The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-15
Text from the Eighth Cha pter
 of PauI'S E piStIes
GOD WILL NEVER FORSAKE
Is Using Every Spiritual Force That Man May Be Made to See Sa- vior and Have Everlast-
 ing Life.

The Rev. Dr. Allan R. Moore occupied his pulpit at the First Christian church yesterday morning at the regular II o'clock service, his sermon being an ex- planation. or interpretation. of the text. which he chose from the thirty-first and thirty-second verses of the eighth chap ter Of the Apostle Paul's epistle to the Romans: What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us. who can be against us? He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for IS all, how shall He not with Him also free ly give us all things?"
 Dr. Moore spoke in part as follows:
 God is doing everything in His power for the redemption of man. He is using every spiritual force that man may be made to see his Savior and have ever lasting life. But we say, many are not saved, and they are made to bear the sorrows and pain which come to a sinful man.
 What shall we say of the matter. If God will never forsake, or leave us, as He tells us, how shall we explain this suffering of mankind? We cannot explain It; all we can do is not expect too much, and in the end things will surely end just ly. God is using every power to save man, and He has given the Holy Spirit that man may be saved. He has told us that everything works for the good, and here He has given the Christian a vision into the future. The sorrows. pain and happiness of life in the end make up d beautiful sum- If God be for us who can l be against us? He that spared not Ills own Son. but delivered Him up for Us all, how shall He not with Him also free | ly give us all things" It is truly a great 1 gift.
 Spared not His own Son. What does that mean? It means just what it says that Jesus was not spared. First, He was not spared in incarnation. The in- l carnation of Jesus Christ to come down i to man was the greatest possible humiia- l tion. It deprived Him of all His splendor | power and glory. He was not spared | of this In Gods plan to save the world Jesus was not spared the temptation l which comes to us all, the temptation tc | do wrong. He had to experience and pass | through it all. But we say, was Hi, ! temptation real? Did these things whicl | NO toiillOlll lFdiiH dpEtdi lb Iibils dhA urge Him to do wrong as they do us. believe they did. for during the forty | days in the wilderness the devil tempted | Him with trying to get Him to commanC l the stones to turn to bread that His hun ger might be satisfied. But no, He di( not. Man shall not live by bread alone. | In other words, man does not simply live to satisfy the wants of his body, but bl seeking to attain the everlasting spirit l of ho fc a beast and bodily wants do not com prise his only wants. We consider Christ. | temptation together with mans and wt see that His was equally as great as our < | and possibly greater, and yet He with stood it all where we fall
 Mans complaint of suffering Is al most a continual one, tho complaint ol not being happy. l believe God could make being perfectly free from suffering ant want of any kind, but he would not b' a man. Yet man has no pain, sorrow oi suffering like that which Jesus endured He suffered and sorrowed and endured untold woe, and yea, death. Sin brough death into the world but God gave Hi only begotten Son that the world nigh | be saved.
 "The last question is the matter O death. Christ 1t seems, because He wa the Son of God would have been savet from death. But He, an innocent man | was condemned to die on the cross, ant l though sentenced they could not convic | Him. He suffered their scorn, their in suits, their cruelty. No, God spared no His only Son, for that was the onl, way that man could be saved.
 Jesus was not saved from death be cause that was the only way which mai could be touched. and they were touched in this manner that they might learn t' be obedient. Man had to be touched witl the feeling of his inflrmites, because ther was no other way
 "Through the suffering of the Son o God, God taught obedience, and throusl obedience and to His commands we real ize His promise. If God be for us who can be against us?'