The Washington herald., 1918-02-04
ARE YOU SATISFIED?
KILL YOUR own GOAT
And MAKE A SACRIFICE
EVENING SERMON
THE ATONEMENT

mercy out of Christ. then Jesus
Christ died in vain on the cross. II
salvation could have been attained
otherwise than by the death of Jesus
then all He went through was useless
According to the Bible, men are
saved because they accept Jesus
Christ and men are lost not because
they are worse than others, but be-
| cause they reject Jesus Christ. And
our sins to be forgiven must be con-
veyed somewhere and God laid on
Jesus Christ our iniquity, so I ac-
cept the one who bears my guilt
and that lets me escape. And IL
the world would be firmly con-
vinced that Jesus Christ is the Son
Of God then and accept Him, sin
would instantly cease. No man
would stagger home drunk. nobody
would lie and defame another's
character, and come tonight to
present to you the only power that
can set you free from the sins
which hold you an unwilling pris-
oner, chained to your evil shabits
and can't imagine the possibility
of anybody of ordinary intelligence
entertaining the least doubt about
Jesus Christ being the Son of God
As q Rnnsome.
Jesus Christ gave his life. a ran
some for me. Some of Our hymnoI-
Ogy and a great deal of our sos
called theology is misleading. I
never like the clarifying process of
the blood. believe the blood fiow-
ing from the wound of Jesus would
stain my linen as much as the blood
Anvufno from he - -
loonkeeper would have stained my
linen. The blood Of Jesus Wouldn't
make my linen be white. the blood
OF Jesus was red, when we are
speaking from that standpoint.
Now it stands for redemption. We
are not redeemed with corruptible
things such as silver and gold, but
by the precious blood of Christ. You
are not redeemed by your culture,
your philanthropy, your education.
We are redeemed by the blood of
Christ
Jesus Christ died for every sa-
loonkeeper and every thug and
every murderer and prostitute; he
died for all and redeemed all. but all
will not be saved. for all will not
accept the redemption They will
go to hell.
So redemption Is more than saliva
tion. While redemption was for
Everybody. salvation Is only for
those who will accept redemption.
So salvation Is not universal. 1t
will be IL everybody will accept re-
Idemption. They all can be saved II
they will. The vilest sinner has
been redeemed. Redeem means buy
back and so we have been bought
back.
Now. then, IL you had something
that belonged to me and I could
prove that Jesus Christ redeemed US
when He died on the cross, and you
wouldn't give it to me could 90
down to the courthouse and make
you do it. I can prove you are a
thief, you are withholding from God
what rightfully belongs to Him by
virtue of purchase with the blood OF
His only begotten Son. and / am glad
to put nv fist under your nose and
tell you you are an old thief. You
are not a man. you haven't got a
spark of womanhood or manhood in
you. if you haven't got what Jesus
Christ paid for in His own blood.
Buying Back.
Redemption means to buy back.
Jesus paid the price. Don't be fool.
give him what belongs to him. We
are redeemed. not with corruptible
things such as silver and gold, but
by the precious blood of Jesus Christ.
1t stands for Gods hatred of sins.
Now a skillful man can argue
against the validity of the Scriptures
and IL you are not rooted and ground
ed in faith, doubt will seem more
reasonable to you than faith. I am
going to say something that may
startle some of you Listen, now! II
L hadn't been four years under the
care and instruction and guidance OF
men who believed the Bible was the
word of God and Jesus Christ Is the
Son Of God in the formative period of
my Christian manhood, am afraid
I'd be standing here tonight preaching
infdelity to you instead of Chris
tianity and one of the men who
guided me in my younger days was
DR.. Chapman who helped me.
You can argue against the Bible,
but you can't argue against sin. Sin
is in the world and all the damna-
ton and misery comes from sin. You
can argue against God, Jesus, heaven,
hell; you can say that death Is an
eternal sleep; you can argue against
all that, but you can't argue against
sin. 1t is in the world, and all the
misery. sorrow, anguish, heartache;
all the murder. outrage and all the
war, and all that curses and ruins
and damns and infests and blights
like a -pestilence; all the insomnia
all is caused by sin. That is what
danns the world.
We are only asking men and women
to flee from the thing that curses
their life. I think you forget all of
it when you refuse to be a Christian
and live for Jesus Christ and for
Ills truth.
When ! am in Chicago, which isn't
often, and when I am in there at
night. which is less, there Is one
place l always go to; that is the old
Pacific Garden Mission, where thirty
years ago. one dark, stormy night,
1 found Jesus Christ as my Savior
i was there sometime ago; I had
spoken and 1 felt tired and weary,
and turned to Nell and 1 said, "NeN,
let's walk home; It won't take us
long. and it will rest me to get out
in the air and keep away from the
crowd"
So We stepped out on Van Buren,
and walked west to Clark. We turn
ed north on Clark street a block
to jackson Bulevard and turned west
p Jackson Boulevard and turned west
reached the foot of LaSalle street
the clock in the tower struck 10.
said. Nell. it's 10 o'clock. Wouldn't
you likeAto go down to, the Harrison
Police Station. They are rounding
up the human derelicts. They are
just bringing them in. It's 10 o'clock.
The devil. like the beasts of prey