The Washington herald., 1918-02-21

Ine punlSnnenIE BelieVe on the Lord
Jesus Christ. Trust his willingness.
Trust his power and you will be
saved.
We were all mortgaged to God, and
the note was due. We had nothing
to pay and inflexible justice seized
upon us to put US in the prison of
condemnation, but nineteen hundred
years ago God invited the world to
the gospel feast and in the crucifixon
agonies Of the cross of Jesus Christ
he held your sins and mine until every
last vestige was consumed. And God
extends to all. salvation on the
grounds that we will accept Jesus as
our substitute. our security. our bonds
man.
Don't Reject Jesus.
He died in our stead. He took
the penalty that we deserve and
by my faith in Christ will l be
saved, and If you turn your back
on Jesus. you will go to hell.
Some people have a deeper con-
viction OF sin before they were con-
verted than after-that's true of
some. think most people have it
before. Some people can tell you
the day, hour and spot where they
were converted; others cannot.
can.
Some people think that what they
need is new surroundings. Oh, no,
no! 1t isn't that at all. Here is my
watch-it won't run. 1, will put it
in my pocket here. You say it needs
new surroundings. AL right, will
put it over here in this other pocket.
But that doesn't work. What's the
matter with it? 1t doesn't need new
surroundings. it needs a new main
spring.
Answers Fsur Questions.
what must I do to be saved ?"
Anybody can dig a hole and plant
an apple tree. Any fool can walk
up and pluck the apple and eat it.
But it takes God to make one grow.
How the apple grew is a mystery.
Anybody can pluck 1t.
How God saves me through Jesus
don't know. I don't worry my
head-that's Gods part of it So
do your part and let the Lord alone,
don't butt into him. He will never
explain it to you anyway, so what's
the use Of fooling about it.
Another thing. he confessed, he
was baptised. I am not here to
preach baptism-I never preached a
sermon on baptism in my life;
never expect to. 1 have my views
on all OF these subjects, as 1 told
you folks when came here, the first
day. and il 1 read truly. without
God you are lost and with God you
are saved. I have tried to answer
four questions-(D Are you lost?
10Y aouadS (2l
going to heaven? (D Or are you
going to hell? That's all there is
to it
Here is a great physician. God,
and he has diagnosed the troubles
of this old sin-cursed world and
written out a prescription that has
three component parts-"If thou
wilt believe in Jesus Christ with
thy heart and confess with thy
mouth that God raised him from
the dead. thou shalt be saved"
Commit Yourself.
Oh, you've got to commit your
self! The truth is, think we've all
got a little yellow in US, haven't
we? Own up now, old man. Haven't
you got q little saffron in your
makeup? Own up, lady. Haven't
you a little yellow streak in you?
If you haven't, you'd walk down
the aisle and publicly confess Jesus
Christ, but you've got yellow in
your makeup. You're afraid of
what somebody will say, and OF
their comments and sneers.
So many of you have kept your
church membership a secret You've
come to this city and haven't iden-
titled yourselves with the church.
You are drifting away from God and
his truth. Confession helps you,
it helps the cause of God, too, sir,
and many a time you have smiled
sickly grin when you have been
in the midst of a lot of knockers
and you have nSyer peeped and
never chirped, wheh you have stood
with a lot of scoffers.
And another thing, when you have
been asked to stand up. when you
have been asked to identify your
self with God to renew your VOW
and covenant, some of you have
sneaked out with the rabble like a
renegade. You are afraid. The truth
is, we've got little yellow in us.
You cannot be saved II you are not
willing to give up your sin and make
up your mind to serve Christ. You
can't do it!
You don't own heaven-heaven be-
longs to God. II you don't want TO
go to heaven. go to hell. then. You
can't go to heaven upon any other
condition than that you accept Jesus
Christ as your Saviour. Heaven be-
longs to God, it doesn't belong to
you II you don't want to go in,
all right. There Is only one way
to get in and that's through Jesus
Christ.
Too Proud to Repent.
I'm not going to beg you to do
1t, but am telling you what you've
got to do in order to be saved. Men
do these things to be Masons, Odd
Fellows. Friendship, love and truth
! is a great trinity, my friend. but he
hasn't any right to claim that he's
a member Of that organization unless
he has complied with the regula-
tons.
You haven't any right to claim
that you are Christian unless you
have done what God tells you to do.
What must I do to be saved ?"
Some won't give up their adultery,
their profanity. Some won't give
up their lying, they are unwilling to
admit that they are lost sinners. Oh,
some are proud of their morality.
Some are SO proud of their social po-
I sition. Some are So proud of their
culture. Some are so proud of their
education. Some are so proud of
their clothes. Some are proud that
they are proud, and some are proud
that they are not proud But God
has something to say about this.
Come unto Me-" said Jesus-not