Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-24

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afternoon on the topic Personal
Work" Rev. Mr.. Sunday said You
can SO live that God can manifest
his power through you. Then you
know from experience that there
is a God. He went on further to
I point out the forces that can be
put to work in carrying the truth
to the world and said in part:
I believe there are hundreds Of
people today that want to win
| somebody for Jesus Christ but they
are waiting to be told how. l think
| there are hundreds of people that
want to work and there are hun
dreds that wouldn't lift their hand
| or open their lips to help anybody
| for Jesus. l believe there are hun
! dreds if not thousands of people
that are anxious, not five talented
men, not ten talented. but men and
women Of ordinary ability that are
/ sick and tired of q mere empty
| profession.
They are getting tired OF Just
beating q path from their home to
| the church and back again on Sun
never go in the afternoon and
never go at night and their entire
| Christian life consists in going to
| church on Sunday morning and
putting little money in the collec-
ton plate ever since.
| Oh, God wants mothers that will
turn pale over their children going
down to the devil. He wants par
ents that will weep, he wants
| friends that will gasp, and he
wants workers that will groan; he
wants church members and min
listers that will be concerned and
forget to eat or sleep over people
going to perdition and nothing
| being done to win them-only SER
vice one day in seven.
Now there are certain gifts, il
you are going to do it. First OF
all, salvation-because l want to
| repeat, multitudes in the church,
l believe, have never been saved.
! They don't know what a religious
! experience is. l don't need to con-
sumo my strength and your time
telling you how good bread and
| butter are, how good apples are,
| how good water is-you'ye eaten.
| you've drunk. That's an expeT-
fence. Therefore, if you have ever
had the experience you know there
is a God He answers your prayer.
Multitudes of people never have
any experience; they don't know
what it is. They don't live so that
God can answer their prayer.
/ Therefore, all they know about
/ -
| from somebody else
You can so live that God can
manifest his power through you.
Then you know from experience
that there is a God, and you are
not going to follow all these isms
and schisms that may come thun-
dering along to lead you away from
Jesus Christ.
Jesus said to Peter, when thou
art converted, strengthen thy
brethren" So you are in no posi-
ton to help anybody else if you
haven't been helped yourself.
We've got to turn from every
known sin if we are going to be
any power for God. You can't have
your own way about everything.
A lot of people repeat the Lord S
pray-'HOur Father who art in
heaven, hallowed be thy name
and never tell il to their dying day.
( Now that shows you that you ought
to do something out of the ordi-
nary.
have always noticed that
everybody considers himself IL
censed to impede the progress of
an fee wagon, but a fire engine al
ways has a clear street. Learn
something! Get a move on you
and all the devils of hell will begin
to howl. That's why you never stir
up the devil-because you're not
doing anything, so he's been asleep
all the time you've been on the JOB.
Know the Bible.
So you need Gods word Pack
your heart and pack your head
full of the Word of God. That's
the sword of the spirit The sword
of the spirit!
You ought to know the bible be
cause-listeni God Almighty has
been revealed through Jesus
Christ, and2 Jesus Christ is re-
/ vealed through the bible. 1 must
| know the bible to know Jesus.
must know Jesus to know God, and
/ there is no way you will ever know
God or Christ except you know
them through the bible. Therefore,
if you turn your back on Jesus you
will never know the bible.
! Then again you must know the
: bible to show a man that he needs
a Savior. How do you know that
you need a doctor when you are
sick? How do you know, my
! friends, that you need a fireman
! when your house is afre? There
fore, to show him that he needs a
Savior, to show him that Jesus is
the Savior that he needs, not phi
lanthropy, not culture.
Then, show him what to do 20
make Jesus his SayiOr-that he
must repent, forsake his sins, &C
! knowledge that Jesus Christ was
his substitute.
! And prayer, TWo-thirds of the
church members l believe, do not
have family prayer. think it was
the master stroke of the devil when
! he got the church to give up pray
er. All of you have had your break
fast, your dinner, you have all
dressed. Of you didn't and came
out on hit street they'd pinch
you) but / wonder how many OF
you have read your bible and
prayed today. 1 just wonder. In
not going to ask you for a show of
hands, won't do that, never do.
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