Show SEEK FIST FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD fOD 1 1 1 Rev S. S A. A Hayworth Gives Answer Answer Answer An An- to Some Great Bible Questions WHAT IS MANS MAN'S CHIEF AIM IM Fal Fahe pC r t of Lifes Life's Values alucs Often Lends t to of Ir Irl l' l FalM Ideals Yesterday was rai rally zally da day at nt the East EastSide EastSide EastSide Side Baptist church The Tho pastor Rev He S. S A A. Hayworth preached a mi rally sot sor- mon In the morning service and anti began began be be- gan a n series on Some Sortie Great Gret Bible Questions Answered In tho the evening Large au audiences lences were were- present at both services The Thc text for Cor the morning sermon was Matt Iatt vi 33 Seek SecK ye C tho kingdom of Go God Subject First Things First Among other things thing Mr 11 Hayworth Haworth said suil Life Lire Is so 0 complex and Its Is activities activities ties so 80 varied that we need frequently to get on sonic some mount of vision where we can get a right perspective an anset and andset set see set things in their proper and ant relative rela iela tive the importance Many aC are suffering under the malignity of or a false falso per per- are magnified The Tho great gleat alms aims and ant achievements of life le ire are subordinated As an Ill adjusted I camera produces an abnormal picture so 80 a false perspective of lifes life's values leads eads to the thc adoption of false Ideals and character I Is thus ruined Ambitions Ambitions Ambi Ambi- tons arc are centered upon the accomplishment push of Ignoble attainments Secondary Secondary Sec See things arc are made primary Jesus In this text utters a timely warnIng warn- warn Ing ng a against this tendency in naJ Danger tiger er of f Pleasure sure The Thc first definite defnie warning which this message of Christ s to my soul Is the lie danger of making makins pleasure pleasure pleas pleas- ure ule the first object in life This Isan is isan isan an old ole blunder blundel which the earl early Greeks made Awa Away back in the days tas ta's of Greek philosophy there was sas or organized a school of or thought which taught that ho tho fl first t consid In life ought to tobe tobe toe be e pleasure Not sensual pl pleasure but nit the higher pleasures of art lera- lera ture filial and antI paternal love But nut Buthis this his philosophy of life soon passed through an evolution and naturally went vent Into pessimism They found that pleasure could coult not be realized since there Is more of pain than pleasure pleas pleas- ure These philosophers therefore came care to the conclusion that It was letter better to lie die than to live lve life had hadlie 10 no value to them the supreme object objector of or life being Impossible since unal- unal 10 byrd oyed ed happiness experience proved plo to tobe tobo tobo bo be but a dream This the theory or afterward afterward after after- ward developed Into which was d debauchery Its Is moral oral fruits fruits' the are e seen In n the N period of oC history r with which ev every ry student of o history is familiar Suicide Suicide Sui Sui- cide was an day every tay cr occurrence among all al classes and why not According According According Ac Ac- cording to this philosophy life was of no value when pleasure ceased and the tho shortest and easiest s solution luton of lifes life's difficulties was to end life This was the theO theory which s was dominant when shen Christ t uttered these worl words S Sec e ye e first the kingdom of oC God He would have men seek first tho establishment stab c-stab- of the rule of rl righteousness and ho offered that as a a cure curc for the frivolity the emptiness and the vanity vanity van van- an ity Iy of the times Dangers of Materialism TIle The second warning which grows out of ot this text Is the danger of makIng making mak mak- ing big the accumulation of wealth the first aim This Is disastrous to the moral morl and religious life of the tho family When hen this Is made mace the Ilist consideration consider consider- Ion tion ton the father has little Ito time to give to family life He is practically Inman Inmany in inmany man many cases a stranger to his own chi chi- chil chil- dren The old catechism What is the tile chief end of or man mait needs to be re- re emphasized The chief ealer end of oC man mar Is Isto Isto isto to glorify God and enjoy him him for for- or- or ever The Thc answer of man many today Is The chief en end of man Is to ma make money and spend it I lavishly The mans man's of- of lice is Js organized around the thought of getting a fortune The result rul Is Isan isan an abnormal life It I is as al Ruskin that great of or En England land said Tho back Is clothed ith wih purple anti and line fine lne linen while hilo tho the poor brain brin is dying dying f for r something to hide Its naked nests the body Is faring sumptuously every everyday everyday day while the heart helt is dying for fOl the bread brod of life the springs of or the soul dry up Jesus Je us Christ opposed this neglect of the thc soul He lie pleaded for fOl the Interest in interest In- In terest of t the tho higher life The fhe wise lse wiseman man Is he ho who puts a proper valuation alua tion upon till al those alms aims and lower pursuits and who li adjusts the duties lutes which belong to each In their rl right ht re relation re- re laton lation Men Ien 5 say I have no tie time to devote to religion and the cultivation of or the soul lo life That is to act as if you had no soul It I Is a sign of or weakness weakness weak weak- ness hess to to plead plea one dut duty duly as an excuse for neglecting another dut duty for the thc highest obligation Is to so Sf adjust your duties dutes that there will wi be he no clash If IC you OU have a soul it I is your our duty uty to cultivate It I and the fact that you are completely absorbed in the performance perform perform- ance anco of tho ho duties of in ti i material nature nature na na- ture tuio Is not a valid vald e excuse u c for or throwIng throwing throw throw- Ing your OU soul away awu I According to the lie teaching teaching of Jesus It I Is our oua first duty to seek tho the kingdom king king- dom Loin pf Pt God because b by so no doing we weare weare are arc properly relating ourselves s to God ami all al his purposes es for fOl the thc redemption iota tion ton of the race Every man ought ough t to have a share In the making of this world worle a better betel world Se Seeking first tho thu kingdom of God makes paramount the reign n of righteousness In the thc individual indi 1011 vidual and in the thc world But Dut seeking tho the kingdom also properly relates us t to this world Godliness Is IR profitable unto all al things things The to Christ to t life is the life Je Jeor of or real riches Many lany people seem to think that to become a Christian means the subtraction from from them of or tho the good things of the world whereas wheres I Ithe I the he very vely opposite Is 15 the truth Membership In tho the kingdom of or Gad God properly relates relate us to the thc world to come The queston question Where will wi you OU spend eternity Is an Important one one- one 1 Lord rd said Id that with wih him death was but a leap In the dark dark No o man had ever said that who was a Christan Christian Christianity solves satisfactorily satis satis- f to the Christian Christan the qUe question ton tonof of the her hereafter Therefore let everyman every everyman man whose whole heart Is troubled with doubts and dismay enter the Christian his life way and true happiness will wi attend |