The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-26

for7 why. told you I'd be here {,
preach. ! told you I would: / prom
ised you that / would; you expecte,
that / would; you have come. Faitl
is expectation founded on a promise
so you came here excepting to hea
me preach, because ! told you that
; would. Your faith is fulfilled; you
expectations are rewarded I an
herei
4 fellow tells that girl he Will
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! expecthJhoff' fodnden on prorulse,.' Fsh,
, expects him to keep his word becaus'
he promised that he would--u9les
he gets scared to do 1t.
So say faith is the expectation
founded on promise. II expec
what God has promised. that's faith
II l doubt what God has promised
that's unbeiief II expect VIVA
God has not promised, that's pre-.
sumption, aSfnine asnity--r dom
know which. Faith! Faith! Yes
faith.
Now, wherever a miracle was per
formed somebody believed Faith
puts the scepter of Gods power in the
hands of men. There were places
where Jesus could do no mighty
works because the people didn't have
faith enough through which He could
work. And wherever you find that
3 Gods cause isn't doing what 1t should
there is lack OF faith.
I wish somebody would tell me how
any man or woman protesting to be
! a Christian would refuse to have any
thing TO do with this meeting and help
win people to Jesus Christ, and II you
were in church and your preacher
wouldn't take my advice. take my ad-
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forty eight hours where people aren't
willing to do IT.
/ ! haven't any respect for the man
that wouldn't stand by his country In
these days He is a traitor, and the
man that won't stand by Jesus Christ
is traitor TO the cause OF religion
or TO the cause of Jesus Christ. That's
nm easy word--"traitor" I'll tell you
about II IL you'll come to me in priv
ate.
Now, the lack of faith is the only
thing that hinder's Gods cause Lack
Of faith Lack of faith Faith is to
us what the trolley Is m The street car.
It's the means nv which II receives
the power that shoots II and drives Il
on.
| can't touch God with my hand
God liz "a spirit. You are p spirit
can touch the house you live In. but
I can't touch you. am simply living
! in this house; you don't see me, you
! only see the house OF flesh that live
/ in. You can't touch me. You can
touch my house, but you can't touch
me, Not at all! And when you move
| out. you can cut this house to pieces
and it won't feeltt- 1t isn't your body
J that feels: II Is the spirit that Inhahits
your body. and when II goes out you
! can pound and pound, and II won't
hear. So don't touch YOU. I simply
touch the house you live in.
/ SO God Is spirit I can touch God
i by my faith. God hasn't got flesh and
bones like we have. He doesn't live In
those like we do, God let's us live In
this tenement OF clay. we call II. But
when / do touch God by my faith.
: then the power is Just as sure to come
to me as the wheels of a car will turn
when that car is In connection with
the power house or the lights will
blaze when they are in connection
with the power house. Sever the con-
nection and the light will 60 out So
we have got electricians sitting here
all the time in order to keep this tab
ernacle in connection with the power
house.
we Need Rcvivnis
SO we need revivais in order to re
establish the connection between yo,
land the power of God. We need re
sivals and churches to bring men ant
women that don't know God Int
touch with God. that they may know
Gods power and blessing all through
That's why we have got churches ant
Sunday schools and revivals-for tina
very purpose.
| So there Is a law OF faith Just tn,
same as there is law OF electricity
and IL faith Is used you will get tn,
result You don't need to know al
about electricity to be carried on
car or up and down In an elevator o.
10 send a telephone message or q tel
egrnIn. Certainly not! You just u,
climb on the car and pay our nickel
sit there and forget about It That
all you have to do. Ii you are goin,
that's all you do; stand there until {
fellow calls your floor. You dom
bother your bean about how the ele
vator lifted you up. That's faith
That's faith all through!
so there are ranges where the far
mers water their cattle by havinl
them step on q fiatform: but Their
comes a steer that never had any ex
perience getting water that way. II,
is furnishing for water; he looks a
the empty trough. He is q skeptica
steer. Now he says:
You can't fool me. You can't pu
one over on me like that No! That
| an empty trough. There In nothing
| In that I have got to see the water
before / step on there 1 came from
! Missouri"
! All right then. he win stand ther,
and die from thirst. because as HI
steps on the platform the heft OF hi.
body releases tho plunger, and tbs
water comes up. and he Quenches hil
/ thirst.
The text didn't say: II ye have faith
SO much as q grain OF Sand. Sand /.
dead. SAND will never change. Sane
will remain unchanged for ages. A
! seed will grow. A seed possesses tht
germ of life. We don't know what i
! is We don't know how II grows, blu
seed viii grow, So Jesus didn't say
| II .ye have faith SO much as a grair
OF sand. He said: III ye have faith
so much as a grain OF mustard seed,
the smallest seed planted today. which
when planted will grow up and Dt
strong enough for birds to swing Oh
/ and build their nests.
Faith Grows Like Seed.
! so uvu expects your ra1rn TO grow
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