The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-05

inquire OF speech that OF the natural birth And certainly
we'll chosen and ought help every student to understand
something of the marvellous change must take place in the
spirit of sinner, for him to become child of God and
to turn away from the service of the devil the service
of God
That the beginning the Christian Life 1t is called the
new BIRTH
have doubt that are persons in this audience this
afternoon who serving the devil. have doubt that
mothers prayers and wes prayers sermons nnuerabe
and the singing of touching hymns have fallen upon deaf
and that such for years and years. have been smoking
and chewing and drinking and swearing and serving devil
You conceive that small change must be wrought
upon the spirit of such before that begin
Christian life
AS have said the first thing that take place in that
mans spirit he be convicted of his sins Sometimes you
say 'We, there is whose heart hard rock"
THE GOSPEL "SAvoR LIFE UNro LIFE, DEATH UNTO
DEATH"
remember man. who said that when he first heard
preach Melbourne made him squrm and wrhe and twist
torment; but that he had heard Often that he had
gotten where had effect him ALL In other words, he
had hardened his heart he had resisted conviction he had
sisted the power Holy Ghost until in his hardhearted
condition he boosted that that made him wrte
and twist, no longer had any effect upon him at ALL
That illustration of how the Gospel may be the sa-
of life life" unto man. of death unto death
for as resist power of the Holy Ghost and continue to
resist it. harden their hearts, they get hard that sometimes
God delivers them over told in the first chapter
of Romans God simply delivers them into the hands of
DEVIL that they may commit sin in the catalogue
IT IS TERRIBLE THING RESIST HOLY GHOST
Now may be deeply convicted and not surrender
Men and often convicted of SIM but they do not
surrender They the conviction and they continue their
fight the conviction Though they awake at night
roll and and ro still there who fight the
conviction who resist the power of the Holy Ghost and come
down their deahbeds and then they seek to do in minute
what on11 he in hO1r
weeks and months.
will tell you deah-bed repentance is mighty dangerous
thing It is risk would take do not that 1t
is an absolute mposbt but do say that is when
put the most favorable construction upon ia rlsK at
would not want to take.
venture to saw this afternoon that there sitting
here who they make Decline for God and do quickly
will be face face with deathbed repentance when they will
feel the finger of Death reaching for their heartstrngs
I will tell you my brother, my sister, when Death comes
along and knocks your door, and continues to knock and
ask ho here? and the knock continues, and when finally
in sheer desperation you say, Come n and in stalks the
monster Death claim his ownther no use to begin
them and think that you do what you should have done
twenty years ago. Then you condition to fight the
monster Death he has simply to forecose his mortgage
will mention this little later on.
THE REDEMPTION OF CHRIST PLAINLY Mosaic
CEREMONIES
God promised to send His Only Begotten Son. His coming
pointed out the very days His crucon and resurrection
foreshadowed the Mosaic ceremonies And when the
time He crucifed Calvary once for ALL And in
Crucxon there provided Salvation Healing Cleans
ing and Keeping power for every member of the human family
1t does make any difference whether have claimed
deposit is there for you You have part in this
you appropriate the Atonement which Jesus made.
After God has convicted you of your SINS after God has
taken hold of your spirit then what?
Then you must turn to God!
Now Gods work upon your spirit Gods turning you to
Him. that is the "new BIRTH REGENERATION And when
you turn to God that is what call CONVERSION.
Now the fact of the matter u.s. that Regeneration, the new
BIRTH and Conversion, and the same thing.
REGENERATION PART, CONVERSION MANS PART
IN OBTAINING SALVATION
God turns your spirit by the of the Holy Ghost and
that is the new BIRTH Regeneration you God how?
By repentance, by confession by restitution.
And when you have been "born again." when you have
turned around which conversion and you longer
headed for hell but you headed for heaven then
what call Justification which very little understood
by most people, and still is not difficult understand.
The word justification" legal You are sinners
and you deserve DEATH But having been linked Christ
God and through Jesus the Christ and your sins having
been forgiven and pardon having been extended God the AL
mighty es you and you taken from under the pen
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