The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-08-09
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70 pay WHICH are never iN~AANCNs bcN
God pays cash here for every invest
ment the soul makes in His King
dom and His righteousness, and be-
yond the grave makes ii joint heir with
Jesus Christ TO the riches OF Heaven
and the Kingdoms OF the world. God
never ~equivocates. He never tries TO
get around one of His promises. Full
fill Gods conditions and you can cash
His promises here and now at one hun
dred cents on a dollar. And now l want
to tell you that Jesus didn't have to
wait until after He had risen from the
dead and had assembled TO His Father
in Heaven before the "all these things"
were added to Him, either. The AL
these things" which the world was
seeking after while it forgot all about
God were given TO Him daily. Who was
I ii came to Him and ministered to Him
after the temptation in the wilderness?
Angels from Heaveni Think ofiti And
l tell you to-day, if we were seeking
the Kingdom of God and His righteous
ness irst-if there were no human
hands to minister unto us-we should
have the very same experience which
Jesus had. Jesus didn't turn stones
into bread at the behest of Satan. but
angels brought Him bread from Heav-
en- to strengthen His weak and tired
body. He did not fall down and wor
ship Satan and obtain the Kingdoms
which he held out to Him. but He heard
the angels whispering to Him a Heav-
en-sent message that God was goingto
give them to Him later.
Jesus was seeking God and His right
~eousness. and because His hands were
safe hands into which to deliver the
"all things" God gave Him food
enough in the wilderness to feed five
thousand men besides women and chill
dren. Do You know what God will do
for you. "Oh We Of little faith" if you
will really and truly first seek the
righteousness of God? Why, He will
place the riches Of Heaven and earth
at your disposal and permit you TO min
lister to the needy as Jesus did. AS a
Meuller did TO his hundreds of or
phaned children. As a Moody did to
the thousands and hundreds of thou
sands to whom he preached and raised
money lavishly to use in the Lords
work. Look at the monuments in his
schools which he has left behind him
as a testimonial that God here and now
will give the 'all these things" if only
you will seek first the Kingdom of
God and His righteousness"
Jesus didn't have where to lay His
head. He didn't have a purse. Notice
that Judas, the son o. perdition, car
ried that. The rest trusted in the
keeping care of the Lord, and when
tribute money was needed Peter goes
down to the waters edge and takes It
out of the mouth of a fish God sent.
When a draught of fishes is needed to
strengthen the faith of the disciples
and turn their hearts from seekingthe
things of the world TO the seeking the
things of God, God fills their nets until
they break. And notice that they i'm
mediately left all and followed Jesus.
Do you know. I half believe that when
they realized the bounty of God and
His care for them, before they forsook
their boats that day, they thrust back
into the water that great fnny hoard.
and as they darted off with glad firts
Of their tails and graceful waves of
their scaly sides, the disciples gave one
glad look upward to the God who had
given and then followed Jesus. Ifthey
never knew it before they realized that
day that the Lords fish swan in Cali
lees blue waters; they knew that the
Lords birds sang in the tree tops; they
knew that it was Gods grain wavingin
the fields and Coos cattle on a thou
sand hills. and when God knew that
they had need of these things He would
supply with bountiful hand.
Never was a person better fed than
the prophet Elijah as he sits by the
brook and Gods ravens bring him
bread and meat! Never was such a
glorious banquet held as that out on
the grassy slopes of the lake when God
fed the multitude on the few loaves and
fishes! God wants you to know and
me to know that but one thing is need
full. to seek His Kingdom and His right
eousness and that He will provide the
rest. Jesus cited the birds of the air
and the lilies of the field to illustrate
the certain care of God for His children.
For, eff God so clothes the grass of the
field, which to-day is, and tomorrow
cast into the oven, shall He not much
more clothe you, o We of little faith 2"
A Summertime Lesson.-In the sec
ton from which our text is taken, from
the twenty-fourth to the thirty-fourtL
verses of the sixth chapter of Mat
thew, Jesus gives US a glorious mes
sage for contemplation during the
days when nature smiles her sweet
est, wooing us away from the noise and
hustle and heat of the city to some
quiet nook, where the grass of the
field rolls away from our feet like a
carpet of green to the banks of the
stream which ripples and gurgles sweet
music over the stones and brings quiet.
calm and e~nchantment to our souls:
where the bright flowers in the mead
W which stretch away in the
distance nod us a welcome and
challenge even a Solomon in all
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