This, then, is how Jesus made atonement – how He paid it all. The punishment which was due to us He voluntarily received. The death which was the wages of our sin He underwent. The stripes with which we deserved to be beaten fell upon His willing back. The chastisement which was owing us was borne by Him. The price we would have paid by endless suffering He paid by an infinite sacrifice. It should have been I who cried out, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” It should have been He who said: “I am persuaded that nothing shall separate me from the love of God.” Because Jesus paid it all, it was He who was forsaken and we who never shall be. Because He drank the full cup of divine wrath, we shall never taste it. “There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.”
John Gerstner

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CONVERSION OF SAUL

(Acts 9: 1-22; chaps. 22 and 26) THE first mention of Saul of Tarsus (Acts 7:58). His life as a Pharisee and persecutor of the Chris- tians (Acts 8:3; 26:9-11).…

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040415-N-6419K-011 Iraq (Apr. 15, 2004) - U.S. Navy Chaplain, Lt. Cmdr. Lulrick Balzora, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Fourteen (NMCB-14), prepares to baptize Construction Mechanic Kyle Ellis. Balzora baptized several members assigned to NMCB-14 and NMCB-74 using a 2.5 cubic yard front-end loader bucket as an improvised baptismal. NMCB-14 and NMCB-74 are currently deployed in Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). U.S. Navy photo by Builder 2nd Class Jerome Kirkland (RELEASED)

BAPTISM

(Acts 8: 36-39) WE are discussing a question at this time that has caused much controversy in the religious world. We are not discussing it for the purpose of perpetu-…

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THE GOOD CONFESSION

(Acts 8:37) THIS passage is regarded by some as an interpola, tion. But there is no conclusive evidence to that effect. It has been known to all Bible writers since…

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THE DEACONSHIP

(Acts 6:1-7) IN a similar discourse, relating to the eldership, we have set down a few facts concerning the two dis- tinct classes of congregational officers — elders and deacons.…

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