The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-13

abundantly pardon" Isaiah. 55th
chapter, 9TH verse.
In his sermon on seek We the
Lord" Rev. w. A. Sunday on Friday
might said:
That is a chapter that calls YOU to
salvation. 1t calls us TO mans high,
est duty and his greatest privilege.
1t shows what a man is without God,
and then it shows what man be-
comes when he finds God. 1t begins
with desolation. but it ends with re-
joicing. 1t begins with groan, but
it concludes with a shout.
1t takes a desert OF famine and
turns it into a garden of abundance.
1t changes a wilderness of brambles
into a beautiful hand, flowing with
milk and honey. 1t begins with an
offer of plenty to those that are dv-
ing in want Ii shows what a man
becomes when he takes the cup of
salvation that God freely offers to
all men.
The text is Gods imperative call.
you can refuse Me if you wish. "
Oh, every one, Scribe, Pharisee. pub
lican, sinner harlot rich, poor, black,
white, learned, illiterate, native born,
foreign born, male. female, old and
young, aged and decrepit, oh, every
onei
Text Addressed
To Every One.
It is addressed to the unsaved mil
lionalre, as well as the man who may
sweep the street 1t is addressed to
the moralist and to the legalist, as
we'll as the man or the woman who
may have transgressed every com
mand of God. Whoever the man,
wherever the man. whatever he has
done, God calls for him to repent
Oh every one!
The first thing you notice about
salvation is that it's a personal thing
Seek We the Lord The Eye" means
you Seek you the Lord. 1t doesn't
do for the parent to seek the Lord for
the child You cant do that. 1t
won't do for the child to seek for the
parent that isn't possible.
This is an Individual question. It's
something ! can't do for you. If
could, | would gladly do it. It's
something you cannot do for me, nei'
Their can your wife or mother or chill
dren. It's an Individual question.
All my seeking would do you no
more good than if | ate food for you,
y
All the medicine I might take when
you were sick, wouldn't put the
bloom of health on your body. My
prayer wouldn't save you unless you
pray for yourself.
God Deals With
You Individually
It's an individual question, some
thing that We have to do. God deals
with you as though you were the only
man on earth. So the mother can
not seek and find for the child, any
more than she can breathe and eat
and if she could. oh, there are multi
tudes of people that wouldn't be
looking into my face tonight unsaved
And if your wife could seek and find
for you, there are great many OF
you men that wouldn't be sitting
there looking at me ,unsaved.
Salvation, though purchased for all
and offered to all through faith in
Jesus Christ, is only for those who
will accept it. 1t is for ALL If yoL
will take it, When Jesus Christ dice
on the cross, He paved the way foE
ALL
No salvation is offered full, free
perfect, and eternal to every one
but it's only for those who will &C
cept it,-that's all
seek We the Lord You've go
to be more than a brother-inlaw t
the church, if you ever walk tn
golden streets You've got to hay'
more claim on Heaven than that you
wife is going-that won't put
through. | wish you were goin
with her, but you won't if you turl
your back upon God.
You say, 81 don't feel any specia
alarm" That's no compliment t
you, none at all! No, God is cor
cerned, and for you to say that your
not concerned about anything tina
God is, is charging God with bein
agitated about something that H
shouldn't be Surely God ism
alarmed for anything that isn't net
essary!
Repentance
Leads To Heaven.
You say. Il can't understand tn
Bible" Neither can |, but | can III
derstand enough to know that | al
going to He'll if | don't repent
I've always found the fellow ths
complains about things in the Bibl
the one who can't understand, ism
the one who is trying to obey til
things that he can understand.
Thou shalt not commit adultry
That isn't hard to understand is il
Thou shalt not bear false witnes
against thy neighbor" That ism
hard to understand, is it, you oil
liar? So don't worry about the thing
YOU can't understand, if you are ODE
ing the things you can understand.
God isn't a fool. He won't hol
you responsible for the things yo
haven't got sense enough to unde
stand. 1t is said that man is judge
according to what he knows. Yo
may know something about God tn;
4 don't. Other people may kno
something about God that you or
don't But God will hold me respo
sibIe. But God will hold me resPo
sibIe for what ! do, not for what yo
and the other fellow are doing.
Seek we first the Kingdom
God" then the Bible will be an ope
book to you You say, Il can't u
derstand how Christ died for n
sins" You don't have to knoN
That isn't necessary. All you nee
10 do is to believe that He did. an
accept the salvation that is yours on
through faith in Jesus Christ.
Repentance does not come throus
explaining God to the mind,-no. &C
is not an explanation. God is re
elation.
Seed Makes