The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-11-29
HOW GOO FEELS
TOWARD MEN"
REV. GEO. Il. MACK BREACHES TO
AN APPREcIATIVE AUDIENCE
SUNDAY MORNING.
HOW DID JESUS ACT TOWARD MEN
Able Exposition Of Our Daily Re-
lations Toward the
Savior.


, Taking for his text Corinthians. the
fifth chapter and nineteenth verse.
God was in Christ reconciling the
world to himself" Rev George H.
Mack. pastor of the First Cumberland
church, preached Sunday morning to
an appreciative congregation His
theme was How God feels Toward
Men; as seen in the daily relation Il
Jesus" He said in part: y ,
There are two notions of God that
men hold today that serve to separate
/ them from Him. One is the idea that
He is Indifferent to their human in.
terests and does not really care for
them This is induced by the con.
ceptions of science where all nature
is controlled by law, and if this is
1.-THE expression OF the divine he
is thought to be feelingless. The
other notion is that God is being OF
austere holiness; and when this is felt
in connection with mans sense OF
his own sin and unworthiness, the
chasm is made.
Where should we go to get the true
notion of God and His feeling toward
men; to science that speaks no word
of the moral nature of God, to theolo.
gy that too often calls in philosophy
to help us think what kind of being
God ought to be? The world by COM
mon consent has said that one Jesus
of Nazareth was the best fitted to tell
us. Why is he the most capable?
1--WE are told in the text that God
was in Christ We shall never know
the mystery Of the Incarnation in this
| life. But as man in his spiritual ma
ture is so akin to God, being made In
| his own image, since the highest
| human nature is divine we may
know that there WAS in Christ just all
of God that could be included within
human limitations, for Chris was not
| God absolute but God limited.
Another thing that makes Jesus
good authority is the accepted fact
that he was sinless. SO sensitive a
nature would have been conscious OF
sin If he had committed it; and in the
| intimate relations with his disciples
would have confessed to that com
mon weakness Of men. Had ne SO
confessed it they would not have been
able in their minds to worship him as
| they did and would have noted the
| fact in his memoirs. But no sugges-
ton Of it appears.
"Then if God was in Christ and
Jesus was sinless We may say that in
his actions we should be able to see
how God feels toward men, how sim
less and holy being regards sinful
I persons and whether he is Indifferent
to their interests or not.
How did Jesus act toward men?
( Did He hold Himself aloof as In the
| atmosphere of his own perfection?
| Did he shun the VIGOROUSLY evil ana
pick his companions from the &C.
cepted respectable circles? Did HIS
sinless nature cause Him in holy nor
ror to denounce the sin He saw IN
others?
"He did denounce sin, but chiefly IN
| that class of Pharlsees who Wouid
make religious requirements for inc
people but would perform none them
selves. Hypocritesl He called them
And thus We know how God zee"
about that class OF people at least
"But for others? He associated
with them to win them. He SAID
came to seek and to save" That
the divine attitude. 1t is the shepner0
seeking his sheep on the mountain
And this is verified by STUDY oi
the incidents recorded concerning MAT
thews Feast, the Rich Young Ruler
the Sinful Woman in Simon's House.
and Zaccheus of Jerico. Christ repre-
sents God, not as yielding In his s'ana'
ards of righteousness and holiness, Ou'
as wishing men to be reconcileo
Himself to love Him and serve HIM