The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-02-24
THE WAGES OF
SIN IS DEATH
But Bible Holds Forth Promise of
Salvation and Life Eternal

Throughout the bible. like blacI
thread the story of human siniswovcl
into every chapter. declared Rev. 1
\. Ten Broeck, rector of Christ church
Episcopal, in his Sunday mornin,
sermon, The trail of the serpent il
shown TO run throughout the entir,
history of the race. and the oblitera.
ton of that trail is shown 10 Inc I'm.
absorbing purpose of the love of Go,
as revealed i'm scripture. Because In,
Christian preacher So often face,
frankly the problem of sin tber,
turks IN cur minds AN impression. thai
somehow Christian teachings ar,
responsible for our guilt No one can
add to our guilt Sin was i'm IN,
world black and horrible. before
christ came. Others might ignore il.
lie grapplcd with it, Before His
pure life ii appeared in its true colors.
lie tore the mask from it's face.
wish we could see sin as He saw if.
Ia my bible | find one brand upou
sin. which is death. | find not the
slightest compromise God said i'm the
Garden of Eden. The day that We eat
thereof Sc shall surely die" Moses
Joshua, David. Soloman. Isaiah Here.
mlah' ilpshea, Amos, ST Paul, ST. Pc
ter, 81. John, Jesus Christ, all ioin in
ON" chorus, The wages of sin is
death"
No. am not mistaken. There is
one verse that cundones sin. Genesis.
thlrd chapter, fourth verse. We read.
We shall not surely die" These are
the words with which the serpent
threw Eve off her guard. They are
the words by which we continually
deceive ourselves
II is an insult To a human SOM mad.
ia. associate with God to toll If thai
S'n Is not So had. after all. 1t is
betrayal To give TO a human soul
stepped in sin but craving after
righteousness, idle comfort when what
II wants is freedom from bondage. 70 |
cover up and to condune sin is To as. |
srrt that sin is the natural condition |
Ior a human soul. II Christ had con- /
Toned sin whether in the fallen Mag
Iii'nc, nr ~ Che respectable Phariscc.
hero would never have been a Col
'atha nor u Gcthscmauo. nor would
lie today bt the center of the worlds
GOODNESS.
Try To grasp this thought. The very
h1rpness of the line of dcmarcation
which Christ drew between sin and
lolincss made possible His hope for
humanity. If lie had seen possible
h" two, sin and holiness, mixing as
on and ! try to mix them, salvation
.uuld have been impossible. Further |
lorc. Christ alone of all teachers
AIRED to take that sincr whose deg
idation lie well knew and assert the
disability of holiness.
Others might apologize for sin but
Ie alone with sin thrust down To- the
west he'll could see the sinner as
md To- the highest heaven, and stand
nnbashed before the throne of IA holy :
cd cur reason, olr experience. GU"
everything predicts death
n the sinner, everything hut the y
oss of Christ, There upon that cross =
I'd from that cross comes the prom
e To the penitent sinner and il could :,
II come. II would sound SO empty If It
q come from anywhere else, from
erc alone could como The promise. .
Today shalt thou bc with Me in Par
lise."
And what Is the way to the cross? y
he way To- pcnitcnce. which can be "
und only before that cross. Only ;.
hen we see sin AS Jesus saw il, how
O. the purest of men was treated y
men like ourselves, how sin for
oSe six terrible hours ragged and
rscd unrestrained against the cross ="
Christ, only when we see sin cru ~
wing the Lord OF Glory, only then "
~ We know sin as it is. and learn o
lie pcnitcncc. When YOU see sin
lie saw it. and turn to Him as did ~
G pcnitcnt thief, then He will say -
YOU, To-day shalt thou be with Me :"
Paradise" -
Then, when YOU open your bibles, is
u no longer read from Genesis To G.
violation only this. the wages of
Is DEATH but read on, and find for M
ursclr every passage with the prom cN