St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-04-09
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mEs. that you might consider these
things, yet they would not hear. There
fore shlll the word of Jehovah be unto
them p1ecept upon precept, precept up
on precept; line upon line, line upon
line; her little, there little" It was
to be an unchanged message. It was the
same precept upon precept and line upon
line which He had been speaking to
them throughout the years and gener-
atoms. His message was the same, 1t
was unchanging. And Gods message
for to-day is an uncDanging and I'M
changed message. The world, as IN
Paul's time, is ever seeking some new
thing. The simple, old Gospel message
is considered out of date for this age and
generation And men who claim to be
the servants Of God, who profess to hav-
ing been called to deliver Gods message,
dare to take of the Gospel truth and warp
and twist and reshape it into something
new and modern. The simple old Cos
pei which declares man lost and help
less sinner, and the crucifled Jesus an
only Saviour, is deemed inadequate for
these times, and the so-called popular
preacher is trying to accommodate
Gods message to the taste and vanity
| and self-esteem Of the world. Oh, what
travesty! Oh, what a hideous viola
ton of Gods mercy and love! God pity
| the world when it gets too wise and too
! cultured and too self-centered and ego
| tistical for Gods simple and unchang-
ing Gospel message! There are indica-
| tons that point to the fact that the
world is rapidly approaching that at
titude before God; that condition Of
heart which remains unmoved and I'M
yielding before the oft-repeated Gospel
message. God did not change His mes
sage to Pharoah. 1t was over and over
again: Let my people CO." And when
Pharaoh hardened his heart and grew
so weary of the message that he threat
ened Moses with death il he came with
that same message again, did God
change His message, or compromise up
on the issue? Nay, verify, it was an
unchanged message. And Coda mes
sage to-day, despite the meddlers and
the liberalists and the higher critics
and the advanced thinkers, is an I'M
changed and unch2nging message, and
it will continue to be such until Jesus
shall come in His glory and claim as
His own those who have heard the mes
sage and been washed clean in His
blood.
1T HE message, then. Of God to q
world estranged from Him because
of sin and which He seeks and longs
to have brought back to Himself, is
simple, is pertinent, is persistent, is
unchanging. 1t is SO simple that none
in all the world may be excluded or
lost, for it is to all the world and for
all the world It is pertinent, plainly
and clearly defining mans condition
and need, and fully and freely provid-
ing for that need. It is persistent, for
God will never cease His efforts to turn
the world to Himself until time shall
cease to be. It is unchanging. for there
is but one remedy for sin, and that is
the shed blood of Jesus Christ; and
God cannot come to the world with any
so-called ethical message, highly flavor
ed and up to date, for that will not
cleanse from sin; that will not make
souls dead in trespasses and sins to
live again; that will not make man
over new, giving him new heart and
new purpose and a hope that will
grow brighter until the full glory Of
Heaven bursts upon his vision. No.
God comes with His simple, pertinent,
persistent, unchanging message. He
. goes over the lesson again, and yet
again. 1t is "precept upon precept,
precept upon precept; line upon line.
line upon line; here little. there lit
tle" It is in spite Of God that the
soul perishes. Surely God never fails
to improve an opportunity to drive
home His message. Through His true
and faithful servants in the world to-
: day, through the circumstances and
conditions Of life, in thousand and
one different ways, God goes over and
over the Gospel story of man sinner
and Christ a Saviour. Dear soul,
whoever you are who reads these
words, have you heard Gods message
and hearing have you obeyed it? Have
you repented of sin and believed upon
Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour
the one who cleanses from all sin and
saves with an everlasting salvation;
Have you?
IF NOT, Gods message to you Is still
, | "precept upon precept, precept upon
. precept; line upon line, line upon line;
t here a little, there a little; that you
I NAV 20 and fall backward, and be
! broken and shared and taken" The
t effect of Gods message is finally one o.
!. two things: Either it melts the hear
t and molds the life anew in Christ
e. Jesus, or it hardens as the clay II
3 hardened under the burning rays Of
the sun. God keeps repeating Hi:
simple Gospel message over and ovel
] again that you may be won to Him
8 that you who have been estranged ant
0 an outcast from the Fathers house
s might be reconciled and brought back
And if you will not, if because of thu
q hardness of your impenitent heart yor
s scorn His gracious message, He keeps
d repeating it "that you may go, and fal
e backward, and be broken, and snaret
o and taken" Do we hear it said to-da!
!, that the Gospel is not winning tn
e world? Perhaps that is true, sadly true
T, But because of this il is not anothel
;, message which the world needs, but !
: is the same old blessed Gospel whicl
: sounds forth and must sound forth
: "precept upon precept, precept upol
q nrooort. limo un0n line line UPON line