The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-27

of Eden and from Els presence, A holy
God, therefore, when the sin of man be-
came so great that the world was turned
hopelessly away from Him. He must de-
stroy it. A holy God, furnishing His
own chosen people when they fell into
grievous sin. A holy God, preparing
a new Jerusalem, and declaring that
there shall in no wise enter into it
anything that defileth, neither whatso-
ever worketh abomination, or maketh
a lie" A holy God upon whom sinful
man could not look and live.
A GOD of love from Genesis to Rev
"A citation. Love prompted Him to
provide a covering of skins for Adam,
that the shedding of blood might be a
prophecy of the blood which was to take
away the sin of the world. Love gave
the pattern of the ark which was to
shelter Noah and his family from the
impending fiood-the ark, a type of
the Christ Who was to come and pro-
vide a sure refuge from the Judgment of
God. Love called Abraham out of his
country to the land of promise, that in
his promised seed all the nations of the
earth might be blessed. This same love
at last sent Jesus into the world that
whosoever should believe in Him
should not perish in their sins, but have
everlasting life. This same love which
throbbed towards man in the early days
of Genesis has in these later days made
known all the riches which are in
Christ Jesus. Oh, the love of God! The
surprising love of God! And so it is
with His faithfulness, His truth, His
mercy, always constant. always the
same. 81 I'm the Lord. and | change
not; therefore We sons of Jacob are
not consumed" And it was because He
was faithful to His promises, it was be-
cause His truth was 10 prevail, it was
because His mercy is from everlasting
to everlasting" that Israel in her way
wardness and sin was not consumed and
utterly cast away. But because God was
an Interchangeable God, because He had
planned the redemption of the world
from the foundation of the world, be-
cause He was willing to give His only
begotten and well-beloved Son to die
for the sin of the world, because of all
this, the way was prepared for the COM
ing of the Lord, and He came.
A ND because God is interchangeable His
"A plan of salvation is interchangeable,
and His judgment against sin is %irrevoca-
BILE. In the very beginning God declared
that tAe soul that sinneth it shall die.
And He has never changed in His judg-
ment against sin. Liberal thought of
the day may belittle hell fire and the
judgment. it may blind the human heart
to the truth of God that the soul that
sinneth it shall die, but it cannot change
God or His unalterable condemnation
and adherence of sin. Sin is sin in
Gods sight, whether it is the little sin
or the big sin. The smallest drop of
negro blood in a persons veins is enough
to identify that person with the negro
race, and the smallest faint of sin is suf-
ficient to bring the soul under the con-
demnation of God. God has not changed
in these latter days. He has not become
reconciled to the presence Of sin. Oh.
that the world might realize this! Oh.
that it might see in all the judgments
which God has brought upon sin as
recorded in His Word, a warning of its
own fate! Nowhere in Gods Word,
from the opening sentence of Genesis to
the closing Amen of Revelation, can
there be found II single word Of God
which minimizes sin, or one single in
stance where He condones it. 1t is one
thought and message all through. con-
domination and punishment of sin. Then
why will you, oh. soul, permit yourself
to believe anything else? Why will
you not believe Gods Word?
d UT even as God is Interchangeable in
- His attitude towards sin, so He is
Interchangeable in His plan of salvation.
He is Interchangeable in His desire and
longing to have all men saved. He does
not want to have anyone perish in his
sins. Gods plan of salvation wrought
out so m~arvelously through the ages
takes in the whole world. No one need
die because of sin, if they will accept
the substitute which God provided in the
person of His Son. Jesus, the sinless
one, bore the sin of the world in His
body upon the cross. God there pun
ished sin that the sinner might go free.
But the sinner who refuses to accept the
substitute which God has in His mercy
provided, the sinner who refuses to wash
in the fountain filled with blood, drawn
from Immanuel's veins" is lost, eternal
ly lost. This is the plain teaching Of
Gods Word. He declares that there is
salvation in no other name than that
of Jesus, and that if we believe in Him
we are not condemned, but that if we
An unchanged and Interchangeable way of
salvation from sin. But why should
there be any quarrel with Gods Word,
or with those who are willing to stand
by Gods Word and fear to declare any
thing but the plain Gospel truth? for this
one-way salvation has never failed. No
soul wanting salvation has ever failed
to find it. No one has ever been turned
away from the straight and narrow gate
because there was not room to enter.
No one has ever found that the blood of
Jesus Christ could not cleanse from all
sin.
A ND if the Interchangeable Gods un-
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