Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-11-29
M'NEELY TOPIC
THE DOMINION
OF THE DEVIL
Elizabeth Ave. Baptist Church
Pastor Gives Third Sermon
Describing Satan.

unto him. All this power will I give
Thee. taslthat Is delivered unto me, and
10 whoihsoever I will give it, Rev.
George McNeeiy preached the third of
his sermons on The DeviP' in Eliza
beth Avenue Baptist Church last
night
The series Of sermons on this sub
jeet number four. and since the de-
livery OF the first sermon there has
heen a noticeable increase IN attend
ance. The sermon in full was as fol-
lows:
Thus does Scripture describe the
dominion OF the devil. II is 6, world
dominion that embraces all human
government. whether 1t be monar-
chial, republican. democratic or auto
cratic, the governments of this world
are under control of the devil. This
may lead some to ask how, II the
devil Is IN control of governmental
affairs. does 1t happen that the ma
tons of the earth are one In a declar-
alton that they aspire to establish
righteousness upon It? Why Is Il
that things have not gone to ruin
long before now? The man in the
street. when he would describe the
utter destruction of things, sums an
up by saying They've gone to the
devil Going to the devil is synony-
nous for ruination in the ordinary
mind.
THE Bible speaks Of two kinds of
righteousness. The righteousness of
God that cometh upon all who be-
iieve Him, and our own righteousness.
which is by trying to do what is right.
So the apostle Paul speaking of some,
says: They being ignorant of Gods
righteousness, and going about to
establish their own righteousness,
have not submitted themselves unto
the righteousness of Cod To this end
the devil has organized the agencies
of men, that in process of time men
might produce a righteousness of
their own, apart from God. This was
tho plan by which the devil caused
the fall The record as given in Gene
SIS does not set forth q temptation to
immortality, lust or any degrading act.
Il does set forth that the temptation
was to become exalted. God had
said the eating of the fruit of the
tree OF knowledge would bring death,
and put the fruit of the tree of life
before them as the thing to be de-
sired. The devil. in contradiction of
God, said they would not die by eat
Ing OF the tree OF knowledge, but
would become as God.
HThe desire to become as God was
the motive for disobeying God at the
beginning. and is tho motive which
moves the children of disobedience to- |
day. This explains the Christian Sci |
ence. New Thought and other cults |
of the day Because men and women |
who accept the teachings of these |
cults and put them into daily prac- |
tice, become better citizens and neigh |
bors; more loving and kind in the
home and in the dealings with their
fellows; more honest and successful
IN business, and it Is thought proved
thereby that they are children of God.
Rather would It prove them TO be
children of the devil. The children of
this world are wiser In their genera
tion than the children of light.
Hereby know ye the spirit of God;
Everyone that confesseth that Jesus
Christ Is come in the flesh. Is of God.
And we know that we are of God, |
and that the whole world system is |
OF the devil.
Rsspectability in the Place of Godliness.
Men are apt at putting respecta-
bilftv In the place of godliness and |
accepting the form for the substance. |
The indictment which will be found |
against the world at the last is 'Hav-
ing the form of Godliness, but deny
ing the power thereof Thus the devil |
inspired cults all use form of sound |
snare, forgetting that the devil pro-
fesses to quote Scripture, even as he |
did when he assalled the Lord in the |
temptation in the wilderness. BY /
using Scripture deceitfully the devil |
processes TO show that Jesus Christ |
is not God. Jesus came to Israel |
as their Messiah, and coming to them
as their Messiah, He had no need to |
make a claim of being God.
'Israels Messiah was foretold by |
the prophets as being God. Thus 1t |
was written, Thou shall call His
name Emanuel, God with u.s.
Again, His name shall be called
The Wonderful. the mighty Cod And |
so he asked the Jews of that day !
What think ye of Christ? Whose |
son Is Her They say unto him, The
Son OF David He saith unto them:
How then doth David in the spirit
call him Lord saying. the Lord said
unto my Lord, sit thou on my right
hand, till I make thine enemies thy
footstool? If David then call him
Lord, how Is he his SOM And no
man was able to answer Him a word.
Neither then nor now, unless they
know Jesus Christ to be God mani
fest in the flesh According to the
flesh, the son of David. According to
his Deity, the Lord Of David. 1t is
plain from the widespread denial of
the Deity OF our Lord Jesus Christ
by the religious cults Of the day that
the devil not only controls the poll
tics, but also the religions Of the
world.
.'Some will ask. why then does God
permit the devil to have control?' The
answer is, that all things work to-
getl1er for good to them that love God
who are called according to Gods
purpose God Himself is the standard
Of righteousness. 1t Is with God we
have to do finally. All things even to
the devils operations will be made TO
work good to them, and, mark it we'll,
orly to them who love God. To all
ethers everything is working together
for destruction. God gives lis a
shadow of the good coming to those
who love Him in the case of Israel
a the land of Egypt under Pharoah.
God had promised to Israel the land
OF Canaan, but, satisfied with the land
Of Goshen, they came 20 forget God
il their prosperity until that new
king arose whose hard heart and cruel
wisdom God used to remind His
people that Egypt was not their
promised land. So God speaks today
TO His own: IT ye were of this world,
t.se darld would love its own; but be-
cause We are not of the world. but I
have chosen you out of the world;
therefore the world hated you
Put 1t is with the Christian in this
age as II was with Israel in that age.
The more they afflicted them, the
4tsr,-o fInax, s,11t1tinIfad and grew