The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-07-28
DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

In this petition we are taught to ask |
God to deliver us from the evil that is |
in the world, and the evil that is within |
our own hearts, and above all from the |
evil one. We are conscious that so |
long as we are in the body, we are
constantly hearing, seeing and feeling
the presence of evil. 1t is around US
on every side, and we entreat him
who alone can preserve us, who can
continually deliver US from its power.
Whatever debate there may be touch |
ing the origin of evil, the fact, though
evil may be regarded as mystery it |
never theless is tremendous reality. |
There is evil in the physical world,
evil in the mental world and evil in the
spiritual world. o Lord, deliver us
from evil, from all evil Of mischief,
from sin, from the crafts and assaults
of the devil, from wrath, and from
everlasting damnation; kind Father,
deliver us. From all blindness of heart,
from pride, vain, glory and hypocrisy,
from envy, hatred, malice and all
uncharitableness; kind Father, deliver
us. From all inordinate and sinful
affections and from all the deceits of
the world, the flesh and the devil; kind
Father, deliver us. From all sedition,
privy conspiracy and Of joining all false
doctrines, heresy and sectism; kind
Father, deliver us. The petition possi-
bly, might mean protect or save, either
is, or shows, the comparative sentence.
I've use the interrogative sentence.
| Again only when we are in the grip
of the evil one, and we want God to
deliver us from the jaws OF prisons,
which Peter was cast in, and all who
will live Cody must suffer these things.
Some times the answer is by unseen
and yet direct Providentisl deliver
ances. He frequently answers by
special grace, impaired to enable his
children to deliver themselves.
We all realize that the great evil is
, sin and the small evil is sin. So many
small things that are sin to our Saviour
but are not considered 80 with the
floating tide, or with the great historic
protesting orders. But can only say,
Oh Lord, deliver US from all. You
may say that the sacred word is one.
half or one-third human, yet you car
, not prove it so. You may try to justify
yourself by declaring to the floating
, tide that Paul was. beside himself wher
3 he taught that we should obey in al
, things, yet you cannot prove it so.
But oh Lord, deliver us from all thi,
| evil. Base unbelief will lead . chili
t to say what is not true, from being
0 defrauded in its early youth, but teach
: the child from the very earliest oi
: accountability, and learn it to say
a "Oh Lord, deliver us from all evil
8 Oh Lord, thou art my deliverer, free
t ing me from the guilt, the pollution
o the power and the penalty Of sin.
e Yes, he delivers our will from bondage
g our Judgment from perverson and ou
: Iimaginations from falsehOod, oul
s instinct from sinful drifts, and oul
: Iaffection from sinful lust. Oh Lord
= thou art for sin q double cure cleans
O ing from its double power.
d In one word he delivers US from evi
J. land deliverance from evil means tina
n one blessed happy thing Salvation
l. The prayer said, ''Deliver US fror
|. Ievil." What is idler than the breatl
d which utters it unless it means that W
n hate evil, and that we will oppose II
a and pledge ourselves to fight agsins
" it, and strive in every way to expel
N from the world? Oh, it is mockery
,e pray for deliverance from evil and the
IS go deliberately into it. Gods enem
d must become our enemy, Gods caus
a. becomes our cause and we becom
'. laborers together, all the same min
10 and the same Judgment Cor. Lit
IS Our example becomes safe for Other
m to follow in every instance if it is no
ID where is the power. We must preac
a the truth and practice what we preach
lpI 1 bless God that we can enjoy whs
,e the watchman advocates, namely, fu
d. salvation, that we have q constal
of lpeace, rejoice in persecution, Matt.
d. Il-12, and that our conversation Is
ID heaven, Phil. 3-20, and that we
st nothing through strife or vain glor
s. Phil. 2, 3-5, and that we esteem Othe
Id better than ourselves, and that "
,e always have Christ's mind in us, Phi
-l2-5. AS God works in and through I
ly to do his good pleasure, 18th vers
t. being delivered from all evil, v
n, become Saints of God, fulfilling his j
ed by being like minded, Phil. %, ar
ed being delivered from all evil, then
ed is not ashamed to call us Brethre
nd Heb. 2-11. J. M. SHAwBER.
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