The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-24

In his sermon on "The Hour Ia
come, Rev. w. A. Sunday said Sum
day afternoon:
1t is very evident to mo that Jesus
Christ knew that God, the Father.
would understand what He meant
"hen He said "The hour is come"
He did not say I have met with
some difficulties and discouragements
down here in my mediatoriaI worlr !.
something we had not thought about
planned or expected would ever oc-
cur But He did say. "The hour for,
which came into the world. the bour
ior which / bade goodbye to the
heavenly hosts, the hour for which I
maze my way down into this vale Of
tears, the hour which was to surpass
an other hours in importance In the
history of the world, the hour which
was TO mean more to mankind than
all the hours combined, the hour
Wnen must go on the cross and
oathe the world in blood and tears
and open up new redemption by and
through the acceptance of which
mankind might escape the eternal
damnation which it deserves because
Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit
and Sin and the death penalty passed
upon the human race, that hour is
upon the human race, that hour is
come"
1t was the hour Of the great strug-
gle The powers of darkness had
been looking forward for thousands of
years, ever since the devil hid himself
IN serpent and tempted Adam and
Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit and
God gave the promise. when they
slnned, that the seed of the woman
should bruise the serpents head,
meaning that Jesus Christ in the full
ness OF time would be born in fulfill
ment of that promise and the devil
Knew that hour would come, the devil
knew the time would come when
Jesus Christ would be born in the
manager and when He would suffer
and die On the cross and bruise the
serpent's head.
God Forsaking Him
Was Prophecy.
1t was a matter of prophecy that
the Father would forsake Him. and
the disciples would fee away, and the
shepherds should be smitten and the
sheep scattered
What an hour that was for the
King of kings and the Lord of lords. |
with the nails through mis- hands and
feet, hanging on the cross! The
Father had forsaken Him for He
cried, my God, why hast Thou for
saken Me {"
1t was going to decide whether or
not the door of hope, opened through |
the promise of God, would remain
forever open through the triumph of
Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ did |
triumph.
That is the reason we've got this
tabernacle, the reason l am preach
ing to you, because the door of hope
opened through faith in Jesus Christ
has been ajar from that day to this
and it will be until He bursts upon the
world to judge it in sin and righteous
ness, and it was going to decide
whether or not the door of hope, open
ed through the promises of God, was
to remain forever closed through the
failure of Jesus Christ.
Suppose He had failed to have risen
from the dead the third day as He
said He would. What do you suppose
would have ben announced from the
pulpits and synagogues of Jerusalem?
think they would have draped their
pulpits in mourning. 1 think they
would have nailed a black cross Over
the door and they would have said: t
Three days have come and gone
and Jesus Christ is still held by the
last enemy-death."
When Adam and Eve ate the for
hidden fruit the death penalty was
pronounced and Jesus Christ came
into this world born of woman, con-
ceived by the Holy Ghost and born
of the Virgin Mary, suffered under
Pontius PLATE, crucified, dead and
buried, lived a single life, and He tri-
umphed over the devil in that the
devil could not lead Him to sin. But
another one of the penalties of sin
was death. He conquered sin but He
had to conquer death, so He had to
burst the bands of death and He said:
Il will arise on the third day and
l will conquer the last enemy of the
human race-death!"
Man Has Perverted II
Gods Plan. u
If Adam and Eve hadn't sinned,
we would never have died. Man has !
perverted Gods plan and a man is I
fool that will defy God and while the ]
angels harps were still and the ,
angels voices were hushed, Jesus {
Christ arose from the dead and He |
folded the napkin from off His face {
anu lie walked out OF the SopulCnre |
on that Easter morning with the keys |
of life and of death in His hand, the i
ceaquerer of earth and of hell and:
Up from the grave He arose.
With a mighty triumph DER His '
foes, I
He arose a victor from the dark f
domain '
And He lives forever, with His I
saints to reign; I
He arose, He arose, \
Halleujah, Christ arose.
He broke the bars of death that a
none ere broke before, e
And rose in conquering majesty t
to stoop to death no more. a
And l am not worshiping a dead d
Jew sleeping in the tomb of Joseph of r
Arimathea, but l am worshiping a O
living, ruling, reigning Christ at the a
right hand of God the Father, who h
will come to judge the world in the n
fullness of time. k
The hour is come" And the cross /
was the connecting link between the v
old and the new dispensations. On |;
this side, the cross with a priest, a O
turtle dove. heifer or bull on an Fl
altar as an atonement for sin. Even