The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-27
Keep Your Servant From
Presumptous Sin
lsefnon Preached py st,7, plT tdn6n St5 %
Afternoon of February 90

The nineteenth Psalm. thirteenth
verse. Keep back thy servant IS
from persumptuous sins"
Someone has sad. there ARE tw'
kinds sin. The sin we comui
ignorant,y and the sins we COMMIT
presumtiousIy. But, II you viii looF
into your Bible you Will find ihF
Bible tells OF two kinds Of sins, the
sins Of ON ission, that is the things
that you do not do that God com
naands you to do, and the sins OF
comm issicn. the things you do that
God tells you not to do.
And so there are swo kinds OF sin
IL God tells you 10 10 som ethit1g'
snd YOU don't do It then you re
sinned and IL God tells you not to do
II, then you've sinned. Soc
Thou shalt not steal"
Thou shalt not bear fatss witness
against thy neigh bor-"
Thou sran love the Lord thy
Gsod with all thy heart and with &ll
thv soul. and viii all Inv strength.
and with all thy mind, and my leigh
Der a. thyseir."
so there Is no difference aety ven
doing what ven are tolc e. so 90 NJ
not doing what yosl are told &c DO.
Cursed be thou hecauso }tt carle
nct with the help % the Lord against
the mighty"
So they weren't cursed tor any
thing they did, Hut for what 10 y
didn't do. God says. ! will curse
YOU because fou didn't help me"
A great many peCpie say: II am
act a transwrctsar, for / dent lie e
son't cougniI adultery or lie"
That may be true. / haven't hrcE-
"a this commandment or that /
suppose most everybody would fail
multi.udos OF peop.4. I am ce1# sure.
would die before they would kaow!Ug-
~ do wroug, h-t suppose most
people fat} somewhere at tn sims OF
omission dom care now who you
are
If couldn't nnd Anything that
you dfd that God told you not to do,
could ind sorcthin& that YOU didn't
DO that God told Won to 10. How
many Of ua LEI great tEpor tunitiAs
pass by 10 SPEAK 20 somebody or so
do somethinr for Jesus and. there
fore. we dc-'& DO 1t ana s!n is chalk
cd againct us
Some years aro a fellow visited
y geological garden and saw the dead
body az e lion belrg c&-ri Z .'~om
n cage and they nousb Is and 4ust
for Soke ths>. cent 4 70 Landseer,
The animal painter. and he took il
for a model He painted Il in tbs
midst of a vast expanse or desert,
represented az having died from want
Of food ard thirs- and he called tina.
painting The Desert ard Il became
and is ore Of the words master
pieces
How many. rry friends. have op-
pcrtunities for doing something
worth while and they let them pass
by They couldn't gee anything but
dead lion. and he saw in IL ar on
rortunity fer one OF the worlds
master pieces today. You've all seeu
copies OF the lion lying IN tte desert
That's how he happened TO get tho
idea
Now nsteni Cod allows nothing TO
De lost God never intended that any
r-pod thing should 20 to- waste. Not
even q sunbeam is allowed 10 throw
itself away So, ne ] sad. Cod never
allows anything 10 go to waste 4
sunbeam that win paint the Towers.
will make the GLASS turn green, j.
will give you something to cat. II
Will make the fields of waving grain.
Ages before man came into this
world the sun was pouring its heat
nnd light upon II. bat Cod didn't
suffer a ray Of II TO be lost. II was
stored away In coal and wood, and
our gteam and drives our LOGON motives
and our giant ships and when Jesus
ssaid: Gather up the fragFnents.H he
was telling Us how TO be rich.
,%aAa> a ssrrs<sss eaaaa oLeEu said; 49, Taxa
care OF the pennies ana the dollars
will look after themselves" Gather
rp the fragments
Every SIN ts G~@zf-
Every Sin Is great, no matter how
doesn't look at in the same iighe
that you look at 1t and that sin viii
keep you out OF heaven II you don c
repent No matter how great your Elm
may be. or may seem to you. II VIII
keep you out OF heaven II you don |
repent 1t Isn't q question of what
you've done Man doesn't go to he'll
because he In a sinner He 81 lost
because he rejects salvation that God
offers to him through faith In Jesus
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And there are people who are Nv
ing In sin Oh. they can make bean
tiful prayers. but tell you IT'S all up
with you when you start TO 20 down
hill As cure as you live and breathe!
A famous detective. ". J. Burma.
tflls about a den OF criminals who
were planning a great murder and
theft The detectives succeeded in
finding their rendezvous and put a
dictaphone under the table In the
-ocm where they used to sit to plan
to murder and to steal. And at
tArhec 10 this little. tiny, disc, no
iArrer than silver dollar, was a
thread OF wire and they bored u
hole through the floor. ran the wire
dp through the side OF wall then
over the roof on the building ana
three quarters of a mile away into