The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-07
AL TH1NGs Are IN GOD.

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ALL THINGS ARE IN GOD.
Rev. John f. Green Mckee Street Meth.
odist church, preached on the pcrmanence
Of the church of Christ:
Gods immancnce gives the church per
manence, We can't believe, as do some,
In transcepdent God from whom creation
is separated in the sense of being set apart,
put In motion and left to run It's course
| Our Lord Is closely united to the works of
! His hands-directly and intimately con
nected with all He nath made. This is not
to say with pantheists that God is In all
things, but rather to claim that all things
are In God. There is really no getting out
/ Gods presence. The psalmist cries: III
| l ascend up into heaven Thou art there.
If / make my bed In he'll, behold Thou art
/ therei Ii / take the wings Of the morning
/ anu ny TO the pttermOst part Of the sea,
/ even there shall Thy hand lead me and Tiny
right hand snall hold me- Psalms cxNxiX
SID. All things are Couu4uOucd upon that
presence which is the very life and stay
OF the universe. We read In ColOSsiuns i.
/ l6 and II, For in Him revised version
were all things created that are in heaven
and mat are in earth - All things were
! created by Him and for Him and He is
! before all things and in Him all things
things consist In Him we live and move
and have our being (Acts xvii, 2sl, God is
! things and a present help Of all men The
realization Of that act is at the foundation
! Of the church and Is the hope Of the world.
1t is still the province OF sin to blind men
to the actually % Gods presence On &c
count of sin men walk through this world
In the Divine presence and know IL not
like one bind and deaf, with light and
beauty and melody all around. 1t hath
been determined that men should seek the
Lord, Il happily they might feel after Him
and ind Him, though He be not far from
lnR of tACtg xvii on ia
God chat many have felt about In the dark
without the light OF written revelation ana
found Him. Plato, Aristotle Epictetus
and Seneca found the Lord One Of those
so-called heather philosophers said: Ger
| tainly no good man is without God, what
God I can not say, but truly God dwells
In the breast Of every good mum; the divine
Is planted In our bodies; II we cultivate 1t
we shall become like that from which II
springs Flesh and blood did not reveal
that to Seneca but the Father reve0led IL
by that light which lghteth every man
that cometh into the world Jesus Christ
did not come into the world TO bring God
near and that God by His personal holy
spirit would make His nearness a matter
! OF consciousness. From this view point
the text Is luminous and It's teachings as
clear as sunlight Thou are Peter and
Z upon this rock will I build my church and
: the gates Of hell shall not prevail against
It Peter was not the rock upon which
Christ would build His church The rock
Is petra not petros in the very context
Jesus says to Peter: Get thee behind me,
satan The Lord would not lay q roundn-
tion and so soon take it up and throw II
behind Him In the very nature Of things
God could not build His church upon the
shifting sands Of uncertain humanity
Potter denied his Lord and even after Pen
tecost he Observation-Disclosures from the
gentle converts, for which he was severely
rebuked by the Apostle Paul. If the church
1 or nAdes--death--couId prevail against II.
The foundation might be removed by
o death, There must be something more
/ permanent and secure. There Is only one
sure hope. Other Foundation can no man
, Law than TINT IA laid, which is JeSus
= Christ q Corinthians 49, ~"
r A MAN CONCERNED ABOUT HIS SOUL.
The morning discussion Of Rev. Robert
' n Wilson, Liberty avenue Baptist church,
: follows,
: One discourse dpais with a man inter
!. csted about eternal life. Matthew said he
t came 20 our Lord and said: ''3ood Master,
what good thing shall do that may
. have eternal lIfef" Mark sHidi 1.-THE
n man ran and knesfcd down to Jesus"
$ Luke said he was a ruler, But one thing
was certain, he felt HIS need Of eternal
|. life. He had some mistaken ideas about
Q salvation. hut eternal life seems to DO thO
Q allabsorbing question with him. He real
! lied that eternal issues. dostInies, hRppi.
= ness or WOO dependeu In large measure
y upon what he was and did bafore the Lord.
y lie called Jesus good az an ordinary teach
err Good teacher as other men. Christ 70
: fused the RppelRton good In Ii human sense,
= he never refused to DO called good as God
or divine.
Why call any man goodi You call people
good some time whom there is no real good
, In them, ChrIsmas Evan once visited a
prison and looked upon prisoner ana
said, That's me but for the grace OF
4 aud for nobody, Even their strong minds,
God given, are used for no good purpose
: or the furtherance OF no good end In life,
t full are those flames. How terrible his con.
$ dillon, My friends, l view hun there and
!. can but say, That's me but for the grace
: Of God and the redeeming blood OF Christ
!. When Christ was addressed as teacher and
: mere man he said ''Thcfe IL none good
save One and that is God" Can we say
= MS heart Is desperately wicked, ETC.,
i but swift to she'd Innocent blood"
e ana many other passages show clearly that
Z and heart is affected, with sin, The Scrip.
4 lures hath concluded all IN sin. Death
a a hath. past upon all men for all have sin
!, ned" none good, no not one" What are
n n the results, Of sin7 THE wages OF sin il
+ death" Christ as God or divine teacher
y was good and that He never denied III.
\, purity and divinity can not be questioned.
4 Thing TIL shall DO that may have etorna
i. III order to get good and TO secure tina
~ good thing that we call eternal life How
~, IA can man who Is not good do good7 How
"a can man who IL not good he good7 Til,
- !. course OF his entire ilfe is bad. This maj
Y. y Desired TO know some good thing TO do Il
\. order to secure eternal life Jesus said
~ Keep the commandments" That wn
~ good work, Living principles were couch
~ cd In tho commandments This moral fel
No. low, no had never committed adultery, tina
w ne never did steal. he never bore false viii
~. ness, that no loved HIS noighbor as HIM
n self. aud he always honored his parents
"a, lvt there was q full need OF something
IA He exonimedi "Nyhat Jack yety' M
MAS. trusting In his riohes, Jesus said
Sell ana give 10 the poor, and have richie
Or treasure In heaven and come and follow