Kansas City Bible College - Armour Bearer Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Published by The Kansas City Bible College MARCH, 1952 WHAT IS A MAN WORTH? EXPLAINING A MIRACLE BY TRUMAN PAGE President, Alumni Association Kansas City Bible College Our newspapers recently carried a story involving an accident damage suit in which the plaintiff was seeking compensation for the death. of a seven year old girl. After deliberation the judge awarded several thousand dollars as the amount the child might have earned in a reasonable length of time if she had remained alive. That is one way of measuring a person's value. If our bodies were reduced to the chemi- cal components of iron, carbon, nitrogen, etc., perhaps each one might be worth 81.50 at today's inflated prices. Militarily speaking, a soldier is worth several hun- dred dollars if we measure his value in terms of his training and equipment. The crooked politician buying illegal votes might buy a person for 55.00. We won- er what valuation God puts upon a human soul. Obviously, God's way of evaluating hu- man Worth is not man's. A dollars and cents estimation would have nothing to do with the case. Among all the other profound truths Christ expressed by His life and words, one seems to stand out- He valued people because they were peo- ple. He was not concerned about their wealth, education, or social standing. He was moved with compassion over sinners. That is the secret of His appeal to people. Sinners can go to Christ and be assured He will listen to them. This is also the true secret of the suc- cessful soul winning Christian. The per- sonal worker giving the gospel to the prisoner in his cell has won half the battle if he can convince the prisoner of his con- cern for him... The criminal has lived a life of planning only for himself and his own selfish interests. He cannot visual- ize anyone being moved about another's welfare with no selfish motive at all- simply out of love for the lost. Once he sees that truth he is half won for Christ. One of the paradoxes of our modern social welfare state is the gradual cheap- ening of human life. The cradle to the grave philosophy of modern government has on the surface the idea of raising the individual to a higher plane of value. when in reality it reduces him to a statis- tic- a cog in a vast and ponderous bu- reaucratic machine. We can see this when we look at the calm way in which social- istic states sacrifice millions of lives With- out a qualm in their imperialistic con- TH E PRESI DENT'S MESSAGE We rejoice in the development and progress of the students who have entered the College in this new year. Here the rough edges are smoothed off, crudeness is replaced by cultureg and ignorance of God's ways is replaced by the knowledge of God's will and plan. Shyness and bashfulness are replaced by a holy boldness in the things of God. Thus the Scriptures are fulfilled, where- in we are told to grow in grace Cgracious actionsl, and in know- ledge Cunderstanding of Godfs Wordj of our Lord Jesus Christ. Thus the investment you make in prayers and gifts is producing re- sults which will last for eternity. Thank you, dear friendsg we appre- ciate your helpfulness and are hap- py, indeed, that you will share the reward. GOD'S GREAT CREATION BY CAROLYN WAGONER Student, Kansas City Bible College I wonder how God made the sand And brightened up the sun. I wonder if it worked Him hard, Or was it all in fun? How was each star put in its place And flowers made to bloom? And did He use a telescope To formulate the moon? Why did He make the cherries red And every plum bright blue? And why do roosters crow? But cows- they never do! God's greatness spans the endless time, Just look at all He's done! We leave His handiwork to Him- Our love this day He's won. The greatest thing God ever made Was not a universe, But saving grace through Christ His Son For all who put Him first. quests. In a day when the individual is losing value more and more as an individual the church needs to sound out more clearly than ever God's message of love for peo- ple as people. God has given a dignity to man that no social or religious system can equal. May His servants proclaim that fact to the world. BY J. F. RODABAUGHT Nicodemus said to the Lord Jesus, as John 329, How can these You can describe a miracleg recorded in things be? you can tell what happensg possibly you can tell how it happensg but you can't tell why. Take the story of the man born blind in the 9th chapter of John. A Man spits on the ground, makes clay of the spittle, rubs it on the eyes of a blind beggar, who hears a Voice telling him to go wash in the pool of Siloam. The blind man doesn't get of- fended but goes and washes and comes seeing. Yet he hasn't seen the Man who did it. These are the facts. This is what happened, but why? The Man who per- formed the miracle had offended because He did it on the Sabbath day, and the re- ligious leaders wanted to hear how it hap- pened. Finally, the man who had been blind told them frankly and bluntly, One thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see Uohn 91253. In the 16th chapter of Acts, the Philip- pian jailer saw his jail so shaken up that the doors all came loose, the bonds were shaken off the prisoners, but the prison- ers did not run away. A Power that could free the prisoners, and still keep the pris- oners in their places, was a Power with whom he did not care to take issue. He did not want an explanation. After he knew the facts, he wanted to be safe and asked, Sirs, what must I do to be saved. The answer came: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. There is just one Name available and availing. There is none other name un- der heaven CActs 4:12J. At the name of Jesus every knee should bow CPhil. 2: 109. The all important question: Do you know? do you want to see? do you want to be saved? For if you are unsaved, you are on the road to hell as God plainly says in Revelation 20:15. If you want to be savedg if you are in dead earnest, then God is ready. He says, Behold, I stand at the door, and knock CRev. 3:20b. It is so hard because it is so simple. A man gives me a ticket which reads, Good for one passage from Kansas City to Chicago, I get on the traing the ticket is acceptedg and I sit back and relax. I am going to Chicago- not because of any- thing I am doing, or have done, or will do, or am. It is the 'ra.ilroad's business to get me there. I would make a mess of it if I CContinued on Page D7 1.

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:PAGE EIGHT THE COMMENTATOR THE GLORY OF SACRIFICE CCont-inued from Page lj do not think you can give as a Christian so. I do not think that we give in the spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ until, like Him, we touch on self-denial, until His love constrains us to some sacrifice as it constrained Him to shed His precious blood on the cross of Calvary. Let us then, seriously, ask ourselves, have we been giv- ing to the point of sacrifice? Have we ever denied ourselves in anything that we might bring an offering and lay it at His feet? Dr. Jowett somewhere tells of a rich man who made many large gifts to the church. One day his only son asked him if he might give himself for missionary service to India. No, the father had many other plans for his son, and with the re- quest many dreams faded. But after three years the father walked with the son across the gangplank of an ocean liner. With bent form and dim eyes he said goodbye. He was giving at last a gift that cost him dearly. Now Dr. Jowett adds, The steps that led to that altar were dripping with the blood of a living sacrifice. This is never easy, but praise God it will always be blessed. Think of a man like David Livingstone, whose motto was, I will count no sacrihce too great to do for Him who gave His life for me. Was it worth it? Listen to what Stanley said when writing of his experiences after ind- ing Livingstone in Central Africa. I lived with this man week after week, and I watched him . I saw patience beyond any- thing I ever dreamed possible. I stood by him as he loved these heathen men. I watched him almost day and night giving himself to others, and I could not help it- I became a Christian by his side. Well might these words be written on Living- stone's tomb-stone:, lHe needs no epitaph to guard a name Which men shall prize while worthy work is knowng He lived and died for others- be that his fame- Let marble crumble, this is LIVING-stone. PERFECT PEACE I look not back: God knows the fruitless 217011, The wasted hours: the sinning, the re- grets. I leave them all with HIM who blots the record, And graciously forgives and then, for- gets. I look not forward: God sees all the future The road that, short or long, will lead me home. And HE will face with me its every trial And bear for me the burdens that may come. I look not round me: then would fears assail me, So wild the tumult of earth's restless seas, So dark th? world, so filled with woe and em , So vain the hope of comfort and of ease. I look not inward: that would make me wretched, For I have naught upon which to stay my trust, Nothing .I see save failures and short-co'm.- ings, And weak endeavors, mumbling into dust. 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PAGE TWO TI-HI COMMENTATOR One. hears a good deal in our day about the self-made man. He is the individual who through his own aggressiveness and de- termination has made good. He did not wait for his ship ,to come in, but he went out and brought it in. One does admire that spirit which has caused men to triumph over physical obstacles and to attain success in life. Although this may be true in the material world, it is not true in the realm of the Spirit. Because one makes good in material things is no reason to think that he can make good in spiritual things by his own effort. And yet the thought prevails that since one though his own efforts can make him- self fit for earth, he also can make him- self fit for heaven. The Scriptures re- pudiate this theory with the truth that the Christian is not a self-made person. He does not make himself fit for heaven through his own efforts. All that he is and will ever be, he is because of his pos- ition in Christ. Let us remember, then, that the Chris- tian is made righteous because of the grace of God. The work of Jesus Christ on Calvary was so complete and sufficient that the believer has imputed to him Christ's own righteousness. Romans 5: 19 is one of the many verses giving this truth: For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedi- ence of one shall many be made right- eous. II Corinthians 5:21 is another, For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sing that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. In both of these Scriptures the believer is told that he has been made righteous and fit for God's presence because of what the Lord Jesus Christ did at Calvary. The question maybe in the minds of some readers: Why must I be made right- eous in order to stand in God's presence? I am better than most people of my ac- quaintanceg my background reveals that my ancestors were people of integrity and prominenceg and the record I have made for myself shows that I am a person who is respected by his fellow men. Why then, do I need to be made righteous? The person who thus argues has set up an artificial standard and has been meas- uring himself by others. Because he feels himself to be better than other human beings, he thinks that this standard will make him fit for God's presence. Then, too, he is ignorant of God's righteouness. Paul said in Roman 1023, For they be- ing ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own right- eousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. Jesus illustrated this in the parable of the Pharisee and the publican. The Phar- isee was a very self-righteous man- he prayed three times a day, read the Old Testament, gave at least a tithe, and was very moral and cultured. One day such a person went into the temple to pray. He Self-Righteousness Versus God's Righteousness By Dr. Robert H. Belton Executive Vice President, K. C. Bible College stood and told the Lord the kind of per- son he was, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men areg extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess CLuke 18:11, 121. The pub- lican, who was considered a scoundrel by his Jewish brethren because he 'was col- lecting taxes for the Roman government, did not lift up even his eyes to heaven but smote his breast saying, God be mer- ciful to me a sinner. Jesus said that he went down into his house justified rather than the other, for he who exalts himself shall be abased, but he who humbles him- self shall be exalted. Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse has given an illustration which brings out this truth. After the first World War forty American soldiers were guarding an ammunition dump about 100 miles from Paris. The lieutenant in charge received a two weeks leave and went to the city. Shortly after he had gone, a motorcycle messenger from General Pershing's headquarters came rid- ing up with the message that the general' was seeking 2,700 American soldiers to march in the victory parade with other allied forces in four European cities-Lon- don, Bussels, Paris, and Rome. The sol- diers were elated at the prospect of getting away from this little French town and the guarding of the ammunition dump. There were two requirements, however. The first was that the record of each one must be clear. All in that small group could qualify, for none had a blot against his name as a wldier. The other require- ment was that each one chosen had to be at least one meter eighty-six centimeters tall. General Pershing had adopted the metric system, but none of these soldiers knew the equivalent in linear measure. The corporal said to the sergeant, At any rate, Sarge, I'm taller than you. Soon all of the soldiers were measuring themselves with each other, and the taller ones felt confident they would get to take this trip at the expense of the government. When the lieutenant returned, he was told of the message, and he asked if there were any candidates. They replied that no one knew how high one meter eighty- six centimeters would be. After a bit of figuring he marked off six feet one and one fifth inches on the wall. Somelooked at it and knew they were too short. Others backed up to it and then discovered they were too short. Finally Slim, the tallest man in the outfit, measured himself: but he, too, was a quarter of an inch short. General Pershing secured his 2,700 men, but not one of the forty was in the parade. God has a standard, which is absolute holiness and glory. His verdict is that all have sinned and come short of His glory. How then, is one to become righteous enough to enter heaven? He must be made righteous, for he cannot make him- self righteous. And that is the very thing that God proposes to do for any person who will accept Jesus Christ as his Sav- iour and Lord, for the work that Christ accomplished at Calvary enabled God to be just andx yet the justifier of them that believe on Jesus. God's righteousness is a gift that He wishes to bestow. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus CRom. 3:24J. The word freely is found nine times in the New Testament, with various English transla- tions such as without price and with- out returnl' But the best is found in the words of Christ when He said of the Phar- isees and those who rejected Him, They hated me without a cause. The words, without a cause, are another translation of the word here rendered freely. We have been justified without a cause by His grace. There was nothing in us that mer- ited His salvation. There was nothing in any one of us that could call forth His righteousness. God did it out of His grace because He loved us, but Calvary was the terrific price He paid to make it possible. God desires to make each person right- eous and fit for His presence: however His righteousness is conditioned upon the faith of the individual. For they being ignor- ant of God's righteousness, and going a- bout to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to ev- eryone that believeth ...The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the work of faith, which we preachg that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto right- eousnessg and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation QRom. 1023, 4, 8- 103. For one to be made righteous he must receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith. Ask your heart this question: Am I clothed in God's righteousness because I have accepted Jesus Christ, or am I try- ing to clothe myself in my own righteous- ness because I am ignorant of His? Re- member always that in God's sight all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags Clsa. 64:67, but His righteousness, which He wants each one to have, makes one acceptable in His presence. This price- less gift' is yours if you will take Christ Jesus as your Saviour and Lord. THE COMMENTATOR MARCH, 1952 Volume 14, Number 3 Dr. Walter L. Wilson. Editor Grace T. Belton. Associate Editor Ona E. Woodward. Circulation Manager Price. single subscription. 75 cents a year: Canada and foreign. 85 cents. Two or more subscriptions. 50 cents each: Canada and foreign 60 cents. Published monthly by The Kansas City Bible College P.O. Box 7035. Country Club Station Kansas City 2, Mo. School location: 75th 8: State Line Road Entered as a second-class matter June 26. 1942. at the Post Office at Kansas City. Mo. under the Act of March 3. 1879.