H. A. ST. JOHN by H. A. St. John

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 6, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 48.

H. A. ST. JOHN

By H. A. St. John

Biblical Paradoxes—No. 4

“I AM crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live.” Gal. 2:20. We see that one of Paul’s favorite ways of teaching and impressing truth upon the mind and heart, was by the use of paradoxes—statements apparently contradictory. The above is one example of many. The language following in the same text is explanatory and impressive: “Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” It was sin that caused the death of Christ. He died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and we receive Christ by dying to sin. The old life or body of sin being thus crucified, we are made alive unto God, and henceforth the life we live is by the faith of the Son of God. We are new creatures in Christ Jesus. Blessed life, blessed relation, which becomes the stepping-stone to immortality.