The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-21

IT'S sun AND SUBSTANCE.
C,) hut the place where Jesus speaks mos,
clearly and most lovingly, Is the Bible. OF
this Book il may be said that Jesus Christ is
ia sum and substance. The testimony Of Jesus
is the spirit Of prophecy" and all the histories
and poetry and gospels and cpistlcs, as well as
all the prophecies Of the Bible, bear their ties.
timony to Christ. They testify of Him, and
through them, lie speaks to Us. "See," there.
fore, That yc refuse not Him that spcakcth'
in this holy Book,
The Bible il pre- cminently the Sayiour's book,
for His Holy Spirit is its author, but 1t is also
pre.cmincntly the sinners book, for It was
written for our learning. that We through
patience and comfort OF the Scriptures might
have hope" Had It not been for Him who
speaks TO US in tho Bible. our knowledge Of
Cod would be limited TO what We might learn
Of Him from the book Of nature. But while the
Book OF Nature was the first book that God
gave to man. IL has pleased Him to supplement
that good old book with this newer, and clearer.
| and fuller, and more satisfactory revelation Of
Himself. "God. who at sundry times and in
divers manners spoke in time past unto the
fathers Of the prophets, hath in these last days
spoken unto us by Ills Son." This makes the
Bible a very serious and a very solemn book,
as well as a very instructive and blessed book;
and when We read the words of Jesus, we ought
to see TO it that we "refusc not Him that
| spcakcth."
3. But what does Jesus say7 lie makes known
| unto us the mind, the will, the purpose, the
| truth, the love, and the very heart OF Cod.
| Jesus Christ is the Revealer OF God, the
| Father mo man knowcth the Son, but the
| Father; neither knoweth any man the Father.
| save the Son, and he to whomsoeyer the Son will
reveal Him." II. in the revelation that Jesus
| has made of Himself and Of God the Father, and
OF the Holy Ghost, We cannot find the path TO
| happiness here and to n blessed immortality
| hereafter, then cause Is hopeless For there
| is 10 other person or revelation in the universe
that can help us, in the least degree, ii we
| refuse Him that speaks TO us from Gethsemane,
and from Calvary, and from His open tomb.
| and from His throne in heaven. 'Neither is
there salvation in any other; for there is none
| other name under heaven given among men,
| whereby must be saved"
| In his anxiety to save sinners note: (s) How
lie warns and threatens them. "Sce that ye re-
fuse not Him that speakcth." Why? Because
| "if they escaDed not who refused Him that
| spoke on Garth much more shall not we escape,
| IL we turn away from Him that speaketh from
heaven These are very solemn words, and so
| too the words that Immediately follow them.
| When the Son OF God spoke from Sinai, His
"yoice then shook the earth. but now He hath
promised, saying: Yet once more I shake not
the earth only, but also heaven Wherefore We
receiving kingdom which cannot be moved, let
| us have grace whereby We may serve God
| acceptaby. with reverence and godly fear for
our God il q consuming fire.
1t is a blessed truth that "God is love"
Your attention was called TO it last Sabbath, and
| trust it made a holy and lasting impression
uron us. But it is equally true that God will
punish those who reject the Gospel OF His blessed
Son: "For our God is consuming fire." The
thought that salvation was offered and that 1t
was rejected, and that the pleadings Of Divine
love were resisted must constitute part and
perhaps, chief part OF the woes Of perdition
4 guilty conscience IL a perpetual torment, and
that torment must be intensified most acutey
III, 'lgino'! oi Siish'tu s oppoi.u,'''es ai'u "
less rcmorsc. MAY not this be the worm tha,
dictb not and tho fire that Is never oucnchpd?
Let uq be will assured that IL Is Divine low,
! that induces Jesus 10 warn and TO threaten sin
| nors ..S,c thnt yo rct,,se rot Him that sncol
eth these warning and threatening words
These who are needless of rhesc warnings. ant
| who seen, determined 10 take their chances fol
| ,hc n,tu,c y.itbout Jasus r,tbor tLon certoi,
salvation with Him will find that tbcir neolec
will hc their ruin "For IL the word smoke,
bv angels was steldfast, and every tronscrcssio,
| and disobcdicncs received a inst reoompensc o
rcvaid; how shall We c,cape if we neglect 81
| great salyation"f ..if he that despised Moses
| law died vitbout mercy i,pder two or tlre
witnesses: of how much sorcr p,nisL,nent. sun
pose We, shall he be thought worthy, who hatl
trotdcn under foot the Son OF God, and hatl
counted the blood of the covenant. Nhercyith h
was sanctifed, am unholy thing. and hath dom
de1,itn ,r,to thc Sni,iL of lrace,'g Now. /,
view of tbc,e and many otber warnings an,
| thre,taninoS il If not fatal folly ,,r anv SHINE
In imagine that he can e.cano nerdition an,
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