The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-31
A MESSAGE.

! The question is before me today,
Why is it the world hates holiness.
1t is because they are without under
standing of the holy scriptures.
II Timothy, Sd chapter, 18th verse:
And that from a child thou hast
known the holy scriptures, which are
able to make thee wise unto salvation
through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
You talk about how they crucifed
hands, pierced his side, and to think
they gave him vinegar to drink. He
gave up the ghost. In his dying hour
he said, My God, my God, why hast
thou forsaken me. All this is true.
Then we say nobody lives holy down
here, and if we hear of holiness man
or woman, All! deliver me from
saint the worse word is too good. To
those who hate saints, haven't time to
believe their messages, this is to all
whom ignore holiness. .'"%s 's-- ~ NJ, '
Act Tbs: Ye stiff-necked and un-
crcumcised in heart and ears, ye do
always resist the Holy Ghost. rs your
fathers did, so do we.
We say Christ was baptized by
John. So he was, and in St. John, TO-
IA, am the good shepherd and know
my sheep, and am known Of mine.
And when the Jews were accusing
Jesus of blasphemy in this same chap
ter, what did he say in the Seth verse:
Say We of him, whom the Father hath
sanctifed, and sent into the world,
thou blasphemest because l said | am
the son of God. Then if God sancti-
fed a man or woman and sent them
into the world with a message, we say
because they are sanctified they are a
liar, nothing to them.
The scripture says in l John 4:2O,
If a man say, love God, and hateth
his brother, he is a liar, for he that
loveth not his brother, whom he hath
seen, how can he love God, whom he
hath not seen,
So it S beloved he that say hate
saints and holiness and don't believe
his brother or sister is sanctified and
holy, and say l believe Jesus lived
holy, was holy, is full Of hypocrisy and
the truth isn't in him, because if we
believe Christ was sanctified holy and
God sent him, also will we believe God
is just the same today and sanctifies.
In James 5:14-15 says: Is any sick
among YOU? Let him call for the
elders of the church; and let them
pray over him, amounting him with oil
in the name of the Lord. And the
PRAYER of faith shall save the sick, and
the Lord shall raise him up, and if he
have committed sins, they shall be
forgiven him. ''Then when a saint
follow these. what do we say? They
are crazy. God don't do those things
nowadays. Nobody holy. And when
the patient RECEIVERS we say they were
going to get we'll anyway. There are
two verses in Peter, I'd chapter, for
examples 21-22: For even hereunto
were ye called, because Christ also
suffered for US, leaving us an example,
that ye should follow his steps.
Who did no sin. Neither was quite
found in his mouth.
Christ pleased God; the world hated
him because he was sanctified holy.
| "Praise His name
One thing sure, we must obey God
in order to inherit eternal life and in
order to see God. Read Heb. 1874.
Follow peace with all men, and holi-
ness. without which no man shall see
the Lord. When condemning holiness
we lack understanding.
Pro, A.: Wisdom is the principal
thing; therefore get wisdom, and with
all thy getting get understanding.
| AcAINT.S CRIICIFIXION.