Evening star., 1918-01-21
Sermon on Three Groups.

OF the evangelfSt'S sermon yesterday
morning. He said in part:
God created man and placed him in
the garden Of Eden and gave him ex-
plicit command. and man disobeyed,
with full penalty ringing in his ears.
for God said: In the day thou eatest
meaning. of course, a period of twenty
four hours, but he meant that the hu
! man race would reach and pass a
| crisis.
! Adam and Eve ate the forbidden
| fruit and the death penalty passed on
the human race. All disease. and all
misery. and all sorrow. and all famine
and all heartaches are the result Of sin
and death. If we had not sinned we
| never would have died. Man perverts
Gods plan.
God made man free moral agent
| Man could not be a free moral agent
without having freedom to sin If he
! wanted to sin or to do right II he
! wished to do right. man without
| the freedom to do either would be q
man free. that left him free either to
| do right or to do wrong, while God
tells him the reward if he does right
and the punishment il he does wrong.
God Gave the Promise.
F, But man ate the forbidden fruit and
God gave the promise that the seed of
| TIC "oiIidIl SHOulu DTulSe the serpent
head, and in the fullness of time Jesus
Christ was born in the manger. born
of virgin. suffered under Pontius Pi-
late, was crucifed, dead and buried, and
| no matter what He said or did, the Jews
refused to acknowledge His claim and
own Him at the Messiah. the fulfiller of
the Messianic prophecies. and their en-
nifty finally eliminated in the greatest
| tragedy that the eye of God ever wit
messed or the brutality of men ever
LET 70 fIa ,,3G G,rfo -
Christ under the testimony of false wit
nesses. But before that murder took
place some incidents transpired to
which I want to call your attention.
Jesus said to the disciples; You go
into town and you will find a place
where two ways meet and you will find
a colt tied whereon never man sat.
Loose him and bring him to me, and if
those that sit about ask you where you
are going You say the Master hath
need" and straightway theey will give
! their consent
| Heard Curbstone Theology.
+, And they found the colt tied, and I
can imagine a lot OF town loafers, per-
haps sitting around chewing and whit
/ tling and talking and splitting, settling
| the sociological political, educational.
religious and irreligiouS questions of
the day. Because you could have heard
/! moro curbstone theology about Jesus
Christ and more cussing and discussing
than any other period in the worlds
history. And as the disciples walked
up and began to unite the colt I see
some fellow shift his old cud from left
| to right and spit enough tobacco juice
to drown a rabbit and say: Hey, what
are you going to do?'
1.-THE Master hath need of him.
| "And they took the colt out and the
| Master upon it's back entered the city
| in His famous triumphant entry. The
, people came out and shrieked and
screamed Hosanna' and Blessed IS He
that cometh in the name of the Lord. >
and they stripped off their garments
and threw them at His feet, and they
| tore the branches from the trees, and
| plucked up the flowers. and paved His
! way with mementoes of esteem and
/ love and YOU would have thought by
their acclaim and the way they did
: that they were going to crown Him
/ king then and there.
/ Not they. Wait minute, Jesus
| said to His disciples: You go on and
| YOU will find 4 man bearing a pitcher
of water. You follow him and ask the
master of the house if We can use the
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