REDEMPTION, Particular, C.H. Cayce My first argument is that all for whom Christ died will be saved for heaven, because their iniquity was laid on him. In support of that argument, I call attention to Isa. 53:6-8. “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and judgment: and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.”
As to the term us, it does not devolve upon me to say how many there are. Let it be one half the race, or three fourths of the race, or all of the race—let it be many or few—just so many as the term us all embraces, just that many had their iniquities laid on the Lord Jesus Christ. So that you may understand that in arguing this passage, I shall argue, not the extent of the atonement, but the sufficiency of it.
If Brother Penick wishes to argue in the negative of the proposition that Christ died for all of Adam’s posterity, and that all the iniquities of all Adam’s posterity were laid upon Christ, then I would call upon him to tell us what can send one of Adam’s race to hell. It could not possibly be iniquity. All their iniquities, the number that is embraced in this text, were taken off them and laid on the Lord Jesus Christ.
“The Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all.”
If their iniquities were laid on Christ, their iniquities were taken off them and laid on the Lord Jesus Christ, I argue that iniquity could not send one of them to hell. If so be that iniquity could send them to hell, their iniquities must be taken off the Lord Jesus Christ, and shifted back upon them, and that would involve the brother in the doctrine of apostasy, and, of course, he does not believe that.
Then it must necessarily follow that every one of these characters whose iniquities were laid on the Lord Jesus Christ will be saved. Otherwise, they go to hell without iniquity. Their iniquities are taken off them.
If you start to look for one who is without iniquity, you would not think about going toward the lower regions . . . . These characters for whom the Lord Jesus Christ died had their iniquities taken off them . . . . Their iniquities all being laid on Jesus Christ, all of them will be finally landed on the sunny banks of sweet deliverance, without a single exception. Cayce: Penick Debate 1907