The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-06-17

1t is easy to reach David's conclu-
sion. A man says "there is no
God" and David draws the con-
clusion that a man who says this
must be fool. Hence, the fool
hath said there is no God"
Take the next verse, Romans
1:2C, for Because that when they
knew God" They gIorifed him
not as God, neither were thankful,
but because vain in their imagina
tions and their foolish heart were
darkened There was a time IN
the history of man that man knew
God. But what did he do2 Man
deteriorated-he went down, was
lowered, and in that going down
he goes without excuse before God,
and so going down he left all the
light he had and then, being far
away from God, man says "there
is no God" Because that, when
they knew God, they glorifed Him
not as God. What do they do?
They were not thankful" "be-
cause vain in their imaginations. !"
| want to give these words to you
and explain them according to my
conception of their meaning.
"They became vain land vain
stands for emptiness) in their i'm
aginations." )" The idea being the
original that they missed in their
calculations. They tried to figure
out not being guilty and all that
kind of thing, leaving God out,
and they reached erroneous con-
clusions. That thought occurs to
one in this statement. And then
what9 Answered by the fact that
their foolish heart was darkened
"The fool hath said, no God" and
the point is, man will wander away
from God and his heart will be-
come darkened, foolish heart dark
ened, "foolish and darkened" and
for that reason David says that a
man is fool who declares There
is no God" Another verse, PRO
Tossing themselves to be wise, they
became fools" the same as what
David says. There is a notion
with people who are disposed to be
skeptics that Christian people are
fools on general principles and
that skeptics are wise men. Ex-
actly the reverse to this is stated
in the Bible. Man became wise in
his own reasoning, calculations and
God writes him down as fool.
What then did these people do?
"They changed the glory of God
into an image of man and birds
and four-footed beasts and creep
ing things" That is what man
did. Changed the glory of God
into images of birds, beasts and
four footed things. Into gods that !
men could see and put hands on,
and bow down to, and say "these
are my Gods" David says that is
a fool. God says that man is a
fool. When man did that, then
God gave up man and left him to
turn and follow his own way and
and man went farther
and farther away from God. !
Wherefore God gave them up to
through the lusts of
their own hearts," All from one
same Greek word meaning ''de-
sire," "desire of their hearts,"
does the fool say no God"
In his heart. (The fool hath said
IN his heart, there is no God.) The
iesires and leadings of the heart
carrying men away from God.
And in consequence of this turning
away from God, God gave up man
% follow his own heart, that heart
being darkened." But now let one
larry this picture a step farther.
For this cause God gave them up
INTO vile affections, for even their
women changed the natural use
nto that which is against nature.
Now | want to speak of that little
word ''even." For even the wo-
nen, etc. Now woman is gener-
lily looked upon as more gentle,
kinder and more refined than man.
md their tendency being more to.
wards giving their hearts to God.
3ut what do these women do2
They are even more disposed to
orget their God. For even the
women. This Apostle bad gone