The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-14
Intelligent Action
Urged By Evangelist
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Urged By Evangelist
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and the mind which was endowed
with the power to apprehend God and
love Him and know the heart and
mind of God, was corrupted and man
fell.
"The spirit of God went out, and
can never return until there is new
birth, to make fitting place for the
Holy Spirit.
eve see it first illustrated in the
first man, Adam. Though made Sin
Gods own image he sinned under
temptation and the temple of God
was debauched. Truly, we were
born in sin, and conceived by mi
guilty. / stand with the Bible, and
that is its dictum. Until that image
is restored, the Spirit is dead. The
carnal man cannot understand the
things of God.
Restore Gods Image.
''The image of God must be restor-
ed, / say, and it's this way. 1t must
be Christ in me at work. AS l live
carnally, l am prone to swear, to
drink and indulge the flesh. l must
have Christ in me to do the things
of God.
eye must be borne again This is
in two ways, first, from above, and
second, anew. must be born again
anew from above. 1t means the old
things must be put away and a new
man in Christ Jesus will follow. The
first is of the earth, earthly, the sec
ond is from above, heavenly
"All mans intellectual power does
not put him beyond the old doctrine,
the new birth. This is beyond me
or any preacher, as we cannot ex-
plain it. But l must emphasize it,
whether you care for it or not.
"Note the words, must and again.
God was the author of this rule, and
it was the fashion to so hold of old
/ am oldfashioned in this. 1t is not
the pet theme of some evangelist Oh
faddist, but the pronouncemento of the
Son of God. He made the words anC
breathed them into the heart of man
He condescended to whisper thi:
truth to man. 1t was He who dipped
His fingers into the aeons of Time
and laid these words like jewels tt
beautify humanity. He said it ant
whispered it into the heart and sou
of man.
at was the preaching of John Yves
ley after he had been borne again
and then he could not help preach it
He enjoined it in his churches, ant
that church is a monument to tn
! good, true doctrine. Geo. Whitfield
preached 800 sermons from that on
text, and died at last exhausted
Imagine any preacher nowadays do
ing such thing! Any repetition yor
take as stale and also the old ladie
would have something sure enougI
to say about it.
"But it is the remarkable fact an
life is constructed so. The power tina
i gave the primrose in January and tn
glories of the starry skies tonight
made it so, and required 'the ne7
birth
'Many of the old-timers preached
all over the world. Geo. Whitfield
your Mccoy who converted Wn
Booth who later founded the Saliva
ton Army, Finney and many other
and they did not invent it, but OF
tanned it when they were born agail
1t was eternally true, back in tn
deathless dates of Time, before til
first morning, when God breathe
/, life upon the world, aye, in the fir
morning of mornings"
Christ and NicOdemas.
Here Mr.. Smith took up the il
terview between Christ and Mood,
mas, and he reviewed the scriptul
narrative and explained the particl
lars of the incident.
"Nicodemas was a man of prom
I nence, ruler in Israel; he w;
righteous and moral and entrencht
in the religion of his fathers. b
he was told he must be born again
'"The late great preacher, Dwigl
w. Moody, saw it, and preached
! in England with power. He met Il
equally great Henry Drummon
whom he powerfully impressed Tn,
I became fast friends, and it was fro
their intercourse that DR.. Drummer
was moved to write to Barbour
London, I have found out the tn
principle, The average church men
Der may be posted on the letters
the law, but is ignorant of the fir
J grace which abounds in the new lif,
eff he were to write now he wou
say to Barbour, what l wrote V,
! years ago, is true now, this Marc
1917"