Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-09-02
GODS LOVE. @*''

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But God, who is rich in mercy, for
his great love wherewith he loved us,
even when we were dead in sins, -Eph.
2:4-5.
Love has been the text Of Zlon's faith
full watchers upon the wall all along
the line. Is this text true or not is the
question to settle II not true, then
men in nature are not separate from
God and can accept conditions and come
to Christ, and let him save them, but IL
1T is true and they are dead before they
can come, must have life to give a will
and power to come, hence it not too late
for them to come in order to get life.
Hence Jesus says, "All that the Father
gives me, makes alive, shall come to
me, and he that comes to me | will in
no wise cast out" Hence the life of
God, dear children, is given to them,
being the gift of their father, God,
which Is eternal life. This carries US
back to the text where God finds them
in the grave OF sin, quickens them,
makes alive. Jesus says, 1.-THE hour is
come that the dead shall hear the voice
OF the Son Of God, and they that hear
shall live." This Is not the voice of the
preacher, but the Son of God. Hence
the preacher is to preach the word.
verify say unto you, he that heareth
my word and believeth on him tn at sent
me, hath everlasting life and shall not
come into condemnation, but is passed
from death unto life. John 5:24.
Hence we see that it is too late for
them to hear in order to receive life,
but the gift of God, eternal life is the
cause, and hearing and coming is the Of
feet, as there is no cause over God, and
bound by no condition. But it is love,
life and power, which he has given to
his son to have life in himself, and by
this life he, Christ, calls while in the
grave of sin, and they hear and live.
This life is of God and treasured in his
Son, and by this life He saves all that
the Father gives him. "By grace are
ye saved, I" the favor of God. So If we
are saved by hearing and complying
with conditions it is no gift but debt
that God owes the dead in sin. Other
wise he would not be God of mercy
and love.
Dear child OF God, all the command
ments are to you, and by living in them
you will grow in grace and love. This
life OF Jesus reveals to us our lost con-
dition and then we begin to beg for
mercy. For If left to our will to beg
we would never beg, for there is no life
in US to make us feel the need of help
until we have life. So the gospel is
preached, and is heard and believed and
obeyed but all is treasured in Christ
and given unto poor lost man, for unto
US child is born, unto US son is Civ
en-, for it pleased the Father that in
him all fullness should dwell.
Our God is love. He that loves God,
his will, Son and people, is born of God
Thou lovedst me before the founda.
,, siou Of the world,H Az God chose his
people In his son before the foundation
of the world and he loved his Son, all
that was in him, then in time be calls
them by his grace to the fellowship of
his Son, and leads them forth with
weeping and duplication. yea,
have loved thee with an everlasting
love, therefore draw thee with loving
kindness, Now we are back to the
text. We are saved by grand princi-
pal, and it is the love of God. Our faith
should not stand in the wisdom of men
but in the power of God, and as there is
but one faith and without it we cannot
please God, so dear child of God, is
does hot matter what you do without
faith, "for without faith it is impossi-
BILE to please God. Heb. l1:6.
RoopN, Tenn, w. H.