2. In the second place through _the atoning death of Jesus Christ all men obtain resurrection from the dead_. We read in Rom. 5:18, +"So then as through one trespass+ (i.e., the trespass of Adam) +the judgment came unto all men to condemnation; even so through one act of righteousness+ (i.e., through Christ's righteous act in dying on the cross in obedience to the will of God) +the free gift came unto all men to justification of life."+ And we are told in 1 Cor. 15:22, +"As in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive."+ The Apostle Paul in the whole chapter is speaking about _the resurrection of the body_, not about eternal life, and he here distinctly teaches that as every child of Adam loses life (physical life—see Gen. 3:19) in the first Adam, so also in Jesus Christ, the second Adam, he obtains resurrection from the dead, through the atoning death of Jesus Christ. Every man, the rankest infidel as well as the most devout believer, will some day be raised from the dead because Christ died in his place. Whether the resurrection which he obtains through the death of Jesus Christ shall be a "resurrection of life" or a "resurrection of condemnation," "shame and everlasting contempt" (John 5:28, 29; Dan. 12:2) depends entirely upon what attitude the individual takes toward the Christ in whom he gets the resurrection. 3. _By the atoning death of Jesus Christ all believers in Jesus Christ have forgiveness of all their sins._ We read in Eph. 1:7, +"In whom+ (i.e., in Jesus Christ) +we have our redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace."+ Because Jesus Christ died as a full satisfaction for our sins, forgiveness of sin is not something which believers are to do something to secure, it is something which the blood of Jesus Christ has already secured and which our faith has already appropriated to ourselves; "we _have_ forgiveness," we _are_ forgiven. Every believer in Jesus Christ is forgiven every sin he ever committed or ever shall commit, because Jesus Christ shed His blood in his place. Through Christ's atoning death all believers in Him, although they once "were _enemies_," are _now_ "_reconciled_ to God by the death of His Son." As we read in Rom. 5:10, +"While we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son."+ That is to say, the enmity between God and the sinner is done away with, or, as Paul puts it in Col. 1:20, Christ has "made peace through the blood of His cross," or, as he puts it in the next verse but one, Col. 1:22, Christ "_hath reconciled_" believers "in the body of His flesh through death." The story is told of a faithful vicar in England who was told that one of his parishioners was dying. She was a good woman, but he hurried to her side to talk with her. As he sat down by the side of the dying woman he said to her very gently but solemnly, "They tell me you have not