The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-16
Today's
Sermonetfe
LYNN Baltzer Tschudy
"WILL YOU GO ALSO?"


Jesus constantly emphasized
the Kingdom of God and His
righteousness" and when he fin
ally identified himself with God
us his Father, asking that his fol-
lowers accept himself that they
might have Eternal Life,-then
many OF his followers left him.
Jesus then appealed to his dis
ciples, and asked them If they
cared to so also? Then followed
that classic answer OF Peter,
Master, to whom shall we go?"
We have been reminded again
and again of our responsibilities
as members of the Church of
Christ in our world today, and
st times some of us are in a re-
ceptive mood and we stand by
the message Of the pulpit and APP
ply its lesson to our individual
selves with the solemn intention
of becoming ever more conscien-
tious about living our daily lives
in closer harmony with His
righteousness" However, there
are many more in the member
ship of the Church of Christ
your congregation and mine, re-
gardless of its particular creed,
who resent being tackled about
this matter of placing the King
dom of God and His righteous
ness".FIRST on our list Of musts.
We have our musts! You have
yours and / have mine. May /
remind you that there are many
in our congregation, so-called
Christians, who allow nothing to
interfere with tn cir bowling
night, sometimes not even their
health, but they always have
some excuse for disloyalty to
God and His righteousness.
Where men place sport, drinks
and the associations of the bar
and the tavern. as we'll as other
Questionable entertainment be-
fore their church membership,
and their responsibility 10
Christianity, women are equal
ly involved with placing their
card playing circles and unnec-
essary opping trips, with
waSteful amusement over and
above their souls requirements
and spiritual hunger.
Many have shown indiffer-
ence to Christ and His Church,
and He is appealing TO us all to-
day, as he appealed to the
twelve, when He said will you
20 also?" Will you? Why do you
not worship the Lord with glad
ness? Is it because you are COM
Portable in your questionable
living among evil and immoral
ity, with its lust, its tale-bearing,
its false witness, it covetousness
for all that God has not given
you because it would ruin you?
Why must we serve evil forces
irresponsibly, and yet brazenly
attempt to whitewash our con-
sciences, and present ourselves
as Christians, and followers of
His, when in reality we have no
intention of placing His Kingdom
ahead of our desires, unless it
happens to fit into our conven-
fence?
Will you 60 also? Many have
gone? Yes, many have, but they
do not realize it, Jesus said,
What shall it profit man, If
he gain the whole world and for
felt his own soul" He also said,
Eye cannot serve God and
Money" We think we can, at
least we have been trying to do
it for a long while, and yet we
have not quite realized that the
situation we are in today is one
in which we have lost our soul,
and have no further appreciation
for its needs, because we have
been serving money, and gaining
the world, which will only be
lost as something material. We
can realize our situation. We
must realize it. Why not think it
over, and in the light Of the
Cross, let us repent ourselves OF
our evil ways, and beginning
now, place the needs of "the
Kingdom Of God and His right
eousness" first in everything we
say, think, or do! We cannot do
1t without His help, and His
grace, but IF you want it, you
can have it for the asking, pro-
viding the asking is sincere
sincere for always, not just an
hour on Sunday.
Gospel i'm War
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