Sharp County record., 1919-04-04

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had come to do
the fathers will and he never for a
moment let that drop out Of sight until
he was ready to say, II have finished
the work that thou gavest me to 40"
Every man has mis- appointed WORK
and ordinarily he knows what 1t Is,
and if he keeps that in view, especially
if he keeps in view the one who gave
him the appointment, he will not fall.
Jesus Christ realized every moment
that he was an apostle, that Is a "sent
one" and he carried out his work as
sent to be the high priest for his peo-
pie, viz: to make reconciliation OF
men to God, in short to make their re-
demption complete.
This faithfulness of Jesus Christ
was compared with the faithfulness OF
Moses who was declared to be faith
full In all his house." Nothing omitted
as far as human scrutiny could 60
But the faithfllness Of Jesus Christ
was greater-not so much in the quail
ity Of it-but in that he was faithful
as the son over his own house, whose
house we are. Here, as in ether quail
tiles Of the high priest, Jesus was bet
ter than man or the best OF men.
It Is in this faithfulness Of Jesus
Christ that the believer has the guar
anty Of his ultimate salvation, While
man must not forget that he must
hold fast to the confidence and re-
joicing Of the hope firm unto the end"
yet emphasis must always be placed
on the fidelity Of the Redeemer. Paul
was confident that he that had begun q
good work IN him would perform II, OF
perfect It, until the day of Jesus
Christ. To him Jesus was looked upon
as taking hold Of man and guaran'
teeing his salvation. It Is not presump-
ton to look upon Jesus as undertaking
the redemption Of man and bellev-
Ing that he will complete the work.
It Is very rarely that you find a Chris
tian man or woman who Is instrument
tai in bringing q man to the Lord who
Is thus faithful, and the believer might
from two standpoints do well to think
Of Jesus as faithful to him. Some
times when he Is In the way Of temp
tatlon and Jesus Is having q hard time
to hold him; sometimes when q man
Is really doing his best with tremend-
Gus opposition, Jesus Is near at hand
keeping him from falling.
This faithfulness Of Jesus Is some
thing In which we may all share. AS
we look upon men we find many Of
them possessing the talents that we
do not possess, They have splendid
physiques, fine personalities, good
voices high intellectual attalnments,
suavlty and many other qualities, and
as we look at ourselves we find our
selves to be utterly lacking, and such
os we have nre very inferior, and so
we despair Of making mark In con-
neetlon with them,
I There ls another thing about tho
faithfulness Of Jesus that completes
our confidence; his falthfulnoss Is
coupled with transcendent ability.
Paul again comes to us and says "For
| know In whom | have believed, and
am persuaded that he Is able to keep
that which | have committed unto
him against that day." There was n
day when Paul committed his eternal
salvation to Jesus Christ, lie left II
all In the hands Of Jesus; ho trusted
him as faithful, Az that time Paul did
not know much about the ability Of
Jesus but now, near tho end Of his
lie, ofter the lapse indeed Of many
years, We know that no has tested
Jesus and HE testimony Ia that not
only was he faithful but that he was
nble We cannot doubt but that Paul
had many hard battles, and as he was
passing through some Of them IL would
seem that he must fall but lust ns ho
was going down Jesus held out his
btrong hand md delivered him. "That
day" was not far distant to Paul nj.
though Il has not arrived yet, but Paul
knew that his eternal interests we're
safe In Jesus because he had rested
him for 90 long, Paul knew that God
was rich IN glory ond could supply oll
his needs, abh he wrote to the phlllppian
Chrlstlanh,
To every man that has serious
thought about the salvation or his own
soul Jesus Christ Ia presented M n
mediator between God and man, IN tho
position Of the high priest aud he
has three qualities that are absolutely
necessary to the completion Of that
work First, he has the ability 10 do
II secondly, he has the willingness
10 do n thlrdlv be has tina faitAf,,i