And how did he do it? In the first place because of his unshakeable faith in God. Of one thing we are sure, that all is not right in the World, but the man who does not believe in God has no assurance upon Which to rest his hope of things. Paul was able to say, 08 we can say, that God would not have created beings capable of sin if some greater act of realized holiness were not to be the final issue of human history. There are times when it seems that the reins hed slipped from the hands of God, and antichrist appears to But it is not so, Satan is no rival of the Deity, God rides upon the storm, and in the end His gracie ous promises will be realized. And here is the rock upon which Paul stood, and upon which Christians to-day take their stand, Paul's God was not a se!
God who had created the world and then left the forces of good and evil to work themselves out into a predestined end. 'The great solutic to the problem is the fact of the Incarnation~God becoming incarnate in Jesus Christ our Lord. If our religion has any message to-day this: that God, in the person of Jesus Christ, has' borne our sins and curr trows; He has taken the burden and curse of it on into Ibs own experience and wrought out our redemption, weed today is not surface religion. Any religion that takes no account of humanity's ne or would meet the need of the si few moral maxims, jeods to-day Is recognition of One who has suffered and con. fan say that. One wul's hope and. faith' in God was his faith in the redeeming sacrifice of Jesus, Christ, and the only message that "can meet the world's nood to-day is the message of a divine love that has suffered and conquered. We know that sin and suffering are the universal experence of life: we know that vicarious suffering is the law of Iife—how true this is in China to-day!—and th more unselfish the soul of man the purer does he become. The discouraging thing is that whereas Jove has shed its life's blood, society, is still unchanged; that after all the the Great War, in which millions of lives were laid down, the world is still unredeemed; and we may well despair unless behind all this human sacrifice there is a Divine love that never fails, and a power to redeem mankind. "And an assurtance that there is such a love and such a power has been given to in the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Ci rection of Jesus Christ are the pled; in human history that suffering love has conquered; that Jesus died for sin and suffering humanity; and 2", if we are to abound in hope in the Dresence of the world situation, we must sce more and not less than our forefathers in the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
Paul did not think of the atoning' Jsacrific: of Jesus merely as an historical fact, but as made effective the hearts of men through the!
Iwelling gift of Jesus Christ; and because of this his faith in' the stoning sacrifice was inseparably, associated with his faith in the power of Jesus Christ. Paul be-Hieved in the sovereignty of God, the redemptive sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and in the power of the Holy Ghost. He believed that God king' out His gracious pro-kind not through the operation of human personalities the spirit of the Holy ing the When a man really grasps when he realizes " that! through human personalities Jesus is to "sce of the travail of his soul land be satisfied," then Rife fuecomes a rezeneratiag force in human history, and nothing can dim his hope or his faith,
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