Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-07-08


f,oor 10 cover with, Such house
would be like child's play and I'M
profitable. Yet this is exactly what
we as christians have been doing with
regard to the spiritual structure, our
home in the heavens. We have been
using Scripture that belonged to the
past and applied it to the future. We
have used texts that belonged to the
past and applied it to the present or
future and misapplied them to suit our
fancy. We have used the great and
precious promises that belong solely to
the sanctifed and applied them to the
unregenerate world. In OF her words,
we have been putting the rafters on
the bottom and the heavy sills on top,
so that the work the character) is
useless but the workman will be saw
ed so as by fire Il Cor. 3;15) not liter
al fire. but fiery trial, Come up
through great tribulations. - Some of
us have moved in ON the foundation
Christi and have built us little
room on one corner, some calling it |
"election, some free grace, some |
BAPTISM some Holiness, some |
Seventh day, some apostolic sue
cessi0n," some one thing and some an |
other. Still others are climbing up
some other way" building on science, |
evolution and other foundations. Is it
not time to profit by this experience
and use all the material, all the gold
silver and precious stones of divine
promise, (See Cor. 3:t2-15) and put
up house fit to accommodate the
whole family, one that will stand, one
worthy of our God2 The due time has
come, but let us discard the wood, hay
and stubble of custom, and the doc
trine of devils The proper material
has been recovered from the rubbish
of dead language) identified and as
sorted and the plans and instructions
are so simple that any who have per
NIT to build and by faith and conse-
Grafton have counted the cost Rom.
1871, Luke 14:25-43) and are deter
mined to build home, to work out
their salvation may do so, and at the
same time have the present help of
the Master builder and the pleasure of
converse and assistance of many other
builders So let us learn to rightly
divide the word of truth, to so use oul
material and by studying the plans
and specifications, build a home OF
which we need not be ashamed We
must not be content with small sit.
ting room (heaven) and big fireplace
(hell). LET us reason together.
Let US not put a literal meaning to q
parable or symbol, and make hell OF
torment out of it. Let us compare this
awful doctrine with the word that
says, God is love, His mercy en-.
dures forever" Where it says the
wicked shall ode, perish, let us
not construe this to mean life in any
condition. Let us believe God who
says, Thou shalt surely die" anC
not Satan contradiction. Let us un.
derstand plainly that we have the
sentence of death in ourselves, anC
let us put our faith in God who hal
/, promised to raise us from the dead {;
|, Cor. 1877, and not from torment Lei
US work out our own salvation will
fear-not the fear of men that bring
snare, but fear of God. "Let us worl
while it is day, for the night cometl
when no man can work - Let lis un
derstand that death is extinction O
soul being, and then we can appreciate
more the need of resurrection
Thou turnest man to destruction
death and sayest, return ye children
of men (return by resurrection from
the dead. Psalm 90:3 When proper
ly understood, death and release
therefrom through Christ, by a restor
alton of being, a resurrection to per
lection becomes a most interesting top
ic to Bible students.
A correct understanding of the sub
Ject is almost necessity to christian
steadfastness. A book of 100 pages ex
PA"AhtAo OfOly bCAb III "ulSh Uut WbII
hell" is found, and every one sup
posed to teach eternal torment may bt
had on request to THE Peoples Pull
pit, " Brooklyn Tabernacle, Brooklyn
n. Y. 1t explains the Greek and He
brew originals in a a mastery way. Il
shows that hell is the place of the dead
or the grave, called in the Hebrew
''sheoP and by the Greek "hades >
He'll comes from "hele'' to hide, Il
cover, to CONCEAL, to roof, as the die
tionary says. 1t shows that in the OLD
Testament the only word translated by
the English word "helP' is "sheol ;
Sheol occurs in the Hebrew 50 times
In "a places it is translated grave
and pit, and in 81 places it is trans
lated hell, and in three of the 3
places the margin explains tina
grave is meant. In the other ?!
places the words grave or pit
would give better sense than the wor,
hell with its generally misunder
stood meaning of fire torment, etc.
p shows that in the New Testament th,
t Greek word, "hades' corresponds ex
= actly to the Hebrew word, ''sheol"
% | For instance Acts O.O- ETTbo11 wi