The guardian., 1941-07-19
SERMONE S T T ES
Featured by
SHEL0H KHALL'S
ELECTRIC CHOIR
Simpson Turner, Speaker
SIN LEADS TO DESTRUCTION


An American reporter was walking
through an afraid shelter in China
and on climbing its stairs he noticed
the haIf-clad bodies of young and old
men and women and helpless children
lvinp dead in flowing rivers OF blood.
"From Whence Cometh These" he IN
nuired of the guards. "Oh, these are
inst a few of the bodies that have
tonpled from the great pile of dead at
the top of the stair cases. Tins thaC
YOU see is nothing as the worst is yet
to come"
This is because sin leads to destruc-
tion. it shuts out God and allows evil
to predominant and absorb the life
blood of man. 1t destroyed the world
in the davs of Noah, when God opened
I'm the faucets of heaven and washed
all wickedness from the face OF the
earth. 1t destroyed the nations OF
Sodom and Gomorah, when the fury OF
Gods wrath sent forth fire and brim-
stone and consumed all wickedness
and it is here again to destroy and wipe
and burn and blow up all wlckedness
from the four corners of the earth
for sin leads to destruction.
1t destroys the body. The social and
carnal sins of flesh have thrown many
youth in the hospital, sanitorium and
asylum. 1t plants diseases in the body
and while the doctor is seeking a cure
for one part death sets to work and
starts eating at another. 1t breaks
down the moral of youth. blights him
of future, skaters his hopes, blinds
him from opportunities and leads him
on and on to destruction for sin leads
to destruction.
1t destroys the mind-for that mind
upon which evil thoughts constantly
do play soon deteriorates and becomes
as nothing. Our modern psychiatrist
tells us that clean thoughts are the
best builders of sound mind. The
man who thinks evil soon becomes evil
and is led in the path of evil to insan-
ity, with all its adherent mental
diseases for sin leads to destruction.
1t destroys the soul, for the soul
that sinneth shall die, - become de-
stroyed, suffer persecution without
mercy for God has declared in his
word that the wages of sin is death.
1t destroys the home-no matter
how much riches lies in its upkeep,
nor how secret lies the evil upon which
it is built that home if built on sin shall
be destroyed as sin leads to destruc-
ton. There is not enough strength in
evil to be used as a foundation, for
though evil may seem to reign in
power, in beauty and splendor for a
time, whether it be in a man, home
or a nation, there cometh an ending
and an exposing of all evil for dirt
can't hide and sin leads to destruction.
Watch the mighty nations with their
! great majestic rulers. History repeats
itself in the footprints on the sands of
time in that they are gone and their
evil is merely a passing memory. They
stood but a short while and became
destroyed as sin leads to destruction.
Sin first enters the mind as thought.
If not Immediately dismissed there it
plants its seeds and it's roots take
growth in the heart. Then the body
yearns for its superficial pleasures
and the temptation is fulfilled. But
little further down the road stands the
rod of judgment ready to destroy the
passerby for sin leads to destruction.
Christ has taken this rod, broke it
and thrown it away,-Christ died so
that the soul that sinneth can live
Christ died so that sin can be DESTROYED
rather than destroy-C Christ died to
lead you out from the path of sin onto
the path of righteousness Christ died
to break that yoke, to break those
chains that have slaved the soul to hell
and asks you now to accept his death.
drink of the waters of salvation,
feast on the mamma from on high, hide
you now in the blest rock of ages, let
your soul be wrapped in the bosom of
Abraham and when the storm of sin
arises, when the destructive waves
lash your soul can find a security being
anchored in that rock where no sin
can ever enter, where no sin can ever
find an abode, where no sin can lead to
destruction.