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from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that Great Shepherd of the sheep. And it is
shown to be the same power which operates to bring us to life who were dead in
trespasses and sins.

Death cannot keep his prey, Jesus my Savior,
He tore the bars away, Jesus my Lord!
Up from the grave He arose,

With a mighty triumph o’er His foes.
He arose a victor from the dark domain
And He lives forever with His saints to reign.
He arose, He arose, Hallelujah, Christ arose!

He met every demand of God‟s holy law. Man‟s puny self-righteousness is belied
by the majesty of that holy law and his mouth stopped. But the Law itself is rendered
insignificant by the overpowering righteousness of the last Adam and its most

exacting dictates impotent to impugn the obedience of the eternal Son.

There was a commercial transaction performed in addition. When a United States
citizen goes to one of the countries of Europe he must needs change the coin of our

realm into the currency of the nation to which he goes before he can purchase goods.
If after his purchase is completed he still has a residue he is at liberty to change it back
into United States currency before returning here.

So it was with the Lord Christ in redeeming this earth that Adam gave away. He
brought to earth the currency of heaven—life, and changed it into the currency which
obtains in earth and hell—death, with which He made His purchase. Then because of
the inestimable value of that death which far more than atoned, there remained an

infinite residue which was changed back to the currency of heaven at His resurrection.
“Where sin abounded grace did much more abound.” “I am He that liveth and was
dead; and behold, I am alive forever more.”

God assessed the redemption price of sin and this earth before the first Adam sold
out when He said, “In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die,” and
elsewhere, “The wages of sin is death”; “The soul that sinneth, it shall die!” He more

than paid His own appraisal price in the death of His Son.

We were speaking along this line over in China, showing that Satan has wrested the
legal authority over this world from Adam and Eve and that it became necessary for
the Lord to redeem it at the expense of death, which He had set as the price of betrayal.

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