The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-17

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AZ we'll"
out seed In IL? No more than your
lie ia worth without having Jesus
| Christ. Some people seem to think
that God VIII be so pleased with
their attalnments that he win grant
/ them. salvation as "A sort of reward
/ OF merit. Forget il. Dismiss the
idea that God owes you anything.
God offers you the opportunity
to accept salvation and II you don't
accept II he Is not going 10 cram II
down your throat.
a friend of mine told me- he was
one time being driven along the
banks of the Hudson and they went
past u beautiful farm, and there
sitting on the fence IN front OF a
tree. In which was fastened mirror
| about 12 inches square, sat n bird OF
paradise that was looking into the
mirror. adjusting It's plumagc and
admiring itself, and the farmer that
drove my friend said that every time
| he passed those birds were doinS
that.
! II TtfnlUuH mo OI n CtTtalu fluSA
| of people. They sit In front OF their
mirrors of culture and their mirrors
OF money and their mirrors OF supe-
rior education and attachments ad-
miring themselves over their supe-
rlority to others.
II your religion doesn't go any
further than that, there is nothing
to It.
Some people are mistaken In Gods
| plan OF salvation. They seem TO
think that God Is n sort of a book
keeper. And that lie has whole
lot OF angels up In heaven as assist :
ants And every time you do "a good
thing IL Is put down on one page and
every time you do bad thing 1t IL
put down on the other Then when
you die he draws line and adds
lthom up. II you have done more
| good than bad you go to heaven.
More bad than good, you so to hell.
You would be dunfounded to
know how many people there are In
| this world who have sense about
other things but have absolutely no
sense about religion. Your admis-
sion into heaven depends upon your
acceptance OF Jesus Christ; reject
Him and God says you viii be
damned.
have no doubt there were lot
of good men in Noah's time. There
was Noah. God says: Look here,
Noah, I'm going to drown this world
i with a flood and | want you to so
to work aud make nm ark"
And Noah started to make Il ac-
| cording to Gods Instructions, and
no pounded and sawed and drove
nails, and worked for t20 years and
| have often imagined the comments
of the gang IN an automobile going
by
Death Comes Like Flood.
They would say. "Well, that is the
laughing stock of our town. He is
an old duffer named Noah. He Is too
religious. We are not going to invite
him to any OF our card parties after
Lent IN over, lie Is bughouse. lie
Is nuts. We are going to take him
before the commission and pass upon
his sanity. lie seems to be insane
over religion. lie is just dippy over
that one thing"
And by and by he gets the ark
all buip, aud then God gave the
crowd three days of grace--that IL
whore you get the three days grace
ON a bank note, way back in the time
OF Noah--and Noah got into his ark
and IL began to rain and rain and
rain and then the crowd of knockers
began 60 run Tor the hilltops.
Until the flood came, that crowd
WAS just as well off as Noah, but
when the flood came and struck
them they were lost because they
trusted In themselves and not In Qod.
Your morality IS all right until
death comes then the Christian man
Is saved because he trusted I'm God.
one saves and the other doesn't and
80 when you need it the most. that
iS when II will fail you.
Supposing | go home tonight and
blow out the gas instead of turning
II off, then 20 TO the chiffonier and
sprinkle perfume all over myself,
Mrs. sunday and the children TO ov-
ercome the smell OF the gas, then
lie down. My fool attempt TO over
como the poisonous gas by Tho sweet
smelling perfume does no good. In
the morning l am asphyxiated.
And your attempt TO overcome the
devil by something like that will
never work. Man wants to white
wash his sins and God wants TO wash
them white And there Is a. big dif-
) ference, The people that are
washed white go TO heaven. The
ones that are whi;swashed go 10 hell.
Now what you want and | want Ia
to live forever. We are looking for
eternal life. Can YOU get it2 have
showed you where. What must /
; do to get IL?
Eternal life is a gift BY grace
you are saved. Not by yourselves
but through the gift OF God. You
cannot buy II but you can earn IL.
lt Is a gift through your Father in
Jesus Christ That IL the only way
you will ever get salvation.
so. God won't let you In because