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Show W LOT'S WIFE IS TORWED TO A PILLAR OF SALT Pastor W. M". Adams spoko at the tent, Washington avenue and Twenty-sixth, street, last night. He said in part: "Wo should be careful in tho small things that Involve sin. The Lord says, 'He that is faithful ln that which Is least, will bo faithful also in that which Is much.' "Wo are Instructed to 'Remember Lot's -wife.' Lk. 17:32. When Sodom was destroyed, angels led Lot, his two daughters and -wife out of the city. They wero commanded not to look back. I suppose tho wlfo of Lot thought It was such a small matter, and they were Bafe from the burning, and, looked back. She became a pillar pil-lar of salt. Thongh she thought it was a small matter to look back, yet It Involved ono of God's commands, and tho God who gave the command. She lost all. "Nadab and Abihu, sons of Aaron, offered strange fire before the Lord, and a fire went out from God, and devoured them. Llv. 10:1,2. I suppose sup-pose they reasoned, a fire Is a fire. What difference does It make? The common fire will burn as well as the holy. But In offorlng the strange fire or common fire they had disobeyed dis-obeyed the command of Jehovah, and they were punished for tholr disobedience. disobe-dience. "Today the Christian -world Is agitated agi-tated over the Sabbath question. Tho fourth commandment reads, 'The seventh sev-enth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, and we are instructed not to do -work on that day. It Is found that tho same command that tells us the seventh day is the Sabbath, says the first day is a -working day. 'Six days Bhalt thou labor and do all thy work,' and the first day is one of tho six wprklng days. Some have thought It to be such a small matter. However, How-ever, we read, Tier priests have violated vio-lated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference differ-ence between the holy nnd tho profane, pro-fane, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.' Ezek. 22:2G. "To hide the eyes from the Sabbath Sab-bath of Jehovah, Is to profane the God of the Sabbath. The Sabbath involves in-volves the fourth command of God, and tho God who gave the command. 0 It Is simply a matter of who we are i going to obey. Says one. What dlf- 1 ference does it make? a day is a day. It is a small matter at tho best. But said the Lord, 'Whosoever therefore shall break one of tho least of the commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called least In the kingdom of heaven; but whosoever shall do and teach them the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.' Matt. 5-19. Then those who conclude the fourth command to be the least In the decalogue, that would be the very one the Lord would mean to them. Lot's wife thought it a small mattpr to turn around, and look back to the burning cities of the plains. Nadab and Abihue thought it a small matter to offer strange fire before the Lord. They all disobeyed God's command ln so doing. We can not afford to take any chances of breaking one of God's words written Sin Is the transgression of the law. Sin must be confessed in order that the Lord may blot It out. Uncon-fessed Uncon-fessed sin will prevent our prayers from being heard, and condemn us in tho judgment." There will be question box tonight. |