The Penn's Grove record., 1906-10-05

prehend - to know - the length
breadth, depth and heighth of Gods
plan to save = = q INTO all tho
fullness of God" AHy one who re-
spends to Gods great passion Of re-
deeming mercy becomes a larger and
a better being, made so by that very
response. Suca an n gets knowl-
edge of God, and the relations be-
tween God and man, man and God,
and mar and man, that no school Of
philosophy on earth can supply.
Think not, in knowledge of divine
truth, to live up only to the average
of your contemporaries, but push
tEat average up. knowledge deter
mines the world in which we live.
Here are two men, an ignorant man
and an educated man. They live on
the same planet, but also they live in
different worlds. The ignorant man
cannot understand the world in
which the educated man lives. He
was never in it. The educated man
understands the world of the ignor-
ant man, because out of that world
he The difference between
these men is the degree of knowledge
possessed.
Similarly the natural man, the
man of the world who lives for this
world, cannot understand the world
in which the Christian lives. They
live in different worlds. The distin-
gushing fact is in the degrees Of
knowledge possessed by them. And
it is knowledge, and then the over
flow of knowledge, that makes the
Christian, and the effective Christian.
Fourth-The overflow of love.
"And to know the love of Christ
which passeth knowledge g = .
unto all the fullness of Cod" What
is the greatest thing about God? Not
omnipotence, omniscience nor omni-
presence, o yet any of his attrib-
utes, but love, for God is love"
What He is must be greater than
what He does.
Moreover, what redeems the
world? Not philosophy, o science,
nor mere classical or scientific educa-
ton. But love saves the world
God so loved the world that He gave
His only begotten Son that whose
ever believeth in Him might not per-
ish but have everlasting life" Jesus
Christ came into the world-"not to
condemn the world, but that through
Him the world might be saved" The
Holy Spirit makes this offering of
divine love good. But it is written
that whose "dwelleth in love, dwell
eth in God, and God in him." There
you have it. Into the plan of a
Christian love enters. It is defined
here as the love of Christ" that is
a redemptive passion to "go into all
the world and preach the gospel to
every creature" To meet the plan
you must he missionary. You must
be filled with a passion for eyangel-
ization and philanthropy. Thus will
you conquer sin, destroy the works Of
Satan, and hasten the final epiphany
of Jesus Christ.
In conclusion, how meet the re-
quirements of the plan of a Chris
tian? By prayer (verse 14). The
best life is begun and is continued in
prayer. By prayer we worship.
Through worship God opens to us
the door of life. Men and women of
this world tumble at the latch, but
the believer in Christ enters in and
takes possession. Eternity is age
less, has no gray hairs, N wrinkles
chiseled on it's regal brow, and who
ever of you will build the temple of
lifey character and decd, after Gods
plan, hath undying youth.
In the evening DR.. Lee preached
on "a Living Faith" aad took for
his text James I'LL: The faith Of
our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord OF
Glory" Among other things he
said: This is the faith of which our
Lord is author both in the structure
of the gospel, and in the experience
of the believer. This faith, then, is
a divine thing. It has always been
subject to tests, but these very tests
have only brought out its enduring
qualities and sublime achievements.
I was never more confident than I
am to-day of the need Of proclaiming
the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ as
the only solvent for life's perplexl-
ties, Disappointment, ~anxieties, wor-
ries, doubts, problems, unrest, law
lessness and the worlds sin, both old
and gray-headed, and all SO strong
yet, having age-long redundancy. l
am convinced that human wisdom IS
powerless to change the experiences
here listed, that no evolutionary
process can deliver us from them by
enabling us to outgiow them and
throw them off, and that there is no
new theology" to provide a better
way than the old way-'tne faith OF
our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord OF
glory"
we need to pray the disciples
prayer-'Lord increase u faith"
That faith conquers everything but
! Cod and wins Him