The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-26
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standing" reign In your heart without
rival? often heard 1t said during
our civil war, 30, the war has filed the
country with rogues." A great mistake.
1t only gave an opportunity to the roRues
already in the country. Adam the First
stands before the law o condemned re-
probate doomed to endless damnation.
When you get rid of Adam the First.
then you are no longer under the law,
consequently, you will be jIst Rs free as
II there was no law. The men in Ken
lucky who have no disposition to violate
the law are as free as II there was no
law On the contrary, they are CO.
operators with the peace officers in the
enforcement of the law. So when you
get everything out Of your heart which
antogonizes Gods law, then you sit
down with God on His throne and CO.
operate with Him in His administra-
ton.
d. 1.-THE law WAS our school-master
to lead US to Christ" (GAl. 3: "a.
While they went directly on to Canaan,
they had no trouble with the law; but
when they reaohsd Ksdesh "a Hebrew
name which means holiness) on the
border Of Canaan, ono hours march
would have brought them unto the "land
of corn and wine," but, unfortunately,
they believe the evil report of the ten
cowsrdly spies despite all the fervent
pleading of Joshua and Caleb. They
all agree that the land flows with milk
and honey. The oowardly ten declare
its Inhabitants are invincible giants and
l Is cities arc walled up 10 heaven.
Hence, there Is no conceivable hope Of
taking 1t by conquest. While Joshua
and Caleb. who had faith in God,
vocif rate through the multitude over
and over, I'VE are fully able to possess
the land"
Now the ordeal has come, they must
take possession of the lana or retreat.
Tho excitement Is intense. Joshua,
Caleb and Moses doing everything in
their power to rally tho host and prevail
upon them to enter the land. The
other ten. who like Joshua and Caleb.
were prominent tribal leaders, intimi-
date the people by assuring them they
are going right into the arms of death.
So q lugubrious howl everywhere goes
up, Back into Egyps, back into Egypt"
There they forfeit their covenant OF
Justification and become m!ssrs bio
packsliders. From this fatal epoch they
are forsaken of God. defeated in bat
tie, visited by destroying angles, pes
tilencs and death. The ten cowsrdly
spies who brought back the evil report
ell fell dead amid she psssilence at
Kadesh BsrneH. BY fatal apostasy they
plunge into the awful darkness OF con-
domination and wander round and round
che Lord knows whore, for their history
Is unwritten. thirty-eiQht awful years
without hope and without God, till all
the older members who had refused to
entsr were dead. Like THAI black
history of sin two hundred and fifteen
years in Egypt. tho thirty-eighs years
they spent under the curse In bat awful
bowling wilderness, was left unwrittsn
for the judgement day TO reveal.
Behold the fallen churches OF the
present day with their dad leaders,
who, like the false spies at Kadesh. fell
dead spiritually because they refused to
lead those people into sauotidces ion;
| they go bowling and murmuripg, de-
pending on q poor hope-so. SHINING
| religion to take them to heaven when
they die. But o, fatal mistake. when
| their heaven turns out 10 be hell.
You see the unmistakable sequence
from these facts. So long as those peo-
Pile kept their faces toward Canaan they
by day and fire by night. and best Of
all, they realized the presence and favor
of God. But when they rebelled at
Kadesh, God pronounced the curse Of
death upon them. Hence you just keep
your religion as you are pressing after
holiness.
Ksdesh is the Hebrew for holiness
They reached 1t IN July of the second
year of the exodus. That was the
Rubicon of their pilgrimage. There
they must enter Canaan or get away, for
the giants will not suffer them TO dwell
on the border. Unfortunately their
faith failed. So they rejected holiness,
grieved the Holy Spirit. took their cause
into their own hands and plunged pell-
NELL into waste-howling wilderness
inhabited only by wild beasts and say
ages. But worst of all, the curse of
God rang in their ears -"Your caroases
shall fall in this wilderness" So they
turned back in q sad funeral procession,
each one marching to shroudless and
cotfi nless grave in the burning sand.
Those awful thirty-eight years under
the curse Moses never wrote up. They
belong with the two hundred years OF
unwritsen history amid the blackness
OF Egyptisn bondage, also the forty
years with the flocks of Jethro. The
Bible Is the history of redemption.
Where there is no progress, there Is no
record.
Q. Second time at Ksdesh. Doubtless,
the awful deaths of those poor back
sIiders 1--WE hope many were reclaimed
and went to hesven) and the faithful
preaching of Moses, Aaron, Joshua and
Caleb we're powerful agencies in bring
ing the young people to God. So after
many years general reaction takes
place and they turn about and counter
march till they reach Kadesh again,
thirty.eight years after they babe 1t
edieu.