The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-19

SOOu. MOI I0al l. KNOW all ABOUT
| it, but | know | am preaching to
| the people. There's a big differ
/ ence between preaching for God
| and preaching to God. Any time
you don't like it you can beat it.
the spirit reveals to you and name
that. Say, Lord | have been impure,
Lord l have been untruthful, Lord /
have been worldly U am assuming
that these may be the sins of some
body Lord, have been proud, Lord
| have been niggardly in my gift.
Lord, have got hot temper; Lord,
l don't read my Bible; Lord, ] don't
pray; Lord, / don't pay my debts;
Lord talk about my neighbors; Lord,
am a coward about witnessing for
Jesus Christ Humiliating, l will
agree, but it will bring you blessing.
am assuming you want to be
blessed. ! will tell you how to get 1t.
The first thing is, confess your sins.
Second, renounce sin, abandon 1t.
"Whosoever is convicted of his sin
shall not prosper, but who confesses
and forsakes his sin shall find mercy"
Separate your life from that sin, tear
that sin out of your life, get rid of it,
get away from it.
eff thy right hand offend thee, cut
it off, II there is anything in the
world that is useful to you and it is
keeping you away from God, God says
get rid of it. God doesn't mean to dig
your eye out. If there is anything in
the world that's as valuable to you
as your right hand and arm and that
thing is keeping you away from God,
get rid of it.
Remuneration Must
Follow Confession.
Confession without remuneration
doesn't amount to anything. If a man
confesses sin and keeps on living in
sin. he did not mean anything by his
confession. And if man stops living in
sin without confessing it, that doesn't
mean anything, for that's the reforma-
ton. But if he confesses and forsakes,
the forsaking shows the confession
was genuine. So it is no good to con-
+! fess it if you don't forsake it, vice
versa, because the confessing shows
! that you were sorry, that you did it SO
! God will forgive it. That doesn't
mean that you have to stand up and
/ tell the people what you have done.
1
| | think you can go back too far on
the trail of anybody. 1t is none of
your business. Whatsoever We would
that men should do to you, do We even
so to them"
/ If you know anything about anybody
keep your mouth shut. You would be
mighty glad if anybody had anything
on you and they'd keep their mouth
shut.
If you say to that child, don't do
it, and it does it, and if you say to
1 this child, do it and it doesn't, in its
case it is disobedient, and so are you.
You don't do what God tells you to
do when you are sinner, so don't
| hold your head so high. ITO him that
knoweth to do good, and doeth it not,
/ to him it is sin" "All unrighteous-
ness is sin"
/ Instant obedience. When Jesus con-
fessed his glory at the Kingdom of
Galilee, his mother turned around
and said to the crowd, Whatsoever
he saith unto We, do it in instant
| obedience"
Wait a minute! I'd make that de-
/ finite. I'd say, Lord, | will write that
letter of apology. Lord, | will pay my
debts. Lord, | will read my Bible.
Lord, | will stop talking about my
neighbors. Lord, I will confess Jesus.
Lord, | will pray in public. Lord,
will ask for blessings. Lord, l will
go to prayer meeting and give the
preacher nervous prostration when he
sees me come in, for | have never
been there. / will, will, will!
Give Yourself Up
Entirely to God.
Give yourself up to God. wholly
fully, unreservedly, irrevocably, give
yourself That is what you promised
to do when you were married. You
said, "Yes," and that, fellow said
i"Yes" All right give yourself to
the Lord.
4 Give yourself Say, Lord, here
am" That is the whole thing, bring
your sins and lay them at the foot
of the Cross, and say, Lord, nothing
in my hand l bring, simply to Thy
cross / cling"
i / don't bring my culture, my money;
don't bring anything and plead that
Il ought to have salvation because oil
that. In my hand no prize ] bring
simply to Thy cross | cling. Just as
am, without one plea, come, come
Just as I am, without one plea. And
do you know what He will do?
He will take out of your life that
which made you do the things he
told you not to do, and he will put il
your life that which will keep you
from doing that which he tells yot
not to do, and will help you to dc
the things he tells you to do.
Say, Lord, / want to renounc'
these things, but they seem to clins
to me. Lord, don't want to lose m.
temper but sometimes l do get I'm
der a fifty-pound pressure, when
have a blowout or my carbureto
stops working and l will just get al
awful fit"
Say, Lord, / don't want to be stin
!, gy, but go to church with my purs'
filled with gold and | hunt arount
and find a nickel and then l sing
Jesus Paid 1t ALL"
Say, Lord, / don't want to neglec
my Bible, / take it and read it quiet
lily where nobody sees me-"
Grace of God viii
Cleanse Your Soul
Tell God, And the Grace of Coz
will go as deep as the roots of sin
; and if they have taken hold upon .yol
! the Grace of God will take it out o
roy if tho roofs of Gin haya pop