The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-03-06
Our Weekly SennOnette
By Rev. U. C. Howard

II. (ContInuedD
Lesson: Eph. $1,000.
Text. Eph. ell Put on the
whole armour Of God, that ye may be
able to stand against the wlles Of the
devil"
In our former sermon from this
text we discussed the Armour OF
God" also tho necessary qualities In
the soldier who Stand" and In part
THE wlles Of the deyll"-hIs tricks
chlcaneries, strategems, etc.
To make clear. we illustrated by
the tactics OF Pharaoh. considering
him a striking type OF the devil.
We noticed In our first division
OD that Pharaoh fixed himself In a
determined purpose never to let the
Hebrews escape and to this end he
tried to put doubts In the minds
who is the Lord? etc" planned to
keep them very busy making brick
without straw and also kept up
continuous method Of procrastna-
tlon, all Of which we found TO be the
usual tactics OF the enemy OF souls.
sweeping many unthlnklng people
on their feet with the skeptic's
breath, busying certain minds with
the world. and all the time carrying
on with every one possible, a gener-
al system ofof procrastlnation In the
things necessary to external life.
Proceeding now. we observe that:
lI-wHEN PHARAOH MUST HE
YIELDED. SAYING go ye, sacrifice
to your God" but added in the
land" tEx. S:25l by which he
meant In the land Of Egypt II now
yield and allow you to worship your
God. but Egypt Is broad enough,
worship here. This meant that they
were to be his subjects. still pay tax
In Egypt. pay homage to Pharaoh,
still make brick and remain In bon
dage. Satan too is compel d % yield
when men are fully set on repentance
and religion. the pardon Of their sins
and the worship OF God But when he
yields this point It does not mean
that he Is done Next he comes to
the new convert with the PROPOSE
ton to abide I'm the land: says the
world Is big enough for all, no u.s. to
join the church. Soon you hear the
man saying I've decided I can be
a Christian without Joining the
church. believe ! can live as well
outside. as | can inside" He has
been caught by satans strategem
and his proposal to worship God I'm
the land" o try to hold to God with
one hand and to the world with the
other. Sometimes the man will ad-
init his cowardice and say he hest
tates to Join the church because It
is great undertaking and that he is
not willing to bear hs part OF the
responsibility OF keeping up and car
rying on the church Admits lis work
and the need Of It In the world, but
Is willing others shall bear all the
responsibility. Pharoah proposed to
keep the Hebrews on the roster OF
Egypt. Satan proposes to keep the
name Of the new convert on his roll
Of outsiders when the soul con
scnts he claims his Influence and
uses IL. when he calls his roll, he
calls this mans name and he ans
Wers. Here Yes. stlil here Pity
There are many worthless professors
because OF this compromise with
Satan am glad to recite Moses
reply 20 Pharaoh. 1T Is not meet 10
do 80 that Is. it ls not NJ nor prop
cr. 20 pursue such a sorry course. So
] say to you professed Christians the
outlde. worldly life Is too poor, and
unfit Tor any one who calls upon
God Tor salvation % is a very poor.
lean. sorry. UNIT way TO treat ones
God and Redeemer. and will never
please Him
~ WHEN PHARAOH FAILED
HERE AND FOUND THEY
WOULD NOT STAY ~ THE
LAND. HIS NEXT EFFORT WAS /
TO HAVE THEM STOP CLOSE
ny. so THEY COULD NEIGH /
Dor WITH HIM Re said u viii /
le, you go-only ye shall not go very .
far away tEx. S:2Sl Likewise /
when satan cannot keep people out |
Of the church he deludes as many a. |
possible with the notion that mere /
membership 10 sufficient, and stren-
uously sets himself againt consecra-
ton and full detotion oh. don't 60 /
d, f.r from me- uonf get so deep in j