San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-04
The = SUNDAY : LIGHT.
SUNDAY, JULY 4, 1897.
PRAYER.
Written for the Sunday Light.

Written for the Sunday Light.
Prayer to God is all right, but we
must remember that God is a spirit,
ana they that worship him, must
worship him in spirit and in truth"
Now if God is a spirit, we must not ex-
pect him to give fieshy desires, except
in the manner in which he was appoint
ed we shall receive them, which is this:
God made Mother Earth to produce
by nature grain, fruit, vegetables, etc,
for food, and created animal life to
produce by natural laws flesh for meat
Now in order to obtain food for the
body man must work for it, for God
created man to till the soil, not to sit
around and do nothing. Therefore We
must all work, particularly a follower
of Christ, and provide things honest
in the sight of all men; but lit is writ
ten, man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth out
of the mouth of God" Matt. 4:D
Now if we are partaking only of the
bread that nourishes this body, and not
of every word that proceeds out
OF the mouth of God, we are not living
but are in a state of dying, inasmuch
as the existence man now has on earth
outside of Christ is not life, nor is it
recognized by God as life, for God
says, "he that hath the son hath life;
he that hath not the son hath not life"
Il Jno. SID. Therefore a man does not
possess that which indeed is life until
he believes in the Lord Jesus Christ,
and until he does so believe he is not
in condition n 1N1Ny n Cod
for he is dead in trespasses and sins,
But God viii is rich in mercy for
his great love wherewith he loved US
even when we were dead in sins, hath
quickened us together with Christ"
CEph. 5:5). Man should first seek the
dndom of God, and AL these things
flood and raiment for the body shall
be added unto you" Matt. 6:33.)
Now if we have been made alive in
Christ through belief in his name, AT
ter this manner therefore pray We:
Our Father who art in Heaven, eve
cannot say Our Father" until we
have become a child of God and we
are not a child of God until we have
believed in the Lord Jesus Christ and
have been sealed in the Holy Spirit of
promise. Now if any man has not
int oplIll VI NHTlSls Ilt 10 iOlit VI his,
CRom. 500 hallowed by thy name, Thy
Kingdom come. Now this kingdom for
the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his,
has 1t existed, but it will be establish
ed and made known to the world on
the seventh day, the Sabbath when
God finishes his labor and rests, then
HE shall send Jesus Christ which be-
fore was preached unto you; whom
e A
times of restitution of all things, which
God hath spoken by the mouth of all
his holy prophets since the world be-
gan" Acts 3:2O-21. There is to be a
restitution of all things to the state in
which they were before Adam sinned.
Man once had life, representatively, in
Adam, but Adam forfeited that which
is life through disobedience, and there
by brought upon himself and his pos
terity the penalty of death, dying thou
shalt die" and man has continued in
that state ever since, and the transit
tory existence which man now has in
the flesh, is like a snowflake upon the
river, a moment seen, then gone for
ever" and indeed when man dies he
would be gone forever, but foI
that Christ has redeemed him from the
penalty of eternal death by sacrificing
his own life in mans behalf, which sac
rifice was corresponding price to the
penalty of death brought upon the hui
man race through the disobedience of
Adam. Wherefore as by one mans
sin entered into the world and death
by sin, and so death passed upon all
men for that all have sinned; there
fore as by the offense of one (Adam)
upon all men of condemnation, even so
by the righteousness Of one Christi