Smyrna times., 1896-01-08
THE SMYRNA TIMES.
Smyrna, DEL,
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, Jan. Sth, 1896.
"WHY GOD SAVES THEM"
BY SIMON B. NEEDHAM.
WAuKEsuA. Wis. July. 1895

WAUKEsHA, Wis, July, 1895.
Rand the Lord shall help them and deliver
them; He shall deliver them from the wicked
and save them because they trust in Him." Ps.
81: 4O.J
When the truth is made manifest, as
it soon will be, it will then be seen
that there are but few who are saved.
because ye have said, we have made
a covenant with death, and with hell
are we at agreement; when the over
flowing scourge shall pass through, it
shall not come upon us: for we have
made lies our refuge, and under false
hood have we hid ourselves" Isaiah
%: IA to 20.
We talk about being sweetly saved;
and about saving others, and at the
same time ''we have made lies our
refuge, and under falsehood we hide
ourselves" Whereas we believed that
we were among the saved and on our
way to a better world in the skies.
Trusting to the finished work of Christ
for salvation, we will yet sea our mis-
take, and be heard to say, "The har-
vest is past, the summer is ended, and
we are not saved" DER. 8: 20; 13: 90,
&C.
Which of the nominal churches be-
ieve in, and teach victory over death,
hell and the grave? They pray for the
kingdom of God to come, but they
don't believe that they will ever live to
see it established on the earth. Hence,
they want others to get the same kind
of religion which they got at the
mourners' bench, as they call it, and
go with them to heaven when they die.
God says, "Your covenant with death
shall be disannulled, and your agree
ment with hell shall not stand; when
the overflOwing scOurge shall pass
through then We shall be trOdden down
by it" This covenant with death
which all of the deceived churches
have made, must be disannulled, and
the agreement with hell (the grave)
shall not stand Just as long as we
live in the belief that we have to die
and go into the grave, death will have
dominion over us; and into hell (the
grave) we shall be turned. (Ps. 8: IS to
20; Prov. %: 6, Z, 81
The erroneous belief thad God and
Christ and heaven and all the good
people are in the skies, and that we
have all got to die in order to get to
heaven, is what we have got to be saved
from. This, however, is a salvation
which the devil-deceived people will
not accept at ala salvation from
physical death, and deliverance from
the grave. Isaiah 25: 8. Hos. 13: IA,
and Cor. IS: 26, "a. Rev. z: II and
20; IA and 81: A. The Christian world
is in an awful dilemma to-day, stand
ing as it were on the vortex of destruc-
tion: ''not knowing what manner of
spirit they are Of" duke 8: 55, So
The lying spirit that is in them has
full control of their hearts, so the
prayers which they offer to God, and
the things which they are teaching
others to believe, is all of their spiritual
fathers, the devil. (John 8: Al They
pray to God to save them from that
awful places of eternal punishment
when they die; and to receive their
never dying souls in glory for Jesus
sake. One of these praying brethren
said to me, eff did not believe that
there was a hell where 1 will go to
when 1 die, damned if 1 would pray
anymore" Fathers punishment and
not sin, is what they want to be saved
from in the other world. And the
thought of going to heaven when they
die is about all the pleasure they have
in this world.
But mark what we say, "There is
not particle of truth in what they be.
ieve and teach about their beautiful
home in the skies, as all coming ages
will prove" @ Thess. 2: to 12.)
Our text is addressed to those who
trust in God, and obey and believe His
word all the way through, and not the
devils lies at ALL Their ''path is as tn,
shining light that shineth more ant
more unto the perfect day." prov. 4
1s.)
1t is only those who know the Goo
and Christ of the bible that can trus
in Him at all. (John II: 3. "Faitl
cOmeth by hearing, and hearing by tn,
word of God. (Rom. 10.
Man is living in Canaan now tn,
only world in which he will live at all
"God is the salvation of His people
because they trust in Him" See