The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-04-21
TIME.-Midsummer, A. d. 2S.
PLACE.-Canernanm.

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TTME.-Midsumme A. d. 2S.
PbACE.-Capernaum.
EXPOSITION.--I. Warnings of
Unutterable Woe to the Impenitent,
20-24. The works of God are call
to repentance (cf Ro. ga; Acts II;
80, 81. The greater and more man
ifest 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
tion became their condemnation.
Christ accepted brings salvation and
eternal life; Christ rejected brings
greater condemnation and more intol-
cradle judgment and penalty (Heb.
10:28, 29). Their impenitence was
utterly without excuse and Jesus up
braided them for 1t. But we have
more light than Chorazin and Beth
saida. 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
| er 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
tion and of the individual Caper-
naum thought it would surely be ex-
alted to heaven because of the great
grace bestowed upon it, but Jesus
said this would drag it down to hades,
because that boasted grace was de-
spised and neglected. Our blessings
as a 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. $3.50.
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-
demnation, another proof of His
deity. Jesus is the supreme manifes-
tation of truth and God. The rejec-
tion of Him is, therefore, the final
revelation of heart welded to dark.
ness, error and sin; 1t is the supreme,
decisive, damning sin (cf. Jno. 3:18,
19).
III. Promises of Unspeakable Joy
to Those Who Come to Jesus, $3.50.
In V. 25 we find one of the most i'm
! 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. 1:1S-27). II we
are to be wise with the true wisdom,
we must take ou. place as fools to be
taught by the All-wise Il Cor. 3:18-
20). Jesus Christ rejoiced in the
Spirit and thanked God that this is so
(Luke 1921, r. W. The 9th verse
contains a tremendous statement OF
the authority committed to Jesus. 1t
is to be taken in the broadest and
most absolute sense Matt. 2S:18;
| Jno. S:35; 1873; 1872; Eph. 1920
23; Phil. 2:10, IL; Heb. 2:S-1O; Acts
1O:36). God has actually committed
the whole universe, celestial as well
! 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.
! lie 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. Out
| side of the revelation Jesus Christ
makes of the Father, God is, indeed,
/ as the agnostic says, the Unknow-
| able" But there is one who knows
/ God and who Is ready to give to any
| one who will believe on Him an un.
| derstanding that he also may know
| God Il Jno. 5;2O). The words of v.
2S are among the most wonderful
! that ever fell from the lips of Him
who spake as never man spake. Here
| again His deity shines out bright and
clear. What presumption or lunacy
1t would have been in Jesus to have
| said this If He were mere man. But
that 1t is neither presumption nor lu-
macy Is amply proven by the fact that
thousands upon thousands have put
these words to the test of actual ex-
| pertinent and found them absolutely
true. Jesus does give rest. Note
| four things in this wonderful invi-
tation: t1) Who invites-Jesus. (2)
Whom He invites-all that labor and
are heavy laden. Commentators have
sought to set various limitations upon
this, e. g., those who labor under
burden of guilt" 1t includes those.
but is not limited to them. 1t means
! just what 1t says, "All that labor. T"
! Christ invites every one that has a
burden, II may be sin, remorse,
doubt, sorrow. sickness. No matter
what, overburdened man, Jesus says,
Come" (3) To what He invites
rest. That is what the human heart
Graves, that Is what Jesus gives. (4)
The condition, Come" That is ali.
Note also to Whom we are to Come" I"
unto Me-" not unto a creed, not unto
a church, unto a person, and that
person, Jesus Himself. Not to a
priest. not to pastor, not to some
great theologian, not to the Pope,
unto Me-" right straight to Jesus,
He only can give rest, but He can.
II you haven't rest, II Is because you
haven't come to Jesus. Come now.
Then Jesus proceeds to tell OF deep
er rest still--rest In service. "Take
My yoke upon you" surrender abso-
lutely TO His win .(Jno. 14:21-23;