The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1912, Page 17

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The Lutheran ANioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PUBLISHED BY THE EVANGELICAL LuTHERAN SyNopIcaL CoNFERENCE oF Nortn AMERICA.
R. A. BISCHOFY, Epiror.

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

Vol. XXXIV. ST. LOUIS, HO. MARCH, 1912. No. 3

Jesus Lifted Up.

A few days before His death on the cross, Jesus
said: “And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men
unto me.” And we are told that “He said this
signifying what death He should die,’ John 12,
32. 33. Before this He had already said to Nico-
demus: “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the
wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted
up, that whosoever believeth in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life,” John 3, 14. 15.
And to the Jews who would not believe that He was
the promised Messiah, He said: “When ye have
lifted up the Son of Man, then shall ye cna that
I am He,” John 8, 28.

Jesus was lifted up when He was nailed to the
cross and then lifted up to endure the most bitter.
sufferings and to die the most shameful death on
the accursed tree; for it is written: “Cursed is
every one that hangeth on a tree.” '

But why did Jesus say: “If I be lifted up, I
will draw all men unto me”? What relation is

there between -His being lifted up on the cross and
Christ Crucified. 5 His sublime declaration: “I will draw all men

Testa! Savior, Son of God, unto me”? : To understand this, we must remember
Bearer of the sinner’s load; that Jesus is “the Lamb of God which taketh away
Thou the sinner’s death hast died, the sin of the world.” By being lifted upon the
Thou for us wast crucified; e had
Kor our sins ‘Thy’ fleshiwas torn; cross, He was made a curse for sinners, bearing
Thou the penalty hast borne in their stead the terrible curse which was due to
Of our guilt upon the tree their sins. “He bore our sins in His own body on -
Which the Father laid on Thee! the tree? He was lifted up “that He should taste
Savior, Surety, Lamb of God, : : 5:
Thou hast bought us with Thy blood; death for every man,” Hebr. 2, 9. Thus Jesus,
Thou hast wiped the debt away, the Sinless One, the holy Son of God, took the sin-
Nothing left for us to pay, ners’ place, and made an atonement for sin broad
Fomine ae pis ue i pee enough for all sinners to stand upon. Since He was _
othin, ary . . y: a .
BRE ae pardon and the ‘bliss, lifted up, the redemption of all sinners isa finished _

But the love, the light, the peace. - fact, and God is perfectly reconciled to a sinful