obey, but the importance of obedience. Man must obey not just because he is told to, but also because he WANTS to. This makes him free—the desire to comply rather than the constraints to comply. God...