Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-13

world as horrible thing and show
ed the way to escape its punish
ment through the attoning blood
of Jesus Christ In part he said !:
The atOnement IS the state or
quality or the plan perfected
whereby a sinner might be made
one again with God. A sinner has
no standing with God. A sinner is
an alien, he is in his attitude to-
ward God what an alien is in his
attitude. An alien can claim none
of the protection OF this govern
ment, he is not a citizen. A sinner
is not citizen of heaven, he is an
alien and God will not deal in
mercy with that sinner until he
returns through faith in the shed
blood of Jesus Christ, then he can
claim all the protection and friend
ship of heaven. An alien cannot
claim the protection of this gov
eminent until that man becomes
naturalized. then he can stand be-
tween the stars and stripes for the
same protection that is accorded
you and me.
So a sinner is an alien and he
must come. And so the atonement
/ is the state or quality or the plan
perfected whereby a sinner might
/ be made one again with God. as we
have laws whereby an alien can
become an American citizen, en-
titled to our laws and protection.
So, men go to hell because Of
their opinions. There are men in
I prison because of their opinions.
The laws said one thing, and they
! opinions and that was contrary to
| the law so they are doing time, II
| they'd have followed the law they
/ could have been sitting here listen
/ ing to me.
Innocent Suffer.
So it is the plan of all plans that
| I see exemplihed every day that
the innocent suffer with and far
more than the guilty. From the
| fall OF man in the garden Of Eden
until now, see no possible cease
/ from sorrow until the coming OF
| Jesus Christ. it has beep and is the
rule that the innocent suffer for
| the guilty, so don't you charge the
/ plan OF salvation with being q
piece Of foolishness on Gods part
unless you are a fool, an idiot. an
ass, all three are gross fiattery at
that.
Salvation to anyone who rejects
! Jesus Christ is impossible Out OF
/ Christ there is no mercy and there
| could be none and if there were
mercy out OF Christ. then Jesus
! Christ died in vain on the cross.
( If salvation coJrid have been at
| tanned otherwise than by the death
| of Jesus then ALI He went through
was useless. If I could save N.Y.
/ self by my culture and morality
and my philanthropy, Jesus Christ
needn't to have come into the world
I to die. It was perfectly needless
! if can save myself and If saliva
ton is to be gotten by some other
way other than through the faith
| in Jesus Christ; it was useless fo-
| him to come and suffer- There is
no salvation in any other way.
According to the bible, men are
! saved because they accept Jesus
! Christ and men are lost not be-
cause they are worse than others,
but because they reject Jesus
! Christ. And our sins to he fOrgiv-
en- must be conveyed somewhere
and God laid on Jesus Christ, our
tniquity, so I accept the one who
( bears my guilt, and that lets me
escape. And if the world would be
firmly convinced that Jesus Christ
is the Son of God then and accept
him, sin would instantly cease. No
man would stagger home drunk.
nobody would lie and defame an
others character. and l come to-
night TO present to you the only
power tina can set YOU free from
the sins which hold Won az unwill-
ing prisoner. chaintf to your evil
habits and / can't imagine the pos
sibiIity of anybody of ordinary in
teIIigence entertaining the least
doubt about Jesus Christ being the
Son Of God.
Belief Sufficient.
And if I were the only man IN
the world who believed In Jesus
Christ as the Son of God, that be-
lief would be all the evidence that
I needed for myself, it wouldn't
make any difference what you be-
lieVed. So overwhelming is the
evidence on the side of Christ that
it is impossible for anybody to de-
ny tina Jesus is the Christ with
out committing intellectual and
moral suicide.
Now listen! Redemption is more
than salvation. When Jesus died
on the cross He redeemed mankind,
the price was paid for everybody,
but everybody won't be saved. And
the doctrine Of universal salvation
is an Internal lie, it crawled out
OF the pit Of hell. While every
body has been redeemed, everybody
won't be saved, but redemption will
avail you nothing II you refuse and
reject Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ died for every sa.
loonkeeper and every thug and
every murdered and prostitute, He
died for all and redeemed all, but
all will not be saved for all will
not accept the redemption. They
will go to hell.
So, redemption IS more than sal
walton. While redemption was for
everybody, salvation is only for
those who will accept redemption.
So salvation Is not universal. 1t
will be IL everybody will accept re-
demption. They all can be saved
Il they will. The vilest sinner has
been redeemed. Redeem means
buy back and so we have been
bought back.
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