The Washington herald., 1918-01-27


obeys a law. That's why everyone
moves In its orbit without friction.
That's why not one of them was ever
hindered for one moment IN Its great
revolutions around the central sun.
All go sweeping on together in per-
feet harmony. Oh. IL worlds could
rebel like men. my God, what would
happen7 II the seed would refuse to
grow. II the sun would refuse to
rise. II 1t would refuse To set.
If the tide could refuse to ebb ana
flow, II the spring would refuse to
bubble. II nature and the world
could rebel like mankind, what would
be the conditions today?
Freedom Of VIII.
Come. let's reason together. saith
bel is because God Almighty saw fit
to give you freedom OF your will.
You must have an experimental
knowledge of God through Jesus
Christ. without such a knowledge
you couldn't love God Almighty. No
one else can love Him for you, l
wish / could but / can't. 1t Is utter
ly impossible to have supreme love
for a strange God. You must know
the God that you are going to love.
No man ever loved a woman with
out first seeing and knowing her.
Love begets love. To love God you
must know that God loves you.
When you know that God loves you.
you must love God. You can't help
it any more, my friends, than you
can help eating when you are
hungry. Every human gift has
Limitations to 1t.
Gods great love has no limita-
tions. "Whosoever will may come" "
You place the limitations. not the
Lord.
A city man bought a farm and he
expected to spend the remainder of
his life out in the country. He put
a fountain in the front yard and a
farmer came riding by and stopped
and he looked over there to see what
was being done and when he learn
ed that water was expected to flow
through the pipe and make a foun-
tain he said:
1T can't be done. You can't make
water run uphill all the way from
where you say you are going to
have that squirting thing in the
yard" He said: Stranger. you'd
better stop" He thought he'd go
the rest OF the way.
A few weeks later he went riding
by and he stopped in Rmazement.
There water was running up hill
and the water pipe had been con-
nected with an elevated reservoir
and the water obeyed its own law
when the Connection was made.
Source Of the Spring.
And, when through the trench of
fallen humanity, connection is made
through Jesus Christ, a fountain is
made through our souls. Whenever
you see a spring. you must know
that the source is higher than the
spring. When you have a blessing
in your soul the source of supply
must come higher than You are.
That faith comes through Jesus
Christ.
1 want to tell you, my friends,
God Almighty made the capacity of
every mans soul too big for this
world that we live in to satisfy.
No matter what your possessions, no
matter what your attainments, no
matter what your success or good
fortune may be in your efforts, ii
can't have real peace without Jesus
Christ. God made place for him
self in your heart and only His
presence will ever satisfy. so you
can put anything in there you want,
but will never be satisfied until
Jesus Christ is there.
You may pile a dark mountain in
front of you and then you can null
tiply by a million all those you
can't remember and after you've
tried to recall all that you've ever
committed, 1 will bring one verse
of scripture, The blood Of Jesus
Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from
all sim"
Every human gift must be receiv-
ed to be of any use. So with the
gift through Jesus Christ. Our gifts
to another person don't change our
character. I may give to you and
you may give to me. but that won't
change my character. But Gods
gifts to me and to you changes our
character. When 1 accept Gods
gift, which is salvation, through
faith in Jesus. that changes my
character.
II You Do All Right.
Another man says, We'll, you
will be saved If you do all right"
Do you mean to insinuate that re-
Jecting Jesus Christ and living in
sin is doing all right? Do you mean
to tell me you are doing right? BY
whose standard. Gods or yours?
There can be no doing right that
does not begin with believing In
Jesus Christ. No matter who you
may be. Accepting Him as your
Savior must be the starting point
and If you reject him and cling to
your own notions, you are foolish.
The Bible makes It plain that there
is not the slightest hope OF salvation
except through repentance and faith
in Jesus Christ. And the scarlet
thread runs unbroken from Genesis
to Revelations and the same stripe
runs all through the book and IL you
take the blood out of the Bible you
can come and take my Bible too, for
I've no use for it when you take the
blood OF Jesus Christ out of it. 1t
Is nothing but a tumble of useless,
meanings words so far as salvation is
concerned.
The man who would refuse to get
on a steamship, insisting on making
his way across the Atlantic on a rotten
board. he'd be wise, compared to a
man that thinks just being good is
enough to save him. Being saved de-
pends upon what you believe rather
than what you do and you can't do
right unless you first of all believe
right. An angel would fetch up in
the pit If he Travelled on your line.
You stand as much of a show of be-
ing saved without faith in Jesus
Christ as a Jack-rabbit would in a
den of Demonstrators trying to teach
them the value OF vegetable diet.
Another fellow says, "Well, Bill,
I've tried to be a Christian"
Man