| Show GIVING UP WHOLLY to TIT GOS GODS WILL AND WAY how to become a christin christian hungry souls ask ak for bread of lit life indigestible stones stone and fetid erkers repel only ther the broad bread from heaven truly satisfies gods truo true message delicious satisfy satisfying ing error led to error in the dark ages age louisville my ky jan 17 pastor paster russell preached here today at Us ma ca cau leyB uleys theater we report his discourse from tbs alia text present your bodies a living sac holy acceptable to god and your reasonable service romans PASTOR RUSEl ua Dl 1 repeatedly the castor meets with people inquiring for the bread of life these seem to know that there is something radically wrong with nominal church preaching they tell that they are importuned importuner tor for money but that when they ask for soul food they meet with evasion and subterfuge from many of the great and learned who seem to have lost sight of the file bible and heart con version or they are met by the salvation army with traditions as indigestible as a stone they are told that god created our race with full knowledge that nearly all of them would spend eternity in torture and that to be saved from that awful fate they should become salvationists and storm the slums for jesus matter master stroke of satan this eternal torture error drives awn away y from god and the bible our most intelligent tell igent people who are repelled with the thought that the creator would pursue a course coarse which would be beneath the instincts of the most degraded the bible declares such fallacies to be doctrines of demons it was a master stroke on fatatis satans part to so misrepresent god as to repel those desiring to draw near him but to tell the people the truth la Is to anger the clergy for it droves them to be in the wrong instead of building up the house of god they have built meeting houses bouses seeking numbers and popularity rather than the people in gods goda word remarkably few church members he be finda know what or why they believe they give very little evidence of having the fruits of the holy spirit and many ot of thern them manifest the fruits of the ibe evil spirit langer anger malice hatred envy strife bitterness slander etc which the apostles style works of the gesh flesh and of the devil matthew ga laotians 21 1 john 38 the speaker admitted that there are nice people connected with all denominations ne he complimented their education refinement wealth influence and humanitarian sympathies but showed that all these belong to people who are not church members participation in good works Is by no means a proof that one Is a christian A christian la Is a person who has come into a very special relation dalp to god in all kindness the pastor declared that according to bible standards the vast majority of church members and of preachers are not christians at all then be thanked god that chiq does not mean that the bible condemns them to eternal torment but these self deceived ones will have no part in the wonderful blessings divinely provided tor for the elect church saintly persons of all denominations whose names are written in heaven surrender self sacrifice to god according to scripture no human being Is it ct for eternal life because all are sinners father adams sin cut him off from god and his race has deteriorated teri orated but god has provided tor for mans recovery from his bis present deplorable plo rable state and has set a time for the recovery Messiahs Aless lahs kingdom meantime a special call has gone forth for an elect church to be christs joint heir in the kingdom few have heard beard the message and still fewer believe lieve it 11 for nearly nineteen centuries it has been going hither and thither quietly unostentatiously the world and the nominal churches would say that it had accomplished nothing that everything had been accomplished by them but the speaker prefers to stand by the bible and to recognize that gods consecrated ones have indeed lifted up a light that the world has hated a light on account of which they have frequently been put to death or had bad their names cast out as evil or been boycotted socially or otherwise it if their hopes were merely in the present life these would be making a miserable failure of their opportunities but not so they walk by faith and not by sight they await their future reward at t the second coming of jeus sus by a share in his ella the first resurrection resurrect lon even now their peace joy and nd fellowship with god more than offset their trials and I 1 to ro be a disciple of christ is to be a pu who walks as is ile he walked the proposition la is self denial self belf ef fa cement it means giving ones self wholly to god as declared in our text no one need go far to make this consecration se bach at Ws his own bedside can give himself to god rut but unless we take this step and denul tely and positively enter into a contract with the lord we have 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