The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-08-21

show! Oh. that there were more sim
pllclty among the disciples of our blessed
LORD Dear friends, if man draws his
happiness from any questionable source
ne, too, viii torsake the Lord, as Demas
did. Though | can only throw out hints
for prayer, hints for thought. hints for
close graphing with conscience, yet l
trust L have thrown out enough to lead
you to deep searchings of heart as before
the living God.
Third-But what is that principle that
Is the great dethroner of the world? 1
need scarcely tell you-it is faith. This
is the victory that overcometh the world.
even your faith" An! when faith lays
hold OF the cross, then 1 am "crucified to
the world and the world to me-" so far as
1t influences me. Oh to live in the re-
gion OF the Crucifed Onel Faith over
comes because it draws all strength from
Jesus. See how the apostle drew his
strength. He says: II can do all things
through Christ, which strengthened me-"
Faith takes him to Jesus. He receives
strength from Jesus, and in His strength
he conquers. Oh, the wonder working
power OF taithl 1t gives me a new
world" world of covenant blessing,
pardon. peace and righteousness. 1t gives
me new world, it gives me Jesus; it
brings me Jesus and presents all His
tulIness and glory and sympathy and
OnuSTlul
world And it gives me this forever and
ever, for when | awake up in His like
ness l shall be satisfied" Behold the glo-
rlous victory that faith achieVes-not by
its own power, but by the power of Him
on whom it lays hold.
L may be addressing some who are seek
ing their happiness downright in the
world. You have not found any happiness
yet, but you hope to find it, | would only
hon rfC - ,p ~,
Fourth Psalm; read it when you go home.
There are many that say: "Who will
show u.s." not the good, but ANY good ?"
We find none. What no good in thea
ters? What! no good in unhallowed
assemblies? What no good in obscene
jokes? What! no good in trifiing pur-
suits OF tritling world? What have
life, and finding nothing? And are you
yet seeking airesh the phantom, and find
ing nothing still ''Who will show us any
good?" Q, my friend "How can you be-
lieve, which receive honor one of another,
and seek not the honor that cometh from
God onlyY" What was it that made the
rich man go away grieved ?" 1t was
because the love of the world was in his
heart. What was it that choked the good
seed 1t was the love Of the world.
There are some here that are professors
OF goodness; they attend to the means of
grace, perhaps they may have family
prayer, perhaps they may read the Word
at home. perhaps they may cut Off gross
sins, and yet they are but lovers of the
world at the root 1t is cankering there
The five foolish virgins, what were they :?
Lovers of the world. Those that had
been washed" and returned to their
Wallowing in the nire." What was Lots
wife? She followed her husband, she
went good way, but she turned back,
she looked, and she became pillar OF
salt, as warning to you how vain is a
dead profession that has at it's root the
love of the world. And look at this poor
Demas-ac accounted a believer, standing
out lin sense as believer, commended
by the APOSTLE, the associate OF the
Apostle, yet lover of the world at the
root.
Oh! think of it. This may be Just the
part of the sermon that you do not like:
and this may be just the part that the
Holy Spirit may so apply to your heart,
as that you shall go TO your home, Weep
ing bitterly, and be hunbled before the
heart-searching God on account of it.
\ lew words, however, to the children
of God. The subject is too wide Tor me.
l must confess. Oh ''love not the
world" What is it that ''pierces man
through with many sorrows ?'' l can
only just leave a few texts for YOU to
tuluh ONeI, anu pray over. GU r9nen-
Der that one in the fifth chapter Of first
Timothy: They that will be rich" We
have childish idea OF it; we imagine a
miser heaping up his gold we forget that
man, in transaction of one dollar, can
show his love for money; and In the
anxiety OF his spirit, in his restless sleep.
in his rising thoughts, he can show what
lies at the root. They that viii be rich ?''
that VIII get on, fall into temptation
and a snare, and into many foolish and
hurtful lusts which drown men i'll de-
structiOn and perdition-for ''the love of
money is the root of all evil; which while
some have coveted AFTER and l believe
some that profess godliness) ''have erred
from the faith"
Dear friends, ''love not the world" 1t
Is an evil thing; it is deceitful thing. 1t
always says it is but little, and yet it
is much. 1t promises much and gives
nothing. 1t would rob me of my soul.
1t is cruel world. 1t aims at my eternal
destruction. Oh l would say, then.
'love not the world ~ Love not its
amusements. Keep away from every
thing that weakens principle and OBJ
scures Jesus. Love not the men of it. and
seek not to mingle with them, except to do
them good, distribute as much as in YOU
lies, the Word of Life. Love not the re-
ligion of the world. Come out of it. God
will have His people be a separate people.
and whatever contravenes it mars His OBJ
ject. Look that principle fairly in the
face and honestly act it out. And love
not the principles of the world. In your
dealings be just and generous; do not
grind the faces of the poor; forget not that
the poor are as much in the estimation OF
God as the rich, and that the man who
grlnds the poor may give literally of his
lngatheringS to DenevOience, and vet. be-
fore God he is still the man that grinds
the poor. Act not according to the prln-
ciple of the world. You who are in trade.
live above all the trickery of trade: YOU
that are in profession, exhibit the broad
holy tendency of the gospel in your pro-
fesslon. Love not the world, neither
the things that are in the world" Love
not its vain show. What cares a saint of
God for their vain show? Oh! to live in
the simplicity OF Christian men and
women. Not that l believe God would
have us all dress alike, or have our houses
alike, or exhibit the like appearance to
others. l do not believe this. and l do
not see it in Gods word; but as men and
women Of God, as saints OF God, as
heirs of God and joint-heirs with
Christ" there ought to be something that
marks Christian men and women. Not
garb; not by the fashion or cut OF
coat, or uniform, but by their simplicity.
their cody walk and spiritual minded
ness. L am Thine, and would glorify
Thee, body, soul and spirit, because | am
Thine, and Thine only.
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