We have seen then the gracious and glorious purposes of the Atoning Death of Jesus Christ. What are the results of that death? They are even more glorious. I can speak of them this morning only in part.
1. The first result of the atoning death of Jesus Christ is that _a propitiation is provided for the whole world_. We read in 1 John 2:2, +"He is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world."+ This plainly means that _by the death of Jesus Christ a basis is provided upon which God can deal in mercy and does deal in mercy with the whole world_. All of God's dealings in mercy with any man are on the ground of Christ's death. Only on the ground of Christ's death could God deal in mercy with any man. God's dealings in mercy with the rankest blasphemer or the most blatant atheist is on the ground of the atoning death of Jesus Christ.
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.