The Washington herald., 1918-01-27

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There are people that count on going
to heaven because they have never
been in Jail. God is no alarmist-no
sir. But He has filled the Bible with
warnings against danger. In cities and
railroads you see red lights and you
go down there they are repairing the
street and If it ID in the daytime there
is a red flag and the laws are, If they
have anything that protrudes over
three feet In the rear OF their auto or
wagon they must tie a white rag on
it as a warning. When you see a
red light, that isn't there to scare
you, it is to protect you. And for the
same purpose God Almighty has flash
ed warnings through the Bible, not
to scare people, but to tell you to
keep away unless you are a fool. A
man won't fall down twice on the same
banana skin unless he is a fool.
So warnings are nothing but Gods
red lights and they are put there not
to frighten you but to save you. There
fore, when there is danger that you
are going to fall into the pit God warns
you before you go headlong into it.
There isn't a man in hell that God
didn't warn before he got in there.
There isn't a man on the way to hell
that God hasn't warned.
Going Gods Way.
So they go contrary to Gods warning
and shut their eyes to His danger
signals and stop their ears to His
warning cry and from Adam down
the devil has worked his hardest try
ing to deIude and deceive the people.
making them think they were safe
when they were in deadly peril.
He tries to make people deaf and
dumb and blind to their own welfare.
That's why a drunkard drops into a
drunkard's grave every time the watch
ticks. When he took the first glass
he didn't look far enough to see the
serpent that was coiled in the bottom
TO strike its fangs and inject its venom.
Oh. girls wouldn't go astray if the
devil didn't deceive them. The road
way to ruin and destruction looks as
though II leads into Fairyland. Prisons
and brothels would soon be empty II
the devil wasn't slick enough to make
black look white. And perhaps you
flatter yourself that you have lived
a pretty good sort Of a life, you've
never been drunk or guilty OF high
way robbery; you've never broken
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heaven?"
This would do 1t If there wasn't an
other word in the Bible. Thou shalt
love the Lord, thy God with all thy
heart. and with all thy soul. and with
all thy mind, and with all thy
strength; and thy neighbor as thy
self"
I'll tell you what the Bible does say,
1t says that you have committed the
greatest sin and you've kept on year
after year for you violated the great
est commandment in not loving God
I with all your heart and all your mind
and all your soul and, therefore, the
man that breaks the greatest COM
mandment doesn't deserve mercy.
Gods Warning Ignored.
You know which is the biggest thief
don't you? The fellow that steals five
cents or the fellow that steals a million
dollars don't you? And how can you
expect to reach heaven when you are
not going Gods way?
The law is a school master to bring
us to Christ by showing US that we
need Jesus Christ. The disease shows
you that you need the doctor; the fire
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| tiremen to put it out: war shows us
that We need soldiers and need all this
That's the proof we need these things.
There Is no worse sin in the world
that you could commit than that.
A horse would never find that he
was in the field If it wasn't for the
fence. Jesus is the door. He is the
way Of escape, the law. Take his
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Come, let's reason together" The
carnal mind is enmity against God.
That is, man who isn't a Christian,
who Is in sin, his mind is called a
carnal mind and his nature makes IL
impossible for him to love God because
he 10 in a state of rebellion against
God and no one can do any worse than
to be content with nature that
hates God. That's the worst thing
you could do in the world. What
chance have you then for heaven II
you reject the only way that you've
got to turn to in order to get in. 1t
stands to reason heaven must be a
place without discord. a place where
nothing but peace and happiness can
ever enter, and without these re-
quirements which maintain this con-
dition and keep heaven free from the
Infections that would poison its Joy,
heaven would not remain heaven that
long.
As long as we quarantine against
infantile paralysis, against smallpox,
diphtheria and against scarlet fever
and other infectious diseases, don't
hnd fault with God Almighty if He
Quarantines the sinner out of heaven.
God Almighty Is going to protect
those who do His will, and He says
TO that sinner. You can't go In there,
heaven Is quarantined against you"
So He must protect the people and
He does protect them by saying that.
So, therefore, the people who meet
Gods conditions and go to heaven,
they will never be brought in con-
tact with those who are in rebellion.
Quotes IngersoI1.
Even Bob Ingersoll said, you take
from virtue the right of self-protec-
ton and vice would reign"
And without the same right heaven
would not remain heaven. 1t would
be overthrown and from this you see
that In order to be Just, God Al
mighty has got to be strict. And He
must have laws that angels can't
break unless that angel wants to go
to hell and the devils in hell were
once bright, shining angels and they
wouldn't keep Gods laws so they
went to hell.
An angel is an angel because 1t
does the will Of God. When II stops
doing the will of God and rebels, 1t
becomes a devil. You are q Chris
tan because you do the will of God
ana you are sinner because you
don't II you will follow the line of
the rebellious angels you will go to
he'll. You can't find any fault with
God-no. sir!
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