The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
Thou Art the Christ"
 Sermon by Dr Hobbs

Before a large congregation yesterday morning at the First Baptist church, pr. J R. Hobbs preached a sermon of much force and interest on Simon Peters an sweer: Thou art the Christ
 The text was taken from the sixteenth verse of the sixteenth chapter of St. Matthew: "And Simon Peter answered and said Thou art the Christ. the Son of the living God Stress was laid upon the emphasis of Peter's statement. Dr. Hobbs said in part: Emphasis may be expressed by underscoring, once, twice or thrice; sometimes it is done by italics, capitals, or red letters; sometimes by manner, voice or gesture, or grammar or language. The word the emphasizes this passage. The disciple spoke with tre- fnendous emphasis, as if he made several strokes with a sledge hammer in conver- sation with his followers. Christ asked the question, Who say ye that I am? Peter being spokesman for the twelve. answered Thou art the Christ. the Son of the living God Peters Christ was the | son of God and it is important what He l is to us If he is the Son of the living | God he becomes the Savior of the world. There are men who call themselves | Christians who do not believe in the deity | of Christ Philosophers have spent much | As not to them what he was to the disciples. | Christians never doubt as to His Son. | ship. We have proof from the Bible as to | the divinity of his character. The few l glimpses we have of him show us that he | is the Messiah, not a son of gods, but oi l the living God.
 ; We are told little of his childhood. We 1 have the incident of his birth. the return 1 from Egypt. and his discussion of the ! great principles of the Mosaic law, in the 1 synagogue. where his wisdom is extraor- l dinary. He was not educated. nor carried 1 through tedious courses of training, a:
 was Moses, who spent thirds of hi. life in training for his leadership.
 l Paul was supposed to have been edu cated in Greek universities and conver
 sant with the philosophers of his time | which aided him in the business of hi: ministry Christ was a carpenter. ant knew little of the literature and philos ophy of his day, but when He set out oi the work of turning the world to Chris tianity He was match for any man. His work was to establish the king dom of God among the nations of thu ! world. The kingdom is universal as t.
 time and place. not confined to any rae
 or century. His work had no limitations 1t was different from any ever attempte, by any man. As rule men want to d. the thing they undertake while they live but the Savior who is the conqueror o
 the world. was not anxious to spread tn l kingdom all over the whole world in tn
 three short years of his ministry. Hi
 pretensions were modest as compare,
 with those of men.
 "His was a religion which made it's i'm
 press by the force of love- who with hi
 poor and unpretentious followers demon
 strated by the light shining out of him self. His teachings are simple, yet pro found concerning an infinite subject
 Many commentaries are written about it
 Popular phisolosphy requires a cer
 tain amount of education to understan
 it, but the poorest and simplest can Ia, a hold upon the teaching of Jesus. Wha
 will become of us when we come to tn
 place where men do not believe in tn
 Sonship of Christ?''