Now we see from this flash of filumination that the victory of Jesus was assured from the first.
'The resurrection was as certain as the death of Jesus, and in His own forecasts He had' always linked them together. If this is God's universe, then it is unthinkable that the forces of evil should ultimately prevail. Many of us cannot accept certain of the implications of Calism that were believed by our fathers, but was not this the central faith that lay behind Calvinism. that God must Peign, that His is assured, that all the forces arrayed against Him must he feated. Now that faith shone; through all the words and works of Jesus. He never doubled the final triumph of God. Tt did not matter' how black the immediate prospect was, He was always. serenely confident, and that faith in the final victory of God demanded for its vindication His own dead. S words come redictior shall arise agai Now, it may-he worth while to yeeall "to our minds that all our Gospel records are, rritten in the light of the Resurrection. That great triumph was known before the story of the struggle that led up to it was written. Before anyone put ren to paper to record the story even of the birth of Jesus, they' knew that He was risen. All the predictions both of His death and of
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