18. What Christian ordinance has been given as a memorial of Christ’s burial and resurrection? Baptism, the symbol of the new birth. Rom. 6:3-5. A Sinless Life [Illustration.] A Teacher Of Righteousness. "He was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." Heb. 4:15. 1. What testimony is borne concerning Christ’s life on earth? “_Who did no sin_, neither was guile found in His mouth.” 1 Peter 2:22. 2. What is true of all other members of the human family? “_For all have sinned_, and come short of the glory of God.” Rom. 3:23. 3. With what question did Christ challenge His enemies? “Which of you convinceth Me of sin?” John 8:46. 4. To what extent was Christ tempted? “[He] was _in all points tempted like as we are_, yet without sin.” Heb. 4:15. 5. In His humanity, of what nature did Christ partake? “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, _He also Himself likewise took part of the same_; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil.” Heb. 2:14. 6. How fully did Christ share our common humanity? “Wherefore _in all things it behooved Him to be made like unto His brethren_, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.” Verse 17. NOTE.—In His humanity Christ partook of our sinful, fallen nature. If not, then He was not “made like unto His brethren,” was not “in all points tempted like as we are,” did not overcome as we have to overcome, and is not, therefore, the complete and perfect Saviour man needs and must have to be saved. The idea that Christ was born of an immaculate or sinless mother, inherited no tendencies to sin, and for this reason did not sin, removes Him from the realm of a fallen world, and from the very place where help is needed. On His human side, Christ inherited just what every child of Adam inherits—a sinful nature. On the divine side, from His very conception He was begotten and born of the Spirit. And all this was done to place mankind on vantage-ground, and to demonstrate that _in the same way_ every one who is “born of the Spirit” may gain like victories over sin in his own sinful flesh. Thus each one is to overcome _as Christ overcame_. Rev. 3:21. Without this birth there can be no victory over temptation, and no salvation from sin. John 3:3-7. 7. Where did God, in Christ, condemn sin, and gain the victory for us over temptation and sin? “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, _condemned sin in the flesh_.” Rom. 8:3.