S. JOHN’S anxiety is to assert this for all
«AND HE IS THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS; AND NOT FOR OURS ONLY, BUT ALSO FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD.» 1 S. John ii. 2.
* It is well to remember this, when we are gravely told that «Omnipotence itself cannot save obstinate sinners.» Now, in the matter of salvation we have an express assertion that even the camel can go through the needle’s eye; for with God «ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.»
There Christ takes away the sin – regarded as one vast whole – of all humanity: here the sins, i
Notice here the world contrasted with the true disciples; and yet the propitiation is not to be confined to the few, it is for all.
Here, as so often, the narrower and wider purposes of cash day fast loan loan loan pay payday quick salvation are both mentioned: the narrower not excluding, as in the popular view, but including and implying the wider; a truth of the deepest importance
«THE SON OF GOD WAS MANIFESTED THAT HE MIGHT DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL.» 1 S. John iii. 8.
The very purpose of the manifestation of God’s Son is here stated to be the sweeping away of Satan’s works. How then can this possibly be true, while pain and sin endure for ever? No ideas can be more exactly opposed than the permanence of evil, and yet the destruction of the works of the devil. Is sin, and all that sin involves, the work of the devil? Yes, or No? You cannot answer in the negative, if you accept the standpoint of Scripture. But, if the affirmative be true, then all hell and sin and sorrow are to be swept away.
Does it not savor of mockery to say that the Father sent the Son to destroy evil, and to save the world, and that the Son is victorious; and yet that neither shall evil be destroyed or the world saved? (más…)