7. How can sinners become immortal? 2 Timothy 1:8-10.
NOTE: ‘The question, “If a man die, shall he live again?” has been answered. By bearing the penalty of sin, by going down into the grave, Christ has brightened the tomb for all who die in faith. God in human form has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. In dying, Christ secured eternal life for all who believe in Him. In dying, He condemned the originator of sin and disloyalty to suffer the penalty of sin, eternal death. The possessor and giver of eternal life, Christ was the only one who could conquer death. He is our Redeemer. Christ is life itself. He who passed through death to destroy him that had the power of death is the Source of all vitality. There is balm in Gilead, and a Physician there.’ The Faith I Live By, page 177.
8. What is the Gospel which brings life and immortality to light? Romans 1:16-17.
NOTE: ‘What is the gospel? It is “the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth,” “for therein is the righteousness of God revealed.” What I wish to impress upon you just now is not particularly that the gospel is “the power of God,” but WHY it is the power of God. Why is the gospel the power of God unto salvation? The reason is given in Romans 1:16, 17. In the sixteenth verse the statement is made that the gospel “is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth.” The reason is given in the seventeenth verse; and that reason is that “therein is the righteousness of God revealed.” That is to say, the power of the gospel lies in the righteousness of God revealed in the gospel. The power that comes by the gospel to the sinner, that power that changes his life, that puts in him the new way, and holds him in that way, that power comes to him in the righteousness of God. And the gospel is the power of God because the righteousness of God revealed therein imparts the power. So the power of God in the gospel lies in the righteousness of God revealed in the gospel; and that righteousness is revealed only to faith.’ A. T. Jones: Review & Herald, August 14, 1900.