The Washington herald., 1918-01-24
Believe in God; Why Shouldn't Human Beings? ?

forgive him. He won't make sin
the prey of his life.
That doesn't msan that he can't
sin. That doesn't mean that when
get through preaching tonight that
can't go out and go into q booze
joint and fill my, hide up with rot
ten whisky, It means I don't want
to do II. That is what Il means. It
means that God has taken away the
desire. Therefore. whoever is born
of God doth not commit sin. That
doesn't mean he can't, II means he
doesn't want to commit sin. He
doesn't want to 60 and live in sin.
You let q hog fall into the mud
and he will lie there. Heris con-
tent. That is his nature. You let
a sheep fall into the mud and he
will get out as quick as he can.
He hates mud. So the world can
tell whether you are q hog or q
sheep and do II quick.
II you have been born again, you
have got Gods nature. When you
fall into the mud you will crawl
out. II you are just simply a mem
ber of his church, and have not
been born again you will lay in sin.
That's a fact. Whosoever II born
of God loveth the brethren. You
love everybody whether in your de-
nomination or not. IL he Is Chris
tan You Methodists love the Pres
byterians, you Baptists love the
Disciple and you Episcopalians
love the Lutherans. whosoever is
born of God, loveth the brethren,
yet some of the meanest things that
have been said about me while In
Washington have been said by church
members.
False Religion.
"Whosoever has been born Of God
loveth the brethren" And, by
gosh, some of them have been
preachers at that.
"Whosoeyer is born OF God loveth
his brethren" Do you love me?
Wait until / get to heaven. / am
going to tell God about some OF
you folks. You say how can i tell
whether I have been born Of God
Well, l am giving you some scrip
tural directions. This is Gods way.
A friend of mine sat in a rich
and fashionable church and they
were receiving into membership, oh,
about one hundred people, and II
was a Baptist church. They came to
q point in 1t where they asked all
that would extent the right hand
of fellowship to arise. Just don't
know the wording. Everybody arose
except a woman that sat next to
my friend and he knew her.
He said, You are a member OF
this church,"
, She said, Yes"
You are going to rise and say
that you will extend the right hand
of fellowship to those that are
coming in7'
She said, mo, they are coming
from our mission church and I am
not going to stand and say that ]
will give them the right hand OF
fellowship"
And yet that hussy had the audac-
ity to say she was a follower Of
Jesus Christ. She was so close to hell
that she could look into il.
"Whosoever is born OF God believeth
that Jesus is the Christ"
You belive that he is the Son Of
God and that your salvation is
through faith in Him.
who is a liar but he that denieth
that Jesus is the Christ"
Nobody is born Of God, who denies
that Jesus Christ was the Son of God.
They are not born of God: they can't
be. There is no Christianity outside
of Jesus Christ
There are lots OF people that live
good lives, that don't believe in the
Son of God. but they are not Chris
tians. and the reason they live a de-
cent life. is because Of the restraining
influences. of Christianity. There is
no Christianity outside of Christ
"Whosoever is born of God overcom-
eth the world" How does that sound?
"Whosover is born Of God overcometh
the world"
There are two classes of people,
those that overcome the world and
those that are overcome by the world.
How many sound potatoes can you
pack around a rotten one and have
them keep? Why the rotten one will
make all the sound ones rotten
Now every man here tonight has a
body and soul. No matter who you
may be, every man and woman on
earth has a body and soul. Now 1
look at you sitting there. You look
at me standing here. You don't see
me at all. You simply see the house
live in. I am the tenant. not my
will, Gods will When God says to me,
bill, you have lived in that house
long enough. move out" move.
Some day this old house that used
to live in will fall over. They will
phone for the undertaken. He will
come and put it in a coffin and he will
embalm it, but he won't embalm me,
he will simply embalm the house that
1 used to live in, that's all. My soul
is the thing that makes this body
walk. My soul is the thing that
makes it talk and move. That's what
God wants to save, that conscious
ness.
Rebirth of Souls.
can take an opiate, reduce my
flesh. deaden: drive out. You can cut
this body up and it don't feel it at
all. Why? Let the soul move out
and you can cut it to pieces and 1t
doesn't feel. 1t is the soul that is
capable OF feeling and thinking and
all that, that God wants to save. Not
this. this is only the house am liy-
ing in. So everybody has a body.
Here is the body. You have q soul.
you can see my soul by what make