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he cross he \Vas made sin for us. Jesus neYer sinned; God made him "sin", but not the sinner. He shed his blood for all of the deeds that we do \\·rong. He ne\·er lied, but he shed his blood for liars. He was made extortion, but he was ne\·er an extortionist.
Pints of his blood cm·ered e\·ery p111t of beer in every brown package that was sold on e\·ery Saturday night since he died. He was made homosexuality, without being the homosexual. He
was made the addiction, without being addicted. He was hung up for your hang ups. He went to the cross, shed his blood and his blood justified us.
I attended Aenon Bible College back when the ear/y Bishop Karl F. Smith was li,·ing. He died on January 25th, 1972 and when I hear people talk about him, they call him, "The late Bishop Smith", but they missed the point. He ain't late, he went to heaven early, the rest of us are late because we're still waiting to get there!
One day we were all in class and there was a brother named John Thompson. He was a senior when I was a fresh.man. We called him, "Brother John" back then, but later he became a Suffragan Bishop. Back then, we also called Bishop Smith, "Pop"
and I remember John Thompson asking Bishop Karl Smith a question. He said, "Pop, what is justification?" Bishop Karl Smith
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