The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-17
If Ye Love Me
- Preached by Billy Sunday at the City Auditorium
NNsa Sunday Morning, February 49,


Henee, We dqnt SEC the manifesta~
Y X - -s~1ss-a u
,,.,, Tha <apSs&a Searalns Forever and the
power remains forever. and when we
have more Christian people, we ought
10 have more power with God
We've Got the Money.
We've got the members. we've go
money, Nineteen twentie,hs OF the
wealth of this country Is In the hands
OF processing Christians Catho lies and
Protestantsl / don't know that the
Spirit VIII come upon un in the same
manifestation as ia Pentecost for this
reason We are living in the dispen-
sation that started AT Pentecost He
MS In Abraham, Moses. IsaIah. He
was III David and Daniel. because
theirs were no private interpretations
God seems to have spoken to thi,
world ia thu SO dtgtsnct dispensations
First he spake through the Mosaic
law. Jesus Christ waS born into the
world. born of a woman. born under
the Lord. and then God spake to Tho
world through y esus, and the Jews
and the Genules Gonspired AID muir
teres him. They put him on the
/ crcss. The Holy Spirit came down
at Pentecost and God has eser
hpsakinE To this W. I'D since that time
throug' the Holy Ghost He Is
VIII continue until Jesus Christ comes
back. and then he will speak to the
world through his personal presence.
He did hat once. He VIII do IL again.
God has spoken in two persona. he
fps.ke himself FIRST. through The pro.
phets and priests of the kingxv and
The Mosaic and ceremonial laws, then
through Jesus Christ and he has been
speaking through the Holy GkoAl. aut
he convicts them through the church
and not the brewery. He conticta
them through the church
God iTn'r strengthened IN himself
He Is strengthened IN his people. God
mas always manifested hw power
through human bcingnI and In pro-
portion rs they were wrong with God
just in that proportion did his power
diminish. and in proportion As they
were right, did his power increase
That Is what you've got TO DO
preaching 10 a lawless. fault finding
good for-nothing church That In the
dispensation of this age and OF these
meeti gg. We have no evidence that
! the Spirit of God ever left the world
He is here today. lie la, and he Ia
ready to take your weakness and
transform 1t into power.
lie was In the Old Testament, but
he didn't abide in the SID Testament
lie was strength to this man. a tom
quo to that man. but In the New
Test he abideA lie abides and
he IN here today. waiting to take
your weakness and ma Ike IL power. A
man. not a Christian c4n ain againsi
ne Holy Spirit by blasphemy. That
= how IN unregenerated man can SIN
against tse Holy Ghost. He can xin
by refusing TO be n Christian.
Ever influence that 10 brought To
bear to get you to be Chi istian IL
OF the Spirit An unRaved man can
do Il by insult. He that dsspised
Moseg Law died without mercy.
Can Gr.e~e the Spirit.
Now then, Christian man or woman
you can grieve the Spirit OF God. first
ny allowing evil to remain In your
heart Let all bitterness and wrath
and malice and evii-speaking be put
away from you Second, you car
rhrou-h your refusal to do thingl
that will give you higher ground fol
Jesus Christ.
Then-what In the thing 10 do7 F1ru
! for thu uprzved man or woman &c
cease resisting the Spirit. by &ccept-
Ing Christ and becoming Christians
and for the Christian TO yield to the
Spirit of God in service. allowing the
Spirit to pGt out OF your life whatever
! srieVcs him. Then, when we 10 that
We will all be right with God the
unsaved man through regeneration
ard the saved man through the Spiri,
OF God
That Is what God want, VIM 20 do
Don't you see Row the Lord works.
Some say. Well. tharr . matter OF
election"
well. 7 agree with Henry Ward
BEE Ser, when he aaid. The elect are
hose that vote for themselves, and
the non-eiect are those that won't"
And ! agree with Moody. when he
said: "T'he elect are the whosoever
Wills and the non NEGLECT are the who
soever wo1'tT," II you elect to be
AMI II you don't you viii so to he'll.
You have decided. so you have got
TO take Off your hat TO John Wesley
who PREF ched the doctrine az the free
) Will OF mum. God gives everybody a
chance. offers You salvation. out he's
left II with you. whether yen win 40
cert or whether you won't
You say. There Is something m the
way" What IL in the way?
Well. my culture" You Insult the
cultured yaen and women. All the
cultured men and women Of the world
are Chr .stian men and women Dc
yon mean to say that I will admit
TINT the man who doesn't besiievo In
.Tesas Christ Is r ore OF q cultured
man than am. Shen DO believe in
Jesus CT -ist? Not u. your tin-type!
Never amt that the man who
doesn't believe In Jesus Christ In more
OF cultured man than the ono who
does believe in Jesus Christi
/ You say. MY ignorAnce!" Billy
Bay. tsHa Cornish miner was 10 igpo-
rant shst he eoulaH.s read his name
either IN printing or writing. One
day e. fellow said TO him, ''Bt,iy. car
you read writing7"
He said, mo. cau't read read
ing
Aad yet the Lord took that ignor-
ant Cornish miner and did one of the
greatest works OF grace tho world
has ever known, the same as he did
,sattn Evan Roberts. and started tht
greatest spiritual awakening.
Called a Coal Miner.
Evidently, God couldn't find q col.
i.ge professor or preacher, and &c
he called "a coal miner to do it
win tell you what Ia ir the way, moi
your culture or ignorance, Il lis your
rtubbosn VIII. you viii not give Ut
20 God
VIII, a man died In the poor house
in England SOYYa flrra arm aud he