King's Business - 1926-08

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T H E K I N O ’ S B U S I N E S S

August 1926

Satan knows that he is sentenced to eternal doom and his cohorts with him and so, logically, he seeks to keep his family tree intact. No effort has ever been made to open the eyes of sinful men that Satan has not sought to thwart. The history of the world and of the church is sufficient evi­ dence of this fact. The conflict—from the Garden of Eden to the present day—has been based upon one great principle, recognition of and obedience to God’s law. It js foolish to discuss the question of God’s right to establish laws. They are established, and in the realm of natural law, men know that they must obey them or suffer the penalty. They are not so foolish as to assume to dictate to God what laws He shall make for electricity. They have found it unwise to fool with them and they bow to the inevitable. But when it comes to the laws which God has established in the spiritual realm, men assume a strange, silly, sentimental attitude, which could be inspired by none other than Satan himself. Believing the Bible to be true, and that in it man’s lost condition and God’s remedy for his relief are made clear, what would Satan be most interested in doing today? Would it not be to destroy men’s confidence in God’s Word? Would it not be to minimize the truth concerning Jesus Christ as God manifest in the flesh and His blood offering as the only atonement for sin? Would it not be to seek entrance into the schools and seminaries? Would he not even take off his hat and enter the study of the preacher and teacher and pay them the highest possible compliments? Would he not use the soft pedal continually and propose a policy of peace? What cares he 3! the Virgin Birth and Deity of Jesus Christ and the authority of the Old Book are denied? Does he not know that where the white flag dominates that he will be able to hold his own for hell? Logically, therefore, his most fruitful field of endeavor is in the school and church, and that is where he is doing his deadly, dirty work today as never before. What can we do ? What must we do if we are to be loyal to our Lord? Expose Satan. Tell the truth about him. When the leaders of the professing church fall for his flattery,—reprove, rebuke, reveal the facts, let truth prevail! God pity those who profess to be His followers and fail to stand with Him in this hour of Satan’s ascendency.

no unholy pride, no jealousy! Joy and gladness will fill every heart! A new heaven and a new earth in which dwelleth righteousness! The very thought fills the soul with joyful anticipation and heavenly bliss. But how about the wiseacres who think they are competent to tell God what He ought to do, and who trample under their unholy feet His Holy Word? They must pay the penalty. God has put at their disposal His Holy Word and ip it is His plan for saving men. He can do no more. What is the key to Heaven? Faith in the crucified, risen Christ. “ Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” “ God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believ- eth on Him should not perish, but should have ever­ lasting life.” Those who accept God’s gift have the key to eternal life and it is their gracious, precious privilege to offer the key to all men. Hallelujah! What a Saviour and what a salvation! FACING SERIOUS FACTS This is an age of atheistic tendencies,—denial of God’s Word, of God’s authority, of God Himself; an age in which i f is the fashion to treat lightly sacred things, to magnify man and his wisdom and minimize God and His wisdom. New knowledge of God’s great, unchanging laws has increased and intensified man’s faith in himself, and consequently man grows larger and larger in his own estimation, and God and His unchanging Word grow smaller and smaller. He feels perfectly competent to criticize the Bible; change it, trifle with it, and even deny it. How Satan has never changed his attitude toward God or man. He is shrewd, subtle, scientific and seduc­ tive. He knows man and his weakness. He knows God’s program—which has never changed—and he knows the Bible by heart, although he has no heart for i t ; he hates it. Satan’s great business is to deceive men and hurry him as rapidly as possible to hell. If the Bible is true— and it is—what, then, would logically be Satan’s most earnest endeavor? Would it not be to destroy the power of the Word of God? Where would he be apt to work? Among those professing faith in the Bible. What is the center of all Bible truth? A Saviour for sinful men; a law of God by which sinful men can be saved; a law by which they may become possessed of a new nature, taken out o f Satan’s family and transferred to God’s family.

"The very heart o f this disgraceful apostasy, this dethroning o f Christ and enthroning o f the devil is to remove the Holy Spirit from His leadership in the Church and put in unspiritual men as leaders to plan for and direct the Church. The strong hands o f men o f great ability and men with the powers o f leadership have often displaced God’s leadership. The ambition for leader­ ship and the enthronement o f man-leadership is the doom and seal o f apostasy. There is no leadership in God’s Church but the leadership o f the Holy Spirit. The man who has the most o f God’s Spirit is God’s chosen leader, ambitious and zealous for the Spirit’s sovereignty, ambi­ tious to be the least, the slave o f all." ' — E. M . B ounds .

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