Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-18
THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS

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let people know by the way you live
YOU are Christians. -
ar 7 stand up here and preach this
afternoon and then get in the carriage
and drive over TO a saloon and go IN you
would not care n snap OF your hnser LOT
what l said. IL God sent me In there 10
get any one, then He would be testing
me to see II would go up TO tne % par ssu t,,a
| take a drink God does not tempt. the
devil tempts. God tests, and 1t is up to
you to make good. -,
,"T want TO explain a difficult passage of
Scripture so that it may be helpful TO
| YOU as It has been to me. The story OIL
| the temptation OF Jesus Is found only IN
| Matthew and Luke. John doesn't mention
| u Mark distnisses It with half dozen
words Let me say that 1 feel myselL
1 compelled to differ from many learned
| commentators in Interpreting the tempta-
| tion OF Jesus. Matthew and Luke each
| give n fun account OF the temptation oil
Jesus. Matthew tells the story OF lils
birth, childhood. youth and Eenealogy'
while Mark and John merely assume the
former dismssing II in few words,
Then was Jesus led by the spirit into
the wilderness to be tempted of the devil
whenever you find a preacher who
doesn't believe In the devil he Will crawl
up in his pulpit and 60 to sleep like
dog But when the revival comes along
and the church of God gets busy. you
will always find the devil gets busy, too.
Whenever you find somebody that doesn't
believe I'm the devil YOU can bank on
that. They have the devil in them bigger
than q woodchuck. When the Holy
Spirit descended at Pentecost the devil
didn't do thing but go around and say
these fellows were drunk, and Peter got
up and made him mad by saying that
II was too early in the day. 1t Is but
the third hour. They had sense In those
days; it was unreasonable to find them
drunk at the third hour of the day. But
now the fools sit up all night TO booze.
DEVIL RUsHEs, TOO
"when you rush forward in Gods work
the devil begins to rush against you,
There was a farmer walking through Lin
coin Park and he saw the sign. Beware
of pclpockcts.'
"'NVhy do you want to put up fool
sign like that? he asked. Everybody
looks honest TO me-
'Ie reached for his watch to see what
time il was and found 1t was gone. The
piCkpockets always get in the pockets of
those who think there are no pickpockets
around. Whenever you believe there is
devil around, you can keep him out
but If you say there isn't, he'll get you
sure. Old Mother Eddy to the contrary
the biggest humbug, tommyrot, most idi-
otic thing Of the Goth century. can't gulp
that stuff down. ] am loading UP and get
ting ready for that somebody.
THE Bible says there is devil. You
say there is no devil. Who knows the
most, God or you? Jesus met real foe.
n personal devil. Reject it or deny 1t as
you may. If there is no devil, why do
you cuss instead OF pray? why do you
lie instead of telling the truth? Why
don't you kiss your wife instead OF ours
ing her? You have Just got the devil in
you, that Is all. Notice, the devil called |
Jesus the Son OF God. and to he called |
the Son Of God was to make Him equal |
with Goa. So the Unltarians in the DAYS |
of Jesus sought TO kill him for His bias
phemy, because He said He was the Son |
OF God.
"There are Unitarans in the twentieth |
century who reject Him on the same |
grounds. That Jesus Christ was the
Son of God we may find. for Scripture
says, out of Egypt have | called My /
Son.
1.-The devil is no fool; he is on his job
The devil has been practicing for 5000
years and he has never had appendicitis
tonsilltis, etc. If you get
to playing tag with the devil he'll beat
you every clip. IF YOU are a God, act !
like God. show by your acts
1T is written that man shall not live by
bread alone. The Bible was not written
for God. He did not need it; but for a
guide for man. Bread feeds the body, but
man needs food for the soul as well. That
Is the reason we have so many church
members dried up, and about ready to
blow away. They are reading every old
novel that comes along, but don't read
The Bible. You can't eat cards and drink
beer. If you treated your body as you do