The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-19

In his sermon Thursday night, Rev.
w. A. Sunday said:
The division of the Bible into chap
tiers and verses sometimes appears
confusing. The original Bible was
not thus sub-divided All the words
and sentences were joined together.
The Translator had to separate it up
into sentences, verses and chapters.
In the original there were no periods,
colon, or semicolons. All this break
ing up into sentences was man-made
and for convenience sake to aid US in
memorizing.
Sometimes a chapter begins in the
middle of an interesting story, and
not frequently it ends opportunity
and quite often it ends inopportune-
ly.
If you would understand one chap
ter it would be necessary for you to
read the chapter that precedes as
we'll as the one that follows. Partic-
ularly is that true of the eighteenth
and nineteenth chapters of Luke,
which should always be read togeth-
er, for the nineteenth is simply the
conclusion of the story begun in the
eighteenth chapter.
Jesus is on His final journey to Je-
rusalem. He is now going to Jeru-
salem for the last time, and when
He arrived there shortly afterwards
He was crucified, and He had been
answering the questions Of the scribes
and Pharisees respecting divorce, and
and He had been blessing little chill
dren. They came to Him and tried
to ball Him up. They said, Look
here, according to the Mosaic Law,
if man died his brother would have
to marry his widow to raise up seed
to the name so it would not be lost
Here was a woman whose husband
died and he had seven brothers, which
was it to be-"
No Relationship
In Heaven.
And Jesus said, There is no flesh
relationship in Heaven. There is
neither any marrying or giving in
marriage. There are no male or fe
male, for they are equal with the
angels, SO there is no relationship
in Heaven like they have on earth.
So he had been answering the
questions of the Scribes and Phari
sees respecting divorce and blessing
the little children and as soon as he
finished this latter act of grace :
rich young ruler said to him, GOOD
Master what good thing must l do tC
inherit eternal life?"
Jesus turned to him and said, "Why
do you call me good? There is only
one good and that is God"
That used to puzzle me when / was
a young Christian, for | used to say
if Jesus Christ was not good where
will | go to find one that is?
There was a little touch of sar
casm about that. you had been say
ing am a fraud when l told you thar
! had fulfilled the prophecy, you say
l am a fraud and yet you come to ms
and ask me what to do to inherit eter
nal life?"
Jesus continued saying, do no
bother to ask me Good Master wha
shall l do?" for / am not even gooC
if | am not what l claim to be
therefore my opinion is worth moth
ing to you. So don't you bother me
You go to God and ask Him about 1t
Here were two young men at the
climax of the world. Here was {
young man, rich and a ruler. Herr
was Jesus Christ the Son of Man
and they were both about the same
age, and this young man came tt
Jesus and said: what must | do t.
get what you have got? If | have
all that | have, but do not have wha
you have, then it won't do me an,
good"
Needs Spirit
OF Christ.
But Jesus Christ didn't ask tn
young fellow what he must do. to hav
whatever he had. The rich youn
ruler knew that what he had woul
not save him. 81 am perfectly willin
you have. Will you please tell m
to give up all that have to get wha
what | can do to be sayed?'
You go ahead and get all the worl
can give but you are worth nothin
unless you have what Jesus Chris
can give. That rich young ruler ca
give. That rich young ruler had eN
erything but he said, What must l d
to get what you have got. Tell m>
for l want that too"
So they entered the city of jericho
There were two famous men tha
lived in Jericho, one was Bartimeu!
the blind man, and l see him as m
friend comes down he road and b
says, "Bartimeus, l can see"
rs that so. how did it happen?
when a man named Jesus cam
to our town and | heard of the VOL
derful cures He had wrought for oil
ers and | said Lord, let me have m
sight and He opened my blind eyes
And | imagine the look of sadnes
sweep over the face of Bartimeus an
he said, "Well, / have heard of whf
Jesus has done for others but Jer
cho seems to be a little off the plac
where he is and l guess am doome
to go through life blind, but if he eve
comes to this town, | will surely as
Him TO open my eyes"
His friend said, There is a con
pany of men and women! l wondt
what it means. / will be back in
little while"
He left his friend and in a lit
while rushing back he says, "Chef
up, | have good news. 1t is Jest
Christ, the same one that opened N
eyes and He is coming down II
street past where you are sitting"
And Bartimeus began to cry, "Thc
Son of God, have mercy on me-
Jesus Hears
The Call.
And the crowd said, Keep ST
don't bother Him.
And Jesus said, who is callir
me?"
And they said. Nobody but a blir