The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-02-08

Gaining you. -FOUR very presence In
this meeting is proof that God is
working with you, leading you into
the place and condition where 1t is
most easy to step out on the Lords
side. most easy to fulfill the condi-
tons of salvation and know that
you are forgiven. Why will you not
heed these voices, these messages
from God urging you to make your
calling and election sure7 DO your
part and trust God to do his. You
consider 1t your duty to obey the
rules Of school, the laws Of country,
end SO long as you do so you live in
peace, but when you break them
you become afraid Of every officer
of the law. Tho only thing that
will keep every person in this room
from leaving 1t a true Christian is
because you are not right with God,
you have broken his law, you are
not on friendly terms with him, and
you arc unwilling to yield, acknow-
ledge your sin and ask His forgive
ness. You arc ut war with your ma
ker, therefore you have no peace Of
mind, neart, or conscience, and
never will have till by an honest
determination you turn from every
sin, everything that you know Is
displeasing to God. You may not
swear, or drink, or smoke, or chew.
lie, steal. cheat, or commit any other
vile abomlnable sin, but II you re-
fuse to accept Christ as your Savior
and yield your will to God in alb
solute obedience to him, you are
committing a greater sin than any
Ct these, you are rejecting Gods o.
fers of mercy, cutting yourself off
from hope and heaven, trampling on
the blood of Jesus Christ, Gods son,
and hurting the greatest insult into
the teeth of God that is possible Tor
man. The surcst way to starve is
to stop eating. The surest way TO
be lost and damned forever is 10
glect this great salvation, Gods
glorious offer to pardon past sins and
to help you to overcome in the flu
ture-this offer of a clean heart and
Il right spirit. 1t is the constant re-
fusal to quit sin and to yield to God
and to accept Christ that l am urg-
ing you to repent of and turn away
from tonight.
Rev. r. A. Hit once asked a young
man who seemed very anxious to be a
Christian, and who had been seeking
for over two years and still called
himself sinner. do you still in
dulge in sin that you think you
would not IL you were converted"
He answered, Yes. / expect to quit
SHINING when / am converted" Mr..
Hit said, This is the very reason
that you arc not converted. You
must determine to forsake your sins
! once for all, you must stop practi-
cling sin and then ask God to forgive
those already committed. Do not de-
pend upon feeling, quit sin and ask
God to forgive you" The young man
did as he was directed and within
twenty-four hours was rejoicing in
Christ. Don't come up here and take
my hand, unless you have made up
your mind to quit every known sin
including that greatest Of all sins
unbelief. But the moment you have
made up your mind to quit all sin
and obey God come and God will
meet you In the aisle.
whatsoever bolieveth and is bap-
! tized.-
Whosoever means you. IL | should
pile two thousand five dollar gold
pieces on this platform, which ]
am not going to do,-preachcrs are
In no position to do such things, you
know-but If | should, or IL / could,
and should say to this audience who
soever will may come and take one
Of these gold pieces what a rush
there would be. You would know
in a moment that that whosoev sr
meant you. But God says. Whose
ever believeth and is baptized shall
be saved" and you think it means
the other fellow.
A young woman in hospital who
he ard the Gospel invitation in those
beautiful words of Isaiah "Whosoever
will let him take of the water of life
freely" took God at his word and
found the sweet peace. She was so
filled with Joy that the chaplain ask
ed her the reason for her great happi-
ness. She answered, Il just climbed
up that ladder of whatsoever and
God kept his word" That is 1t, my
friend. You are one of the whose
e,ers of our text. Do you believe on
Jesus Christ? VIII you believe to-
night? Do you really believe that he
is the Son OF God. that he lived
! and died and rose again. that he as
cended into heaven and is now seat
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