The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-13

into a valley Of dry homes
Soldiers Of God.
In these days the spirit Of God
must have It's Erenadiers, or soldiers,
that WITH 10 10 sYe last Glitch for JeSaa
Christ and plant the bfood-ss2ined
banner OF the Son of Goo upon the
ramparts OF iniQuity that dare raise
their heads against justice and it,
cause. and all Join hands and sing
Tn the Cross OF Christ Glory.
My purpose now il to briefly try
and show you that the modern church
member is the Holy SPIRITS gren-
adler, or soldier. by and through
which God hopes to convert this sin
cursed world to the Holy Spirit. be-
cause Jesus Christ was the FIRST great
recruiting officer. The earliest Bibi-
cal account we have Of Jesus organic
ing his followers into an army was
in the tenth chapter OF Luke. After
this the Lord appointed officers that
where ne himself should Afterwards
come.
And these gospel grenadiers. or
scouts. or sertinels, or fcrerunnerr OF
salvation went out and viewed the
enemy's breastworks and they came
back and made their report. and their
statement determined the plan Of at
tack that would be pursued. ana n
the cruciflxion OF Jesus Christ drew
formed the neucleus Of the church.
for He knew that this work had to be
entrusted to human hands.
Then at Pentecost Peter stood up
and said: MEN Of Judea and all We
that dwell in Jerusalem, these men
are not drunk from wine." why the
the people said: Those people are
soused." They had hit the booze:
they were going down the line. Peter
said: It's bum steer. It's wrong"
He said: These ara not drunk with
wine as We suppose, seeing 1t il but
the third hour of the day" They
were not lot OF fools like We are
nowadays We get drunk and stay
drunk all day and night. He said
These are not drunk with wine, see
ing it is but the third hour OF the
day. But thia ls that which was
spoken by the Prophet Job: And It
shalt come to pass In the last days
that will pour out my spirit upon
ters shall dream dreams and your old
men shall see visions" And Jesus
In Fiis va1edictory said to his dis
4cipiee: Now. you 70 hack 10 ;Jeru-
salem and you tarry there until you
be endued with power from on high"
You have got to do this work, but you
are In no at condition to do It And
you 90 back there and wait until you
are endued with the power that you
need In order to advance the cause
OF God in this old sin-cursed world.
And did you ever realize hat Jesus
Christ worked His miracles and they
were His divine credentials. He was
conscious that He was the Son OF God
when He wa4 twelve years Of are,
for He said to that bunch OF high
brows IN the temple at Jerusalem: II
must be about MY Fathers business"
And SO He knew then that He was
to rule this whole world, and yet He
gave His disciples power. for Jeans
had to do something moro than walk
over the hilltops Of Juda and sAy:
Il am the Son Of God" He had to
get out ana deliver the goods, express
charges prepaid. He worked Hh
miracles, which were his divine Gre
ientials, to show the world that He
was what He claimed 70 bA-fhe Son
II God. And He gave power 70 His
disciples to work miracles - peove
bat the church Of God was ~ Divine
origin. MS ~ u
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