QUES. 35.-Did those saints who arose after Christ's resurrection (Matt. 27:51-53) go back to their graves again until His coming, or go into glory with Him ?

ANS.-As we know of no scripture which decides the matter we cannot answer in a dogmatic way. We can only speak by inference. In this way we judge that since their resurrection was not a mere act of power as, for instance, in the case of Lazarus (John 11), but the fruit of Christ's own resurrection, they did not return to their graves but went into glory with Him. God is not bound by rules. He has placed the great harvest of the resurrection of His saints at the coming again of our Lord, but He is not bound to that time for the resurrection and glory of every one of them.

The Cross is the foundation of all the glories to be revealed, but God could build upon it before it bad taken place. He knew His Son would prove obedient even unto the death of the cross, and by the righteousness of the Cross God can act in sovereign grace when and how He pleases. We are limited but He is not.

QUES. 36.-Did our Lord have a glorified body when He arose, the same as He will have when He comes for His saints?

ANS.-We feel incompetent if not afraid to speak of any change taking place in relation to the Lord. He was like the sun veiling His glory behind a cloud, needing only the pushing away of the cloud to manifest that glory. We need a great change in our bodies to fit them for the glory, a change which only His almighty power can accomplish. He needs but a change of circumstances to manifest the glory of His being.

QUES. 37.-Why did Christ say He was not a spirit (Lk.24:39)?

ANS.-Because He wag not merely that as (in their astonishment and inability to realize that He was risen from the dead) they thought He was. He was as truly now the Man Christ Jesus as He was before His death-with body, soul and spirit. The humanity of our Lord is as essentially needful as His deity for the fulfilment of God's purposes. He has left us no possibility of doubt therefore concerning the perpetuity of the one as of the other. He is God from eternity to eternity; He is Man from incarnation to all eternity.

QUES. 38.-Kindly say why Paul wrote:"If we (seemingly including himself) Bin wilfully," etc., (Heb. 10:26); and again in Heb. 2:3, "How shall we escape," etc. How could he write thus while at the same time saying, "There is now therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus;" "All that believe are justified from all things;" aud very many other passages which affirm the everlasting security of such as believe on the Lord Jesus Christ ? I am sure there is no contradiction in Scripture, and that all the darkness is in myself, and that is why I ask.

ANS.-It is the delicateness of grace for the speaker to put himself for the moment in the position of those whom he portrays. 2 Pet. 3:9 is a striking example of the same thing. Peter was certainly not of them who were perishing, yet for the moment putting himself among them who were perishing he says, "The Lord … is long suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish."
Once we know the grace of God and understand well the difference between the saved and the unsaved, we need the spirit of love and sympathy toward all men which enables us to put ourselves in their place and to approach them without hardness.

QUES. 39.-In Matt. 12:31 is it a believer, or an unbeliever, who may commit this unpardonable sin?

ANS.-Only an unbeliever, surely. The context shows this plainly:The Pharisees (ever the enemies of Christ) had seen Him do a great miracle, such as convicted them of its being the power of God at work. They will not bow, however ; they resist the conviction; so they attribute to the devil the manifest power of God. No man who has ever bowed at the feet of Jesus could do such a thing, however low he might fall in moral ways.