Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-15
"BTLLY" SUNDAYS SERMONS

,npossibilty for men to sweat blood.
They have never heard of such thing
happening, they say. All right; but be-
cause you say that man has never sweae
blood, don't say that God didn't.
Sweat Drops of Blood
Doctor wltheroy said that in his agony
that father sweat drops of blood. II an
earthly father sweat drops OF blood for
one son who has gone wrong, is II strange
that Jesus should sweat drops OF blood for
all men when they were In danger of
hell?
when Jesus sweat drops OF blood there
In the garden, IL was new sight for
the angels. They had seen their brother
angels rebel against God, and they had
seen the conflict which followed and they
had seen these rebel angels hurled over
the bnttlements of heaven. They had
seen Sennecharib come UP with his men,
and they had seen 10000 Assyrians laid
low by the sword when the angel of God
smote them in the night They had seen
Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego cast
into a fiery furnace for refusing to bow
themselves down to idols, and had seen
them come out from 1t unharmed. They
had seen the brave Daniel hurled into
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knee to any one save Jehovah, and they
had seen him come out from that den
of wild beasts alive. But never before
had the angels beheld such a sight as
when they looked down upon the gar
den of Gethsemane and saw the Son of
God kneeling there, sweating drops or
blood as he agonlzed over man.
In this text there are many lessons val
liable to us, and especially valuable just
at this stage of the campaign.
The first lesson is that the divine cup
is bitter. 1t is bitter to fallen angels
and fallen man, and It was bitter to the
fallen Christ. Think of the sight! Think
of Jesus staining his garments with the
bloody sweat not because of any sin or
fault of his own, for he was without sin,
not because of his anguish over man!
He didn't sweat those drops of blood
because of any physical suffering. 1t
wasn't because of any fear of death,
for II Jesus Christ had been afraid to
die he would have been a coward, and
he wasn't a coward, although he was
willing to die IL God said to. 1 don't
want to die; want to stay here as long
as I can, and so did Jesus, but he wasn't
afraid to die. No. It was because of his
grief for man.
A great martyr said as he stood in
vouring him. Though you see the flesh
fall from my bones l absolutely feel no
pain"
A Fiery He'll
II you ever had any doubt about
must remain forever. It would all vanish
as see Jesus Christ in Gethsemane,
agonizing because men would not accept
him and were going to hell.
oh, don't be careless professors of
Christianity for another minute. Don't
you dare to make a cold, formal prayer
when you come to address Almighty
God. Don't YOU dare to regard this cam
paign In critical and carping way. Oh,
hell must be an awful place when Jesus
was In such agony to think that men
were going there You're a big fool to
go to hell. but it'll be your own fault
II you do. God doesn't want you to go
there, but he can't stop you. He has
sacrihced his son to keep you out of
hell. and what more could he do? / am
doing all can to keep you out of hell.
1 have stood her for six weeks and
preached to you and I've done all that
could and If you won't be saved, all
right-go to hell.
When Jesus was being led out to
be sacrificed women followed Him and
wept, and He turned to them and said
daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for
Me. but weep for yourselves and for your
children" For He said. For II they do
these things In a green tree, what shall
be done In a dry?" Jesus meant that
they shouldn't weep for Him, but for
those who were about to cruelty Him;
lie meant that there was more reason to
weep for them than to weep for Him.
Yes, 1t was a bitter cup for Jesus
God pressed 1t to His lips and told Him
TO drink. Jesus said, isn't there some
way in which I can avoid this?" But
God said, mo, there is no other way"
and Jesus drank the cup.
we learn still another lesson - the
power of prayer.
Every man and every woman that
God has used to halt this sIn-cursed
world and set it going Godward has been
n Christian of prayer. Martin Luther
arose from his bed and prayed all night.
and when the break of day came he
called his wife and said to her, "It has
come" History records that on that
very day King Charles granted religious
liberation, thing for which Luther had
prayed
Then we learn a lesson of the spirit of
deep concern over soul.
The spirit of concern that we find in
the Bible puts to shame many who are in
Philadelphia. Some of you have been
coming to this tabernacle ever since the
meetings were begun, but you have SIM
ply Seil lOu idNtI put IOTln Il
hand to bring any one to Christ. If you
are one of these, you are absolutely worth
less so far as God Is concerned. You are
of no use to Him, and He looks on you as
an Improbable servant. How can you sit
by while souls are going to hell? What
are you going TO say to God about it after
4 while?
Go and see an unsaved person die, and
read the obituary notices. and realize that
he died unsaved, and then see what you
think of 1t!
"Some people may say: How do know
how God feels about it? How do 1 know
whether he is really concerned over sin
ners?" / know It, 1t would be a sin of
II did not II God cared
as little for the souls of men as some
Of you care, not soul ever would have
been saved.
1t is not possible for the human mind |
to have a greater conception OF God than
Is revealed to us in Jesus Christ. For a |
man to say he loves God and then turn |
his back on Jesus Christ is an Insult TO |
The Almighty. You will ind In him just |