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church men In Jerusalem to 90 to
Damascus, to bind and imprison and

Sou9lcn men IN v ernHalem 10 go to
q g Damascus, y to bind and imprison and
put to; death all whom he should
find there who called on that name,
and as he made his journey, about
noon, suddenly there shined a light
around him above the light Of the
sun, and voice said, Saul, Saul,
why persecntest thou me + And he,
answering, said, who art thou, Lordr Z
And the voice said, i am Jesus whom
thou persecuteat; and he trembling
and astonished, said, tS,ord, what
wilt thou have me to do i And the
Lord said unto him, Arise, and 90
into the oity, and it shall be- told
thee what thou must do. Now Saul
continues his journey to Dan sssssass,
but with 9 change Of p:nd, OF opin-
ions and ideas, but,not with change
of heart; for when he arrives in
Damascus he is an earnest penitent
seeker after God for three days aud
nights, without eating or drinking, at
the end Of which time the scales fall
from his eyes and no receives q change
of heart. II
s Let us notice one more case The
rich young ruler who came to Christ
desiring to know what he must do to
be saved. He shows his sincerity in,
that, though rich a he is, yet he
falls down upon his knees in the
street before this lowly Nazarene
and makes his desires known; yet
when told what he must do, and the
doing Of the same would separate
him from those things of the world
which his heart is set upon /; although
he endorses the straight way, and
his mind and desires are to go that
way, yet his rebellious heart will not
relinquish its hold upon the world !;
therefore, Che turns away sorrowful."
What then must one do to get his
hard, rebellious heart broken up and
converted to Godp God has plainly
told us in His Word. He says in
Isaiah, IS 20 "Let the wicked for
sake his way, and the unrighteous
man his thoughts, and let him return
unto the Lord, and He will have
mercy upon him, and to our God
for He will abundantly pardon"
The sinner in returning to God must
needs come back over the same road
he travelled while going away from
God; for this is what it means to
return; therefore in coming back
over that road he will see in the
light of the coming Judgment his
sins committed against God, also the
wrongs done to those of his fellow
man. And now God says, in regard
to our wrongs done to man eff the
wicked restore the pledge, give again
that he had robbed, walk ia the
statutes of life, without commit
ing iniquity, he shall surely live, he
shall not die" Ezekiel, 88 15.
In Matthew, s.: 1924, Jesus says
Therefore if thou bring thy gift to
the altar, and there rememberest
that thy brother hath ought against
thee, leave there thy. gift, before the
altar, and go thy way; first be rec
onoiled to thy brother, then come
and offer thy gift" Then he tells
us what to do with our sins COM
mitted against God: "If we confess
our sins He is faithful and Just to
forgive us our SINS" i John, i 4.
"He that coyereth his sims shall not
prosper, but whose confesseth and
forsaketh them, shall have mercy.' y
Proverbs, %: And this making
our wrongs right, and confessing our
sins, as the Spirit leads, humbles the
proud rebellious heart into submis-
sion at the feet Of Christ. It brings
them to the place where they have
Ga broken and contrite heart,n
which God declares He will not des-
pise. And thus they are brought to
the point where God can display His
miraculous power which changes the
hard rebellious heart Of stone to a
heart of flesh.
Reader, have you given your heart
to God in this way? If not, He
saith to thee to-day, ssSon give me
thine heart" May God heipsyont 10
make haste, and delay not, ia. do SO.
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