The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-21

in April"
Then God says. "You starve to-
death if you don't like the way l do
it. You starve to death. That is
my way of doing it. If you want to
/ plow and plant in January, go to it."
God says, This is my way of stir
ring up people to better faith. This
! is my way of filling the empty and
depleted churches. This is my way
of calling men and women from sin
to salvation. If you don't like it
don't give a picayune, | will do it
anyway"
What Real Effect
OF Revival is.
i So you will show you are fool
whether you are preacher or lay
member of the church, If you sneer
at revival. l wouldn't give much
for you. | don't care who you are.
don't care to know you.
i A minister said to me there was no.
thing he dreaded = nothing that he
loved to see so much as a revival, al
though the statement might seem II
4 paradox, because he said that what
would be a savior of life in one
! case would be death in another, and
while this meeting will stir multitudes
to love Jesus better and be loving
|. and virtuous and honest, it will make
Il others so mad they will curse and
damn and they can't say mean enough
things about it. So this revival is
producing two opposite effects. The
same sun melts ice and hardens clay,
and so, while this revival may melt
the hearts of some and bring them to
Jesus Christ, it will make others hard
and more bitter. But that is nothing
new. II only shows some are fools,
, that's all.
5 This miracle of raising Lazarus
from the dead produced two opposite
: effects upon the people. Now listen!
Many of the Jews, when they came
and saw the things that Jesus did, be-
} lieved on him" That is the forty
T fifth verse
: "And from that day forth they
took counsel together for to put him
= to DEATH That is the fifty-third
i verse.
:. So, therefore, it made some believe
when they saw him raise Lazarus
from the dead. They said, Nobody
| but the Son of God can do that We
i believe"
All Sorts OF
: Opposition.
7 And it made others so mad that
| they wanted to kill him, because if he
| kept on raising people from the dead
others would believe him, and they
: would rather people would die and 90
[ to He'll, and show them up to be a
fool lot.
: But there are lots of people to
? day that would rather go to He'll
' than be Converted i'm the taber.
t nacie. You would be surprised how
many people have sense about other
: things are absolutely ignoramusea
2 and fools when it comes to religion
. Absolutely. They are intelligent
4 people about other things in the
e world But here they placed undue
e reliance in human aid, not that you
:, mustn't place reliance, for Gods
e cause has been propagated through
men and women that he can find tC
spread his word up and down the land
and we are in a cause that de
e mands human laborers, and if yor
e don't do Gods work it won't be done
L God could send angels down here
n to preach and sing, but he doesn't
n God puts that in human vessels, ant
e if you don't do it it will never bt
u done Therefore, God isn't strength
e ening himself. He has power, and i:
q Strengthening his people through
) whom his power must be manifest. L
+ they are not right then you put the
: handouts on the Lord. Now, they
q placed undue reliance in human aid.
They sent friends over to Jesus
e No doubt the ones they sent were
u friends of the family and of Jesus
and they went over after Jesus, be
cause Lazarus was sick. Jesus haC
u gone over into another part of the
country to preach, and Lazarus tool
L ill, and they went over and said t
Il him,
e Lord, he whom you love is sick.
y My, what an enviable place Lazar
/ US had in the heart of Jesus!
Christ Was Fond
e OF Lazarus.
If YOU would come up to me ant
u say, "She whom you love is sick,
q there is only one woman in the Unit
d ed States l would think about. Tha
!, is Mrs. Sunday
d l tell you Lazarus had might!
e coy corner in the heart of Jesus
\ They didn't tell them to mention an.
Il names. but just go up and say. II
whom you love is sick and he woult
think of Lazarus.
Now listen! You would hav
thought that if Jesus loved Marth
and Mary and Lazarus, and appreci
ated their hospitality, that he woul'
Il come up to the house instantly.
II l read in the fifth verse, Now Je
sus loved Martha and Mary and La7
I! arus. When he heard that he wa
Il sick. he abode two days still in tn
II place where he was"
II After the messengers had LETT Be
4 thany. chased away over here I
Il where Jesus was holding a meeting
and told him, "He whom you love i
I sick" instead of running down there
he stayed over two days.
II think it required more love 70
/ Jesus to stay away than it did TO
him to go up there. | think Jesu
said, "Now see here, if l go up Their
and raise him from the sick bee
they won't believe on me-"
He would be doing that and the
/ would be splitting into his face an
cursing him, and calling him a wine
| bibber and a glutton. But he said,
Il will tell you; 1 will stay ava
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