Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1907-08-23
The WiIderness Was Barren.

The Wilderness Was Barren.
The wilderness of the Old Testament
is a wilderness of rock and sand Thai
region lies to the northeast Of Mount
Sinai. That region is the driest re.
| gion in all the east outside of the Sa-
hara desert. There is no living crea-
ture there except the venomous ser
pent You may have seen the horrible
picture called death Valley and It's
Harvest" There in the valley where
so many miners have met their death
IS poor, starving. thirsty, dying pros
pectOr In his delirium he sees noun
tains and brooks and bubbling springs
But sand, endless sand. only is around
him. So is the desert where Moses
led the children of Israel and kept
them there for nearly forty years. 1t
IS a wilderness OF rock and desolation.
How did he feed these 100000 men
and women and children? How did he
give them drink where no river was
flowing? Tell me, We scoffers of the
Bible, how did this Hebrew leader
do it unless he did it by the power of
God? Why, the miracle of dead
man rising up out of his grave and tes-
tifying to You Of the divinity of Jesus
Christ is not to be compared to this
miracle worker in the desert Of the
forty years wandering. If We will
not believe Moses and the prophets, 1
neither will We believe though one rose /
from the dead. Hear It, man! BY 1
Moses testimony hear It!
Then we have Moses the prophet as
well as Moses the miracle worker. 1 /
wish l had more time to speak upon
this theme. but my time is already
gone and l must be brief But l will
say this-Moses was not only prophet
whom the Lord saw face to face but
he was also a prophet who could lift
his finger and raise the curtain which
separated the present from the future
md look away down into the coming
centuries until he saw into the manger
# Bethlehem and saw the cross and
Jaw Jesus celestial triumph" You
AVE often read how Christ spoke Of
loses. Did you ever stop to think
hat Moses In inspiration saw the in
face of Jesus Christ? Moses
ot a Messianic prophet? How ac-
cunt for that wonderful sentence Of
deuteronomy xviii, Il, THE Lord viii !
aise up unto thee a prophet from the
lidst of thee, of my brethren. ike
ntO me; unto him We shall hearkenY
o whom was Moses abiding but to
hrist? WAS Moses a prophet?' I
sked a great Bible student. "A
rophet" he exclaimed "Why. Moses
as nothing if he was not q prophet.
e saw the coming of the Messiah if
~ one ever did" Yes. this miracle
orker IS Il prophet as well What
fl you do today in reference to his
stimony? VIII you reject it, or will
III let Moses God be your God?
But l must pause moment before
close. I now present to you the most
erwhelming fact Of all this sermon.
me Of us have not only rejected the Z
stlmony Of a Moses but we have
Iected the testimony of one who has
en- from the grave as well. Did you
ar stop to think this text may be
o edged sword which cuts both
ys? The thing Dives asked for
s been done. 4 greater than Laza- Z
3 has risen from the dead; but, as he -
d. men are not convinced We have d
only rejected the testimony of
SEES in reference to Gods love. but
have also rejected all the testimony
have of the resurrection of Jesus
list. Can it be that any one here
ny is committing that awful double
Let me close by reading the text
h little change, "And he said unto
j, If they hear not Moses and the
phets. neither will they be persuad.
even though Christ, who shall be
cited and buried, shall rise again
n the dead" Brother. is that
bier Of Gods love here? Is he in
building today? Is Jesus of the
lble speaking to thee?
Copyright, 1907, by Louis KIopsch.l