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with God? His text was, I'VE have an
Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ
the Righteous. II John 2:1.
Impressively the Pastor reminded US
that humanity is so constituted as to
have a longing for things infnite-a
desire for a God and for superhuman
care and guidance. especially In LIES
difficulties. He declared that, phreno
logically, veneration and spirituality
are located in the crown Of the head.
as though indicating that they, proper
| ly. should dominate the entire being.
Notwithstanding the fall, which
| brought to our race impairment of
Of natural qualities, with the majority
these high functions none the less per-
sist.
Man still worships, reverences.
adores, however much his impaired
| judgment at times misleads him into
worshiping unworthiIy-a sculptured
stone, an image. an idol, creed, a
husband. wife and children Under
| the guidance of the Divine Word.
Christians realize that the one great
object of worship is Jehovah God.
through His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Pastor asserted. backed by the
Scriptural statement, that Satan, mans
great foe. Gods great enemy, not yet
bound, has In various ways attempted
to mislead US. to separate us from
God and from the Bible. and proper
tionately to darken our understandings
with human traditions. creeds, super
stitions In the light of our wonderful
day, however, human intelligence is re-
belling Gods time has come for the
binding of Satan and the liberation Of
his prisoners. God Is answering the
prayers Of His faithful people
Here We Meet Danger.
The moment we begin to exercise our
reasoning faculties, the Adversary
seems to redouble his energies to hold
us back from the Truth. As st. Paul
pointed out he is an adept at putting
| darkness for light and light for dark
ness. And when his dupes begin to
think and inquire his method seems to
be to pose as reformer, that he may
mislead. carrying US past the truth
into human wisdom, theories, specula-
ton, or into occult systems. Thus
many today the Pastor declared. have
stepped out of ignorance and supersti-
ton. merely to be entrapped by other
superstitions. or by AgnOsticism, Evo-
luton, Higher Criticism. He urged his
hearers to be ON guard and hold fast the
Word, which Is able to make us wise
unto salvation.-2 Timothy 3:15.
The trend of modern thought is away
from the Bible, away from the thought
ton, a personal Redeemer and per
sonal salvation The tendency is to
think Of and discuss civic righteous
ness outward moralities, political prog
resin general, 4 social salvation, to
be accomplished by moral and intellect
uni forces. The Pastor would not be
understood as opposing any humanita-
rian work. He declared that even I'M
wise efforts sometimes prove beneficial
to their movers. though failures in
themselves. ON the principle that no
man can attempt a good work for an
other who will not himself be blessed
by his own efforts.
A Personal God and Savior.
Higher Criticism. through the col
leges. not only has undermined the
Word of God. but in many instances
has destroyed faith In a personal Crea-
%os hoe Oh -
the souls need of a personal Savior.
In the Biblical sense Hence today
many will pose as Christians and de-
clare their faith In an impersonal God
nature god whatever that may be
Similarly. the highest concept of these
respecting Jesus is that He was
great Teacher with un uplifting, civ
ilizing message.
All this is quite unbiblical, unsatis-
factory to the hungry soul-chaff We
need to get back TO the Bible We need
| its declaration of God of Wisdom.
| Justice. Love and Power Infinite:
| God of sympathy. who has taken notice
Of human woe. sorrow. pain. sin. death.
and who has .'heard the grooming of
the prisoners Adam and his children.
We need the Bible presentation of
the fact that God can have no sympa-
thy with sin. and can have no dealings
with sinners IN rhe way of recognizing
them. We reed to see the Justice Of
the penalty the Bible tells-so differ
| ent from the penalty set before us III
the creeds of darker past. We need
to see that the sentence is a just one.
ere we can appreciate the Justice OF
the Judge in pronouncing the sentence,
Dying, thou shalt die"
But even to get the proper concep
| ton of Gods Justice. by seeing that
the dedh penalty, and not torture
penalty, was pronounced, is insult
cient We need to see something OF
the Love of God. said the Pastor "In
this was manifest the love of God
toward us. because that God sent His
Only Segotten Son into the world. that
we might live through Him." Thus we
see Jesus at His First Advent begin
ming the fulfilling of Gods Promise for
the blessing of humanity. We note
His obedience, self-sacrifice. loyalty
. the Father. faithfulness unto death.
even the death of the cross" We
behold His exaltation by the Father
His ascension up to where He was be-
fore-at the right hand of God And
we note that He has now still higher
glories than He had before He came
into the world-the Fathers reward
for His loyal obedience; as st. Paul ex-
plains. Wherefore God also hath high
ly exalted Him. - Philippians 20
From Jesus lips we hear the Mes
sage of the Kingdom-that God In
tends that ultimately Messiah shall be-
come the great King of earth. author
lied to lift up mankind from sin and
degradation. and to restore all the will
ing and obedient to human perfection
in a worldwide Eden Then comes
the Gospel Invitation to all believers
In Jesus The invitation is to become
joint-heirs in that Kingdom which is to
bless the world.
"He That cometh Unto God"
l am convinced that many hearts are
longing for God, or, as the Psalmist
expresses it, my heart and my flesh
crieth out for the living God" 1t Is
one thing to know about God, about
Jesus, the Divine Plan OF the Ages.
the selection Of the Church to be the
Messianic Kingdom class, and the NIL
Iennium, in which The Christ. Head
and Body, win bless and uplift man
kind; but it is quite another matter to