Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-12-21

get out some money and help Uncle
Sam along.
Another said, why, will follow
you, but l got to go back home and
bid the folks good-by first"
Jesus said, when a man puts his
hand to the pillow and looks back he
isn't fit for the Kingdom Of heaven"
Did you ever pillow? Did you ever
see a man pillow? What would you
think if you saw a man trying to
pillow a field like this, who puts his
hand to the pillow sand looks back
ward? He isn't fit for the kingdom
of heaven. No, sir!
Now, you see how much some of
you are going to weigh on the scales
they keep outside of the door of heaven,
don't you? If a man stops to look
back. it's only a question of time until
he will go back where ne looks. That's
why we've got so many people in the
church up to their eyes in the world,
the flesh and the devil. They are look
ing back at the things instead of turn
ing their back on them.
"He that saith he abideth in Him,
ought himself so to walk even as he
walked"
If you say, 81 will go to one more
haunt, one more dance, 1 will get on
the devil a dare to come and drag you
to perdition.
We sing Nearer MY God to Thee
Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross" Rock
of Ages" Brighten the Corner Where
You Are" when Jesus Came Into My
Heart" and the probabilities are there
are lot of people that don't mean it.
They are making just as many sacrifices
as they want to make. They like religion
if ii don't require them to make any
sacrifice for God.
To Keep Close to Jesus,
no as He Wishes
If you really keep close to Jesus
Christ you will do whatever He wants
you to do in the world. Will L live as
God wants me to live or as l want to
live or as somebody thinks / ought TO
live? l will do what l think the Lord
wants me to do. If you've settled that
question first, that you will follow Him,
then you've settled a thousand other
questions which will come up later for
you will decide them by the fact that
you've decided to follow Jesus and If
those questions are going to keep you
away from Jesus, then you can see you
will have nothing to do with them. You
can see how you will regulate every
thing else.
Are you willing to follow Him all the
way and follow Him in His way? Are you
willing once for all and for all time to
follow Jesus Christ? If you are, nothing
will be of more interest to you than a
revival meeting or a prayer meeting
and you will seek to do the will of God
and then you will do it with all your
might and power. And when you reach
the point where your surrender is COM
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Lord, what will you have me to do?'
and you will never follow Jesus Christ
in a doubtful course about anything on
earth.
What does it mean to follow Jesus ac-
cording to Christ? Well now. 1 will tell
you. What would He say if He were
here this afternoon and you'd ask Him?
Did He ever tell anybody if we were as
ISOLATED with Him as closely as Peter,
James and John? Did He explain it to
them?. Did He tell them what He de-
sired them to do? Yes, here it is.
IF any man will come after me, let
him deny himself, take up his cross
daily and follow me-"
That's what it means to follow Jesus
Christ. We must say No to the pleas
ures, and Yes to the spirit And every
man and woman of God knows two
things.
First, you know that you've got two
natures. You have got the old nature
that you got from Adam and you've got
the new nature that you got from Jesus
Christ. The flesh lusteth against the
spirit and the spirit against the flesh.
Paul says when I would do good, evil
is present with me-"
The regenerated spirit dwelling is the
unregenerated body for my spirit has
been regenerated when 1 accepted Jesus
Christ as my Saviour. My body will be
at the resurrection, my body hasn't been
redeemed, it's going to be, because my
soul has been. When 1 accept Jesus
as my Saviour my soul has been re-
deemed, my body will be redeemed at
the resurrection, but my redeemed spirit
dwells in my unredeemed body, hence
the flesh lusts against the spirit and the
spirit against the flesh.
Never So Good That
Temptation Can't Come
So Paul says, when 1 would do good,
evil is present with me-
1t is no longer that l sin, so I've got
a scrap on hand all the time. Will you
ever get so good you won't be tempted?
If YOU do you will be better than Jesus
was. He was tempted in all points, yet
without sin. But the devil will still
bother you ana tempt you. III yOuA
spiritual nature you love God, you love
Christ, you love the Bible, love the
church, you love to pray and be decent
and love. In your lower nature you
love none of these things. No, you love
the flesh and your lusts of the flesh and
all that. And your life finds it's highest
delights and choicest expressions in the
qualification of the desires which appeal
to the flesh. Find your delight in doing
things opposite.
That's why a lot of people are in the
world up to their eyes. They are follow
ing the flesh instead of the spirit. CAS-
many as are led by the spirit, they are
the spirit of God
Not as many as have been baptized
Not as many that know the SO articels
of confession. Not as many as know
the catechism and have been sanctiied
Help! Help / will show you some
thing about what sanctification means
A lot of people today, they feed the
goats and they starve the sheep. No
wonder they are following the flesh. And
the story of DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde IS
just repeated over and over in their
lives.
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