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T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
March, 1935
You will find it easy to live a godly life, for, as you become better and better acquainted with Him, you will enjoy the marvelous unfoldings of the treasures that per tain to a holy life— “ all things that pertain unto . . . g o d l i n e s s Hqre is the secret o f victory over the world and over your many temptations and besetting sins: Be come intimately acquainted with the Lord Jesus Christ! Through knowing Him you receive life. And where there is new life, there naturally follows new living! Life and godliness! W arning Allow me to warn you o f a great danger which at this moment may be lulling you into an attitude o f indifference. You may be saying to yourself as you read this: “ Just an other sermon! Another writer who is overwrought with unnecessary fea r! I have been a Christian for years, a member o f the church and busy in the Master’s vineyard. Why all this fuss about my becoming a Christian, when I have been a Christian always, as far as I can remember? I ’ve always prayed and tried to live right, etc., etc.” How many times have I seen men glance restively at a message like this and then, with a sigh, lay it aside, as though they had laid aside with it the responsibility it revealed.
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B y PAUL HUTCHENS* George, Iowa
today in the city o f Chicago! Heaven is, at least, a place o f rest. Just a moment, please! You do not have to believe in hell in order to be saved from it. I am not asking you to believe in it— first o f all. There are many who do believe in it and are still unsaved. lMv appeal to you is that you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, for if you do, you shall be saved (Acts 16:31). If you fully trust Him (fo r (a Do you recall those words o f Jesus to Philip? Sad words they were. But, barbed with the love o f the Saviour, they must have pierced deeply that day. I can almost hear the sob in His heart as He uttered them, see the wounds believe on Him means to trust in H im ), you shall be savedj] . ffis squ1 as j glimpse the light o f pain in H is eye. For Then some day when you shall have spent a few million/'^L tmur TM-iilir* Viorl Kppn urifll
a long time, almost three years now, Philip had been with the Lord, had sat under His matchless teachings, had basked in the sunlight o f history’s greatest environment, and, along with the other disciples, had actually gone forth to preach. And yet he was in ignorance as to the real Person o f our Lord. Now hear the words o f Jesus: “ Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip ?”
years (as the world counts time) in eternity with Him, where all is perfect satisfaction, you will praise Him from the depths of your heart that you have been saved from outer darkness. W onderful T hings Now, briefly, allow me to show some o f the wonderful things you will reap as a result o f knowing H im : “ Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge o f God, and of Jesus our Lord” (2 Pet. 1 :2 ). Grace always comes first, then peace. Do you long for peace? Oh, weary, warring, hating, restless, doubting, sinning, despairing world! Peace! The peace o f God is yours for the taking. But you cannot have it without first accepting His grace (H is favor and love bestowed upon ah unworthy one). And you get.both grace and peace, and multiplied at that, through the knowledge o f God and o f Jesus our Lord. Knowing Jesus Christ is a sure cure for worry. Have you tried it ? Listen once more. God has an abundant storehouse o f good things in which is kept everything that pertains to life and godliness. Everything! And to that storehouse He now hands you the key! “ According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge o f him that hath called us to glory and virtue” (2 Pet. 1 :3 ). Just what the “ all things” may mean, we cannot' now fully comprehend. But He has given them to us, nevertheless. W e might not fully understand nor grasp the meaning o f a million-dollar estate, should a kind friend leave it to us. But that lack o f knowledge should not keep us from accepting it and from drawing on its vast resources. LOh, reader, take the key, even though you as yet are scarcely able to believe, and by an act o f simple faith, insert it into the lock and open the door; and you shall have life and everything that pertains to it. You will instantly be come a new creature. “ Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold,
T r u s t s By ROBERT C R U M L Y
Far out at sea, at close of day, A lonely albatross flew by. W e watched him as he soared away— A speck against the glowing sky 1 Thought I: This lordly feathered one Is trusting in the faithfulness O f wind and tide, of star and sun; And shall I trust the Maker less?
O soul of mine, spread wide thy wings:
Mount up; push out with courage strong 1
And— like a bird which, soaring, sings— Let heaven vibrate with thy so n g ! SPREAD W ID E THY W IN G S , O SO U L O F M INE, For G o d will ever faithful be: His love shall guide thee; winds divine Shall waft thee o’er this troubled sea. Though dangers threaten in the night, Though tides of death below thee roll, Though storms attend thy homeward flight, Though shadows veil the verdant shore, And distant seems the hallowed dawn, Spread wide thy pinions— evermore Spread wide thy pinions, and press on. SPREAD W ID E TH Y P IN ION S , O M Y SO U L I
all things are become new” (2 Cor. 5 :17jTj * Evangelist and author o f “ Romance o f Fire.”
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