The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-08-17

Cndt Vne propnet says, come now ana
let us reason together Saieth the
Lord; Though your sins be as scarlet
they shall be as white rs snow, though
they be red like crimson they shall be
us wool.
DR. McWherter says that there is an
experience fuller than that enjoyed by
the average follower of Christ is fact
universally admitted. What I want to
do is to reason together as to what this
experience is and how it is obtained.
l am quite sure that God has not left
these things mystery to us as to how
and where we obtain any blessing. Be
assured when it comes to the great
plan of full and free salvation we
need not that any man teach us but the
Holy Ghost is to teach us all things
and bring all things to our remem-
brance. st. John IA, 90.
1t is my purpose in this letter to
bring out clear to every reasonable
man what it is to be converted or re-
generated, and what it is to born of
God or sanctifed.
John says he came with his own, and
his own received him not. But as
many received him, to them he gave
power to become the sons of God, even
to them that believe on his name.
When a man is converted then he be-
lieves in Christ as q Saviour, and now
he is ready to make the conservation
and be born, not of blood, nor of the
will of the flesh, nor of the will of the
man, but of God. And be assured
when we are born OF God in the sense
that John speaks Of here we cruelty
the old man, put him off and push him
out and take in the God man and part
of his divine nature and God pushes
in whole cargo of love to sweeten the
head of the fountain that it may
never run bitter any more. 1t cuts out
the little old bitter opossum vine and
gratis in the large sweet luscious grape
just such as saw in Bro. Hoss' back
yard the other day.
Wesley says that the plain scriptural
notion of justification is pardon the
forgiveness of past sins, but he says
sanctification is distinct gift of God,
and of totally different nature. The
one implies what God does for us
through his son, the other what he
works in us by his spirit. He says our
justification is the beginning or start
ing to birth, and that each blessing is
obtainable by faith, and that they are
instantaneous. AS is the beginning of
natural life and natural birth, so is the
spiritual life and spiritual birth.
The first blessing is obtained by re-
pentance and faith, the second blessing
by conservation and faith. There are
in this world two kingdoms the natur-
al and the spiritual, and every man
born of woman is of that natural or
sinful nature or kingdom that we in
herit from our foreparents, and for
which we are notresponsible till we be-
come accountable beings for sin. And
this is why Paul says that the natural
man receiveth not the things of the
spirit of God, for they are foolishness
to him. Cor. 9, IA.
He goes on with his rebuke and says,
And I, brethren, could not speak unto
you as unto spiritual, but as unto car
nal, even as unto babes in Christ. He
says again, l have fed you with milk,
and not with meat, for ye were not able
to bear it. He then speaks of their
divisions and carnality, Cor. 8.
find people who are living on the
caeam, sweet meets and fat Of the land
carnally speaking. But spiritually
they are living on skinned milk, regular
old blue John, and made of penaroil,
wild onion and old field poverty grass.
But it's all right, the rich man has his
good things here and Lazarus his evil
things, but God reversed their lives in
the other worlds.
AS we are begotten or conceived sin
so are we born in sin or natural king
dom, and the time for natural birth i,
definite. But blessed be the God ant
father of our Lord Jesus Christ which
according to his abundant mercy, hatl
begotten us again unto lively hop'
by the resurrection of Jesus Chris
from the dead. And which the brit
is always undfinite depending on til,
time of conservation and faith.
Why is it that men will wait and Ions
to be delivered form this bondage O
adamic sin nature for years and even t,
deaths very door? Answer unbelie
has damed all the people that have eve
been damed or ever will be. But say
one got rid of the sin nature or oil,
man when was justified or pardoned
Bro. if you did you stopped SHINING
for John says he that commiteth sin
of the devil, which means that as lon
as we sin we still have his nature
Then John says in the next verse who
soever is born of God doth not commi
sin; and in the fifth chapter of frs
John, 4 and IS verses he positively DE-
clares the same and puts the seal o
, his words. But while John declare
that we can not and will not sin aftt
being born of God, yet Paul holds tbs
, we may fall away, but if we do "