The Nevada County picayune., 1922-03-09
JESUS OF GALILEE
Sermon by John (. Williams Matt
 26 :69.

ing and was prophecy of what the child would be or do and they did not name children after their parents and it was not Adam Jr or Noah Jr.. but each child had a distinct name. We
 see that there were a number of names
 for Christ as one name would not
 Jesus was his personal name as John
 CT James Christ is the annointcd
 one. and then he iS called Advocate.
 Intcrcessor Bright and Morning Star
 and many other names were given
 him. The Jews and the enemies would not hesitate to call him Jesus but they drew the line when il came to calling
 him Christ. Jesus represents his hu-
 han character and by that name he appears among the unSaYed and un-
 believing and il was the maid that
 accused Peter of being with Jesus of
 Galilee and We will just look at him
 from a human standpoint and see what
 he has accomplished outside of his duty and view him aS q man of the world does
 His life seemed to be a failure as
 he did not apparently accomplish what
 he wanted and was finally deserted
 bY many of his own followers. betrayed
 by one of his disciples and prosecuted
 Fl Pilates court by his own country
 men. He was officially condemned to die and was put 10 death in degraded
 way and there seemed 10 be an end
 to his career. Compare Jesus with
 Jupiter who was the recognized god
 of the world at the time Jesus lived
 and had everything his own Way. He was sustained by the greatest govern ment in the world, the Roman empire. and his praises were sung by poets.
 statesmen, warriors and philosophers.
 No oHe opposed the resn of Jupiter and no one had to lay down his life
 in his behalf. But tie world was just Het right. iH fact. il Was tt the
 lowest ebb of morals ever known, and crime and dcbaHclery Stalked forth lmre~trianed and unfebuked The
 cheapest thing ill the world was the life nj man or woman and no one was secure. The dividing line between Pagansm and Christianity is regard ing the belief il the deity and whether q god becomes q man or q man a god The pagans held to idea of the apotheoSiS. that Il man could become
 a god while the Christian view is that
 God is incaruatcd and becomes Il man and there is one of the main differ enccS. Then according to th.s idea
 of apothcosiS. that men became gods, IuSually it was very bad man who became god and even Nero the most inhuman man that ever occupied d throne=thp one noted fer his vices and cruelticS. the man who killed his own mother and kicked his wife to death. and that too when at all times he should have been kind and gentle to her. and yet this monster of iniquty was transformed into q god. The worst men. then. became
 gods and you can imagine what kind
 uf gods they were and as the worship per is conformed to the image of the
 being worShipped. then the people hay 'ng such gods aS Nero would ot neees- sity become cruel. tyrannical and inn pure
 Finally Paganism after all the. ad
 vantaees and opportunities il had
 could not live and began to decay and grew from bad To worse Then the power wa, used to crush out the cause of Jesus and the whole force of the
 iron empire of Rome was brought to
 destroy and crush the church estah- liShed hy Jesus. But here Was tn"
 Christ at that time. and for all time and that was that the votaries of this
 Jesus were willing to die for him and when confronted with death they stood without fiinching and boldly went into line jaws of death and nothing could daumt or deter them. Then when one Christian was burned instead of this act of humanity having deterrent et- feet upon those witnessing 1t. Ii would cause laany to be convinced of the lrnLh nf this snnnnsed evil reIiei0n.