The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1910, Page 17

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Che Lutheran Pioneer,

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

Pusiisnep By THE EvaNnGenicaAL Lutuernan SynopicaL ConrerENcE or Norrit AMERICA.
R. A. BISCHOFY, Epriror.

Entered at the Post Oflice at St. Louis, Mo., as second-class matter.

Vol. XXXII.

No. 3.

ST. LO

UIS, MO.,

MARCH, 1910.

I Will Remember Thee.

When to the cross I turn mine eyes,
And rest on Calvary,

O Lamb of God, my Sacrifice!

1 will remember Thee.

Remember Thee and all Thy pains,
And all Thy love to me;
Yea, while a breath, a pulse remains,

Will I remember Thee. J. Montgomery.

The Great. Sacrifice.

The many sacrifices of which we read in the Old
Testament were but types and shadows of the great
sacrifice which was to be offered on Calvary. They
reminded the people of the promised Redeemer who
was to offer Himself to God as a sacrifice for the
sins of the world.

This Redeemer is none other than God’s own
Son, who became man, in order to suffer and die in
man’s stead. When in the fullness of time “He
appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Him-
self,” John the Baptist pointed to Him, saying,
“Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the
sin of the world.” In the suffering and dying
Savior we behold the spotless, innocent Lamb of
God brought to the slaughter as a sacrifice for our
sins. “Christ, our Passover, is sacrificed for us,”

_ 1 Cor. 5, 7%. He “hath given Himself for us, an
offering and a sacrifice to God,” Eph. 5, 2.

That great sacrifice was necessary for ‘our sal-
vation. We are sinners, subject to God’s wrath and’
punishment. For God is a just and holy God. He
hates sin and must punish sin.. Sin is a transgres-
sion of God’s Law. God cannot suffer man to

trample under foot His holy will. He threatens to
punish all that transgress His commandments. It
is written, “Cursed is every one that continueth
not in all things which are written in the book of
the Law to do them!” And again it is written,
“The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” If we were to
be saved from the curse and punishment which sin
had brought upon us, some one, not subject to the
Law of God, must take our place under the Law
and bear its curse and the punishment of sin for us.
That is just what Christ did when He offered Him-
self a sacrifice for our sins. He took the sinners’
place and bore the sinners’ punishment, so that His
righteousness might be ours. “He was wounded
for our transgressions, He was bruised for our
iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon
Him, and with His stripes we are healed,” says
the prophet. “Christ hath redeemed us from the
curse of the Law, being made a curse for us,” says
the apostle.

“Christ hath redeemed us.” Our redemption is
a finished fact. For the great sacrifice has been
accepted of God the Father as a full atonement for
sin. Good Friday is followed by Easter, and Easter
brings us the glad tidings: “The Lord is ‘risen!
He is risen indeed!” In His resurrection we behold
the seal of God placed upon the atoning sacrifice
of Calvary. By raising Christ from the dead God
the Father declared Himself perfectly satisfied with
the sacrifice of His Son. ‘The apostle says, “If
Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet
in your sins,” 1 Cor. 15, 17. But Christ is raised.
Death could not hold Him. The grave had to give
Him up. So our faith is not vain; we are no
longer in our sins. Christ “put away sin by the
sacrifice of Himself.” ‘The great sacrifice for sin