Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1906-10-11

| sonl to the vast enterprises Dy Wnlcn
surely the kingdoms or this Worl0 are
! becoming the kingdom ! our LORD
| Jesus Christ. Jesus CHRIST IS des-
| tined to rule the world, TO create
| here a new earth wherein. uWelletn
| righteousness. Show the wicked, the
| unbelieving, the worldly people all
| about you hat God reigns. anu You,
| believe it. that Christ saves and you
believe it, and that the Holy Spirit
! sanctifes and you believe It.. Over
flow of faith!
Third-The overflow OF know1-'
| edge. THAT We may be able to COM
prehend know the length.
| breadth, depth and heighth Of Gods
| nlan TO save y y unto all the
| fullness of Cod" Any n who re-.
| spends to Gods great passion offre-a
! deeming mercy becomes a larger and
a better being, made SO by that very
lresponse. Such an one gets knoWl-
edge of God, and the relations be-
| tween God and man, mar n God.
and man and man, that no school OF
philosophy on earth a supply.
| Think not, in knowledge of divine
truth, to live up only to the average
| of your contemporaries. but push
| that 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 nan lives. He
was never in it. The educated main
| understands the world Of the ignor-
ant man, because out of that world
he came. The difference between
these men is the degree of knowledge
possessed.
Similarly the natural man, the
mar 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 oyer-
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 :" y
unto all the fullness of Cod What
is the greatest thing about God? Not
omnipotence, omniscience nor omni-
presence, nor 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. nor 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-
4 scE h,,t Ia ~ 1xyncloc+;o~ 1:r> V1-r-
Christ came into the wOrid-"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. 1t is defined
here as the love of Christ" that is
a r~edemptive passion to "go into all
the world and preach the gospel to
every creature" To meet the plan
you must be missionary. You must
be filled With a passion for evangel-
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 i'll and
takes possession: Eternity is age
less, has no gray hairs. no wrinkles
chiseled on its regal brow, and who
ever of you will build the temple of
life, character and deed, after Gods
plan, hath undying youth.
In the evening DIR. Lee preached
on "A Living Faith" and 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 h gospel, and i'll the experience
of the believer. This faith, then, is
a divine thing. 1t has always been
subject to tests, but these very tests
have only brought out its enduring
qualities and sublime achievements.
| was never more confident than |
am to-day OF the need of proclaimine
the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ as
IAO OAAS cOlVSuL lOI lll0 3 DCTDlCXl>
ties, disappointments,. %anxieties, wor-
ries, doubts, problems, unrest, law
~lessness and the w6rld's sim. both old
and gray-headod, and ali so strong
yet, having ags-long redundancy.
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 outgrow them and
throw them off, and that there is nc
new theology" to provide a bette,
way than the old way-"the faith Of
our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord OF
glory"
We need to pray the disciples
prayer-"'Lord increase our faith
That faith conquers everything but
I God, and wins Him.
4 Value Of Effort.