The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-26
ARE YOU FREE 7
If Not, Why Not? Christ Will
Make You Free.
Glorious Freedom is Heaven on Earth,
Gan Who arc Not Either sanctifisd or
Pressing Toward it Are Failsn'--Com-
Knitting SIN 10 the servIcs of the Devil


In the unfsllen state, man enjoyed
the very freedom Of God himself. Un-
fortunately, he experimental with the
tempser. got caught in his lasso and was
dragged into hopeless servitude.
Bible ia Greek biblos and simply
means book. ALI the significstion is in
the qualifying adjective holy" Hence
"Holy Bible" means book on holiness.
1 pity the man who accepts the Bible,
but discards holiness. He feeds ON
oyster shells.
Genesis is the history of mans fall
ure. Exodus IL the history Of Gods
success. Genesis begins with man in
Paradise and winds up with hopeless
slavery.
Are you under sin, under the law or
under grace? A slave in Egypt. law
vassal in the wilderness or o free holder
in Canaan?
9. When the poor slaves in Egypt fell.
their bondage undesirable and began to
cry nightly to God for deliverauce,
Pharaoh, who typifies the devil, first
endeavors to intimidate them by multi.
plying their burdens. When he saw he
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denly changed his tactics. and becoming
| wonderfully lenisnt, said, Why you
need not leave my kingdom to serve the
God OF Israel. Ii you did but know it,
your God and myself are very good
friends. So go ahead and sacrifice to
your God here in my kingdom" No, If
we were to do that we would offer 70 our
God the denominations of Egypt.
Now reader, be candid; have you not
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Almighty the denominations of Egypt?
Ir you are one of these respectable sin.
ming Christians you are guilty OF that
very crime; l. g.. Offering God the
abominstion of the DEVILS kingdom.
Behold thousands OF poor deluded
church members all around you, stulti-
tying themselves by the futile attempt
to worship God In the DEVILS kingdom,
an utter impossibility. Are you csught
In that trap? II you are SHINING Chris
tian that is precisely where you are
bondage.
b. Now when Pharaoh found they
would 20 despite all he could do, His
next plea wAe "Don't 60 very far" "If
you did but know 1t. the God OF Israel
and myself are on very good terms.
You can live in His kingdom and still
be near neighbors to me and your old
friends in Egypt" Did you not heed
that seductive invitation and Just stop
on Satan's border?
Israel did not leave Egypt for the
wild esness but for Canaan. Before
they left Egypt they entered into
positive covenant with God to 60 ai-
rectly and pussess the LAND flowing
with milk ana honey" Even SO, when
we give up all our sins and enter the
covenant Of Justification, the alphs and
omega OF that covenant Is that We are
to be ''holy to the Lord" Whenever
you cease to press forward into holiness
you forfeit your covenant and lose your
justification. What q pity the Gospel
church could not so profit by the sad ex.
ample Of old Israel as not to commit
the same fatal blunder and stop too near
the DEVILS border.
c. The law dispensstion. when the
unclean spirit Roeth out of g man
he tsketh with him seven other spirits
and the last state of that man is
worse than the first" Matt. 10: 4s.45.)
That unclean spirit is conquered in
conversion. kept bound during justlfics-
ton. When the justified falls he breaks,
his chains and gets loose again. When.
the sanctifie6 fslls be brings the seven.
other devils to dwell with him. TIL
ssnchhcation destroys your enemies,
you need the law to keep them down,
God never give His law in Egypt be-.
cause Phsrsoh's slave had no chance to
obey IL.
AS soon as they got out OF the DEVILS
kingdom God gave mis- law OF Sinai.
There are but two minds known in
the Bible; I. O., the mind OF Christ, and
the carnal mind. When God created
man he gave him His own mind, Satan
came and destroyed the divine mind
from the human heart and put in his
mind; /. O., the csrnal mind, which is
adam The First" "old man." etc.
That "old man" reigns in Egypt, is sub
jugated in regeneration and crucified
In sanctifcation. For this "old man OF
ain" the law was given st Sinai. The
new man" created in the heart In re-
generation don't need the law, for he
was not made after the law OF carnai
commandments, but after power OF an
endless life" Heb. z: ICY
Remember Christ came to prepare us
for heaven. In heaven there are no
peace officers. IS nobody there has any
disposition to break the peace. Hence
we must get rid of every dislurber be-
fore We leave this world Does the
peace Of God, (which passeth sll under
CONTINUED ON THIRD pAaE)
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