The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-01-19
SERMON DE-
LIYERED TO ST.
JOE BAPT. CHURCH
Galloway, Ark, by Pastor j. S.
Steele

Steele.
Subject, The Devils Sitter. Text,
Luke 22:31, 81: Simon, Simon, be.
hold Satan hath desired to have thee
that he might silt thee as wheat, but
l have prayed for thee that thy faith
tail thee not"
Dear hearers, in this text we find
that God exposes Satan's desire TO
the church. This should claim our
attention. If we know his desire
then We are better prepared to shun
hun. Allow me, if you please, to ask
this question. Why Satan desired
Peter in his sitter? On, my friends,
here it is Peter was a church work
er He oftimes sought Jesus for in
formation; he was ready at all
times to go at the command of Je-
\sus. He went to the sea and caught &
fish and looked in his mouth and got
money to pay tax for Jesus; one day
lie heard the voice OF Jesus saying,
come, and Jesus was standing out on
tie sea. Peter pulled his coat around
Linn and leap out on the angry
waves. lie was at the great meet
ing when Moses and Elias came from
Heaven. Petr spoke and said, Mas
ter, it is good for us to be here. Time
would not admit for me to tell the
many good things Peter did to prove
that he was a church worker. So it
is today. Every Christian that tries
to obey Jesus, Satan desires to put
them in his sitter; it is so fixed by
the Providence of God that nothing
will remain in his sitter but brand.
My friends, if you cannot come
through satan's sitter you are bran.
Why is it that he doesn't try to sift
anybody but a good Christian? He
doesn't bother the church members
who play cards baseball, two step or
curses; he is after that Christian who
treat everybody right. You may
rise early in the morning feeling the
spirit Of Christ, rejoicing in the God
Of your strength, and before night
The devil will have you in his sitter.
Any Christian who delights in sa-
tan desires him in his sitter. God
said, Have you considered my ser.
want Job? The devil said, take
your hedge rom around him and
/ will make him curse you to your
face. Immediately the devil put
Job in his sitter but Job stood the
test and came through all right and
/ said. When | am tried | shall come
/ forth like gold, and concluded by
saying, All the days of my appointed
time, l will wait until my change
come.
Dear hearers, we must stand the
lest The devil will use his sitter
anywhore-in our homes, in our
churches and in our communities, in
cur conventions and in our associa
tons Dear hearers, I believe the
charter that has caused so much dis
turlanre S the largest sitter The de
vii has but let us he Christians anC
not bran If you are good whea
you will certainly come through. Tht
next sitter he has that is equally n
Lad as the one just mentioned is dis
regarding the rights Of a majority t,
rule. Now. I shall close, by saying
the devil does not slit hypocrits bu
, re is always after some one who i
trying to do right You know peOpl
in your community and in Churc
whose lives bring disgrace on Chri.
tanity, but the devil does not bottle
t them. but we who are standin
-. VITA Christ and his church are Ofte
placed in the devils SITTER.
Yours for right and Righteousness
James Steele.
, The Peoples Defende