The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-30

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sanse tnar 9dernSHcs human iaaofs4sA
and IL you don't do Gods work Il
went be done
God couid send angels down here
to preach ana sing. but he doesn't.
f>cf puts that in human vessels, and
~ you don't 90 II IL will never be
toge Therefore, Cod isn't strerR-
iheni1k hlms@lf Tie has power. and
IS STRENGTHENING his people through
whom IN power must be manifest. Ii
they arr not right then you put the
hardel''s On the Lord. Now, they
placed undue reliance in human aid.
/ Friends of the Family.
+ They sert friends over to Jesus. No
doubt the ones they ,sent were friends
IF the family and Of Jesus. and they
went over after Jesus because Lazarus
was sick. Jesus had gone over into
another part OF the country to preach.
and Lazarus took III. and they went
over and said to him:
Lord. he whom you love Is sick 20
Nv what an enyiahie place Lazarus
had in the heart OF Jesus'
II you would come up 70 me and
say. she whom you love rs sick -
there Is only one woman in the United
States / would think about That Is
Mrs, Sunday.
tell you Lazarus had mighty
r0zy corner in The heart of Jesus
They didn't tell them to mention any
names. hut just go up and say, HE
VIII ON you love ia sick" and he would
think OF Lazarus
Now listen! You would have
thought that IL Jesus loved Mar ha
and Mary and Lazarus, and appreci
ated their hospitality. that he would
come " to the house instantly.
/ read in the nth verse. Now Jesus
loved Martha and Mary and Lazarus
when he heard that he was sick he
where he was"
Af'er the messengers had left Be
thany chased away over here to where
Jesus was holding meeting. and told
him. "He whom you love is sick" In
stead or running down there. he
stayed over two days.
I think II required more love for
Jesus to stay away than II did for him
TO go up there. I think Jesus said,
Now see here. II I go up there and
raise him from the sick bed. they
won't believe on me"
He would be doing that and they
would be splitting into his face and
cursinw him, and calling him a wine
bibber and glutton. But he said:
II wifi tell you: will stay away
and let him die. then T will raise him
from the dead, and they can't helm
but believe that am the Son OF God.
and IT viii fulSli prophecy"
! Up to that time we had no record
that Jesus had raised anybody from
the deed. so think II required more
love for Jesus to stay awy than for
him 10 go. He wanted 10 60 up there
y a 4nr an n
Martha and Mary by healing their
sick brother but he said
Those Jews won't believe II
raise "A man from the sick bed. They
Will say arm a fake and q fraud.
will let him die"
Now. wait md sec II I arm not right
Now. as ! go up and down the land
and preach, I find pastors. as rule
are willing to do all they can. Once
in a while I find fellow that's got q
yellow streak In him. IF he has go
corner OF the Spanish flag tucked
away In his makeup. can dig IL out
as Quick as anybody. II you have go'
any sa rron in your makeup, n reviva
like this will show who you are. and
you never had ANYTHING In the uni
verse como 10 you as an individual II
show whether you really loved Coo
or not. or whether you are following
lin for the loavcs and the fishes.
You have your best chance to SHOW
your rrit on Jesus Christ that yo,
ever had IN your life. have jus
given you. a chance to get your men
tai adjustment here for a couple o
weeks But Christ will never come "a
this or any other civ until his re
demptive power--unttl the entir'
family OF God go out to meet him
! Bvt II God had to wait for ever!
preacher in this town and ever,
hurch member to be absolutely II
harmony and sympathy with THU
movement before ne saved a soul yot
would he in hell in forty-eiEht hours
He won't do II. So God will take thos'
that will get right. and do want some
thing. and through you he will save
people.
! Oh God. how the church In twins
the lords hands nowadays instead o
| getting eut and doing what she cugh
To do. II the entire family OF the re
deemed would 70 out - pray and 4
work. and to do personal work. Oh
how you would stir not only this city
but this nation.
They had personal interview WITH
Jesus. Every sinner must come al
an Individual I can't save YOU ant
you can't save your husbands Re.
'ig1On fs pcrSnnai uAtfcF, the eaVs
as everything else IL a personal mat.
fer-~-food. and air. and water. and
medicine. All the medicine that
might take II you were III wouldn't
cure you. II s personal matter be-
tween RE and that bottle Of medicine
/ And can't step In. There II nc
proxy business In that, neither II there
any In religion.
| Now, Lazarus was dead. and II he
was going to. be raised someone must
see Jesus, Now, I believe in societies
II he'iese in organizations. believe
in evanrelists. I bei've in seminaries
. I believe In the passionate. But what
/ % needed today In personal contact or
the part OF the individual with Jesus
Christ There ia too much depending
! on the preacher TO do 1t. There In toe
much proxy business There seems
20 be perpetual sign hanging around
in every church WANTED. a recipe by
which our work can oe accom- plished
= 'iyy pr0ww" And Won are droppSng
money into the collection plate while
/ God wants you. Put you don't give
yourself 70 him. Somebody's got 10
do IT, You do your part, whatever
you are able 10 do in the world.
] A coiored man went 70 Join a fash
! lornN'e church. and they kind OF
stalled him off. and the preacher said
Z "a him.