`My righteous Servant (shall) justify many; for He (The Righteous) shall bear their (the unrighteous) iniquities ...

and He (the Righteous) was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare the sin of many' (Isa. 53:11,12).

If God could thus act toward His beloved and sinless Son on our account then He can and will also act in grace and

love to us the unworthy.

`For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God' (1 Pet. 3:18).

`FOR HE WHO KNEW NO SIN WAS MADE SIN (OR A SIN OFFERING) FOR US, THAT WE MIGHT BE MADE THE

RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM' (2 Cor. 5:21) .

Once again, we must be content with this poor introduction to a mighty theme. May each reader be able to see for

himself his need, God's gracious provision, the justifying of God as well as of man, and all through Him Who was :

`Wounded for our transgressions, ... bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him ;

and with His stripes we are healed' (Isa. 53:5).

`The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord' (Rom. 6:23) .

Perhaps the most loved and often quoted text dealing with this gift of eternal life is John 3:16, which we touched

upon on page 3. Eternal life is equated with immortality and embraces honour and glory in Romans 2:7 and 5:21 :

`To them who ... seek for glory and honour and immortality, (God will grant) eternal life'.

`That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus

Christ our Lord'.

Here, the apostle sums up his teaching concerning the first and last Adam (Rom. 5:12-21). Sin earns its wages, but

eternal life is the gift of God (Rom. 6:23). How is this life, this eternal life, entered and received?

`Verily, verily, I say unto you,

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He that heareth My word, and

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Believeth on Him that sent Me,

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Hath everlasting life, and

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Shall not come into condemnation; but

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Is passed from death unto life' (John 5:24) .

This life is hid with Christ in God, and though the outward man perish, the inward man is renewed from day to day,

and when Christ Who is our life shall be manifested, then we also shall be manifested with Him in glory (see 2 Cor.

4:16; Col. 3:1-4). This leads us to our fourth heading

`The first lie that the Bible records is found in the words of the Devil in Genesis 3:4, "Ye shall not surely die",

and this initial conceit, held up before the eyes of our first parents, permeates Philosophy, Paganism, Theosophy,

Spiritism, Protestantism and Popery'.

The above quotation will be found in Volume 1, page 64, of The Berean Expositor issued in February 1911. We

are writing the present booklet fifty years afterward, during which time we have made a continuous study of the

Scriptures, but can find no reason to alter or mitigate the passage written so early, for the Devil's lie persists in

unremitting insistence, in Book, Hymn and Ideology. So inbred is the doctrine of `the immortality of the soul' in

many children of God, that one we questioned saw no apparent incongruity in advancing as a `proof' that the soul

was immortal, the words of Ezekiel, `The soul that sinneth it shall die'! It is assumed in the first instance that man

alone is called a `living soul', and an appeal is often made to Genesis 2:7 as a proof of this. A brother in the Lord

approached a Bible bookseller to see whether they would stock or handle some of our publications. They refused.

He said to the assistant who was dealing with this request :