The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-12-12
''WHOSEFATHER
IS COL" THEME
OF DR.. MARTIN
EVANGELIST DELIVERS INTER.
EsTING SERMON AT THE FIRST
BAPTIST CHURCH TO LARGE
CONGREGATION,

The audience at the First Baptist
church was considerably stirred last
night by Evangelist r. r. Martins
sermon on Whose Father Is God?'
Those who may differ with the evan
geiist will find themselves running up
against formidable array of scrip
ture. He took as his text Ephesians
Id: Having predestinated us unto
the adoption of sons" and John 1:12:
AS many as received Him to them
gave He the power to become the chill
dren of God, even to them that believe
on His NAME" and at once the evange-
list plunged into his subject, saying in
part:
1.-THE most widespread and most dam
gerous error of our times is that God is
the Father of all men. If God is the
Father of all men. then we have a
Heavenly Father claiming 10 be better
than an earthly father sending his own
children to an eternal hell. 1t is no
wonder men become inf1dels under
such teaching. Then we have one who
Is already our Father adopting as His
children those who are already His
children. 1t is no wonder under such
teaching that men look upon the Bible
as tumble and full of superstition.
But let the Bible speak for itself:
They which are the children Of flesh,
them are not the children of Cod"
''Ye are all the children OF God by
faith IN Christ Jesus" To the sinners
deeds of your father" They answered
back I'VE be not born of fornication,
we have one Father. even God" Our
Saviour replied: Eye are # your faith
err. the devil The issue is clearly
drawn, either God is not the Father of
sinners, or. the Lord Jesus was the
vilest deceiver the world ever saw.
&c hot he aXrin
taught US to say, Our Father" New
err He taught Christians. believers,
the redeemed to say it. but never un-
redeemed sinners. Notice, 1T came to
pass that as He was praying in a GER
tain place when he closed one Of His
disciples unto Him, Lord teach US
to pray a. John also taught His dis
ciples. And He said unto them:
when We pray say our Father Then
He taught the disciples, and not the
unsaved. to say. "Our Father"
Tom Paine, the noted infdeI is the
/ father of the teaching. that God is the
Father of sinners. Hear him: The
Creator is the Father of all" The
lire is alrea DIV drawn. Tom Paine says:
1.-THE Creator is the Father of all: our
blessed Saviour said, aye are of your
father, the devil" and the churches
vidual christians are lining up, giving
one or the other the lie.
Let it be clearly understood that God
does not send His own children to
He'll. And He has made it so plain and
! easy as to how every one may become
/ a child of God: GAS many as received
| Him. to them gave He power to be-
come the children OF God. even to them
i that believe on His name" Ye are
all the children of God by faith in
Christ Jesus" And "He that beIieveth
on the Son hath everlasting life"
| o people of Pensacola. you are en-
| joving so many blessings from Cod,
and many of you are going on blindly
calling Him "Our Father" when YOU
! have never been adopted as His chill
dren, to die in your sin, without ever
really having a Heavenly Father. and
/ to never be His children throughout
/ eternity. In the name Of God, Halt!
/ and become His real children.
Tonight the evangelist will preach
on, How the Jew was saved. and how
| the Gentle is saved" Tomorrow
night Saturday he breaches on,
ssHeTl, as Taught by Reason. 1nf1delity
as Represented by Mr.. ingersoll, and
bv the Bible"