The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-23
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didn't take place, then the man that
wrote Genesis knew he was telling a lie,
and out goes Genesis. You go into Exodus
and there are the ten plaques and Moses
going through the Red Sea, the water
coming out of the rock and all those su-
pernatural things. Now If those things
were not so the man that wrote it knew
that he was telling deliberate, wilful lie.
Out goes Exodus. You go into Numbers,
and there is Moses making brass serpent,
which is put on to a pole and the people
are healed. III that didn't take place
out goes that book. And so you can go
into all the books of the Old Testament,
and there Is not one that hasn't some
thing supernatural in il. You can
not touch Jesus Christ anywhere that
there is not something supernatural
about Him. He drops down to tell
the virgin that she was to be the mother
Of that child, and when Christ was born
there came a fire down from heaven to
shout His praises. That was all super
natural. His being warned and
going off into Egypt was supernatural.
When He commenced His ministry
there was not a day when he was not
doing something supernatural. One day
he speaks to the lcper, and he is made
whole; one day He speaks to the sea and
the sea obeys Him. When He died the
sun refused to look upon that scene; this
old world recognized Him, and
the earth reeiod and rocked like
a drunken man. The earth knew Him.
That was supernatural. And when He
burst asunder the bands of death and
came out OF Joseph's scpulchre that was
supernatural. Christmas Evans. the great
Welch preacher says, "Many reformations
die with the reformer, but this
reformer ever lives to carry on His
reformation" Thank God we don't wor-
ship dead Jew. Do you suppose we
would have this audience here today il we
were worshiping dead Christ? Not by
a good deal. IL he worshiped dead
Jew we wouldn't have been quickened
and given life TO our souls.
thank God that our Christ is a super
natural Christ, and this book n super
natural book, and thank God that live
in country where il is SO free that all men
can read IL,
Now about what Christ~ays about Him
self. He says the Scriptures cannot be
broken. Let us keep in mind that the only
scriptures the apostles OF Christ had was
the Old Testament. The New lTesta-
ment wasn't written. He means every
word He says. Devil or man cannot break
the word OF God. Why, would as soon
doubt my own existence as TO doubt that
book. How any man can for one moment
doubt the vcracity OF the Bible is a mys-
terry to me.
Now, Christ says i'm one place, " Heaven
and earth shall pass, but not one jot or
little ofithe law shall pass until the law
is fulfiiled.p Then, I'm another place,
"Iioaven and earth shall pass away, but
my word shall not pass away" Now,
will put that as the old and new
covenant. Not one jot OF
little of the law shall pass
until the law shall be fulfilled, the new
covenant, and then Christ comes and adds
these words, Heaven and earth shall pass
away, but my word shall not pass away"
Now, notice how that has been
fulfilled. There was no shorthand reporter
following Him around taking down His
words; there were no papers TO print His
sermons, and they wouldn't have printed
the sermons II there had been any daily
papers. The whole church and all the
religious world was against Him. lean see
one Of your modern free thinkers standing
near Him, and he hears Christ say, "Heaven
and earth shall pass away, but my
word shall not pass away" j see the
scornful look on his face as he says,
"Hear that Jewish peasant talki Did you
ever hear such conceit, such msdness? lie