The Grenada sentinel., 1903-11-14

think you is the revelation Of God tn
the world to-day. which has had tho
God Man dwell among them and fulnu
all Of Gods wonderful! plan Of salvation
by which man may get back to God? H.
rael's God hOvered over them In the
cloudy pillar, He dwelt in the Holy
Of HOLES in the Temple, but now tho
veil of that temple is rent. and God de-
sires to find dwelling place In the hui
man heart. Israel is a monument of
Gods mercy and patience, but redeemed
man to-day Is the crowning glory Of His
great love and mercy and patience.
V/HY are you not consumed, oh man!
" oh. woman! as you stubbornly
rush headlong in your own doing? Why
is it that the Judgment of God does not
grind you to powder? Is it because your
evil doing and stubborn way have not
merited the punishment? No! for "all
have sinned," and Gods judgment
against sin is death. THE soul that sim
meth it shall die" ''The wages of sin
is DEATH" Then why does God
wait? 1t is because God will
have all men to be saved and to
come unto the knowledge OF the TRUTH"
"The Lord is not slack concerning His
promise, as some men count slackness;
but is longsuffering to usward, not will
ing that any should perish, but that
all should come to repentance" The
rich man never got into the torments
of hell until God exhausted every ef-
fort to have him turn from his own way
to Gods way, and yield his own will to
the will of God. While we have turned
every one to his own way" the Lord has
laid the sin of our RIGHTEOUSNESS and
stubbornness upon His well-beloved Son,
and offers through Him forgiveness and
salvation. John Wesley once had occa-
sion to reprimand his travelling compan-
ion and secretary. John Bradford, and
when the latter stubbornly refused to
yield. Wesley said: Then you and l
must part" Very good, sir" replied
Bradford. Thus the matter rested until
the next morning, when Wesley accost-
ed his old friend. and asked him if he
had considered what he had said, that
they must part" Yes, SIR" replied
Bradford. And r-st we part?" in
quired Wesley. please yourself, SIR"
was the reply. wi. you ask my par
DOM" rejoined Wesley. mo, sir" You
won't?" mo, sir" Then l will ask
yours!" replied the great-hearted man..
And Bradford melted under the exam
pie, and wept like child. And how in
f1nitely greater is the mercy and love and
forgiveness of our God towards man!
While we were dead in trespasses ana
sins, Christ died for us: While we are
in rebellion against God, He extends to
us pardon. signed with the blood Of
His dear Son. Oh, this ought to melt
the hardest heart
PUT, thank God! there are some who
II do cease their own doings and yield
their wills to God. There was always
small remnant in Israel which had eyes
| to see God, and minds to understand Him,
and ears to hear Him when He spoke,
and hearts willing to do His will.
There were seven thousand in L.
rael who had not bowed the knee
to Baal when the prophet Elijah
thought he only was left of those who
served God. He thought all the rest Of
Israel ceased not from their own do
ings, nor from their stubborn way" and
there are those in the world to-day who
have yielded to God and who realize that
His way is best. But this departure
from the way of the natural man to the
way of God; this yielding Of the human
will to that of the Divine is progress
i've. Step by step man breaks away from
the natural desires and ambitions. and
attains unto that Godlikeness which it
is Gods purpose should be a matter of
growth with every one of His children.
The first step is salvation, the new birth.
The natural man must be made a new
creature in Christ Jesus before he can
| walk in Gods ways
THE child has to be born before It can
i breathe and see and feel, and walk
and talk. These are experiences which it
cannot enjoy until it has been ushered
| into the sphere of being where these
things are possible and natural So is
| it with the spiritual creature The nat
ural man cannot breathe, or see, or feel,
| or walk, or talk, in the spiritual world,
| until he has been born into that realm.
Gods Word declares: THE natural man
receiveth not the things of the Spirit
| of God: for they are foolishness unto
! him: neither can he know them, be-
cause they are spiritually discerned."
The first step. then, by which man
| leaves his own way and gets into the
way of God is when he repents of the
sinfulness of his own way and accepts
Christ as his sacrifice for sin and as his
Saviour from sin. Then does he begin to
| walk in the spiritual realm, then does
| he begin to cease his own doing and do
tho will IF God And the gateway to
| the new life, Christ, is also the Way of
the new life. Christ came into the world,
and where man had failed to walk in
Gods way and to do His will. He perfect
" walked and delighted to do His Fa-
| theirs WILL And in Christ the soul has
| its great Exemplar. as well as Saviour.