Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-07-27
get ready to meet your God.
Got To Meet God.

Got To Meet Cod.
And remember, it is God you have
got to meet, not the president of the
IOnited States, not King George OF
England, not some great statesman
and it is not an arch-angel, hut il
is God, and not only God but thy
God, not the God of the heather
Chinaman, but thy God, the God
that made you, the God that fashion
ed your body and created your soul,
and preserved your being, the God
who sent HIS son to die for you,
who gave His spirit to reprove and
rebuke and teach and warn and con-
vince and enlighten you concerning
your sins. The omnipotent God that
controls universes and throws out
planets and fixes stars and weighs
mountains and measures oceans, the
omnipotent God, that is in the jung
les of Africa and on top of noun
tains, and in the depths of the ocean,
the God that is in the United States,
and in North Carolina, and in Wash
ington tonight, the omni-present
God, that knows your secret sin,
and every wicked word you ever
uttered, and every wicked thought
that ever percolated through your
mind and every act of your life and
every passion of your soul, that is
the God you are to meet. Who
knows all about your cor 1jtion and
life and surroundings and -ircim-
stances and Tcharacter, a God t,7at
can not look upon sin with any de-
gree of allowance, the Cod whose
mercy you have rejected, that is the
God you are to meet. If this book
is true every person sitting here be-
fore me will one of these days stand
in the presence of Almighty God,
when do not know. ] only know
that God is coming and we are 60
ing. Where is the meeting place?
/ do not know, ten years from to-
day for some of us, ten months from
today for many of us, ten weeks
from today for some of us, ten days
from today for some of s, ten hours
no doubt, and some of us will be
in a casket, looking out through its
glass; can not say. l only know
that we are rushing to the cemetery
and will soon be out into eternity,
and the presence of God. Brother,
If the meeting should take place to-
night, are you ready?
You say l am as good as the
average; that may be true, but YOU
are not going to be judged by the
average. You say never did any
one any harm. That has nothing to
do with the case. There is many a
rattlesnake in the woods that has
never done anyone any harm; there
is a mad dog dashing down the
street with eyes green and foam
flying from his mouth. He has
never done any harm but you are
not going to allow your child to
fondle and play with him.
There is no difference between
being wrong and doing wrong and
the reason you do wrong is because
you are wrong, and the reason YOU
are wrong is because you won't yield
to God.
A man gets into the lodge on a
not because he is a mil.
lionaire, or a university graduate, a 4
president of the bank. And If YOU
are prepared to meet God it is be-
cause You are q Christian.
It's Not Morality.
You say am "a moral man
morality is not Christianity. You'll
can be q moral man and not be pre-
pared to meet thy God.
But you can't be prepared to-
meet God and not be moral man.
You never looked into the face Of |
3 man that will give dollar for dol |
lar for morality more than do, and
It is the best thing you have out.
side Of the religion of Jesus Christ.
but It is not going to prepare you toll
meet God. The men that erucified
Iesus Christ passed off as moral
men, too. ] knew a young lady who |
vas a member of the church. shei
sang in the choir, taught in the SUM-
lay school, belonged to the mission. |
ary society, and was active II anil
9ranchns Of church work, and one |.
alent she went out 70 an unconven