Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-07-07
THE !: PULPIT.
IA scHoL LARLY, SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. II. G. GREENsMlTH..
Theme: Limiting Jesus Christ.

Theme: Limiting Jesus Christ.
oswego, N. YIN the First Bap-
tist Church here, Sunday morning.,
the minister, the Rev. Harry Glad
stone Greensmith, preached on @Lim-
iting Jesus Christ. The sermon
touched upon what he declared to be
the limitations d Of the Emmanuel
Movement. He also spoke of Chris
tian Science. The text WAS from Mat
thew 1888: E1And He did not many
mighty works there; because Of their
unbelief.n Mr.. Greensmith said,
among other things:
Even the Holy One of God, SEEM
ingly, had limitations. He was a
Yophet without honor in His own
land. In Christ we find the wisdom
<of the ages, the skill Of the univ erse.
He was the avis medicatrix" Of all
science, religion and medicine. Pre-
eminent over all, and yet limited.
In Capernaum, per contrary, to Naz-
areth, there seems to have been no
limit to the powers Of Jesus. There
and in adjacent places He had
wrought the mightiest miracles
known to the ages. No other man
has turned water into wine, or healed
nobleman's son Of palsy. None but
Jesus has cleaned out devils out of
the temple Of mans soul, or out Of
the visible temple Of Gods Kingdom
on earth.
! Entering into Jerusalem, His be-
loved city, the city which caused the
very nerve centres Of Ills being to
leap with JOY, or travail in anguish,
He saw a man impotent for thirty
eight years.: By word from the lips
Of this rejected Nazarene" the man
takes up his bed and goes away re-
joicing. Even, here, we find limita-
tiops. Christ could do nothing Of
Himself. Il am come in My Fathers s
name and ye receive Me not The
Scriptures testify Of Me, and yet ye
will not come unto Me-" And here
we see forthcoming .isms.n IL an
other come in his own name, him ye
viii receive. And how wild the
world has gone over Dowie and Mrs.
Eddy. They set forth religion in
their own name, and people have gone
wild, and Christ instead Of being ex-
alted has been bowed from His
throne. Eddyism. falsely called
Christian Science" as there is so
little OF Christ in it, is nothing short
of idolatry, worse than Mariolatry,
and Dowieism, Is fast 4going unto It's
own"-to its founder. Christ's pow
er is limited by these two fads-
Entering the temple one Sabbath,
Jesus meets a man whose right hand
is withered. ~What will He ,do?"
cries the Scribes- 1Will He heal
htm?r the Pharisees ask And in
spite OF them, Jesus shows forth His
power and commands the man to
stand forth. Then after a quiet talk
on His sovereignty, He orders the
man to stretch forth his hand, and he
was Immediately healed This tn-
creased the anger of His adyersaries
to madness, and they plotted how
they might destroy Him. thus limiting
again His powers ~
+ Thus far we have seen Christ's
power over the lower limbs, in that
He caused q man to walk for the first
time in thirty-eight years; to another
He gives. the use of an arm that was
useless; Others who on the point of
death He restores to strength. These.
exemplify His, powers over life, but,
entering the City of Main, He shows
His power over death. The only son
of q widowed mother is being carried
to the grave. Jesus commands him
to arise. And the, young man sits UP
and speaks: To another born blind
He gives sight. Surely such miracu-
lcus deeds ought to have removed all
unbelief. But, sad to relate, He could
not do in His own city any mighty
works because of their unbelief. Even
His own disciples at times manifested
this unbelief, or lack of explicit trust.
John in prison shows this spirit in his.
last message. Christ's answer was
not sufficient to remove all doubt,
even when He said:. Go, tell John
what We have seen and heard: The
blind receive their sight, lame walk,
deaf hear, and the dead are raised"
etc And all these doubts limited the
Son OF God.
In the calling of the twelve we see
Christ's limitations. He was sub
servient to His Fathers will, and He
must have helpers with Him. Every
step He took He counseled with the
Father before taking it. 4And He
continued all night in prayer to God.
And when it was day He appointed
twelve, that they might be with Him,
and that He might send them forth
to preach, and to have authority to
heal,n cast out demons. "And as He
came down from the mount great
number of people from all sections
came to hear Him and to be healed
of their diseases. And the multitude
sought TO touch Him, for power came
forth from Him, and He healed them
all.n. Now, this power of healing was
gives. to these new "Cnrists,n or, as
they were afterwards called, @Chris-
tians," at Antioch. These men re-
ceived their new power and went out
under orders. How well they obeyed
is recorded.
They were to be voices of God.
@For it Is not We that speak, but the
Spirit Of your Father that speaketh
in you II will give you mouth
and wisdom, which all your adver-
saries shall not be able to Withstand
or to gainsay" And they went
preached, cast out devils, anointed
with oil those. that were sick, healed
them ALL
All aver was given to them which
Christ yad. II have given you au-