The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-12-08
SUDJECT--A SOLEMN QUESTION
Rev. Tructt Points Out Some of the
Dangers Confronting the Man
Who Hardcns His Heart.

ftHE main auditorium OF IAt BapIlSl [
church was filled with people and
heard Geo. w Truett on the solemn /
question in Job ga, who hath har-
dened himself against him and hath |
prospered?"
Before the sermon again Rev. /
Truett said he would wait after the
service and would be glad to talk |
with any who were interested in the
matter Of salvation. The sermon was
in part as follows:
Job asks this solemn personal
lation to God Who hath hardened
himself against God and hath pros
pered?' If yoA forget all else I may
say this evening, | hope you will not
forget the words of this text. This
very proposition to put God out of
ones life is amazing; and the
thought that this is amazing, will
grow if We but stop and look at that
proposition. God is our maker, and
shall the crea ture presume TO harden
his heart against God, his creator?
Can there be any reason in this?
Our lives are controlled upon Gods
holy will If God were to withdraw
his moral support from you for two
minutes you would be still in death.
We not only harden ourselves against
God of infinite power but infinite
wisdom. He sees us, he knows us
and yet we presume to harden our
selves against Him, thus heaping up
wrath against the day of wrath. O, if
man would only lay this solemn
| truth to heart--God sees me alto
gether-not a secret thought but
God knows it and yet in the face of
such omniscience men harden their
| hearts against God. Nor is that all.
| o, | can see how men could break
with the devil the first time they
/ see what satan does. He never did
good turn in all his life. but by de-
ception and his wicked devices
means to ruin the world. When men
hear this | can see why they would
rise UP and say He can't get my SER
vice any hour Alas it is thing
men don't do! 1t is the great Father,
not the devil, they repudiate. o, sin
stand how men would run from sa
tan but they turn their backs on
! God-turn their backs on his word,
his spirit. his blood, his grace. One
day as Jesus taught the people they
began to press in upon him with an
ger and he put to them the question,
For which for what ! have done do
We stone me?' Do you stone me be-
cause | have healed the sick? be-
cause | offer hope in the hour of
darkness? Jesus is asking us the
same question tonight. o. daughter,
son. man, woman, what have ] done
that provokes You to be against me?'
The most amazing proposition in
the world is that human beings could
be willing for even an hour to hard
en- themselves against God How do
people harden themselves against
God? One way is by going on and on
in sin Sin has growing power; that
is the longer sin is INDUCED in the
tighter is its grip illustrated in the
life of the drinking man. O, the ac-
cumulative power of sin, and in that
fact is the explanation of why men
go on hardening themselves against
God.
Glow do men harden themselves
lagainst God? Often through the pow
er of public opinion-that Is they
what they think. How true the word
of God is, The fear of man bringeth
a snare How often through the fear
of others men turn back from grace
into the way of death and danger.
PLATE, the governor. is not the only
man who sold himself because OF
the opinion of others. He said he
found no fault In Jesus, yet yielded
to the clamor OF the mob about him.
o. there comes in again the awful
peril and power Of influence of one
life ever another. How often through
fear Of what somebody will say do
people harlem themselves against
God Sometimes even shrug of the
shoulders or coarse joke and the
battle is lost. Again full many time
men harden their hearts against
God through this theory, We will
wait till ge are older Again the
word of Goa comes to us, Remember
now thy creator in the days Of thy
youth, when the evil days come not,
not the yea,s draw nigh, when thou
shalt say have no pleasure In
them Wha. happens as men put Off
this question of religion. Every day
character is crystalized and the
chances of being saved made fewer.
There is agreat physiological law
running through it all. You bandage