Show SUNDAY SLI q sermon ermon of koses Tb toa alcher Delly delivered cred in tiie the aan tho the question of civil aul 1018 ois liberty touched uloa DY F r by request of apostle moses thatcher elder 11 II E baker read the following chapter cli apter II 11 peter 11 II chapter chap tir 1 tut nut there wore were false prop liets alto also among the people even as there shall ha ba false teachers among you shall bring brinar in damnable here sies even denying use the lord that bou bouast ht th them ju slid and braig upon themselves anict dest destruction rution 2 arid many shall follow v their pernicious ways mavs by reason of ahem the way y or of truth dellill be evil spoken 0 of f I 1 3 and through alt covetousness shall they with feigned v ardi inalie merchandise of you whose ait now of a ion long time gingerelli lin gerelli gereth not and their da damnation mation slum bereth riot not 4 for if god spared not the angels that sinned but cast them down to helland hell and delivered them into chains of dar darkness darku kuess eai to be leber teher ved unto judgment 5 and spared not theold the old world but saved noah the eighth a preacher of if righteousness bli blinding bunging nging in ill tile the flood upon the world of the ungodly go G aud and turning the cities of sodom and into ashes condemned them with an overthrow makin making them an unto those that after should live ungodly 7 and delivered just mt lot vexed with the filthy conversation of taft wicked 8 for that righteous oui nan man di dwelling velling among them in seeing and hearing vexed liia his righteous roul from day to day with their unlawful deeds 1 9 the lord iknou eth how bow to deliver tile the godly out of temptations temptation sand and to reserve tile the unjust just unto tile tho day of judgment to bo be punished 10 but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in tile lust of uncleanness and despise government presumptuous are they they arc not afraid to speak evil of dignities whereas angeld abiell are greater ill in power and might braig n not t bailin railing accusation against thern moro before the lord f 12 but these as natural bra brua bets beasts ts mado to bo be taken and destro destroyed aed evil of the ahinga that they understand not and chall utterly tell in their on own n corruption corruption 13 and ebal cebalt reccie the reward ard of unrighteousness na they that count it plea pie guie atule to riot in tile flay day time spots they are and nd alemi blemishes lies sporting thoin sel eh OB with will their own dece ivings while they fea A with avith you 14 having eyes full of adul try and t that bat cannot cease from sin bin beguiling unstable souls an heart they have exercised brei with covetous practices es cursed children 15 which have forsaken the right way ivay and are gorie gone astray coloa following ing the vt tany ay of balabin tile eon con of boeer ni who ho oved loved the wages of unrighteousness 10 but was rebuked for liia his iniquity the dumb ass speaking eakins Ep vi t it man mans S voice for forbade bride the madness of fit alie c pro prophet act IT 17 these are wells wella without water clouds that are carried carrie I with a tempest to whom the hie mist of darkness is i ed for ever 18 for when N lien they speak great swelling ell words of vanity they allure through hie lusts of the flesh through 0 ances those that were clean escaped froni them who live in error li 19 while thoy promise them thein liberty they themselves aie the servants of corruption fur afu ofu of w hoin a man is 0 ON elcome oi of the same is be brought brou in bondage 20 for it after they have escaped the ions of tile the world orld titrous through 1 the kno knowledge i ed go of the lord and savior jesus clat christ t they are again entangled therein and tile latter awl is worse with them than the beginning I 1 or ishad been better botter for them not to havo known the way of than after they have it to turn hoin t the 11 e holy commandment delivered unto 22 but it ii iri happened unto thew them according to ali own true theolog is fumed tobis lohia vomit aga again inand and tile sow that was w to her wallow in ill tile the mire ir apostle then arose and said tile the words worda of tile apostle peter which lias has just been read by brother baker were addressed addres eil zed to people in the church sonic some of ivo whom lioni hail had gone back into wicked ways they show liow the disciples of christ hail bail their labors to perform under not dissimilar circumstances from those surrounding us its in another portion of holy writ we learn that the light 0 which god had given when turned into darkness became gross grobs darkness thus when na an older elder who has held the thep priesthood riest hood of god aud and las has been eon under till der the inspiration of tile tho holy ghost turns away broj from 11 the truth le he usually becomes afar more wicked 1 than he who t il ss never received golly godly author 11 r ind and heavenly light thus saying 1 I 1 I 1 it would have been ean better belter had bad they never reci relieved eved the truth alifi centt sit put it in another way a 1 ini millstone alstone il stone about the nock neck and the tran transgressor V ressor cast into tile the depth A of tile noa KIM 1 I wish to call veur y our attention to the better way without desiring to make further comments upon tile the chapter which wa aio acad by brother baker merely in passing however expressing the sincere hope that none of us its may liol like the dog returning again to 10 1 hiis vomit or the sow that was waid to her wal lov ing angain again for afford to give away and riches of efern eternity ity W r the bombl baubles e s 0 of f tile the world WOO ao 10 athe keep ill in view the averla c I 1 71 t truth rn t ti that at save c by bv the ando onto 0 of f the holy ghost god ha kaas re pealed aled none of us up to come fOU foyen tile the morn inz ins of the first resi rc trag t tiomi toil to tile the inherit inheritance once all heig tuf arid depths powers and principalities we have no assurance tHiA ive may not fall by the 4 one of ua 11 in ill contrast L to what has been read I 1 call vo your or attention ton ME portion of the ath eba chapter pter of relations de lations so for all the lav law lavitz ITZ fulfilled in ill one woid even in W his thou love thy neighbor as a thy but if ye yc bite at th U our one another take heed he d thai t that jye yo be not conSi consumed lined one of ail this I 1 say pay t theu enal walk 91 1 in th the e spirit and yo ve sh shall all lika fulfill fulfil ul fil the lust just of tile the klesli for tile the flesh ainest the spirit rit and the spirit against the llesh flesh and these ar arap con arary the one to the other so chato u cannot do the things that y 1 10 but if ye be led 6 dath 14 spirit cp irit ye are not under the I 1 laoj now tile the works oft odthe llesh it are manifest wb ich are t e A aultry I 1 fornication unc leane sa we lascivious ivious idolatry wite I 1 i c r f hatred variance emulate 11 strife se sections It ions heresies her esies eilar mur 00 11 lg 11 ll and much lile like of lie ami jr I 1 tell you before as I 1 it haves told you 3 in in time past that thoy do such things shall not inherit the kindom kingdom of god tut but tile the fruit of the spirit is is love joy peace long longsuffering suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance ra against 41 such things there is no law and they that are not Cliris christs ts have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts if yo ye live in the spirit let us also walk in the spirit let us not be desirous of vain glory provoking i D 0 oil one Ca another carother envying one another we are not ot as cautious and wase wise in these matters as we should 11 be seeking happiness in whatever direction we nye may god has that the way leading bac kinto his presence is straight 0 and narrow and there are riot not many who find it but broad is the dav way arid and wide is is the gate that leads to destruction lest ruction and many go in thereat the straight and narrow path to the righteous grows constantly brighter the broad way grows s con constantly V darker in ili the one there ks is love and hope aud and charity and brotherly kind kindness iless in the other emulation and hatred and strife ant and all those things that aro are born of the flesh but we came not here to serve the alie llesh but to follow the S spirit p i t and those who do thie aliis make jesus christ their model ile he whose tep ution caused iris his dearil yet whose character was absolutely perfect for ile he did nothing except that which ile he hall had seam his father do before him and yet no being who ulio has bica thed the breath of li life fe WAS assailed as lie was assailed but in the midst of it all I 1 lie ile was patient full of gentleness 0 of f k kindness i adne s and of love for iiii his brethren As his followers did we cople come to these mountains to bo be tossed about by every wind of doctrine hating heard beard the voice of the true she phed god lias has given to us the testimony of odthe the holy spirit why then we lye or any of us its cast as it were pearls before swine why should any of those who have heard beard tile songs of angelic beings C and for whom god lias has rent the veil enabling them to gaze into the eternities 1 I pay sa why should they with all I 1 abis light sell their birthright for a mess of potta pottage gd Is it not be bc causo caus a we are human and being i human arc subject to tn all tile the trials and tribulations through which others have passed lins bed Is there a man inan or woman in this audience who does doea not know that the spirit of god dwells riot not in the heart beat t in which abides the hatred haired of man and yet wo we attempt daily this fatal experiment if we lye hate man whom we nye have seen peen how hono shall we INC I 1 love 0 ve god whom we nye have not seen there seem bedenis no safety for us as a community there is no Do safely safetY for us as indi individuals vi duals except in the f fart at ti that lat love is stron stronger stroner 0 er than hate christ ic ie presents the be 0 one ne satan the other the sweet spirit of conciliation emal emanates lates from the one coercion from the other the hardy snarled and knotted oak withstanding the storms of oyes 0 is shattered hy by the force of the vivid lightening but the spirit of peace and good goo d will is as a gentle dew to the dying flower one destroys the other life thus ali tile 0 fruit and flower of y a of patient toil may be rooted up in a single k hour hy by a herd of swine in like manner tile wicked can tear down in a few hours 7 what hat it lias has taken good men years to build up tito the disposition to drive the hum human an body and coerce the human mind comes of lucifer but the gentle I 1 spirit of persuasion that lie begets I 1 ets love comes of christ when in the first great council of the sons pons of god of aich we have any account jesus the eldest the firstborn first born in the spirit afterwards the only begotten in tile flesh stepped before the father and sai d send me his mission was ivas to do the will of the father and to save as far as possible everyone of llis sisters under the se of their ellef individuality n r their identity and agency and ile he said eaid the glory shall be thine put but his big brother imperious and proud full of knowledge more knowledge than wisdom haughty in all of liis his bearings said give me thine lionor honor which is thy glory and power and I 1 will save pave the whole human family how did he propose to do it by coercion by trammelling tram melling human bodies and betterin fettering 0 human auls this individuality free ogency personal rights on the one hand band and tyr tyranny anity force and distraction dist ruction of agency r and individual personality and rights 0 on the other those were the matters in contro vercy tile tho issue of which brou brought 0 ht on the war in heanen christ jesus championed the cause of humility justice liberty satan that of pride of aggression m bondage L under tile bai banner iner of liate hato the he t latter led one third of all the lost of heaven to ruin think of the multitude cast over the battlement of heaven out into utter darkness tie the abolen abode of the damned one third of all the thousands of millions that have lived or will live in id mortal flesh what a host lost to tempt an and try the living think of all the woo and misery of alie bodiless millions who fought in ill the be beginning hining against 0 tho the supremacy of mans individuality i i and free agency that glorious principle of human and exaltation having been established in heaven beaven was reaffirmed on oil earth when god placed adam and eve in the garden saying of the fruits thou eat fo freely reely but it in the day thou hou t partake of the fruit of tree of tile the knowledge of good ind and evil behold thou shall shiely lie die but they were free to obey or dis oley olcy eve partook what was the result adam fell that man might bland man inin is that he be might have LaT ejoy joy thus man and the joy of mm man was wrought out of the exercise of his own agency continued on oi I 1 M page continued from rage page when satan met christ after the marvelous marv clous fast of forty days arid and nights t 1 tile conflict was still ojill on oil an abc acc accuser user of his brethren a liar from the beginning lucifer was still the haughty and sneering mocker as when lie he moved about out the alic throne of god we have all heard of satan quoting scripture to christ the occasion when the was weakened by that unequaled fast was the one chosen for that historic event the TI i e quotations ions vi were ere doubtless accorn accompanied by contemptuous contemplo ous ua sneers and hero here my bi ethren permit a brief digression L in order to toil illustrate hist rate the lie sur surviving biving influence of mockery have not known nien men chist cally so courageous that they would face death in a thousand ways without faltering and yet were too ro morally 1110 ally craven that they would link flink away and hide from tile effects of it a sneer as a whined cai cur r from the lah lagh in ili the perfect character of christ jesus made so FU by suffering 0 there was neither mental nor physical cobai dice when tile the tempter coinman commanded ded cakebread make bread of stories stones the answer of the master was full of wisdom thou not live by bread alone but by overy every word that proceeds eeds out of the mouth of god note the temptation on tho the temple spire and mountain top and never forget the humble but unanswerable replies milton the english poet tells it a wonderful story satorv in liia his poetic nostic dialogue io uc between those bi brothers others in everything so 0 o unlike A strange insight indeed for one uninspired if lie was uninspired had milton of the lie characters of those in ill their special lines marvelous marv clous and matchless bi others brothers mist chiist jesus marvelously and sly humble good wise and just lucifer marvelously and matchlessly cunning wicked ambitious abit ious and aggressive one the person personification of every thi tiling ng gentle kind patient and loving b the other oilier the personification of every thin thing F tricky y false hurtful and hate hateful ful each a strongly marked individuality one through darough 0 obedience exercised under free agency dav caved d and exalted as Rede ciner of tile world the other through 0 rebellion exercised under an agency equally free damned and reigning in ill bell because lie ILC would not serve in heaven how many of us its have had our personal individuality tested while learning from aliel jord gordji tl nieces J 41 1 e sie 41 c 0 oi 1 0 oi L yn you y 01 U w who i io recel 0 te he gospel amo among n the hills rf k of scotland and wal wales IDS amid the vales of eng 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