The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-05-01
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had accepted Jesus>~Christ as their
Savior! What the Pharisees did
damned them forever and what FAC
chaeus did canonize him. They said
He spake as man never spake. They
said:
1.-The world has gone after me. He
has lived as no other man has, ever
/ lived
The people said He was the Mes
siah. He was the king of the Jews,
the Son of God.
what shall dor
do not present Jesus Christ to
you as the highest type of manhood
No. l wouldn't insult Him that way.
l present Him as the Bible presents
Him, the Son of God, the Savior of
| the world. The Bible doesn't present
Jesus as the highest type Of manhood
not at ALL It presents Him from
another standpoint.
You have difficulty In believing His
| divinity? | tell you, that is because
you measure Him by the rules you ap.
ply to men, and you always will. You
! Just Iut Him in the God class and IL
won't be difficult thing for you to
understand it. You measure Jesus by
the task He came to perform, and the
task He came to perform was not a
mans task. No man could do 1t, no
man ever has or ever will. No man
aspiring to be God could ebut God
condescendlng to be man could do
it.
! Years ago a literary debate was
held in London, at which Thomas Car
| lyle was present, and the lady hostess
of the evening was bemoaning the
| fact that the Jews had spurned and
repudiated Jesus. She ended her
TRADE and structures by making this
appeal to Carlyle:
eff Jesus had lived in our day, how
gladly we would have sat at His feet
listening to- the divine precepts and
with what pleasure and alacrity we
would have performed His slightest
request Would we not?"
NO" snapped the old Scotch cynic.
He said:
Madam, if Jesus Christ had lived
in our days He did in the days when
j he was on this earth-had He come
spending money like water, wearing
clothes of the latest fashion, preach-
ing doctrines palatable for the high
est social orders, no doubt He would
have been privileged to receive from
you an invitation, which would have
been printed,
"'To meet our Savior at my home,
Thursday evening; tea, six-fifteen.
But if Jesus had lived in our day
as in the days when He was on this
earth, had He hurled His anathemas
into the ranks of sinners, you would
have been one of the first to have
dashed upon Him and cried;
away with the long-haired fanatic
to Newgate and hang Him.!
Modern Men
Would Hang Christ.
Don't you imagine for one minute
that you have got to go back 1900
years to find men and women vile
and rotten and low-down enough to
cruelty Jesus Christ. / wouldn't have
to leave this city to find a gang OF
degenerates that would hang Him as
!. quickly as they did in the city oi
. Jerusalem, and they would throw
, rocks at Him just as quick now and
] nail Him to the Cross, for they have
no more use for Him today than thai
other gang of thugs.
What shall do then with Jesus?
Look at Him minute, the waves oi
Gods wrath sweeping over His soul
bending beneath the weight of oul
sins. Oh some of you haven't spent
very much time looking at Jesus. Yor
have found time to look at pleasure
you have found time to look at styles
, you have found time to look at litera
ture, you have found time to look a.
: treasures, you have found time Il
look at your stocks and bonds, yoU
/ have found time to look at your pos
, sessions, but you haven't found time
to look at Jesus Christi"
Well, look a minute. / want II
bring Him out and ask YOU what yol
will do with Him; it is a persona
question There is not one here to
night but must stand before Him il
the Judgment and remember what is
depending now upon your decision anC
remember what it means to you anC
what it will mean to your happines:
|, or misery, righteousness or sin, o.
! hell.
! Now, hold on minute-What viii
you do? Not what have you done. No
Not what will you do when you are
2 going to die, what will you do now
/ don't care anything about the other
Let's settle it right here now. There
: are several things that you can d.
1 and there are several courses you may
pursue. You can deny His Divinity
if you want to. You can say He VA
an imposter-many did it in His day
:. many are doing it now. Oh, somt
went so far as to say He was devil
some said He had devil in Him. Yol
say you wouldn't do that. Very we'll
t am not asking you to do 1t. ! an
T simply suggesting several courses yo'
l may pursue. You can deny that yol
r need a savior, you can say you haV'
t no soul, you can say there is no here
, after. you can say that death is eter
t nal sleep, you can pretend that yol
. haven't snned, you can say there i
9 no judgment to come. Thousands dit
i it in His day, Thousands are doing j
4 today.
: l don't say you may: | am suggest
ing a course. Do you want to TAX
that course?
What Shall | do?
Answer Right.
what shall l do?" Let me he'll
you to decide. Do you want that?
You can openly reject Him if yol
] choose Many did it in His day, man,
' are doing it today Instead of takin
? Him to their hearts, they sent Hin
to the cross.