The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-07-19


them unto u by His Spirit; for the
Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the
deep things of God"
The Office of the Spirit.-And if the
distinguishing mark of the sons of
God is the Spirit by which they are
led, how does the working of thar
Spirit manifest itself? Jesus, on the
eve of His sacrifice for the sins of the
world, told His disciples that upon His
departure to be with the Father He
would send His Paraclete or Repre-
sentative back to earth. And" said
He, when He is come, He will CON
vince the world of sin, and of right
eousness, and of Judgment; of sin, be-
cause they believe not on Me; of
righteousness, because | go to My Fa-
Their, and ye see Me no more; of judg-
ment, because the prince of this world
is judged" The office of the Spirit is
therefore threefold, and, in His opera
ton on the human heart. marks the
son of God. First of all the Spirit
is a sin convincer.
The world, consciously or uncon-
sciously, is striving to get away from
this thought of sin. Culture and in
tellectualism would seek to lead the
world to believe that it can uproot
and outgrow sin. The process of
veneering the sin-sick, sin-marred
world so as to make man presentable
to mans eyes goes busily on in the
workshop of Satan, who is no more
pleased with the disgusting rags of
filthy wickedness than you are. but
is seeking to urn out a polished prod
uct which he imagines he can hold up
against the blood-washed product of
Heaven and God not detect the sham,
And He will convince the world of
sin"-not because it is a seething cess
pool of crime and horrible vice-but
because the world in its polished ele-
gance and refinement, believes not
on Ne" (the Christi.
False doctrine is irsidiously at work
robbing the world of the God-sent mes
sage hat 'all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God" and again.
If we say hat we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves, and the truth is not
in us. If we say that we have
o sinned, we make Him a liar, and
His Word is not in us" The fundamen.
tai doctrine of one of the modern-day
false religions, which is one Of the
anti-Christs Gods Word declares shall
become manifest in the last days, is
that there is no such thing as sin, and
that the thought of sin only exists as
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of a Oh, what heresy in the lighr
of Gods Word. which from Genesis tC
Revelation progressively develop.
Gods marvellous plan of salvation fron
sin! Take away the Divine indictmen
of the world for sin and what further
need have we for the Christ or Hi
matchless sacrifice as the sin-beare
of the world?
Again. careless indifference and self
centered ease and qualification ar
binding the world and hindering tn
Spirit in His work of convincing tn
world of sin. This is what kept til
prodigal in the far country and mad
him an alien and no longer a son of III.
father out Of whose loins he haI
sprung. In the far country amidst it
sin, and yet not conscious of sin, VIVA
a pitiable condition, How day an,
night the heart of hat father wa
wrung with anguish for that waywarI
boy! How during the troubled dream
of the night and the anxious hours o
the day his thoughts followed tina
boy as he went needless and headlon,
to the miry depths in which the swim
were ~wallowing! All, we who are ia
Tiers can feel the fevered pulsatiol
OF hat agonized heart, and you, youni
m.en, in whom is planted the seed Q
fHtherhood, can in some degree under
stand; yea, all, young and old, mother
, and daughters, are moved by the dee
sorrow of that home. Ali how tn
tenderest chords of the human hear
gre set to vibrating in minor strain ur
Ger the sad story! But, turn you t
Il sadder picture and try to understan
IN faint degree what hat sorrow i
Heaven must be as the Heavenly Fathe
sees His sons in the far country an
they turn a deaf ear to His tende
pleading to return home to the Fa
TIERS House.
, Undoubtedly the father of tn
4 prodigal exhausted every means a
I his command to win his boy bac
to the homeland and the old root
tree; but God has done infinitely NOR
to win the hayward sons of me
back to sonship with God and a RICH
to a place in the Fathers Hous,
I "for He so loved the world hat H
: gave His only 0egotten Son tina
p whatsoever belie Veth in Him shoul
4 not perish but have everlasting life.
In the ~counsels of Heaven the Fati
: er's heart went out to the sons !
n the far country, and as Jesus, tn
/, Heavenly-begottcn Son of God, sa'
d the anguish of His Fathers hear
h He offered Himself as an Ambassadc
; to earth to win nen back to God.
/; The Faithful Father.-And it wa
e necessary that He should come an
become a substitute for sinful ma
h as he stood convicted of sin befol
e the judgment seat of God after Gel
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