The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-08
Sunday School
Lesson
Sunday School Lesson for Oct. 3

Scripture checked up for us is
Acts 1873 to 20, but we don't want
to pass over the first verses. There
is a lesson there, and what shame,
after all these years the greater part
of the church is in the same sad
plight | heard a minister say to his
congregation. When you joined
church and were baptized, what were
you? Why you were a Christian
that's all and they can't make you any
more Jesus said, when he was
about to go away, the Father will
send the Holy Spirit. and over and
over again He told them how they
needed Him, that He was to be a
helper. their power house. but Paul
found some here who knew nothing
about Him. And so this minister, and
so this Apollas, though eloquent, he
was not above learning.
Did you receive the Holy Spirit
when you believed? is the most i'm
portant question for all Christians.
Only He can make us acquainted
with God the Father and His word.
Only He can fit us for taking reproof.
Only He can fit us for giving reproof.
F. B. Myre says a little man with
out the Holy Spirit will work all the
year and accomplish nothing and if
we try to help him he'll resent it,
thinking we are knocking on him.
But the Spirit-filled man is looking
for all the light that comes his way.
Only the Holy Spirit can exalt a man.
family, nation or church. A church
without the Holy Spirit is dead and
the devil is not afraid of all you can
put in your city He never takes no t..
tice of them except you talk to him
about being a Christian. then he
holds them up before you to disgust
You. 1t is the Spirit-filled man who
will owe no man save the debt of love
and the more spirit the more he'll see
he owes and he never can pay it all
he lives above law. One has said 1T
matters not half so much what kind
of vote you drop into the ballot box
once a year as what kind of man
you drop out of bed into the street
every morning"
No man or nation ever find their
birthright until they come to God and
find His Son as their Savior. AS
have said before, I say now, sin is no
skim disease, no doctor, church men,
berslfip can cure. Satan knows that
and so do we all. The Holy Spirit
made Jesus and Paul a disturber OF
the day. Dr. A. j. Gordon said in
1887, II tremble to think what half
century more of legalized license of
the liquor traffic will do for our
country if it shall be permitted, and
my apprehension is not merely in re-
gard to the ruin and havoc it will
bring to the drunkards homes, but
especially concerning its effects en-
the church in debauching the con-
sciences. Nowhere in ChriStendom is
the church called to lend a hand in
regulating a wrong doing. 1t is for
the church to resist evil to the utmost,
II then the wrong goes on, let it go
branded with the trademark OF the
devil" He knew that a Spirit-filled
church or Christian state would run
out the awful business. Just now we
have a man who poses to be great
reformer, respects the Lords day and
religion and is fighting the blue laws.
Who don't know that he knows moth
ing about salvation and a Spirit-filled
life?
know. Isa 1-3. And Paul he knew,
as we saw few weeks ago, when the
devil can begin to see his craft is in
danger, my but how he does cry out
for our liberty. The Kingdom was
set aside for the timebeing and the
church is being built in this age and
such as Paul, Moody, Morrison
Manda Smith, the Macy sisters are
being used in this land and a host
of others in other lands. Their
thought is making all the life Chris
ton. John Wesley met a fellow OF
whose life he knew somewhat who
said to Mr.. Wesley, You preach per-
lection Not to you.' said Mr. Wes-
! ley Why not me?' Because |
should like to preach something else
to you" why, what would you
preach to me?" Wesley replied, "How
to escape the damnation of hell
Sometimes we hear ministers and
Sunday School teachers and by the
talk one wouldn't think there was a
sinner on earth, if they didn't know
it. But Paul did and did them up
One of two things happened every
where he'd go. They'd fight against
light or hunger for it, and the same
is true to this day Every real Chris
ton shall thank the Lord for the fel.
low who was honest with him and
shall always be. Paul calls converts
his Grown of Rejoicing" l Thes
2-19. When his ministry was finished
he said, 'Henceforth a
crown of rejoicing" Tim. AS. A
verse of song goes:
"Oh. the browning day is coming, is
coming by and by,
When our Lord shall come in power
and glory from on high.
Oh, the glorious sight will gladden.
each waiting, watchful eye,
In the GROWING days that's coming
| by and by
To be Christian is great, but the
privilege to be a witness until we
go or He comes, blessed forever, so
Paul said.