Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-28
SERMON ON BEHOLD | STAND
At THE DOOR AND KNOCK BY
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religious; you are not Christian. Re,
ligion comes from the word "religio'
and means the conscious relation be-
tween God and man. Man forfeits his
standing with God when he sins. God
looks upon a sinner as if he didn't
live, and he doesn't live spiritually
A sinner is rebel.
Religion Most Reasonable.
7 don't have much to say in my SER
mons about poor" sinners. You won't
need your handkerchiefs very rnu'h
want to show you that religion is the
most reasonable thing in the world.
Drops OF grief can ne'er repay The
debt Of love l owe" Therefore a sin.
toward God and the church is just the
same as the confederates In theii at
titude toward the government. TEey
sought to set UP a. government of their
own. contrary to our government. anil
until they laid down their arms of re-
bellion they forfeited their standing
as citizens-they forfeited their rishs
ito protection by the government, but
when they surrendered and said I'VE
yield all they had lost through their
rebellion was theirs again, until today
the south is as much under the pro
lection of the stars and stripes As is
Iowa. And until you lay down yon:
arms of rebellion and tell God you are
a sinner, and accept Jesus Christ
as your Savior, you are a rebel, and
God will deal with you as rebel
Don't forget that for minute Ths. is
your attitude toward God if you are a
sinner. So don't swell up like POISON,
ed pup If you have a. little money.
That makes no difference to God. That
cuts no ice
Get Acquainted With God
Some psor1e say. ""shy. it,, hsr.l
to get acquainted with Cod It's the
easiest thing in the word to get &c.
uuainted with God aad If YOU are here
tonight and you are MOI Christian.
It is because you dol't want to 10 a
Christian. If you are here toiii=at
without the touch nf God on your life.
1t is because you don't want 1t. II You
are here tonight cenel agains: God
it is because you would rathe- Be q
rebel than to be Gods disciple. IF YOU
are here tonight an old liuertine 1t IS
because you would rathe. be impure
than be pure, that's, all. You are what
you are because you would rather be
that than the other.
Some man says to me: How am /
to know God wants to come into my
life?" | will play the Yankee and an
sWer YOUR question by asking one.
II you knew God wanted to come into
your life would YOU let him come in :
+ If you knew God wanted to save you
from hell would you let him save
you? If you knew that God wanted to
lock arms and 90 with you down . to
your store, would you let him? If you
knew that God wanted to go into your
home and start family prayer, would
you do 1t? ]. tell you. that CRYING out in
mans nature for that which he hasn't
the something which causes you to
hurry home and clean to drop the
Instruments of toll and lock UP your
store and hurry to this tabernacle.
that Is your nature reaching out after
God. There has never been found q
race of people on earth that didu' I
have some conception of God. The
lower down the scale of humanity you
get the farther their idea of the bible
the farther their idea from God, but
there never has been found race OF
people that didn't have some concep
| ton of God.
And by all the sweet memories Of
your childhood, all you have seen. al
r you have imagined. all you have hope6
for. all you have longed for, is Jesus
saving: Behold, stand at the door
and knock
When we speak Of Jesus as the Way
the Truth. snd the Life. we speak O
the Personal Christ, who has power
on earth today to forgive sin.
Ever Living Words.
Over in Egypt they dug up mum
my. and when they unwrapped 1t ane
deciphered the wedge-shaped hero
glyphics, they found that for 3,20(
years that mummy had ben lying EN-
balmed, and about it were kernels o
wheat of a peculiar kind, such as they
had not known, and they took these
kernels and planted them in the fertile
valley of the Nile. Fecundated by the
sun and the rich soil, they Terminated
and grew and in a few years they har
vested some 1000 bushels OF whea
from the handful of kernels the!
found, and although for $500 years
it had been lying there still 1t con
tanned the power and germ of repro
duction.
Centuries ago Jesus Christ uttered
these words, but they still have pow
er to save men from hell, because
thew are from God and they reproduce
themselves, and they do it every day
Still they are making drunkards so
Der: still they are making libertines
pure: still they are knocking infidels
to their knees; still they are causing
men to change from trickery and in
trigue to the marvellous precepts O
Jesus Christ, SO the Christian religion
is not dogma. or doctrine or creed
but it centers about personal Christ
You can preach Buddhism Withou
old Buddha; you can preach Moham
medism without old Mohammed: yol
can preach Confucianism without ole
Confucius; you can preach Zorast
ism without old Zoraster No mattsl
what kind of man Confucius or Mo
manned, or Buddha might have been
you will find line of teaching fo1
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