The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-04-19

TIME.--Mi Midsummer, A. d. rs.
PLACE.--Capernaum.
EXPOSITION.--I. Warnings Of
Unutterable Woe to the Impenitent,
2O-24. The works of God are call
to repentance (cf. Ro. IA; Acts 17;I
80, By. The greater and more man
fest the works the louder the call to
repentance. If we see great works Of
God and do not repent, we bring
greater guilt and condemnation upon
ourselves. Chorazin and Bethsaida
had been witnesses to marvellous
workings of Gods grace and power in
Jesus Christ. These should have
brought them to repentance and the
acceptance of Jesus Christ as the Sa-
viour and Lord. But they had not re-
pented. They had closed their eyes
and hardened their hearts and that
which was intended for their saliva
ton became their condemnation.
Christ accepted brings salvation and
eternal life; Christ rejected brings
greater condemnation and more intol-
cradle judgment and penalty (Heb.
1923, 29). Their impenitence was
utterly without excuse and Jesus up-
braided them for it. But we have
more light than Chorazin and Beth
saba. How then must Jesus regard
those who do not repent among us?
Sodom was a very guilty city. It's
vileness has become the synonym of
all that is most indescribably loath-
some in vice, but the guilt of New
York and Chicago, London and other
American and English cities is great
err than that of Sodom; for these cit
les have rejected greater light The
amount of light given and rejected is
the measure of the guilt of the ma
ton and of the individual Caper-
naum thought it would surely be ex-
allied to heaven because Of the great
grace bestowed upon it, but Jesus
said this would drag it down to hades,
because that boosted grace was de-
spised and neglected. Our blessings
as nation will drag us down to
hades unless we repent. Jesus con-
templated the coming judgment of
Chorazin and Bethsaida with unut-
terable sorrow (cf. Matt. 23:37).
How great must be the sorrow with
which He contemplates the Judgment
soon to come on the men and nations
of to-day who reject the wondrous
light given them. Jesus puts the re-
lection of Himself as the supreme sin
and the one meriting heaviest con-
domination, another proof of His
deity. Jesus is the supreme manifes~
tation of truth. and God. The rejec-
ton of Him is, therefore, the final
revelation of a heart welded to dark
ness, error and sin; it is the supreme,
decisive, damning sin (cf. Jno. S:18s
19).
III. Promises of Unspeakable JOY
to Those Who Come to Jesus, $3.50.
In v. rs we find one of the most inn
portant principles upon which God
deals with men in the revelation OF
His truth. If we are to get Gods in
finite wisdom we must renounce our
finite wisdom. The man who is full
of his own wisdom cannot have Gods
(cf. Is. 5:21; 1 Cor. 1:16-27). II we
are to be wise with the true wisdom,
we must take our place as fools to be
taught by the All-wise q Cor. 3:18-
2O). Jesus Christ rejoiced in the
Spirit and thanked God that this is so
(Luke 1921, r. w. The 27th verse
contains a tremendous statement Of
the authority committed to Jesus. 1t
is to be taken in the broadcast and
most absolute sense (Matt. 28:18;
Jno. 1885; 1893; 1872; Eph. 1:20-
%; Phil. 2:10, IL; Heb. 2:8-10; Acts
10.36). God has actually committed
the whole universe, celestial as we'll
as terrestrial, into the hands of Jesus
Christ. We have a wonderful and
mighty Saviour. He is also a wise
Saviour, He thoroughly knows God.
He alone does, and those to whom He
Wills to reveal Him. How foolish
then are those who seek to know God
by a study of philosophy or theoso-
phy. or comparative religion Ont
side of the revelation Jesus Christ
makes of the Father. God is. indeed.
as the agnostic saws. "the Unknow-
able" But there Is one who knows
God and who is ready to give to anv
one who will believe ON Him an nm
derstanding that he also NAV know
God IL Jno. 5:2O1. The words of v
28 are among the most. wonderful
that ever fell from the Inns Of Him
who snake as never man snake Hare
again His deity shines ont bright and
clear. What presumption or lunacv
it would have been IN Jesus to have
said. this if He were mere man Rnt
that it is neither nresumntion nor IN.
macy is amply proven nv the fact that
thousands upon thousands have nmt
these words n tha tast ~ acf,,ai AZ
neriment ana found Then, ahsoIuteIv
true. Jesns doesI give rest Note
four things in This wonderful invi-