Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-12-13

| pair OF good strong men and we would
take them out and baptizc them,
would do it while they slept. But the
Word OF God says, Except a man be
born again, he cannot see the Kingdom
of God, much less inherit it," There
IS another class that say, Il was born
again when | was confirmed, and |
was confirmed when | was five years
DID, but confirmation is not being
born again. Being born again is the
work Of God, not Of man. Conirma-
ton and baptism is the work of man,
an ordinance. | will say that ordir-
~ances are right in their place, but the
moment you build hope on them in
stead OF the New Birth. YOU are being
deceived by Satan.
Another man will say, ] say my
prayers regularly. There was not 4
man in all the world that prayed more
regularly than Paul, before he was horn
again on the road to Damascus. Say
ing prayers is n thing and praying
is another. God says the prayers OF
the %unrighteous are an abomination
INTO Him. When ! was a little boy, |
said my prayers, Nov | lay me down
o sleep, ! pray the Lord my soul to
Keep; if ! should die before ] wake,
| pray the Lord my soul to take !
prayed from being educated to pray,
nut | dent believe my prayers went
higher than my head; for the next day
| would 60 ont with the boys and
wear and do mean things, and come
II the house at night and say my
prayers over just the same . | said
hem because my mother asked me to
say them. There is no virtue in say
ng prayers unless you have been born
gain. Another class say, Well, | read
ny Bible regularly. Reading the Bible
5 good, in its place, but you don't read
n the Bible, that except you read your
Bible you canno enter the Kingdom Of
deaven. God says the natural man re-
.eivcth not the things Of the Spirit,
or they are robustness unto MIN, in |
or. I'd chapter, l4th verse. The other
nan will say, ! am trying to do the
rest | can, and | know | will come
mt alright. That is not the new birth.
The new birth is not depending on what
,ou do, but what has been done by
Christ. This question of the new birth
s the most important n that ever
anne before the world. And | am sor-
y to say it is a lost doctrine with the
verage pulpit today. Everyone should
SIX themselves and settle this great
question in their own minds. Have !
cen born Of the Spirit Of God. The
}ible says we are to know when it takes
,lace. Romans, S:l6, says that Gods
spirit will bear witness with our spirit,
when we are a child OF God. And II
or. SAT-, says, Therefore if any man
e in Christ, he is a new creature; old
lines arc passed away; behold, all
hinss are become new. And ] John
Ia. We know we have passed from
cath unto life, because we love the
brethren. Most Of the religious move
tents of today are built on some form
# creed. Not on a personal expert.
nee. In the book of Genesis we find
iod working alone. He went on Gre
ating the world all alone. Then we
find Christ going to Calvary alone.
His disciples forsook him, lie was
alone. And in this great plan of SAL
vation He is alone. And when a man
is born again, it is God working alone
God says, the Ethiopian cannot change
his skin. or can a leopard change his
spots. We are born in sin, and the
change OF heart must come from God,
and from Him alone. Jesus said, Do
not put new wine i'll old bottles, lest
they break. He says today. Be born
anew. Take on a new nature. What
man needs to day, is to CONF to God
for a new heart. We Must Be Born
! Again.