{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_53811/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_53811","id":"gutenberg_53811","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53811","summary":null,"tags":["Bible -- Indexes","Category: How To ...","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"_*RESCUE*_\n\n _*THE*_\n\n _*PERISHING*_\n\n _\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014_\n\n _PERSONAL WORK MADE EASY._\n\n _\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014_\n\n _That ye may KNOW how ye ought to_\n\n _ANSWER every man \u2014\u2014 Colossians 4:6._\n\n _\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014_\n\n _SUGGESTIVE NOTES AND HINTS_\n\n _FOR BEGINNERS IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE._\n\n _\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014_\n\n _And take the helmet of Salvation, and the sword of the Spirit,_\n\n _which is the word of God. \u2014\u2014 Ephesians 6:17._\n\n _\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014_\n\n _ARRANGED BY_\n\n _\u201cFRED\u201d R. SEIBERT_\n\n _\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014_\n\n _PUBLISHED BY_\n\n _*THE RODEHEAVER, HALL-MACK COMPANY*_\n\n _*WINONA LAKE, INDIANA*_\n\n _Price, 40c_\n\n\n\n\n _Copyright 1921, by \u201cFred\u201d R. Seibert, U. S. A._\n\n _Entered at Stationers\u2019 Hall, London, Eng._\n\n\n\n\n _PREFACE_\n\n\n _This Book is the result of a life time of research and practical\n effort, and has been forged on the anvil of experience._\n\n\n\n\n SUNSHINE AND SMILES\n\n \u201cFRED\u201d R. SEIBERT\n\n A SOUL WINNER ALL FOR JESUS\n\n\n\n\n _May my Motto be yours:_\n\n *Nothing of myself: everything in Christ: without Him nothing with Him\n All Things.*\n\n\n\n\n Contents\n\n\n PERSONAL WORK MADE EASY.\n Assurance. *HOW you may KNOW you are saved.*\n Backslider. *God\u2019s WARNING to the backslider*\n Backslider. *How he MAY RETURN to the Lord.*\n Baptism. *COMMANDED by God PRACTICED by Christ and others.*\n Baptism. *It FOLLOWS salvation. Baptized, because SAVED*\n Business. *I will be HINDERED in making money.*\n Christian Living. *Those TRYING to be Christians.*\n Christian Living. *STRENGTH for holding out.*\n Christian Living. *How to GROW In grace.*\n Christian Living. *Results of Keeping CLOSE to CHRIST.*\n Christian Living. *Results FOLLOWING repentance and faith.*\n Church, The- *Must I JOIN to be a Christian?*\n Confession. *Confusing Christ PUBLICLY.*\n Consecration.\n Christ. *His Deity.*\n Christian Science. *Its NON-CHRISTIAN character.*\n Christian Science. *God warns AGAINST It.*\n Conversions. *Instantaneous. Bible EXAMPLES.*\n Doubter. *One who is HONEST.*\n Excuses. *I am a MEMBER of the church.*\n Excuses. *I am GOOD ENOUGH.*\n Excuses. *I am NOT very bad.*\n Excuses. *I am NOT GOOD ENOUGH to be a Christian.*\n Excuses. *I am TOO GREAT a sinner.*\n Excuses. *Not now.*\n Excuses. *There are Church members NO BETTER THAN I!*\n Excuses. *My companions, Keep me from Christ.*\n Excuses. *I can not give up my EVIL WAYS!*\n Excuses. *There is TOO MUCH to give up.*\n Excuses. *I CAN NOT surrender all.*\n Excuses. *The christian life Is TOO HARD.*\n Excuses. *I have tried and FAILED.*\n Excuses. *I have TRIED and FAILED.*\n Excuses. *Can\u2019t HOLD OUT! God\u2019s KEEPING power.*\n Excuses. *I have no FEELING.*\n Excuses. *I am not CONCERNED.*\n Excuses. *The INDIFFERENT neglecting his soul.*\n Excuses. *Those who KNOW NOT the way.*\n Excuses. *I don\u2019t know WHAT or HOW to believe.*\n Excuses. *I can\u2019t understand the Bible.*\n Excuses. *I can\u2019t see my way CLEAR.*\n Excuses. *My heart is TOO HARD.*\n Excuses. *I am TOO YOUNG.*\n Excuses. *I believe EVERY ONE will be SAVED.*\n Excuses. *It IS TOO LATE for me to be saved.*\n Excuses. *DON\u2019T TALK to me, or I will leave.*\n Formalists. *One who trusts in FORMS and CEREMONIES.*\n Giving. *(Systematically) ONE TENTH of your income.*\n Hell. *God In UNJUST AND CRUEL to damn any one.*\n Hell. *A real PLACE.*\n Hell. *CONDITION of the lost.*\n Holiness. *Christ with In you SANCTIFYING the life.*\n Holy Spirit. *His WORK among men.*\n Hypocrites. *Too many IN THE CHURCH.*\n Love. *For your NEIGHBOR.*\n Moralist. *Who trusts in his SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS.*\n Moralist. *Who trusts In his GOOD WORKS to save.*\n Personal Work. *Its Great IMPORTANCE.*\n Personal Work. *QUALIFICATIONS needed.*\n Personal Work. *The \u201csoul-winner\u2019s\" prayer.*\n Personal work. *Help in COTTAGE meetings.*\n Personal Work. *Use of the \"PRAYER LIST\" Card.*\n Personal Work.\n Personal Work. *HINTS and SUGGESTIONS.*\n Personal Work. *Suggestive Scriptures.*\n Personal Work. *Fruit promised to faithful effort.*\n Personal Work. *FRUIT-BEARERS Chapter.*\n Personal Work. *For those who feel Too Weak and are Fearful.*\n Personal Work. *A word to the unwilling.*\n Pleasures. *Those who want to LIVE FOR THE WORLD.*\n Prayer. *HEARD and ANSWERED by God.*\n Prayer. *VICTORY through prayer.*\n Prayer. *REGULAR seasons for prayer.*\n Prayer. *CONDITIONS In answer to prayer.*\n Regeneration, or the New Birth. *RESULTS of Regeneration.*\n Repentance. *A requisite for Salvation, what does it mean?*\n Revival, The. *How to make it a success.*\n Revival, The. *What to bring to It.*\n Ridicule and Persecution. *My friends will LAUGH at me.*\n Ridicule and Persecution. *Encouragement given us.*\n Sabbath and Sunday. *HOW a Christian should HALLOW IT.*\n Salvation. *To WHOM offered? \u201cWhosoever will!\u201d*\n Salvation. *Offered to the MOST sinful.*\n Salvation. *Saved alone by FAITH, Lost through UNBELIEF.*\n Salvation. *What must I do to be saved?*\n Salvation. *Proofs that we are saved.*\n Scriptures, The. *Given by inspiration.*\n Scriptures, The. *They supply every need.*\n Scriptures, The. *God\u2019s promises FOR YOU.*\n Scriptures, The. *For the Jews.*\n Scriptures, The. *Given to INSTRUCT the Church-member.*\n Scriptures, The. *HOW TO READ them HELPFUL thoughts.*\n Scriptures, The. *Importance of Bible study.*\n Scriptures, The. *How to study them.*\n Scriptures, The. *How to memorize?*\n Scriptures, The. *The word of God our TESTIMONY.*\n Skeptic. *The HONEST enquirer, though skeptical.*\n Spiritualism Fortune Telling. *God WARNS against It.*\n Temperance. *God\u2019s WARNING against INTEMPERANCE.*\n Temptation. *How to gain the VICTORY.*\n Unpardonable Sin.\n Unforgiveness. *For those who will not forgive.*\n Worldly Amusements. *\"I see no HARM in them\"*\n Young Converts. *What they should do.*\n GENERAL INDEX\n INDEX FOR CHRISTIANS\n INDEX FOR THE UNSAVED\n Songs:\n The Bible Railway.\n Consecration.\n A Man May Be Down But He Never is Out.\n\n\n\n\n PERSONAL WORK MADE EASY.\n\n\n\n Assurance.\n *HOW you may KNOW you are saved.*\n\n\nYou may *know* you are saved, because God *says so* in His Word.\n\n*THESE things have I written* unto you that believe on the name of the\nSon of God, *that ye may know* (not hope, or guess) that ye *have* (not\nare going to have) eternal life.\u201d\n\n _I John 5:13._\n\nBUT as many as *received Him* (Christ) to *them gave* he *power* to\n*become the sons* of *God*, even to them that *believe on his name*.\n\n _John 1:12._\n\nI KNOW whom I have believed and am persuaded that *he is able to keep*\nthat which I have committed unto him against that day.\n\n _II Timothy 1:12._\n\nVERILY, *verily*, I say unto you, He that *heareth my word and believeth\non Him* that sent me HATH everlasting life, and shall not come into\ncondemnation (judgment) but is *passed from death unto life*.\n\n _John 5:24._\n\nA great many people think it is presumption for them to say they *know*\nthey are saved\u2014that they can only \u201chope for the best, and will have to\nwait until the judgment before they know.\u201d Paul did not say to the\njailer: \u201cBelieve on the Lord Jesus Christ and *perhaps* you will be\nsaved, or you will have a *good chance* of being saved, or you may\n*hope* to be saved.\u201d No, but \u201cthou *shalt* be saved.\u201d\n\n _Acts 16:31._\n\nVERILY, verily, I say unto you, he that *believeth on me* HATH\neverlasting life.\n\n _John 6:47._\n\nHe that believeth on the Son *hath* (not perhaps will have) everlasting\nlife.\n\n _John 3:36._\n\nHE that hath the Son *hath* life.\n\n _I John 5:12._\n\nThe Holy Spirit can not give you any happy feelings until you *rest\nfully upon God\u2019s Word.*\n\nIf you have *received God\u2019s gift* (Jesus), you have God\u2019s *word* for it\nthat you *have life*. *The life is in His Son*. Believe this and you\nwill *know it*. Confess Jesus as your Savior and you will have the\nwitness of the Spirit.\n\nTHE Spirit itself *beareth witness* with our spirit that we *are* the\nchildren of God.\n\n _Romans 8:16._\n\nHE that believeth on the Son of God hath the *witness (record)* in\n*himself*: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he\nbelieveth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the\nrecord, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his\nSon. He that hath the Son *hath life*; and he that hath not the Son of\nGod hath not life.\n\n _I John 5:10,11,12._\n\n\u201cPut that in black and white,\" says the merchant when a good offer is\nmade to him. God has put his offer in black and white\u2014\u201c*These things are\nwritten*.\u201d Read: I John 5:13.\n\nDo you say, I don\u2019t feel it? Feeling is not the evidence, or proof for\nyou to trust. Your feelings may change like the wind, but God\u2019s word\nnever changes. He says: \u201cHeaven and earth shall pass away but My words\n*shall not* pass away.\u201d\n\n _Matthew 24:35._\n\nWhich would you rather trust, God\u2019s *unchanging* Word, or your\n*everchanging* feelings? When God says a thing, it is so.\n\nIf you want this evidence *you must believe God\u2019s word*. If you do not,\nyou are making God a liar, and this will prevent the Spirit from working\nin you.\n\nHe that believeth not God hath *made Him a liar*; because he *believeth\nnot the record* that God gave of His Son. And this *is the record*, that\nGod *hath given* to us eternal life.\n\n _I John 5:10-11._\n\nIllustration: Luke 1:10\n\n\n\n Backslider.\n *God\u2019s WARNING to the backslider*\n\n\nNOW the just shall live by faith: but *if any man draw back*, my soul\nshall have *no pleasure in him*.\n\n _Hebrews 10:38._\n\nFOR it had *been better* for them *not to have known* the way of\nrighteousness, than, after they have known it, *to turn from the holy\ncommandment* delivered unto them.\n\n _II Peter 2:21._\n\nTHEREFORE to him that *knoweth* to do good, and *doeth it not*, to him\n*it is sin*.\n\n _James 4:17._\n\nTAKE heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of\nunbelief, in *departing from the living God*.\n\n _Hebrews 3:12._\n\nI HAVE overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and\nye were *as a \ufb01rebrand plucked out of the burning:* yet *have ye not\nreturned* unto me, saith the Lord.\n\nTherefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this\nunto thee, *prepare to meet thy God*, O Israel.\n\n _Amos 4:11-12._\n\nSO then because thou art *lukewarm*, and neither cold nor hot, I will\n*spew thee out of my mouth*.\n\n _Revelation 3:16._\n\nIf you are cold and indifferent, and fallen into sin, you will never be\ntruly happy, or have peace in your soul, until you *confess your sins*\nand return to the Lord, because God says,\n\nTHE backslider in heart shall be *filled with his own ways*.\n\n _Proverbs 14:14._\n\nGod says though man\u2019s ways are not His ways, (Isaiah 55:8) there is\n*hope* for the backslider\u2014Think of the story of the Prodigal Son and how\nthe Father *welcomed his boy home!*\n\nBUT *when he was yet a great way off*, his father *saw him*, and had\n*compassion*, and ran, and fell on his neck, and *kissed him*.\n\n _Luke 15:20._\n\nRead the next page\n\n\n\n Backslider.\n *How he MAY RETURN to the Lord.*\n\n\n*1st. Submit to God*. *He will forgive*.\n\nGO and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, *Return, thou\nbacksliding Israel, saith the* Lord; and I will not cause mine anger to\nfall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep\nanger for ever. *Only acknowledge thine iniquity*, that thou hast\ntransgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to\nthe strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice,\nsaith the Lord, *Turn, O backsliding children, saith the* Lord; *for I\nam married unto you*.\n\n _Jeremiah 3:12-14._\n\n*I WILL heal their backsliding*, I will love them freely: for mine anger\nis turned away from him.\n\n _Hosea 14:4._\n\n*2nd. Confess to God.*\n\nI ACKNOWLEDGED *my sin unto* thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I\nsaid, *I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord*; and thou\nforgavest the iniquity of my sin.\n\n _Psalms 32:5._\n\nIF we *confess* our *sins*, He is *faithful* and *just* to forgive us\nour *sins*, and to *cleanse* us from all *unrighteousness*.\n\n _I John 1:9._\n\n*3rd. Turn to God.*\n\nTHEREFORE *turn thou to thy God*: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on\n*thy* God continually.\n\n _Hosea 12:6._\n\nIF *thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up*, thou shalt put\naway iniquity far from thy tabernacles.\n\n _Job 22:23._\n\nAND He is the *propitiation* for our sins; and not for ours only, but\nalso for the sins of the *whole world*.\n\n _I John 2:2_\n\nSome say they are backsliders, but are *not*, for they have never *slid\nforward*.\n\n\n\n Baptism.\n *COMMANDED by God PRACTICED by Christ and others.*\n\n\nThe Bible plainly teaches that every believer *should confess Christ in\nbaptism*.\n\nGO ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, *baptizing them*\ninto the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.\n\n _Matthew 28:19, R.V._\n\nHE that believeth and is *baptized* shall be saved; but he that\ndisbelieveth shall be condemned.\n\n _Mark 16:16, R.V._\n\nAND Peter said up to them, Repent ye, and be *baptized* every one of you\nin the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins.\n\n _Acts 2:38, R.V._\n\nAND there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of\nJerusalem and were *baptized of him*, in the river of Jordan confessing\ntheir sins.\n\n _Mark 1:5._\n\n*JESUS was baptized*.\n\nTHEN cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, *to be baptized* of\nhim. . . . And Jesus, *when he was baptized*, went up straightway out of\nthe water: and, lo the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the\nSpirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him.\n\n _Matthew 3:13, 16._\n\n*PAUL was baptized.*\n\nAND immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he\nreceived sight forthwith, and arose, and was *baptized*.\n\n _Acts 9:18._\n\n*The EUNUCH was baptized*.\n\nTHE eunuch said, See, here is water: what doth hinder me to be\n*baptized*? . . . And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and\nthey went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he\n*baptized him*.\n\n _Acts 8:36, 38._\n\n*The JAILOR was baptized*.\n\nAND he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes;\nand *was baptized*, he and all his, straightway.\n\n _Acts 16:33._\n\n\n\n Baptism.\n *It FOLLOWS salvation. Baptized, because SAVED*\n\n\nThere are two extremes taken by people in the matter of baptism, one is\nto *reject* it entirely, and the other is to magnify it beyond it\u2019s\nproper significance, and make it *necessary to salvation*.\n\nWe are to be baptized, not to *help save ourselves*, but, because\n*Christ has already saved us* through our acceptance of His sacrifice on\nthe cross. We go forward in baptism in obedience to God\u2019s command, thus\nopenly confessing Him before the world by this act. Our baptism will\navail us nothing, unless *our heart is right toward God*.\n\nPhilip told the Eunuch that *he could be baptized* if he *believed with\nall his heart*.\n\nAND Philip said, If thou *believest with all thine heart* thou mayest.\n\n _Acts 8:37._\n\nA performance of ceremonies God hates, unless there is behind them, true\n*repentance for sin*.\n\nYOUR *new moons* and your *appointed feasts my soul hateth*: they are a\ntrouble unto me; *I* am weary to bear them.\n\n _Isaiah 1:14._\n\nTWO men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the\nother a publican. The *Pharisee, stood and prayed thus with himself,*\nGod, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are. . . . *I fast twice\nin the week, I give tithes* of all that I possess. And the *publican,\nstanding afar off*, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven,\nbut smote upon his breast, saying, *God be merciful to me a sinner*. I\ntell you, *this man* went down to his house *justified* rather than the\nother.\n\n _Luke 18:10-14._\n\nThe Pharisee was thinking to *justify himself* before God by his\n*prayers, gifts and keeping of holy days* but the the publican with\nrepentance, and the *believing cry of the sinner*, was saved.\n\nLet us *not neglect* baptism; neither think because we *have been\nbaptized* that we are *safe*. Trust Christ *alone* for salvation; *then*\nbe baptized.\n\n\n\n Business.\n *I will be HINDERED in making money.*\n\n\nWhat *profit* is there to *YOU*, even if you get money\u2014pleasure\u2014position\nor power\u2014 and in a few short years (at longest) you lose your soul?\n\nIf you cannot remain in your present business and be a Christian, you\nhad better *give it up*.\n\nFOR what shall it *profit a man*, if he shall *gain the whole world*,\nand lose his own soul? Or *what shall a man give in exchange for his\nsoul*?\n\n _Mark 8:36-37._\n\nBUT seek ye *first the kingdom of God*, and his righteousness; and all\nthese things shall be added unto you.\n\n _Matthew 6:33._\n\n*LAY not up* for yourselves treasures *upon earth*, where moth and rust\ndoth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for\nyourselves *treasures in heaven*.\n\n _Matthew 6:19-20._\n\nHE that loveth silver *shall not be satisfied with silver*.\n\n _Ecclesiastes 5:10._\n\nHE that *trusteth in his riches shall fall*: but the righteous shall\nflourish as a branch.\n\n _Proverbs 11:28._\n\nTHEN said Jesus unto His disciples, *If any man* will *come* after *me*,\nlet him *deny himself*, and take up *his cross* and *follow me*.\n\nFOR *whosoever* will save his life shall lose it: and *whosoever* will\n*lose his life for my sake shall find it*.\n\n _Matthew 16:24-25._\n\nAND Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that\nhath left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or\nwife, or children, or land, for my sake, and the gospel\u2019s, But *he shall\nreceive a hundredfold now* in this time, houses, and brethren, and\nsisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and\n*in the* world to come eternal life.\n\n _Mark 10:29-30._\n\n\n\n Christian Living.\n *Those TRYING to be Christians.*\n\n\nWe are not saved by *trying*, but by *trusting* in what *Christ has done\nfor us*.\n\nThis means:\n\n*Repentance*.\n\nLET *the wicked forsake his way* (that\u2019s your part), *and the\nunrighteous man his thoughts* (that\u2019s your part): *and let him return\nunto the Lord* (that\u2019s your part), and *He will have mercy upon him*;\nand to our God, for He will *abundantly pardon* (God\u2019s part.).\n\n _Isaiah 55:7_\n\n*Faith*.\n\nFOR *by grace are ye saved through faith*; and that not of yourselves;\nit is the *gift of God*: not of works, lest any man should boast.\n\n _Ephesians 2:8\u20149._\n\n*VERILY, verily*, I say unto you, *He that heareth My word*, and\n*believeth* on Him (God) that sent Me (Christ), *hath* everlasting life,\nand shall not come into judgment, but *hath passed out of death into\nlife*.\n\n _John 5:24. A.V. & R.V._\n\n*Receiving*.\n\nBUT as many as *received Him* (Christ), to them gave He *power to become\nthe sons of God*, even to them that *believe on His name*.\n\n _John 1:12._\n\n*Committing*.\n\n*COMMIT* thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it\nto pass.\n\n _Psalms 37:5._\n\n*IF thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus*, and shalt believe\nin thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be\nsaved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; *and with\nthe mouth confession is made unto salvation*.\n\n _Romans 10:9-10._\n\n\n\n Christian Living.\n *STRENGTH for holding out.*\n\n\nBUT ye *shall* receive *power*, after that the *Holy Ghost* is come upon\nyou.\n\n _Acts 1:8._\n\nBE *strong* in the Lord and in the *power* of His *might*.\n\n _Ephesians 6:10._\n\nPUT on the *whole armor of God*, that ye may be *able to stand* against\nthe *wiles* of the *devil*.\n\n _Ephesians 6:11._\n\nWHEREFORE take unto you the *whole armour* of God, that ye may be *able*\nto *withstand* in the *evil day*, and *having done all, to stand*.\n\n _Ephesians 6:13._\n\nSTAND therefore, *having your loins girt about with truth*, and having\non the breastplate of righteousness.\n\n _Ephesians 6:14._\n\nABOVE all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to\nquench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the *helmet of\nsalvation*, and the SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, which is the *word* of God.\n\n _Ephesians 6:16\u201417._\n\nWATCH ye, *stand fast* in the *faith*, quit you like men, *be strong*.\n\n _I Corinthians 16:13._\n\nBE *strong* and of *good courage;* be not *afraid*, neither be thou\n*dismayed*: for the *Lord* thy *God* is with thee *whithersoever thou\ngoest*.\n\n _Joshua 1:9._\n\nTHE Lord is my *light and* my *salvation*; whom *shall I fear*? the Lord\nis the *strength* of my *life*; of whom *shall I be afraid*?\n\n _Psalms 27:1._\n\nAND He said unto me, My *grace is sufficient* for thee: for my\n*strength* is made perfect in *weakness*. Most gladly therefore will I\nrather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon\nme.\n\n _II Corinthians 12:9._\n\nI CAN *do* ALL THINGS *through Christ* which strenghteneth me.\n\n _Philippians 4:13._\n\n\n\n Christian Living.\n *How to GROW In grace.*\n\n\nIf you earnestly desire to grow in grace according to God\u2019s commands,\ncovenant to do the following things *daily; pray, study* your Bible,\n*confess Christ*, try to *lead souls* to Christ, and *seek the society*\nof Christian people, and you will do so. Let us see what God says\nconcerning these things, and their importance.\n\n*1st. Daily prayer.*\n\nPRAY *without ceasing*.\n\n _I Thessalonians 5:17._\n\nWATCH ye therefore and pray *always*.\n\n _Luke 21:36._\n\nMEN ought *always* to pray.\n\n _Luke 18:1._\n\nI WILL therefore that men *pray every where*.\n\n _I Timothy 2:8._\n\n*CALL unto me and I will answer thee*; and shew thee great and mighty\nthings, which thou knowest not.\n\n _Jeremiah 33:3._\n\n*2nd. Daily STUDY of God\u2019s Word.*\n\nAND now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace,\nwhich is *able to build you up*.\n\n _Acts 20:32._\n\nTHESE were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received\nthe word with all *readiness of mind*, and *searched the Scriptures\ndaily*, whether those things were so.\n\n _Acts 17:11._\n\n*STUDY* to show thyself *approved* unto God, a workman that needeth not\nto be ashamed, *rightly dividing* the word of truth.\n\n _II Timothy 2:15._\n\nAS newborn babes, *desire* the sincere milk of the word, that ye may\ngrow thereby.\n\n _I Peter 2:2._\n\nTHY words were found, and *I did eat them*; and thy word was unto me\n*the joy and rejoicing of mine heart*.\n\n _Jeremiah 15:16_\n\n*Make this last verse your prayer.*\n\nOPEN thou mine eyes, *that I may behold* wondrous things out of thy law.\n\n _Psalms 119:18_\n\n*3rd. Daily CONFESS Christ.*\n\nLET your *light so shine before men*, that they may see your good works,\nand glorify your Father which is in heaven.\n\n _Matthew 5:16._\n\nYE are my *witnesses*, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have\nchosen.\n\n _Isaiah 43:10._\n\nSING unto the Lord, bless his name; *shew forth* his salvation *from day\nto day*.\n\n _Psalms 96:2._\n\nWHOSOEVER therefore shall *confess me before men*, him will I confess\nalso before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall *deny me*\nbefore men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.\n\n _Matthew 10:32\u201433._\n\n*4th. Daily SEEK OTHERS for Christ.*\n\nI HAVE chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and *bring forth\nfruit*.\n\n _John 15:16._\n\nHE that believeth on me, *the works that I do shall he do also*; and\ngreater works than these shall he do.\n\n _John 14:12._\n\nAND daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to *teach\nand preach Jesus Christ*.\n\n _Acts 5:42._\n\nWE then, as *workers together with him*, beseech you also that ye\nreceive not the grace of God in vain.\n\n _II Corinthians 6:1._\n\n*5th. Daily seek CHRISTIAN SOCIETY.*\n\nBLESSED is the man that *walketh not in the council of the ungodly*, nor\nstandeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.\n\n _Psalms 1:1._\n\nHE that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but *a companion of fools\nshall be destroyed*.\n\n _Proverbs 13:20._\n\n\n\n Christian Living.\n *Results of Keeping CLOSE to CHRIST.*\n\n\n - Your *own soul* will be enriched.\n - Persons will be *saved*.\n - Christians will be *built up*.\n - Your church will become *aggressive*.\n - The word of God will be *honored*.\n - Jesus Christ will be *glorified*.\n - The Holy Ghost *will not be grieved*.\n - You will be *ready* for any work.\n - You will be *devoted* to Jesus Christ.\n - You will be *successful* because faithful.\n - New *methods* will be used.\n - Your *influence* will be more telling.\n - Your life will be *less selfish*.\n - Your *expectations* will be more heavenly.\n - Your *joy* will be more abiding.\n - Your *hope* will be brighter.\n - Your *courage* more undaunted.\n - Your *service* more acceptable to God.\n - In life you will be *active*; in death you will be *ready*; in\n heaven you will *shine*.\n\n*Some PROMISES to encourage us.*\n\nTAKE my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in\nheart: and ye shall *find rest unto your souls*.\n\nFOR my *yoke is easy*, and my burden is *light*.\n\n _Matthew 11:29\u201430._\n\nBUT if we *walk in the light*, as he is in the light, *we have\nfellowship* one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son\ncleanseth us from all sin.\n\n _I John 1:7._\n\nDRAW nigh *to God*, and he *will draw* nigh to you.\n\n _James 4:8._\n\nCAST thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall\n*never suffer the righteous to be moved*.\n\n _Psalms 55:22._\n\nTHOU wilt *keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:\nbecause he trusteth in thee*.\n\n _Isaiah 26:3._\n\n\n\n Christian Living.\n *Results FOLLOWING repentance and faith.*\n\n\nThrough coming to Christ a man,\n\n*1st. Becomes a CHILD OF GOD.*\n\nBUT as many as *received Him* (Christ), to *them gave* he *power* to\n*become* the *sons* of God.\n\n _John 1:12._\n\n*2nd. Has Everlasting LIFE*.\n\nVERILY, *verily*, I say unto you, he that *heareth my word, and\nbelieveth on Him* that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not\ncome into condemnation (judgment); but is *passed from death unto life*.\n\n _John 5:24._\n\n*3rd. Receives the HOLY SPIRIT*.\n\nTHEN Peter said unto them, *Repent, and be baptized every one of you in\nthe name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins*, and ye shall\nreceive the *gift* of the Holy Ghost.\n\n _Acts 2:38._\n\n*4th. Has FELLOWSHIP with others*.\n\nTHEN they that gladly received his word were *baptized*: and the same\nday there *were added* unto them about *three thousand souls*.\n\nAND they continued steadfastly in the apostles\u2019 doctrine and fellowship,\nand in breaking of bread, and in prayers.\n\n _Acts 2:41\u201442._\n\n*5th. Has God\u2019s PROMISES*.\n\nWHEREBY are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises.\n\n _II Peter 1:4._\n\n*6th. Is called to SERVICE*.\n\nFOR the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house,\nand gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work.\n\n _Mark 13:34._\n\n*7th. Possesses HEAVEN*.\n\nIN my Father\u2019s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have\ntold you. I go to *prepare a place for you*.\n\n _John 14:2_\n\n\n\n Church, The-\n *Must I JOIN to be a Christian?*\n\n\nDo not join the Church unless you are saved\u2014If you are saved, you will\n*want to join the church*, and you can not live as useful a life out of\nthe church as in it, and the church needs your help.\n\nTHEN they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day\nthere were *added unto them* about three thousand souls.\n\n _Acts 2:41._\n\nAND they *continued steadfastly* in the apostles\u2019 *doctrine* and\n*fellowship*, and in the *breaking of bread*, and in *prayers*.\n\n _Acts 2:42._\n\nAND they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and *breaking\nbread from house to house*, did eat their meat with gladness and\nsingleness of heart.\n\n _Acts 2:46._\n\nPRAISING God, and having favor with all the people. *And the Lord added\nunto the church daily such as should be saved*.\n\n _Acts 2:47._\n\nONE shall say, I am the Lord\u2019s; . . . and another shall *subscribe with\nhis hand unto the Lord*.\n\n _Isaiah 44:5._\n\nNOT *forsaking the assembling of ourselves together*, as the manner of\nsome is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the\nday approaching.\n\n _Hebrews 10:25._\n\nThe Church is the best institution on earth, because established by\nChrist\u2014 When you fight the church, you are striking at Jesus Christ, as\nthe church is His bride.\n\nTHEY shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying,\nCome, and let us *join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant*\nthat shall *not be forgotten*.\n\n _Jeremiah 50:5._\n\n\n\n Confession.\n *Confusing Christ PUBLICLY.*\n\n\n*Confess* Christ, or He will *deny* us.\n\nWHOSOEVER therefore shall *confess me before men*, him will I confess\nalso before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall *deny me*\nbefore men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.\n\n _Matthew 10:32-33_\n\nWHOSOEVER therefore shall be *ashamed of me and of my words* in this\nadulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall *the Son of man be\nashamed*.\n\n _Mark 8:38._\n\nTHAT if thou *shalt confess with thy mouth* (not your influence) the\n*Lord Jesus*, and *shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him\nfrom the dead, thou shalt be saved*.\n\n _Romans 10:9._\n\nALSO I say unto you, *whosoever shall confess me before men*, him shall\nthe Son of man confess before the angels of God: But he that *denieth me\nbefore men* shall be denied before the angels of God.\n\n _Luke 12:8-9._\n\nWe should confess Christ, not only to *honor Him*, but because of the\n*influence we may have on others*.\n\nONE of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew\nSimon Peter\u2019s brother.\n\nHe first findeth his own brother Simon and *saith unto him, we have\nfound the Messias*, which is, being interpreted, the Christ, and he\n*brought him to Jesus*.\n\n _John 1:40\u201442._\n\nNEVERTHELESS among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but\n*because of the Pharisees they did not confess him*, lest they should be\nput out of the synagogue: for they *loved the praise of men* more than\nthe praise of God.\n\n _John 12:42\u201443._\n\nIllustration: Mark 5:15-20\n\n\n\n Consecration.\n\n\nI BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye\n*present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God*,\nwhich is your reasonable service.\n\n _Romans 12:1._\n\n\u201cConsecration means to be willing to be anything, or nothing, to go\nanywhere, or everywhere, at any time or at all times for God.\u201d\n\nLET us *lay aside every weight*, and the sin which doth so easily beset\nus, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,\n\nLOOKING unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.\n\n _Hebrews 12:1-2._\n\nWHETHER therefore ye *eat*, or *drink*, or *whatsoever ye do, do all to\nthe glory of God*.\n\n _I Corinthians 10:31._\n\nAND whatsoever *ye do in word or deed, do all in the name* of the *Lord\nJesus*, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.\n\n _Colossians 3:17._\n\n Dear Savior, help me every day\n To live more nearly as I pray;\n I would walk daily by thy side,\n And trust in thee whate\u2019er betide.\n\n Help me to live so near to thee\n Thy likeness may be seen in me;\n Make me so gentle, kind and true\n That I will do as thou wouldst do.\n\n To win some precious souls for thee.\n My errand here on earth would be;\n And every day till thou shalt come\n To do some good, to help some one.\n\nFrequently ask your heart if you are doing the will of God.\n\nAccustom yourself to do everything in the name of Jesus Christ, as His\ndisciple.\n\nSee that every day shall be marked by at least one special work of love.\n\nWherever you go, inwardly pray that you do no evil, but be the *means of\nsome good*.\n\n\n\n Christ.\n *His Deity.*\n\n\nOne of the proofs that Christ is the Son of God, is the fact that we\nhave several titles *applied to Christ in the New Testament* that are\n*applied to Jehovah* in the *Old Testament*.\n\nTHE word which God sent unto the children of Israel, *preaching peace by\nJesus Christ*: (He is Lord of all).\n\n _Acts 10:36._\n\nBUT we speak the wisdom of God *in a mystery*, even the hidden wisdom,\nwhich God ordained before the world unto our glory. Which none of the\nprinces of this world knew: for had they known it, they *would not have\ncrucified the Lord of glory*.\n\n _I Corinthians 2:7\u20148._\n\nAND Thomas answered and said unto him, *My Lord and my God*. Jesus saith\nunto him, Thomas because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed\nare they that have not seen, and yet have believed. . . . But these are\nwritten, that ye *might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of\nGod*; and that believing ye might have life through his name.\n\n _John 20:28-29, 31._\n\nWHOSOEVER believeth *that Jesus is the Christ is born of God*: and every\none that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.\n. . . Who is he that *overcometh* the world, but he *that believeth that\nJesus is the Son of God*?\n\n _I John 5:1, 5._\n\nWHO *is a liar* but *he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ*? He is\nanti-christ, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever *denieth the\nSon*, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son\nhath the Father *also*.\n\n _I John 2:22-23._\n\n\n\n Christian Science.\n *Its NON-CHRISTIAN character.*\n\n\n\u201cChristian Science\" is nothing new. It is a mixture of exploded theories\nand issues of the ancient world. Moreover, it is neither \"Christian\" nor\n\u201cScience\u201d for both the personality of Christ and matter are denied, and\nthere could he no Christ without personality nor science without matter.\nThis unscientific cult is not only not Christian but it denies many\ntruths of the Bible.\n\n*1st. A personal God.*\n\nThe second article in the platform of Christian Science says, \u201cGod is\nmind. He is divine principle, *not person*,\u201d \u201cHe and the universe are\nthe same,\" or \u201cHe is the \u2018substance\u2019 and the universe and man are\n\u2018manifestations.\u2019 \u201d\n\nThe Christian says:\n\nOUR *Father* which art in heaven.\n\n _Matthew 6:9._\n\n*2nd. Christ and His Atonement.*\n\nThough they sometimes speak of Christ as a great metaphysician, they\nmaintain that there is *no real body*, and if no body, then no\nsuffering\u2014therefore Christ did not suffer on the cross.\n\n*3rd. Sin.*\n\nThe belief that you have *no real body* enables you to dispose of the\nquestion of sin. If the body is only a phantom then sin would only be\nthe phantom of a phantom; an easy way for a sinner to relieve himself of\npersonal responsibility to God.\n\n*4th. A personal devil.*\n\nMrs. Eddy says, \u201cA lie is all the devil there is.\u201d Vol. 2, Page 85. See\nscripture pages 104\n\nand 118.\n\n*5th. The reality of prayer.*\n\nThey have something that corresponds to prayer, but their text-book\nsays, \u201cPrayer to a personal God is an hindrance.\"\n\nThe following are a few of the many scriptures which have reference to\nthe folly of such heresies:\n\nHEREBY know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that *confesseth that\nJesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God*.\n\n _I John 4:2._\n\n\n\n Christian Science.\n *God warns AGAINST It.*\n\n\nAND every spirit that *confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the\nflesh is not of God*: and this is that *spirit* of antichrist, whereof\nye have heard that it should come; and even now already is in the world.\n\n _I John 4:3._\n\nFOR he hath *made him to be sin for us*, who knew no sin; that we might\nbe made the righteousness of God in him.\n\n _II Corinthians 5:21._\n\nFOR many *deceivers are entered into the world*, who confess not that\nJesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.\n\n _II John 1:7._\n\nWHO his *own self bare our sins in his own body* on the tree, that we,\nbeing dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye\nwere healed.\n\n _I Peter 2:24._\n\nAND almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and *without\nshedding of blood is no remission*.\n\n _Hebrews 9:22._\n\nMANY will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in\nthy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done\nmany wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, *I never knew\nyou: depart from me, ye that work iniquity*.\n\n _Matthew 7:22-23._\n\nFOR the *mystery of iniquity* doth already work; only he who now letteth\nwill let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that *Wicked\nbe revealed*, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth,\nand *shall destroy with the brightness of his coming*.\n\n _II Thessalonians 2:7-8._\n\nAND no marvel; for *Satan himself is transformed into an angel of\nlight*.\n\n _II Corinthians 11:14._\n\n\n\n Conversions.\n *Instantaneous. Bible EXAMPLES.*\n\n\n*God says you can be saved AT ONCE.*\n\n*LOOK unto me*, and *be ye saved*, all the ends of the earth: for I am\nGod, and there is none else.\n\n _Isaiah 45:22._\n\n*The Jailer believed, and was saved the SAME NIGHT*.\n\nAND they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou *shalt be\nsaved*, and thy house. And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and\nto all that were in his house.\n\n _Acts 16:31-32._\n\nThe thief believed and was saved the *same day*.\n\nAND he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy\nkingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, *To day shalt\nthou be with me in paradise*.\n\n _Luke 23:42-43._\n\nThe woman believed and was saved the *same hour*.\n\nAND he said unto her, *Thy sins are forgiven*. And they that sat at meat\nwith him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins\nalso? And he said to the woman, *Thy faith hath saved thee;* go in\npeace.\n\n _Luke 7:48-50._\n\n*God wants you to turn from your sins*.\n\nLET the wicked *forsake his way*, and the unrighteous man *his\nthoughts*: and let him *return unto the Lord*, and he *will* have mercy\nupon him: *and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon*.\n\n _Isaiah 55:7._\n\nJesus will forgive your sins and save if you will *ask and obey*.\n\nHE . . . that believeth, *hath* (not will have) everlasting life.\n\n _John 5:24._\n\nHIM that cometh to *me, I will in no wise cast out*.\n\n _John 6:37._\n\n\n\n Doubter.\n *One who is HONEST.*\n\n\n*\u201cHOW MAY I KNOW THERE IS A GOD?\"*\n\nAND the *word was made flesh*, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His\nglory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace\nand truth.\n\n _John 1:14._\n\nNO man hath seen God at any time, the *only begotten Son* which is in\nthe bosom of the Father, He hath declared him.\n\n _John 1:18._\n\nJESUS saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast\nbelieved, blessed are they that *have not seen and yet have believed*.\n\n _John 20:29._\n\nBUT these are *written*, that ye might *believe* that *Jesus* is the\n*Christ*, the *Son of God*; and that *believing* ye might have *life\nthrough His name*.\n\n _John 20:31._\n\nIF any man will do *His will*, he *shall know* of the *doctrine*,\nwhether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.\n\n _John 7:17._\n\nHE that is of God heareth God\u2019s words: ye therefore hear them not,\n*because ye are not of God*.\n\n _John 8:47._\n\nTHEN saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou being a\nJew askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have\nno dealing with the Samaritans.\n\n _John 4:9._\n\nBELIEVEST thou not that I am in the Father and the Father in me? the\nwords that I speak unto you I speak not of myself, but the *Father that\ndwelleth in me*, He doeth the works.\n\n _John 14:10._\n\nBELIEVE me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else\nbelieve me for the very works\u2019 sake.\n\n _John 14:11._\n\nAND whatsoever ye shall ask in *my name, that will I do*, that the\nFather may be glori\ufb01ed in the Son.\n\n _John 14:13._\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *I am a MEMBER of the church.*\n\n\nChurch membership *alone does not save any one*. Jesus made this act\nvery plain that there must be more than a cold profession of religion.\n\n*NOT every one that saith unto me, Lord*, Lord, shall enter into the\nkingdom of heaven; *but he that doeth the will of my Father* which is in\nheaven.\n\n _Matthew 7:21._\n\n*MANY will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord*, have we not *prophesied\nin thy name*? and in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done\nmany wonderful works? and then will I profess unto them, *I never knew\nyou: depart from me, ye that work iniquity*.\n\n _Matthew 7:22-23._\n\nTHEREFORE whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I\nwill liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:\n\nAnd the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and\nbeat upon that house, *and it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock*.\n\nAnd every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not,\nshall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the\nsand:\n\nAnd the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat\nupon that house; and *it fell*: and *great was the fall of it*.\n\n _Matthew 7:24-27._\n\nThe great question is, *Have I been born of God*, and am I *showing by\nmy life* that I am a child of God?\n\nJESUS answered and said unto him, Verily, verily I say unto thee,\n*except a man be BORN AGAIN, he* cannot see the kingdom of God.\n\n _John 3:3._\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *I am GOOD ENOUGH.*\n\n\nYou may *think* you are, but *God does not*.\n\n He says you are a sinner!\n\n*FOR all have sinned*, and come short of the glory of God.\n\n _Romans 3:23._\n\nAS it is written, *There is none* righteous, no, *not one*.\n\n _Romans 3:10._\n\nFOR there is *not a just man upon earth*, that doeth good, and sinneth\nnot.\n\n _Ecclesiastes 7:20._\n\nALL we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned *every one* to his\nown way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.\n\n _Isaiah 53:6._\n\nAND he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that\nthey were righteous, and despised others: Two men went up into the\ntemple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The\nPharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee that I am\nnot as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this\npublican. *I fast twice in the week*, I *give tithes* of all that I\npossess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much\nas his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, *God be\nmerciful to me a sinner*. I tell you, *this man* went down to his house\n*justified rather than the other*: for every one that exalteth himself\nshall be abased; and he that *humbleth himself shall be exalted*.\n\n _Luke 18:9-14._\n\nNot only would God show you that *you are a sinner*, but He would warn\nyou of the *consequences* of sin, and the *judgement that follows.*\n\nTHE wages of sin is *death*.\n\n _Romans 6:23._\n\nTHE soul that sinneth *it shall die*.\n\n _Ezekiel 18:4_\n\nBE sure your sin *will find you out*.\n\n _Numbers 32:23._\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *I am NOT very bad.*\n\n\nTHERE is *no difference*: For *all have sinned*.\n\n _Romans 3:22-23._\n\nTHEY are *all gone aside*, they are *all together become filthy*: there\nis *none that doeth good*, no, not one.\n\n _Psalms 14:3._\n\nTHERE IS *not a just man upon earth*, that doeth good, and sinneth not.\n\n _Ecclesiastes 7:20._\n\nFOR as many as are of the work of the law are under the curse: for it is\nwritten, *Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things* which\nare written in the book of the law *to do them*.\n\n _Galatians 3:10._\n\nLet me ask you, have you kept all of God\u2019s law? You say, \u201cno, of course\nnot; no one has.\u201d Very good; your admitting that you have failed\nconvicts you, for we read.\n\n*WHOSOEVER* shall keep the *whole law*, and yet offend in *one point*,\nhe is *guilty of all*.\n\n _James 2:10._\n\nBreak *one* link in your chain, and your anchor goes to the bottom as\nquickly as it would if ten links were broken. Break *one* of God\u2019s\nCommandments, and you are *under the curse* of a broken law as truly as\nyou would be if you broke all of them. While there are *degrees* of sin,\nthere is *no difference* as to the fact of guilt before God.\n\nAND he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men;\n*but God knoweth your hearts*: for that which is highly esteemed among\nmen is abomination in the sight of God.\n\n _Luke 16:15._\n\nDo you keep God\u2019s greatest Commandment?\n\nTHOU shalt love the Lord thy God with *all* thy heart, and with *all*\nthy soul, and with all thy mind.\n\n _Matthew 22:37-38._\n\nBUT the Scripture hath concluded *all under sin*.\n\n _Galatians 3:22._\n\nIllustration: Luke 18:10-14.\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *I am NOT GOOD ENOUGH to be a Christian.*\n\n\nJesus came to *save sinners*, and not the righteous!\n\nBUT when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, *They that be whole need\nnot a physician, but they that are sick*. But go ye and learn what that\nmeaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to\n*call the righteous, but sinners* to repentance.\n\n _Matthew 9:12-13._\n\nNOT by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his\nmercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the\nHoly Ghost.\n\n _Titus 3:5._\n\n*LET the wicked forsake his way* (that\u2019s your part), *and the\nunrighteous man his thoughts* (that\u2019s your part): *and let him return\nunto the Lord* (that\u2019s your part), and He will have *mercy* upon him;\nand to our God, for *He will abundantly pardon*. (God\u2019s part.)\n\n _Isaiah 55:7._\n\nFOR the Son of Man is come *to seek* and *to save* that *which was\nlost*.\n\n _Luke 19:10._\n\nCOME now and let us *reason together*, saith the Lord; though your\n*sins* be *as scarlet*, they shall be as *white* as *snow*; though they\nbe red like *crimson*, they *shall be as wool*.\n\n _Isaiah 1:18._\n\nTHIS is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ\nJesus came into the world to *save sinners*; of whom *I am the chief*.\n\n _I Timothy 1:15._\n\n*IF we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our\nsins*.\n\n _I John 1:9._\n\n*ALL* that the Father giveth me shall *come* to me; and him that *cometh\nto me I will in no wise cast out.*\n\n _John 6:37._\n\nRead: Mark 2:17; Ephesians 2:8, 9.\n\nIllustration, Mark 5:25-34.\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *I am TOO GREAT a sinner.*\n\n\nIt is refreshing to find one who feels that he is a great sinner, as\nmost people have a *very good opinion of themselves*. When one sees his\nor her sins, and cries to God, he or she has every assurance that there\nis forgiveness.\n\nTHIS is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ\nJesus came into the world *to save sinners; of whom I am chief*.\n\n _I Timothy 1:15._\n\nFOR the Son of man is *come to seek and save that which was lost*.\n\n _Luke 19:10._\n\nThe fact that you are a sinner assures you that you *may be saved*,\nbecause Christ came to save sinners; and if you confess and forsake sin\nyou have God\u2019s Word for it that *you are forgiven*.\n\nLET the wicked *forsake his way*, and the unrighteous man his thoughts:\nand *let him return unto the Lord*, and *He will have mercy* upon him;\nand to our God, for *He will abundantly pardon*.\n\n _Isaiah 55:7._\n\nHE that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but *whoso confesseth and\nforsaketh them shall have mercy*.\n\n _Proverbs 28:13._\n\nFOR *whosoever* shall *call* upon the name of the Lord *shall be saved*.\n\n _Romans 10:13._\n\n*WHOSOEVER will*, let him *take* the *water* of life freely.\n\n _Revelation 22:17._\n\n\u201c*Whosoever* means any one, and *you too*.\"\n\nHIM that cometh to *me I will in no wise cast out*.\n\n _John 6:37._\n\nHere is the plain promise that \u201c*if you come*\u201d, you *will not* be \u201ccast\nout.\u201d Will you come?\n\nWHEREFORE He is able also to *save them to the uttermost* that come unto\nGod by him.\n\n _Hebrews 7:25._\n\nIf you are among the \u201cuttermost\u201d ones, *come now* and rejoice in a full\nsalvation.\n\nIllustration: John 4:7-30.\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *Not now.*\n\n\nCOME; for all things are *now ready*.\n\n _Luke 14:17._\n\n*TODAY* if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.\n\n _Hebrews 3:15._\n\nSEEK ye the Lord *while He may be found*, call ye upon Him *while He is\nnear*.\n\n _Isaiah 55:6._\n\nBEHOLD, *now is the accepted time*; behold, now is *the day of\nsalvation*.\n\n _II Corinthians 6:2._\n\n*BOAST not* thyself of *tomorrow*; for thou knowest not what a day may\nbring forth.\n\n _Proverbs 27:1._\n\nGO to now, ye that say, *today or tomorrow we will go* into such a city,\nand continue there a year, and buy and sell.\n\n _James 4:13._\n\nThis may be your *last opportunity*.\n\nI WILL say to *my soul*, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up *for many\nyears*; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto\nhim, *Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee*.\n\n _Luke 12:19-20._\n\nWHAT are you waiting for? To better yourself? This will be a waste of\ntime, as we have learned that your trying and doing and working, will\nnot even help to save you, but hinder you. Do you say, \u2018there is time\nenough?\u2019 How do you know it? God says:\n\n*MY* spirit *shall not always* strive *with* man.\n\n _Genesis 6:3._\n\nPREPARE to meet thy God.\n\n _Amos 4:12._\n\nTHEREFORE *be ye also ready*: for in such an hour as ye think not the\n*Son of man cometh*.\n\n _Matthew 24:44._\n\nWATCH therefore, *for ye know neither the day* nor *the hour* wherein\n*the Son of man cometh*.\n\n _Matthew 25:13._\n\nIllustration: Acts 24:24-27.\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *There are Church members NO BETTER THAN I!*\n\n\nThat may be, but you can not save your soul by finding some church\nmember who is failing to live as he or she ought to live. The more you\nlook at them, the more you are apt to *be like them*, and if they are\nlost, and you are not saved, you *both will perish together*.\n\nTHEREFORE *thou art inexcusable,* O man, whosoever thou art that\n*judgest*: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself;\n*for thou that judgest doest the same things*. But we are sure that the\njudgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such\nthings. *And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest* them which do such\nthings, and *doest the same, that thou* shalt escape the judgments of\nGod?\n\n _Romans 2:1-3._\n\n*JUDGE not*, that ye not judged. For *with what judgment ye judge, ye\nshall be judged*: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to\nyou again. *And why beholdest thou the mote* that is in thy brother\u2019s\neye, but *considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye*? Or how\nwilt thou say to thy brother, Let *me pull* out the mote out of thine\neye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? *Thou hypocrite*, first\ncast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt *thou see\nclearly* to cast out the mote out of thy brother\u2019s eye.\n\n _Matthew 7:1-5._\n\nSO then every one of us shall give an account of *himself to God*.\n\n _Romans 14:12._\n\nAccount of \u201c*himself*\u201d, not his neighbor.\n\nFOR we must *all appear before the judgment seat of Christ*; that every\none may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath\ndone, whether it be good or bad.\n\n _II Corinthians 5:10._\n\nYou had better *save your own soul*, and try to help others than\ncriticise them. If you know how, they ought to like, be a Christian and\nshow them how the counterfeit christian proves the genuine, just and the\ncounterfeit dollar proves the genuine.\n\nYou may as well argue \u201cDon\u2019t deposit money in a bank, there are men in\nthe banking business that have embezzled. Don\u2019t join the lodge or trades\nunions.\" There are hypocrites in every lodge and union in America. There\nare hypocrites everywhere.\n\n*Remember*\u2014When the Church goes through the Pearly Gates, those\nhyporites will be left on the *outside of the gate*, on *your* side,\nunless you repent, and you will have to spend *all eternity with them*.\nWould it not be better to repent, and live with them a few years in the\nChurch, than to spend *all eternity* with them elsewhere? You must spend\nsome time with those hypocrites, somewhere. Where shall it be?\n\nSO then every one of us shall give *account of himself to God*.\n\n _Romans 14:12._\n\nFOR it is written, as I live, saith the Lord, *every knee shall bow to\nme*, and *every tongue shall confess to God.*\n\n _Romans 14:11._\n\nAND whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into\n*the lake of fire*.\n\n _Revelation 20:15._\n\nTake Christ as Your Saviour, a perfect example, and do not lose your\nsoul through looking at inconsistent christians.\n\nHE that *believeth* and is *baptized shall be saved; but* he that\n*believeth not shall be damned*.\n\n _Mark 16:16._\n\n*FOR by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves*;\nit is the *gift of God*; not of works, lest any man should boast.\n\n _Ephesians 2:8, 9._\n\nIllustration: John 21:19-22.\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *My companions, Keep me from Christ.*\n\n\nGreat blessing awaits those who will *turn from bad associates*, but the\ncurse of God is upon those who refuse to do so\u2014Read for yourself and\nsee\u2014\n\nBLESSED is the man that *walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly*, nor\nstandeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth *in* the seat of the\nscornful.\n\n _Psalms 1:1._\n\nHE that walketh with wise men shall be wise: *but a companion of fools\nshall be destroyed*.\n\n _Proverbs 13:20._\n\nENTER not into the *path of the wicked*, and go not in the *way of evil\nmen*. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and *pass away*.\n\n _Proverbs 4:14\u201415._\n\n*MY son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not*. If they say, Come\nwith us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent\nwithout cause: Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as\nthose that go down into the pit: . . . Cast in thy lot among us, let us\nall have one purse: *My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain\nthy foot from their path*.\n\n _Proverbs 1:10\u201412, 14\u201415._\n\nYE adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the *friendship of the*\nworld *is enmity with God*?\n\n _James 4:4._\n\nBE ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship\nhath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light\nwith darkness!\n\n _II Corinthians 6:14._\n\nBy the help of God you can cut loose from the old crowd, and live a\nclean life\u2014Begin now.\n\nWHEREFORE *come out from among them*, and be ye *separate*, saith the\nLord.\n\n _II Corinthians 6:17._\n\nRead: Proverbs 29:25; Mark 8:38; Matthew 5:11,12.\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *I can not give up my EVIL WAYS!*\n\n\nIf you seek to know the Lord and trust In Him, He *will* give you power\nto overcome your evil ways. He has done this for others, *why not for\nyou*?\u201d\n\nI CAN do all things through *Christ* which *strengtheneth me*.\n\n _Philippians 4:13._\n\nIF the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.\n\n _John 8:36._\n\nAND Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, *All power is given unto me\nin heaven* and in *earth*.\n\n _Matthew 28:18._\n\nChrist came with power from heaven *for you*, if you will appropriate\nit\u2014\n\nTHERE hath *no temptation* taken you but such as is common to man: but\n*God is faithful*, who will not *suffer you to be tempted above that ye\nare able*; but will with the temptation also *make a way to escape*,\nthat ye may be *able to bear it*.\n\n _I Corinthians 10:13._\n\nThis verse shows that your temptations are \u201c*common*\u201d to men, and not\npeculiar to you, and you have no harder fight than others.\n\nWHEREFORE *he is able also to save* to the uttermost *them that come\nunto God by Him*, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.\n\n _Hebrews 7:25._\n\nAs you *think on your evil ways*, think of what God says concerning the\nlife of sin, and be warned by it.\n\nBE not deceived; God is not mocked: for *whatsoever* a man *soweth, that\nshall he also reap*.\n\n _Galatians 6:7._\n\nFOR he that soweth to his *flesh shall* of the flesh *reap corruption*;\nbut he that soweth to the *Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life\neverlasting*.\n\n _Galatians 6:8._\n\n*FOR the wages of sin is death*; but the gift of God is eternal life\nthrough Jesus Christ our Lord.\n\n _Romans 6:23._\n\nRead: Revelation 21:8; I Corinthians 15:1-4.\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *There is TOO MUCH to give up.*\n\n\nIs it because of your *business*, and *a desire to make money*, that you\nare unwilling to accept Christ? If so, listen to the *question* God puts\nto you!\n\nFOR what *shall it profit a man,* if *he shall gain the whole world*,\nand *lose his own soul*?\n\n _Mark 8:36._\n\nGod only asks you to give up that which *is not for your own good*?\n\nFOR the Lord God is a *sun* and *shield*: the *Lord* will *give grace*\nand *glory; no good thing will he withhold* from them that *walk\nuprightly.*\n\n _Psalms 84:11._\n\nGod gave up his son *to die for your sins*, and will *now supply all\nyour needs*.\n\nHE that spared not His *own Son*, but *delivered him up* for *us all*,\nhow shall he not with him also *freely give us all things*?\n\n _Romans 8:32._\n\nTake Christ, attend to the most important things first and the less\nimportant will be provided later.\n\nBUT *seek* ye first the *kingdom of God*, and *His righteousness*; and\n*all these things shall* be *added unto you*.\n\n _Matthew 6:33._\n\nBy giving up *worldly things, you will receive manifold more* in return\nin spiritual blessing.\n\nAND he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath\n*left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children*, for the\nkingdom of God\u2019s sake, Who shall not receive *manifold more in this\npresent time*, and in the *world to come* life everlasting.\n\n _Luke 18:29-30._\n\nFOR he that *soweth to his flesh* shall of the flesh *reap corruption*;\nbut he that *soweth to the Spirit* shall of the *Spirit reap life\neverlasting*.\n\n _Galatians 6:8._\n\nJesus said, \u201cYe can not serve *two* masters,\" (Matthew 6:24) but you\nwill serve *one*,\u2014Christ or the Devil, which shall it be? The Devil\npays, \u201c*the wages of death*,\u201d (Romans 6:23) but Christ *gives eternal\nlife*.\n\nIllustration: Matthew 19:16-22.\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *I CAN NOT surrender all.*\n\n\nSome think it means too much sacrifice.\n\nFOR whosoever will save his life *shall lose it*; but whosoever shall\nlose his life for my sake and the gospel\u2019s, the same *shall save it*.\n\n _Mark 8:35._\n\nAND Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that\nhath *left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or\nwife, or children, or lands* for my sake, and the gospel\u2019s; but he shall\nreceive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and\nsisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in\nthe world to come eternal life.\n\n _Mark 10:29-30._\n\nCan you not *give up some thing* for Christ, who has done so much for\nyou?\n\nFOR ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was\nrich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that *ye through his* poverty\nmight be *rich*.\n\n _II Corinthians 8:9._\n\n*Paul* gave up *all* for Christ.\n\nBUT what things were *gain to me*, those *I counted loss* for Christ.\n\n _Philippians 3:7._\n\nIf we follow Christ, *as we should*, we will be called to make *some\nsacrifice*.\n\nSO likewise, whosoever he be of you that *forsaketh not all that he\nhath*, he cannot be my disciple.\n\n _Luke 14:33._\n\nWe are *strengthened* however in our suffering when we recall the\npromise.\n\n*IF we suffer, we shall also reign* with him: if we deny him, he also\nwill deny *us*.\n\n _II Timothy 2:12._\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *The christian life Is TOO HARD.*\n\n\nSome say that the Christian life is hard, but they are mistaken about\nthis; they may have tried to *reform in their own strength*, but they\nknow nothing about the power of the Spirit in their souls *to save,\nkeep* and *deliver* them\u2014\n\nFOR this is the love of God, that we *keep His commandments: and His\ncommandments are not grievous*.\n\n _I John 5:3._\n\nHER ways are *ways of pleasantness*, and all her *paths are peace*.\n\n _Proverbs 3:17._\n\nTHOU wilt show me the *path* of *life*: in thy presence is *fullness of\njoy*; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.\n\n _Psalms 16:11._\n\nFOR the Lord God is a *sun* and *shield*: the *Lord* will *give grace*\nand *glory: no good thing will be withhold* from them that *walk\nuprightly*.\n\n _Psalms 84:11._\n\nIt is the *sinful*, and *rebellious* life that is hard.\n\nThere are certain worldly pleasures that please the carnal heart for a\nfew moments, but these are like the foam on the \u201csoda water\u201d that passes\nquickly, they do not give true satisfaction.\n\nGOOD understanding *giveth* favor: but the *way of transgressors is\nhard*.\n\n _Proverbs 13:15._\n\nBUT the wicked are *like the troubled sea*, when it cannot rest, whose\nwaters cast up mire and dirt.\n\n _Isaiah 57:20._\n\nTHERE is *no peace*, saith my God, unto the wicked.\n\n _Isaiah 57:21._\n\nREJOICE, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the\ndays of thy youth, and *walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the\nsight of thine eyes*: but know thou, that *for all these things God will\nbring thee into judgment*.\n\n _Ecclesiastes 11:9._\n\nRead: II Thessalonians 1:7-9; Luke 16:19-31.\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *I have tried and FAILED.*\n\n\nYou say you have tried and failed!\n\nWas it God\u2019s fault, or your own?\n\nLet us call your attention to a *few things it done by you*, will assure\nyou success in the Christian life\u2014\n\n*1st. Seek the Lord with ALL YOUR HEART*.\n\nAND ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me *with all\nyour heart*.\n\n _Jeremiah 29:13._\n\n*2nd. You must OBEY GOD.*\n\nIF ye be willing and *obedient*, ye shall eat the good of the land.\n\n _Isaiah 1:19._\n\nAND we are His witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost,\nwhom God hath given to them that *obey Him*.\n\n _Acts 5:32._\n\n*3rd. You must CONFESS Christ.*\n\nTHAT if thou shalt *confess with thy mouth* (not your influence) the\nLord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him\nfrom the dead, thou *shalt be saved*. For with the *heart man believeth*\nunto righteousness; and with the *mouth confession* is made unto\nsalvation.\n\n _Romans 10:9-10._\n\n*4th. You must PRAY.*\n\nYE have not, *because ye ask not*.\n\n _James 4:2._\n\nFOR whosoever shall *call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved*.\n\n _Romans 10:13._\n\nFOR the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his *ears are open\nunto their prayers*.\n\n _I Peter 3:12._\n\n*5th. JOIN the church!*\n\nIf you have not joined the church, *you ought to do so*.\n\nONE shall say, I am the Lord\u2019s; . . . and another shall *subscribe with\nhis hand unto the Lord*.\n\n _Isaiah 44:5._\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *I have TRIED and FAILED.*\n\n\nYou say you have tried and failed!\n\nMay I ask you a few questions?\n\nWhen you began the Christian life, did you:\n\n*1st. Trust Christ\u2019s FINISHED WORK alone?*\n\nWHO his own self *bare our sins in his own body on the tree*, that we,\nbeing dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes *ye\nwere healed*.\n\n _I Peter 2:24._\n\n*2nd. Did you SURRENDER all to God? God is demanding this.*\n\nMY son give me thine *heart*.\n\n _Proverbs 23:26._\n\n*3rd. Did you CONFESS CHRIST publicly?*\n\nWHOSOEVER therefore shall *confess me before men*, him will I confess\nalso before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall *deny me*\nbefore men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.\n\n _Matthew 10:32-33._\n\n*4th. Did you PRAY constantly?*\n\nPRAY *without ceasing*.\n\n _I Thessalonians 5:17._\n\n*5th. Did you faithfully STUDY YOUR BIBLE? Have you read it today?*\n\nAS newborn babes, *desire* the sincere milk of the word, that ye may\ngrow thereby.\n\n _I Peter 2:2._\n\n*6th. Did you shun EVIL COMPANIONS?*\n\nBLESSED is the man that *walketh not in the council of the ungodly*, nor\n*standeth* in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the\nscornful.\n\n _Psalm 1:1._\n\n*7th. Did you GO TO WORK for Christ?*\n\nAND to *every man his work*.\n\n _Mark 13:34._\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *Can\u2019t HOLD OUT! God\u2019s KEEPING power.*\n\n\nOf course you cannot in your own strength. But He is mighty to save. Put\nyour trust for pardon in the finished work of Christ and let Him come\ninto your life.\n\nWHO are *kept by the power of God through faith* unto salvation ready to\nbe revealed in the last time.\n\n _I Peter 1:5._\n\nBUT the Lord is faithful, who shall *stablish you, and keep you from\nevil*.\n\n _II Thessalonians 3:3._\n\nNOW unto him that is *able to keep you from falling* (R.V. from\nstumbling), and to present you faultless before the presence of his\nglory with exceeding joy.\n\n _Jude 1:24._\n\nBEING confident of this very thing, that *he which hath begun a good\nwork in you will perform it* until the day of Jesus Christ.\n\n _Philippians 1:6._\n\nFEAR thou not; for *I am with thee*: be not dismayed; for I am thy God:\n*I will strenghten* thee; yea I will help thee; yea *I will uphold thee*\nwith the *right hand* of my *righteousness*.\n\nFor I the Lord thy *God* will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee,\n*Fear not; I will help thee*.\n\n _Isaiah 41:10,13._\n\nWhen you are tempted remember that Christ has promised to deliver you.\n\nTHERE hath *no temptation* taken you but such as is *common to man*: but\nGod is *faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye\nare able*; but will WITH THE TEMPTATION ALSO MAKE A WAY OF ESCAPE, that\nye may be *able to bear it*.\n\n _I Corinthians 10:13._\n\nTHE *Lord knoweth how to deliver* the godly out of *temptations*, and to\nreserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished.\n\n _II Peter 2:9._\n\nAND I give unto them eternal life; and they *shall never perish*,\nneither *shall* any man *pluck them out of my hand*.\n\n _John 10:28_\n\nMY Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and *no man* is\n*able to pluck them out of my Father\u2019s hand*.\n\n _John 10:29._\n\nFOR the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not\nashamed: for I KNOW WHOM I HAVE BELIEVED, and am persuaded that HE IS\nABLE TO KEEP that which I have committed unto Him against that day.\n\n _II Timothy 1:12._\n\n*HE giveth power to the faint*; and to them that have no might *he\nincreaseth strength*. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the\nyoung men shall utterly fall: But they that *wait upon the Lord shall\nrenew their strength*; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they\nshall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and *not faint*.\n\n _Isaiah 40:29-31._\n\nNOW unto him that is *able to do exceeding abundantly above all* that we\nask or think, according to *the power that worketh in us*.\n\n _Ephesians 3:20._\n\nWHEREFORE he is *able* also to save them to the uttermost that *come\nunto God* by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.\n\n _Hebrews 7:25._\n\nGod never gives grace in advance, but He does promise \u201cas thy day thy\nstrength shall be.\u201d\n\nWHEN thou passest through the waters, *I will be with thee*; and through\nthe rivers, they shall not overflow thee: *when thou walkest through the\nfire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon\nthee*.\n\n _Isaiah 43:2._\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *I have no FEELING.*\n\n\nThe word \"feeling\" occurs but once in the Bible in connection with\nsalvation, and then it is used in connection with the man \u201cWho is past\nfeeling,\" but *faith in Christ is mentioned three hundred times*.\nConviction is one thing and emotion is another. The latter does not\nnecessarily follow the former. Our feelings are like the *weather, they\nmay change daily*; but God\u2019s word, in which we trust, will never change.\n\nWhich would you rather trust? God\u2019s *unchanging* word, or your\n*ever-changing* feelings?\n\nYou know you are a sinner and lost. What you need is Jesus Christ. Look\nto Him; accept Him; *trust Him; confess Him*; and He will do the rest.\nTake the blesser and you will have the blessing.\n\nBUT as many as *received Him* (Christ), to them gave He *power* to\n*become* the *sons* of *God*, even to them that *believe on His name*.\n\n _John 1:12._\n\nSee! you are to *receive a personal Saviour*, not work up some special\n*feeling*.\n\nIf you are waiting for the *feeling* that an earnest working Christian\nhas, we would have you note, that feeling is the \u201c*fruit*,\u201d not the\n\u201c*root*\u201d of salvation. A feeling of joy, peace, and rest comes, because\nwe \u201c*trust*\u201d in Christ, \u201c*confess*\u201d Him as our Savior, \u201c*defend*\u201d His\ncause, and try to \u201c*obey*\u201d Him.\n\nAND we are His witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost,\nwhom God hath glven to them that *obey Him*.\n\n _Acts 5:32._\n\nIt is to those that \u201c*obey Him*\u201d that the blessing is given\u2014Repentance\nis *doing what God commands you to do*, whether you feel like doing it\nor not, and the feeling follows as you seek to do God\u2019s will -\u2014\n\nBUT the *fruit of the Spirit* is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,\ngentleness, goodness, faith.\n\n _Galatians 5:22._\n\nNever be guided by the experiences of some one else, but *by God\u2019s\nWord*.\n\nThe Devil\u2019s order is: 1st, Feeling; 2nd, Faith; 3rd, Fact; but God\u2019s\norder is: 1st, Fact; 2nd, Faith; then Feeling.\n\n \u201cThe *Fact* you\u2019re a sinner, you cannot but see,\n That *Faith* in Christ saves you, is ever our plea;\n The *feeling* will follow in service and love;\n Then *take* from Christ *Jesus His gift* from above.\u201d\n\nAND they said, *Believe* on the *Lord Jesus Christ*, and thou *shalt be\nsaved*, and thy house.\n\n _Acts 16:31._\n\nVERILY, *verily*, I say unto you, He that *heareth my word and believeth\non Him* that sent me, HATH EVERLASTING LIFE, and shall not come into\ncondemnation (judgment); but is *passed from death unto life.*\n\n _John 5:24._\n\nBUT these are written, that ye might *believe* that *Jesus* is the\n*Christ*, the *Son* of *God*; and that *believing* ye might have *life*\nthrough *His name*.\n\n _John 20:31._\n\nSome are *making more* of their *feelings* than they are of the Word of\nthe Lord.\n\nFeelings are as changeable as the wind. You get up many a cold morning\nwhen you don\u2019t feel like it. Religion with the Christian is obedience;\nand the highway leading to the life \u201chid with Christ in God\u201d is known as\nobedience, not feeling.\n\nIf I should puncture your arm with a needle and you should be unable to\nfeel it, your anxiety would be intense, your condition physically would\nbe regarded as very precarious indeed. When I come to talk to you, of\nyour soul\u2019s salvation, and you say you have no feeling, it shows the\nperil of your position.\n\nYour very *indifference* ought to *arouse* you to thoughtfulness and\naction-\u2014\n\nIllustration: Matthew 9:9.\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *I am not CONCERNED.*\n\n\nIf a man were *asleep* in a burning building, he would be *more in\ndanger* of losing his life, than he would be if he were *awake*.\n\nSo, there is more danger of a man losing his soul, if he is unconcerned,\nthan there would be if he had some *interest*. God calls you to wake up\nand think about these things\u2014\n\nWHEREFORE he saith, *Awake thou that sleepest, and arise* from the dead,\nand *Christ shall give thee light*.\n\n _Ephesians 5:14._\n\nI TELL you, Nay; but, *except ye repent, ye* shall all likewise perish.\n\n _Luke 13:3._\n\nAND as it is appointed unto men once to die, but *after this the\njudgment*.\n\n _Hebrews 9:27._\n\n*AND ye will not come to me*, that ye might have life.\n\n _John 5:40._\n\nIt you are lost, it will be *your fault*.\n\nThese Scriptures teach that you will not come to Christ and that you\nprefer darkness to light, and unbelief to faith, and will not turn to\nGod and be baptized that you may have eternal life in Jesus Christ.\n\nHE that *believeth* and is *baptized shall* be *saved*; but he that\n*believeth not shall be damned*.\n\n _Mark 16:16._\n\nAND these shall *go away into everlasting punishment*.\n\n _Matthew 25:46._\n\nYou *go away*, God does not send you\u2014\n\nTHE wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that *forget\nGod*.\n\n _Psalms 9:17._\n\nYou in your indifference are \u201c*forgetting*\u201d God, not necessarily living\na wicked life\u2014\n\nHOW shall we escape, if we *neglect so great salvation*?\n\n _Hebrews 2:3._\n\nRead: II Thessalonians 1:1-9.\n\nIllustration: Luke 16:19-31.\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *The INDIFFERENT neglecting his soul.*\n\n\nListen to what God says to the indifferent.\n\nHis word ought to lead you to the most thoughtful consideration of His\nways.\n\nAWAKE thou that *sleepest*, and arise from the dead.\n\n _Ephesians 5:14._\n\nYour *indifference* has put you to *sleep* and God calls you to *awake*.\n\nTURN ye, . . . turn ye for *why will ye die*?\n\n _Ezekiel 33:11._\n\nTHE soul that sinneth, *it shall die.*\n\n _Ezekiel 18:4._\n\n*THE wages of sin is death*.\n\n _Romans 6:23._\n\nEXCEPT ye *repent*, ye shall all likewise *perish*.\n\n _Luke 13:3._\n\nHOW shall we escape, if we *neglect* so great salvation?\n\n _Hebrews 2:3._\n\nBE not deceived; God is not mocked; for *whatsoever* a man *soweth, that\nshall he also reap*.\n\n _Galatians 6:7._\n\nHE that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the *wrath* of God\nabideth on him.\n\n _John 3:36._\n\nHE *that believeth and is baptized shall be saved*; but he that\n*believeth not shall be damned*.\n\n _Mark 16:16._\n\nVERILY, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into\nthe sheepfold, but climbeth up *some other way, the same is a thief and\na robber*.\n\n _John 10:1._\n\nBE sure *your sin* will *find you out*.\n\n _Numbers 32:23._\n\nAND the Lord said, My spirit shall not *always strive with man*.\n\n _Genesis 6:3._\n\nRead: Psalms 9:17; Psalms 11:6; Revelation 2:8.\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *Those who KNOW NOT the way.*\n\n\nGod has made very clear in His word, the fact that *He loves us* and\ngave Jesus to *be the way*.\n\nJESUS saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: *no man\ncometh unto the Father, but by me*.\n\n _John 14:6._\n\nGod wants us to forsake *our* way, which is the *wrong* way.\n\n*LET the wicked forsake his way*, and the unrighteous man his thoughts:\n*and let him return unto the* Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and\nto our God, *for he will abundantly pardon*.\n\n _Isaiah 55:7._\n\nGod has promised *to hear us* when we call.\n\nTHEN shall ye *call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me*, and I\nwill hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, *when ye shall\nsearch for me with all your heart*.\n\n _Jeremiah 29:12-13._\n\nMore, He has promised *to accept us* if we turn to him with true\nrepentance.\n\nALL that the Father giveth me shall come to me: *and him that cometh to\nI will in no wise cast out*.\n\n _John 6:37._\n\nBelieve. His promise and *know the way*.\n\nVERILY, verily, I say unto you, *He that believeth on me hath\neverlasting life*.\n\n _John 6:47._\n\nTO him gave all the prophets witness, that through his name *whosoever\nbelieveth in him shall receive remission of sins*.\n\n _Acts 10:43._\n\nIF any man *will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine*, whether it\nbe of God, or whether I speak of myself.\n\n _John 7:17._\n\nTHAT if thou shalt *confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt\nbelieve in thine heart* that God hath raised him from the dead, thou\nshalt be saved.\n\n _Romans 10:9._\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *I don\u2019t know WHAT or HOW to believe.*\n\n\nStudy to know God\u2019s will and do it, Christ-like, holy in living and\nhumble in *service*.\n\nIF any man will do *His will*, he *shall know* of the *doctrine*.\n\n _John 7:17._\n\n*You are to SEEK!*\n\nAND ye shall seek me, and find me, *when ye shall search for me with all\nyour heart*.\n\n _Jeremiah 29:13._\n\n*To LOOK.*\n\nLOOK unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: *for I am God\nand there is none else*.\n\n _Isaiah 45:22._\n\n*To CALL.*\n\nFOR *whosoever shall call* upon *the name* of the *Lord shall be saved*.\n\n _Romans 10:13._\n\n*To BELIEVE.*\n\nVERILY, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and *believeth\non him* that sent me, HATH EVERLASTING LIFE, and shall not come into\ncondemnation; but is *passed from death unto life*.\n\n _John 5:24._\n\n*To Receive.*\n\nBUT as many as *received Him*, to them gave He *power* to become the\n*sons of God*, even to them that *believe on His name*.\n\n _John 1:12._\n\n*To Taste.*\n\nO taste and see that the Lord is good: *blessed is the man that trusteth\nin Him*.\n\n _Psalms 34:8._\n\n*To Submit.*\n\nTHEREFORE to him that *knoweth* to do *good*, and doeth it not, to him\n*it is sin*.\n\n _James 4:17._\n\n*You are to COME.*\n\nCOME unto me *all* ye that *labor* and are *heavy laden*, and *I will\ngive you rest*.\n\n _Matthew 11:28._\n\n*To COMMIT.*\n\nFOR the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not\nashamed: for I *know whom* I have *believed*, and I am *persuaded* that\nhe is *able to keep that which I have committed* unto him against that\nday.\n\n _II Timothy 1:12._\n\n*To TAKE.*\n\nAND the *Spirit* and the *bride say, Come*. And let him that *heareth\nsay, Come*. And let him that is *athirst come*....And *whosoever* will\n*let* him *take* of the *water of life freely*.\n\n _Revelation 22:17._\n\n*To CONFESS.*\n\nTHAT if thou shalt *confess with thy mouth* the Lord Jesus, *and shalt\nbelieve* in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, *thou\nshalt be saved*. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness;\nand with the *mouth confession* is made unto salvation.\n\n _Romans 10:9-10._\n\n*To Be ACQUAINTED.*\n\nACQUAINT *now thyself with Him*, and be at peace; thereby good shall\ncome unto thee.\n\n _Job 22:21._\n\n*To FOLLOW.*\n\nTHEN shall we *know*, if we *follow* on to *know* the Lord: His going\nforth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain\n. . . unto the earth.\n\n _Hosea 6:3._\n\nHE that followeth me *shall* not *walk* in *darkness*, but *shall* have\nthe *light of life*.\n\n _John 8:12._\n\nMY sheep hear my voice, and *I know them*, and they *follow me.*\n\n _John 10:27._\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *I can\u2019t understand the Bible.*\n\n\nWHY can\u2019t you? Because the *carnal mind* can not understand divine truth\nwithout the Spirit\u2019s teaching.\n\nBUT the *natural man* receiveth not the things of the *Spirit of God*:\nfor they are *foolishness* unto him: neither can *he know them* because\nthey are *spiritually* discerned.\n\n _I Corinthians 2:14._\n\nMANY shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall\ndo wickedly; and *none of the wicked shall understand*; but the wise\nshall understand.\n\n _Daniel 12:10._\n\n*Do God\u2019s will*, and you *can understand*.\n\nIF any man *will do His will* he *shall know* of *the doctrine*, whether\nit be of God, or whether I speak of myself.\n\n _John 7:17._\n\n*You ask, How may I KNOW?*\n\n*1st. Pray.*\n\nIF any of you lack wisdom, *let him ask* of God, that giveth to all men\nliberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.\n\n _James 1:5._\n\nOPEN thou *mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things* out of *thy\nlaw*.\n\n _Psalms 119:18._\n\nTHAT which *I see not teach thou me*.\n\n _Job 34:32._\n\n*2nd. Study your Bible.*\n\nSEARCH *the Scriptures*; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and\nthey are they which testify of me.\n\n _John 5:39._\n\nFOR *my thoughts are not your* thoughts, *neither are your your ways* my\nways, saith the Lord.\n\nFOR as the heavens are higher than the earth, *so are my ways higher\nthan your ways*, and my thoughts than your thoughts.\n\n _Isaiah 55:8-9._\n\nTHEN shall we know, *if we follow on* to know the Lord.\n\n _Hosea 6:3._\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *I can\u2019t see my way CLEAR.*\n\n\nListen to what *God says in His Word* and seek to follow *divine\ninstruction*, and you *will* see.\n\nTHEN spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world:\nhe that *followeth me shall not walk in darkness*, but *shall have* the\n*light* of *life*.\n\n _John 8:12._\n\nTRUST in the Lord *with all thine heart*; and lean not unto thine own\nunderstanding.\n\n*In all thy ways acknowledge him, and* he shall *direct thy paths*. Be\nnot wise in thine own eyes: *fear the Lord, and depart from evil*.\n\n _Proverbs 3:5-7._\n\nIF the Son therefore shall make you free, *ye shall be free indeed*.\n\n _John 8:36._\n\nAND I will bring the *blind by a way that they knew not*; I will *lead*\nthem in *paths* that they have not *known*: *I* will make *darkness\nlight* before them, and *crooked things straight*. These things will I\ndo unto them, and not forsake them.\n\n _Isaiah 42:16._\n\nAND this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and\n*men loved darkness* rather than light, *because their deeds were evil*.\n\n _John 3:19._\n\nBUT the *natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for\nthey are* foolishness unto him: *neither can he know them*, because they\nare *spiritually discerned*.\n\n _I Corinthians 2:14._\n\nBUT as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have\nentered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for\nthem that love him. But God *hath revealed them* unto us *by his\nSpirit*: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of\nGod.\n\n _I Corinthians 2:9-10._\n\nIllustration: Mark 9:20-29.\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *My heart is TOO HARD.*\n\n\nIf you have a *hard heart*, that is just why you ought to come to Christ\nbecause the Lord wants to give you a *new heart*.\n\nA NEW heart also will I give you, and a *new* spirit will I put within\nyou: and I will *take away the stony heart* out of your flesh, and I\n*will give you a heart of flesh*.\n\nAND I will put *my spirit within you* and cause you to walk in my\nstatutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.\n\n _Ezekiel 36:26-27._\n\nAND I will give them *one heart*, and will put a *new spirit within\nyou*; and *I will take* the stony heart out of their flesh, and will\ngive them an *heart of flesh*.\n\n _Ezekiel 11:19._\n\nIS not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that\n*breaketh the rock in pieces*?\n\n _Jeremiah 23:29._\n\nLET the wicked *forsake his way*, and the *unrighteous man his\nthoughts*: and let him *return unto the Lord*, and he will have mercy\nupon him; and to our God, for he will *abundantly pardon*.\n\n _Isaiah 55:7._\n\nIn this verse we find *three things* we must do.\n\n1st. \u201cLet the wicked forsake *his way*\u201d\n\n\u2014\u2014(your part.)\n\n2nd. \u201cThe unrighteous man *his thought.*\u201d\n\n-\u2014(your part.)\n\n3rd. \u201c*Let him return* unto the Lord\u201d\n\n\u2014-your part.)\n\nThen God will do *two things, His part*\n\n1st \u201cHe will have *mercy* upon him\"\u2014you!\n\n2nd \"He will *abundantly pardon*\u201d\u2014you!\n\nCOME now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord; though your sins\nbe *as scarlet*, they *shall be as white as snow*; though they be *red\nlike crimson, they shall be as wool*.\n\n _Isaiah 1:18._\n\nHIM that cometh to me, *I will in no wise cast out*.\n\n _John 6:37._\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *I am TOO YOUNG.*\n\n\nIT is strange how any boy or girl should feel he or she is too young to\ntrust in the Saviour, when there is so much in the Bible to encourage\nthe children to come.\n\nBUT Jesus said, *Suffer little children*, and forbid them not, to come\nunto me: for *of such* is the kingdom of heaven.\n\n _Matthew 19:14._\n\nREMEMBER *now* thy Creator *in the days of thy youth*.\n\n _Ecclesiastes 12:1._\n\nI LOVE them that love me; and those that *seek me early shall find me*.\n\n _Proverbs 8:17._\n\nVERILY I say unto you, *Except* ye be *converted*, and become as *little\nchildren*, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.\n\n _Matthew 18:3._\n\nAND when he was *twelve years old*, they went up to Jerusalem after the\ncustom of the feast.\n\n _Luke 2:42._\n\nHere we read of Christ taking an active part in service for His heavenly\nFather when *only twelve*.\n\nAND that *from a child thou hast known* the holy Scriptures, which are\nable to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ\nJesus.\n\n _II Timothy 3:15_\n\nHere Paul says that Timothy *when only a child* knew the way of life\nfrom the Scriptures.\n\nBUT seek ye *first the* kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all\nthese things shall be added unto you.\n\n _Matthew 6:33._\n\nSeek the Kingdom \u201c*first*,\u201d not after a part of your life has been\nspent.\n\nBEHOLD *now* is the *accepted time*; behold, *now is the day of\nsalvation*.\n\n _II Corinthians 6:2._\n\nWho will say, that an intelligent boy or girl reading this verse will\nnot understand it?\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *I believe EVERY ONE will be SAVED.*\n\n\nIf you read your Bible carefully, you will find there are *some who will\nnot be saved*! Many of the parables teach this.\n\nTHEN said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him\naway, and *cast him into outer darkness*; there shall be weeping and\ngnashing of teeth.\n\n _Matthew 22:13._\n\nENTER ye in at the straight gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the\nway, that leadeth to destruction, and *many there be which go in\nthereat*: Because straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which\nleadeth unto life, and *few there be that find it*.\n\n _Matthew 7:13-14._\n\nHere is a list of some who *will not he saved*.\n\nAre *you* included in this list?\n\nKNOW ye not that the *unrighteous* shall not inherit the kingdom of God?\nBe not deceived; neither *fornicators*, nor *idolaters*, nor\n*adulterers*, nor *effeminate*, nor *abusers* of themselves with\nmankind, nor *thieves*, nor *covetous*, nor *drunkards*, nor *revilers*,\nnor *extortioners*, shall inherit the kingdom of God.\n\n _I Corinthians 6:9-10._\n\nBUT the *fearful*, and *unbelieving* and the abominable, and murderers,\nand sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in\nthe lake which burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second\ndeath.\n\n _Revelation 21:8._\n\nFOR without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers,\nand idolaters, and *whosoever loveth and maketh a lie*.\n\n _Revelation 22:15._\n\nTHE *wicked shall be turned into hell*, and all the nations that forget\nGod.\n\n _Psalms 9:17._\n\nIllustration: Luke 16:19-31.\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *It IS TOO LATE for me to be saved.*\n\n\nThere is not the slightest doubt but that Jesus *will forgive our sins*,\nsave and *keep* you, it you will *turn to him sincerely*.\n\nALL that the Father giveth me shall come to me: *and him that cometh to\nme I will in no wise cast out*.\n\n _John 6:37._\n\n*Under no circumstances* will the Lord cast out a sincerely seeking\nsoul.\n\nFOR *whosoever* shall call upon the name of the *Lord shall be saved*.\n\n _Romans 10:13._\n\nTHE Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count\nslackness; but is *longsuffering* to usward, not *willing* that *any\nshould* perish, but that *all* should come to repentance.\n\n _II Peter 3:9._\n\n*COME now*, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins\n*be as scarlet*, they shall be as *white as snow*; though they be *red\nlike crimson, they shall be as wool*.\n\n _Isaiah 1:18._\n\nHere the Lord is *reasoning with us* about the *worst* of our sins.\n\nAND even to your old *age* I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry\nyou: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver\nyou.\n\n _Isaiah 46:4._\n\nHere the promise reaches on to *old age*.\n\nAND about the *eleventh hour* he went out, and found others standing\nidle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?\n\n _Matthew 20:6._\n\nHere the promise avails at the *eleventh hour of life*.\n\nAND the Spirit and the bride *say, Come*. And let him that *heareth say,\nCome*. And let him that is *athirst Come*. *And whosoever will*, let him\ntake the water of life freely.\n\n _Revelation 22:17._\n\nHeed this invitation and *come now*.\n\nIllustration: John 4:7-30.\n\n\n\n Excuses.\n *DON\u2019T TALK to me, or I will leave.*\n\n\nIf any one speaks to you, it is because they are *interested in you* and\nwant to help you.\n\nThey are trying to obey Gods command.\n\nAND thou *shalt speak my words unto them*, whether they will hear or\nwhether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.\n\n _Ezekiel 2:7._\n\nTHOU therefore *gird up thy loins*, and *arise* and *speak* unto *them\nall that I command thee*: be not *dismayed* at *their faces,* lest I\nconfound thee before them.\n\n _Jeremiah 1:17._\n\nSee the punishment that awaits the *unfaithful Christian*.\n\nWHEN I say unto the *wicked, Thou shalt surely* die; and thou *givest\nhim not warning*, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way,\nto save his life; the same *wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but\nhis blood will I require at thine hand.* Yet if thou warn the wicked,\nand he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, *he shall\ndie in his iniquity*; but *thou hast delivered thy soul*.\n\n _Ezekiel 3:18-19._\n\nIf a Christian has enough *interest in your soul* to *speak to you*, you\nsurely ought to have *some interest* in the *salvation* of your own\nsoul.\n\nListen to God\u2019s *warning*!\n\nFOR the *wages* of sin is *death*; but the *gift* of God is *eternal\nlife* through Jesus Christ our Lord.\n\n _Romans 6:23._\n\nTHE *wicked shall be turned into hell*, and *all* the *nations* that\n*forget* God.\n\n _Psalms 9:17._\n\nBOAST not thyself of tomorrow, for thou *knowest not what a day may\nbring forth*.\n\n _Proverbs 27:1._\n\nHE, that being often reproved *hardeneth* his *neck, shall suddenly* be\n*destroyed*, and that *without remedy*.\n\n _Proverbs 29:1._\n\nRead: II Thessalonians 1:7-8.\n\n\n\n Formalists.\n *One who trusts in FORMS and CEREMONIES.*\n\n\nAll of the following verses show plainly that we are not saved, by\n\u201c*forms*\u201d or \"ceremonies\" but by \u201creceiving and believing Christ as a\n*personal Saviour*\u201d. Notice how each verse plainly states this.\n\nForms come after true faith.\n\nBUT as many as *received Him* (Christ), to them gave he *power* to\n*become* the *sons* of God, even to them that *believe* on *his name*.\n\n _John 1:12._\n\nFOR God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, *that\nwhosoever believeth in Him* should not perish, but have *everlasting\nlife*.\n\n _John 3:16._\n\nVERILY, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and *believeth\non him* that sent me, HATH EVERLASTING LIFE, and shall not come into\ncondemnation; but is *passed* from death unto *life*.\n\n _John 5:24._\n\nHE that *hath the Son HATH* LIFE; and he that hath not the Son of God\nhath not life.\n\n _I John 5:12._\n\nTHAT if thou shalt *confess with thy mouth* the Lord Jesus, and *shalt\nbelieve* in *thine heart* that God hath raised him from the dead, thou\nSHALT BE SAVED.\n\n _Romans 10:9._\n\nFOR with the *heart man believeth* unto *righteousness*; and *with* the\n*mouth confession* is made unto *salvation*.\n\n _Romans 10:10._\n\nBelief must be of the *heart* as well as head.\n\nAND this is the record, that God *hath given* to us *eternal life*, and\nthis life *is* in *His Son*.\n\n _I John 5:11._\n\nEXAMINE yourselves, whether ye be *in the faith*.\n\n _II Corinthians 13:5._\n\nAND this is life eternal, that they might *know thee* the only true God,\nand *Jesus Christ*, whom thou hast sent.\n\n _John 17:3._\n\n\n\n Giving.\n *(Systematically) ONE TENTH of your income.*\n\n\n*God commands one tenth*.\n\nWILL a man *rob God*? Yet ye have robbed me; But ye say, Wherein have we\nrobbed thee? *In tithes and offerings*.\n\nYE are cursed with a curse: for *ye have robbed me*, even this whole\nnation.\n\nBRING ye *all* the *tithes* in the *storehouse*, that there may be meat\nin mine *house*, and *prove me* now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts,\nif I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out *a\nblessing*, that there *shall not be room enough to receive it*.\n\n _Malachi 3:8-10._\n\n*Who shall give*?\n\nEVERY man shall give *as he is able, according to the blessing* of the\nLord thy God which he hath given thee.\n\n _Deuteronomy 16:17._\n\n*How much to give*?\n\nAND of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give *the tenth unto\nthee*.\n\n _Genesis 28:22._\n\n*The spirit with which to give*.\n\nEVERY man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not\ngrudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a *cheerful giver*.\n\n _II Corinthians 9:7._\n\n*The time to give*.\n\nUPON the *first day of the week* let everyone of you *lay by him in\nstore*, as God hath prospered him.\n\n _I Corinthians 16:2._\n\n*Does it pay to give one tenth*?\n\nHONOUR the Lord with thy *substance*, and with the first-fruits of all\nthine increase: So shall thy barns be *filled with plenty*, and thy\npresses shall burst out with new wine.\n\n _Proverbs 3:9-10._\n\n*God returns 100 per cent*.\n\nGIVE and *it shall be given unto you*; good measure, pressed down, and\nshaken together, and running over, shall *men give into your bosom*.\n\n _Luke 6:38._\n\n\n\n Hell.\n *God In UNJUST AND CRUEL to damn any one.*\n\n\nDo you the creature, presume to criticize the Creator?\n\nSHALL he that *contendeth* with the Almighty *instruct him*? he that\nreproveth God, let him answer it.\n\n _Job 40:2._\n\nNAY but, O man, *who art thou that repliest against God*? Shall the\nthing *formed* say to him that formed it, *Why hast thou* made me thus?\n\n _Romans 9:20._\n\nGod has done all that a just God can do to provide man with salvation.\n\nAS I live saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the\nwicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye\nfrom your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?\n\n _Ezekiel 33:11._\n\nTHE Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count\nslackness; but is long-suffering to us-ward, *not willing that any\nshould perish*, but that all should come to repentance.\n\n _II Peter 3:9_\n\nFOR God so loved the world, (me) that He *gave His only begotten Son*,\nthat *whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting\nlife*.\n\n _John 3:16._\n\nO THE *depth of the riches* both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!\nhow unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!\n\n _Romans 11:33._\n\nIf you are lost at last, it will be because you *would not turn* from\nyour sins and receive Christ. Listen to His warning!\n\nBE not deceived; God is not mocked: for *whatsoever* a man *soweth, that\nshall he also reap*. For he that soweth to his *flesh shall* of the\nflesh *reap corruption*; but he that soweth to the *Spirit shall of the\nSpirit reap life everlasting*.\n\n _Galatians 6:7-8._\n\n*God damns* no one, man *damns himself*.\n\n\n\n Hell.\n *A real PLACE.*\n\n\nThe word \u201chell\u201d appears in the authorized version of the Bible 53 times.\nIn the \u201crevised version\u201d the word is translated \u201chades\" 11 times out of\nthe 53.\n\nIf there is a \"heaven\" for the saved, sure there must be a \u201chell\u201d for\nthe lost. The Bible speaks as clearly about one place as the other.\n\nThe Scriptures show hell a *real place*.\n\nTHE *wicked shall be turned into hell* and *all* the *nations* that\n*forget God*.\n\n _Psalms 9:17._\n\nAND in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in (a summer resort? No.)\n*torments*. . .\n\nAnd he cried and said, . . . send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of\nhis finger in water and cool my tongue, *for I am tormented in this\nflame*.\n\nBut Abraham said, son, remember. . . between us and you there is a great\ngulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot;\nneither can they pass to us that would come from thence.\n\n _Luke 16:23-26._\n\nTHE Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of\nhis kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And\nshall cast them into a *furnace of fire*: there shall be wailing and\ngnashing of teeth.\n\n _Matthew 13:41-42._\n\nAND whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into\n*the lake of fire*.\n\n _Revelation 20:15._\n\nAND I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the\n*bottomless pit* and a great chain in his hand.\n\n _Revelation 20:1._\n\nBUT thou, O God, shall bring them down into the *pit of destruction*.\n\n _Psalms 55:23._\n\nAll the expressions, \u201chell\u201d, \"furnace of fire,\u201d \u201clake of fire,\u201d\n\u201cbottomless pit\u201d and \u201cpit of destruction\" suggest a \u201c*place*.\u201d\n\n\n\n Hell.\n *CONDITION of the lost.*\n\n\nBUT the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into *outer darkness*:\nthere shall be *weeping and gnashing of teeth*.\n\n _Matthew 8:12._\n\nAND shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the\nhypocrites: there shall be *weeping and gnashing of teeth*.\n\n _Matthew 24:51._\n\nWHOSE fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and\nwill gather the wheat into his garner; but the *chaff he will burn with\nfire unquenchable*.\n\n _Luke 3:17._\n\nAND the devil that deceived them was cast into *the lake of fire*, and\nbrimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be\n*tormented* day and night for ever and ever.\n\n _Revelation 20:10._\n\nAnd whosoever was not found written in the book of life *was cast into\nthe lake of fire*.\n\n _Revelation 20:15._\n\nHE that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that *believeth not is\ncondemned already*, because he hath not believed in the name of the only\nbegotten Son of God.\n\n _John 3:18._\n\nMen are *condemned* because of *unbelief* in Christ, and yet they say\n\u201c*no matter what you believe*,\u201d if you are only *sincere*.\n\nBUT the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers and\nwhoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have\ntheir part in the lake which *burneth with fire and brimstone*: which is\nthe second death.\n\n _Revelation 21:8._\n\nWhat words are all these? what a condition to be in throughout all\neternity!\n\nThere is *no ending* to eternity.\n\nHE that believeth not shall be *damned*.\n\n _Mark 16:16._\n\n*HOW shall we escape* if we neglect?\n\n _Hebrews 2:3._\n\nWHO among us shall dwell with *everlasting burnings*?\n\n _Isaiah 33:14._\n\nAND these shall go away into *everlasting punishment*: but the righteous\ninto life eternal.\n\n _Matthew 25:46._\n\nWIDE is the gate, and broad is the way, that *leadeth to destruction*,\nand *many* there be which go in thereat.\n\n _Matthew 7:13-14._\n\nWHERE their *worm dieth not*, and the *fire is not quenched*.\n\n _Mark 9:48._\n\nWOE unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and\nland to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold\nmore *the child of hell* than yourselves.\n\n _Matthew 23:15._\n\nI ALSO will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;\nWhen your fear cometh as *desolation*, and your *destruction cometh as a\nwhirlwind*; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.\n\n _Proverbs 1:26-27._\n\nTHEN shall he say to them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed,\ninto *everlasting fire*, prepared for the devil and his angels.\n\n _Matthew 25:41._\n\nAND many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some\nto everlasting life, and some to *shame* and *everlasting contempt*.\n\n _Daniel 12:2._\n\nHE that despised Moses\u2019 law *died without mercy* under two or three\nwitnesses: Of how much *sorer punishment*, suppose ye, shall he be\nthought worthy, who hath *trodden under foot the Son of God*, and hath\ncounted the *blood of the covenant*, wherewith he was sanctified, an\nunholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?\n\n _Hebrews 10:28-29._\n\n\n\n Holiness.\n *Christ with In you SANCTIFYING the life.*\n\n\nLET your light so shine before men, that they may see your *good works*,\nand *glorify* your *Father* which is in *heaven*.\n\n _Matthew 5:16._\n\nLIKEWISE reckon ye also yourselves to be *dead indeed unto sin*, but\n*alive unto God* through Jesus Christ our Lord.\n\n _Romans 6:11._\n\nLET not sin therefore *reign in your mortal body*, that ye should obey\nit in the lusts thereof.\n\n _Romans 6:12._\n\nNEITHER yield ye your members instruments of unrighteousness unto sin:\nbut *yield yourselves unto God* as those that *are alive from the dead*,\nand your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.\n\n _Romans 6:13._\n\nFOR sin *shall not have dominion* over you: for ye are not under the law\nbut under grace.\n\n _Romans 6:14._\n\nAND this I *pray*, that your *love* may abound yet more and more in\nknowledge and in all judgment.\n\n _Philippians 1:9._\n\n*BEING filled with the fruits of righteousness*, which are by Jesus\nChrist, unto the glory and praise of God.\n\n _Philippians 1:11._\n\nWHATSOEVER things are *true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever\nthings are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are\nlovely, whatsoever things are of good report*; if there be any *virtue*,\nand *if there* be any *praise*, think on these things.\n\n _Philippians 4:8._\n\nABSTAIN from all *appearance* of *evil*.\n\n _I Thessalonians 5:22._\n\nTHAT ye may *walk honestly* toward them that are without.\n\n _I Thessalonians 4:12._\n\n\n\n Holy Spirit.\n *His WORK among men.*\n\n\n*He draws*.\n\nNO man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me *draw him*:\nand I will raise him up at the last day.\n\n _John 6:44._\n\n*He convicts*.\n\nAND when he is come, he will *reprove the world* of sin, and of\nrighteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me.\n\n _John 16:8-9._\n\n*He Regenerates*.\n\nNOT by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his\nmercy he saved us, by the washing of *regeneration*, and *renewing of\nthe Holy Ghost*.\n\n _Titus 3:5._\n\nJESUS answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of\nwater *and of the Spirit*, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.\n\n _John 3:5._\n\n*He teaches*.\n\nHOWBEIT when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will *guide you into\nall truth*: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall\nhear, that shall he speak: and he will *shew* you things to come.\n\n _John 16:13._\n\n*He baptizes*.\n\nNOW when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had\nreceived the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:\n\nWho, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they *might receive\nthe Holy Ghost*:\n\n(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in\nthe name of the Lord Jesus.)\n\nThen laid they their hands on them, *and they received the Holy Ghost*.\n\n _Acts 8:14-17._\n\n*He gives power for service*.\n\nBUT ye shall *receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon\nyou*: and *ye* shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all\nJudaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.\n\n _Acts 1:8._\n\n*He guides us*.\n\nAND the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go\ntoward the south, unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza,\nwhich is desert. . . . Then the *Spirit said* unto Philip, *Go near*,\nand join thyself to this chariot.\n\n _Acts 8:26, 29._\n\nTHEN Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the\npeople, and elders of Israel, . . . Now when they saw the boldness of\nPeter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men,\nthey marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with\nJesus.\n\n _Acts 4:8, 13._\n\n*Conditions of receiving the Spirit.*\n\n*Obeying.*\n\nAND we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost,\nwhom God hath given to them that *obey him*.\n\n _Acts 5:32._\n\n*Asking*.\n\nIF ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children:\nhow much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them\nthat *ask him*.\n\n _Luke 11:13_\n\n*Receiving*.\n\nTHEREFORE I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray,\nbelieve that ye *receive* them, and *ye shall have them*.\n\n _Mark 11:24._\n\n\n\n Hypocrites.\n *Too many IN THE CHURCH.*\n\n\nOne usually finds that the person who sees the short comings in others,\nbefore he sees his own, is the *real hypocrite*.\n\nThe word of God contains some very plain language addressed to *this\nclass* and they will do well to read it.\n\nSO then every one of us shall give an account of *himself* to God.\n\n _Romans 14:12._\n\nTHEREFORE *thou art inexcusable*, O man, whosoever thou art that\n*judgest*: for wherein thou judgest another, *thou condemnest thyself*;\nfor thou that judgest *doest the same things*. . . . And *thinkest thou*\nthis, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same,\nthat thou *shalt escape the judgment of God*?\n\n _Romans 2:1, 3._\n\nBUT why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy\nbrother? for we shall *all stand before the judgment seat of Christ*.\nFor it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every *knee shall bow to\nme, and every tongue shall confess to God*. So then everyone of us\n*shall give account of himself to God*.\n\n _Romans 14:10-12._\n\nJUDGE *not, that ye be not judged*. For with what judgment *ye judge, ye\nshall be judged*: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be *measured\nto you again*. And why beholdest thou the mote that is *in thy brother\u2019s\neye*, but considerest not the beam that is in *thine own eye*? Or how\nwilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote *out of thine\neye*; and behold, a beam is in *thine own eye*? *Thou hypocrite, first\ncast out the beam out of thine own eye*; and then shalt thou see clearly\nto cast out the mote out of thy brother\u2019s eye.\n\n _Matthew 7:1-5._\n\nIf you are hiding behind a hypocrite you must be smaller than the person\nbehind whom you hide.\n\nEven though there may be hypocrites in the church, that does not excuse\nyou. There are hypocrites in every other profession, but this is no\nargument against the profession; nor is it any argument against Christ,\nbecause a hypocrite is discovered in the church. You will not have to\nanswer for the sins of the hypocrite at the judgment *but for your own*.\n\nBUT woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the\nkingdom of heaven against men: for ye *neither go in yourselves, neither\nsuffer ye them that are entering to go in*.\n\n _Matthew 23:13._\n\nYE serpents, ye generations of vipers, *how can ye escape* the damnation\nof hell?\n\n _Matthew 23:33._\n\nRead the 23rd Chapter of Matthew, and see how Christ condemned the\nself-righteous critical crowd who watched the people turning to Christ.\n\nHe gave them a story that shows how he judges the two classes. Here it\nis, read it!\n\nTWO men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the\nother a publican. The *Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself*,\nGod, I *thank thee*, that I am not as other men are. . . . *I fast twice\nin the week, I give tithes* of all that I possess. And the *publican,\nstanding afar off*, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven,\nbut smote upon his breast, saying, *God be merciful to me a sinner*. I\ntell you, *this man* went down to his house justified rather than the\nother.\n\n _Luke 18:10-14._\n\nNote\u2014 One thing is certain, though hypocrites may be in the church here\non earth, *they will not enter heaven*. If you do not want to spend\neternity in hell with them, you had better become a Christian now.\n\nIllustration: John 21:19-23\n\n\n\n Love.\n *For your NEIGHBOR.*\n\n\nA NEW commandment I give unto you, *that ye love one another; as I have\nloved you*, that ye also love one another.\n\n _John 13:34._\n\nBY this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one\nto another.\n\n _John 13:35._\n\nBUT as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye\nyourselves are taught of God to *love one another*.\n\n _I Thessalonians 4:9._\n\nBE kindly *affectioned one to another with brotherly* love; in honor\npreferring one another.\n\n _Romans 12:10._\n\nSEEING you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the\nSpirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye *love one\nanother with a pure heart fervently*.\n\n _I Peter 1:22._\n\nHE that *loveth his brother* abideth in the light, and there is no\noccasion of stumbling in him.\n\n _I John 2:10._\n\nBELOVED, let us *love one another: for love is of God*; and every one\nthat *loveth is born of God*, and knoweth God.\n\n _I John 4:7._\n\nHE that *loveth not knoweth not God*; for God is love.\n\n _I John 4:8._\n\nBELOVED, if God so loved us, we *ought* also to *love one another*.\n\n _I John 4:11._\n\nOWE no man any thing, but to *love one another*: for he that loveth\nanother hath fulfilled the law.\n\n _Romans 13:8._\n\nFOR all law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; thou shalt *love thy\nneighbor as thyself*.\n\n _Galatians 5:14._\n\nLET *brotherly love continue*.\n\n _Hebrews 13:1._\n\n\n\n Moralist.\n *Who trusts in his SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS.*\n\n\nHe who trusts in *his own* righteousness, trusts in a poor thing, God\ncompares it to \u201cfilthy rags.\u201d\n\nBUT we are all an *unclean thing*, and all our *righteousnesses are as\nfilthy rags*; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the\nwind, have taken us away.\n\n _Isaiah 64:6._\n\nBecause our righteousness in the sight of God, is no good. He has given\nus a righteousness *in Christ*; but we, like the Jews, are trying to\nestablish our own, instead of finding it in Jesus.\n\nFOR they being ignorant of God\u2019s rightness, *and going about to\nestablish their own righteousness*, have not submitted themselves unto\nthe righteousness of God.\n\nFOR Christ is the end of the law *for righteousness* to every one that\n*believeth*.\n\n _Romans 10:3-4._\n\nMany say, \u201c*I am doing the best I can,*\u201d and yet they are not, for if\nthey were, *they would accept Christ*, for this righteousness is\nobtained by faith in Him.\n\nEVEN the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all\nand *upon all them that believe*.\n\n _Romans 3:22._\n\nJESUS saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: *no man\ncometh unto the Father, but by me*.\n\n _John 14:6._\n\nWe can approach God only in Christ.\n\nNEITHER is there salvation *in any other*: for there is *none other\nname* under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.\n\n _Acts 4:12._\n\nAgain, because our righteousness is of such a *poor brand*, Jesus\ndeclared we must be \u201c*born again*\u201d so that we can have a nature that\nwill produce something better.\n\nEXCEPT a man be *born again*, he cannot see the kingdom of God.\n\n _John 3:3._\n\n\n\n Moralist.\n *Who trusts In his GOOD WORKS to save.*\n\n\nIf the Scriptures make any thing *plain*, it is that man *can not save\nhimself* but must accept his salvation as a *gift*.\n\nFOR by grace are ye saved through faith; and *that not of yourselves*;\nit is the gift of God: *Not of works*, lest any man should boast.\n\n _Ephesians 2:8-9._\n\nWHO hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, *not according to\nour works*, but according to His own purpose and grace.\n\n _II Timothy 1:9._\n\n*NOT by works of righteousness* which we have done, but according to his\nmercy he saved us, by the *washing of regeneration*, and renewing of the\nHoly Ghost.\n\n _Titus 3:5._\n\nVERILY, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth *not by the door into\nthe sheepfold*, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a *thief and\na robber*.\n\n _John 10:1._\n\nJesus Christ is *the door* as the next verse shows and he who tries to\nsave himself in any other way is called a \u201c*thief*\u201d and a \u201c*robber*.\u201d\n\n*I AM the door*: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall\ngo in and out, and find pasture.\n\n _John 10:9._\n\nJESUS said unto him, *Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy\nheart*, and *with all thy soul*, and *with all thy mind*. This is the\nfirst and great commandment.\n\n _Matthew 22:37-38._\n\nAre you loving God with *all your heart*! If you were, you would *trust\nHim*.\n\nAND he said unto them, *Ye are they which justify yourselves before men;\nbut God knoweth your hearts*: for that which is highly esteemed among\nmen is abomination in the sight of God.\n\n _Luke 16:15._\n\nAre you an abomination in the sight of God because of what you do *in\nyour effort to save yourself*!\n\nSee: Luke 18:10-14.\n\n\n\n Personal Work.\n *Its Great IMPORTANCE.*\n\n\nTHE importance of personal work we cannot over estimate. It is the\nmethod used by Jesus in His dealing with Nicodemus (John 3rd. Chap.),\nThe Woman at the Well (John 4th chap.), The Man at the Pool (John 5th\nChap. 18-19.). It was the method used by the Apostles and the early\nchurch. It is the work needed *now* if many souls are to be reached.\n\nTHIS is an age of heart-to-heart methods, woman to woman and man to man,\nreaching people in every line. The vast army of traveling salesmen used\nby business houses, illustrates this method while the wonderful agency\nsystem developed by the life insurance companies is a splendid example\nof success coming from *personal work* and *personal contact*.\n\nTHE *Holy Spirit* will convict men and women of sin, but he needs human\nhelp in reaching human hearts and inducing them to *act* after they are\nconvicted. Most people whom you and I know are already convicted and\nconvinced that they should be Christians. The great difficulty is to get\nthem to *do it now* and this is *your part*.\n\nIN this day of such great activity and \u201cstrenuous\u201d living there are so\nmany new things, as well as old, continually coming up that prevent\npeople from desiring or even thinking of spiritual life. Never was it\nmore true that we must *go out* into the *highways and compel them* to\ncome in. In revivals too much is left to \u201cgeneral results,\u201d until the\n\"old general\u201d is sadly overworked. *The motto of* that wonderful and\neffective organization of Christian business men, *the Gideons, is good\nfor all Christians*: \u201cAnd they stood *every man* in *his place* round\nabout the camp.\"\n\nIN a \u201cgeneral\u201d way, you want to see your friends converted, why not help\nthe Lord answer your prayers by *aiding Him* in winning them one by one?\n\nTRY to have some one *ready* to make *a public profession* when the\n*evangelist gives the opportunity*.\n\n\n\n Personal Work.\n *QUALIFICATIONS needed.*\n\n\nIf we are going to lead souls to Christ, there are a few qualification\nthat we need.\n\n*1st. A DEFINITE EXPERIENCE is needed. We must be able to say with\nPaul.*\n\n*I KNOW whom I have believed*, and am persuaded that *he is able to\nkeep* that which I have committed unto him against that day.\n\n _II Timothy 1:12._\n\nOr to exclaim with the blind man.\n\nWHETHER he be a sinner or no, I know not: *one thing I know*, that,\nwhereas I was blind, *now I see*.\n\n _John 9:25_\n\nOne who would have real success must he himself, or herself thoroughly\nconverted, and live a holy life. Just as the telegraph wire must be\ninsulated, before it can carry the electric message, so the Christian\nmust be insulated from his old life of sin, before he can carry the\ngospel message to lost souls.\n\n*2nd. A LOVE FOR SOULS needed.*\n\nPaul\u2019s heart yearned for his brethren.\n\nI HAVE great heaviness and continued sorrow in my heart. For I could\nwish that myself *were accursed from Christ* for my brethren.\n\n _Romans 9:2-3._\n\n*3rd. A realization that SOULS ARE LOST, AND WE MAY be held RESPONSIBLE\nFOR THEM*.\n\nFOR what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and\n*lose his own soul*?\n\n _Mark 8:36._\n\nWHEN I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; *if\nthou dost not speak to warn the wicked* from his way, that wicked man\nshall die in his iniquity; but *his blood will I require at thine hand*.\n\nNevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he\ndo not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast\ndelivered thy soul.\n\n _Ezekiel 33:8-9._\n\n*4th. A WORKING KNOWLEDGE of the Bible is needed.*\n\nIt is God\u2019s word that is used by the Spirit in the saving of a soul, and\n*not man\u2019s word*.\n\nAND take the helmet of salvation, and the *sword of the Spirit*, which\nis the word of God.\n\n _Ephesians 6:17._\n\nSTUDY to *show thyself approved unto God, a workman* that needeth not to\nbe ashamed, *rightly dividing the word of truth*.\n\n _II Timothy 2:15._\n\nSO shall *my word* be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not\nreturn unto me void, but *it shall accomplish* that which I please, and\nit shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.\n\n _Isaiah 55:11._\n\nThrough the use of the *word of God*, you are to seek to accomplish the\nfollowing things.\n\n1st. To show men their *need* of a Savior.\n\n2nd. To show them *Jesus* as the Savior they need.\n\n3rd. To show them *how to make* this Savior their own.\n\n4th. To meet the *difficulties* in the way of their accepting Christ.\n\n5th. The one who would have *real success* must live a *life of prayer*,\nand be *baptized* with the Holy Ghost.\n\nNotice what the Lord is saying to us, to *encourage us* in our efforts\nto save souls.\n\nHE that *winneth souls is wise*.\n\n _Proverbs 11:30._\n\nAND they that be *wise shall shine* as the *brightness* of the\n*firmament*; and they that turn *many* to *righteousness* as the *stars*\nfor *ever* and *ever*.\n\n _Daniel 12:3._\n\nLET him know, that he which *converteth the sinner* from the error of\nhis way shall *save a soul from death*, and shall hide a multitude of\nsins.\n\n _James 5:20._\n\nGod help us to be faithful to our trust!\n\n\n\n Personal Work.\n *The \u201csoul-winner\u2019s\" prayer.*\n\n\nAfter having called attention to the qualifications required in personal\nwork there is a special need of emphasizing the fact that *faith in God*\nand a constant waiting, *in prayer* on the Lord, are preeminently\nnecessary; in connection with the latter we suggest some of the things\n*for which we need to pray*.\n\n*1st. Pray*. \u201cLord give me \"*getting up*\u201d grace,\u201d that is, courage to\nconfess Christ.\n\n*AND your feet shod* with the preparation of the gospel of peace.\n\n _Ephesians 6:15._\n\n*2nd. Pray*. \u201cLord give me *walking grace*.\u201d\n\nIN *all* they ways *acknowledge Him*, and He shall *direct thy paths*.\n\n _Proverbs 3:6._\n\n*3rd. Pray*. \u201cLord *direct me* to the right person.\u201d\n\nWHEN thou goest, *it* (God\u2019s word) *shall lead* thee. (First Clause.)\n\n _Proverbs 6:22._\n\nTHEN the *Spirit* said unto Philip, *Go near and join* thyself to the\nchariot.\n\n _Acts 8:29._\n\n*4th. Pray.* \u201cLord, show me *what to say*.\u201d\n\nIF any of you *lack wisdom*, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men\nliberally.\n\n _James 1:5._\n\nTHE Lord God hath given me the *tongue* of the learned, *that I should\nknow how to speak a word in season* to him that is weary: He wakeneth\nmorning by morning, He wakeneth mine *ear* to *hear* as the learned.\n\n _Isaiah 50:4._\n\nTHOU therefore *gird up thy loins*, and *arise*, and *speak* unto *them*\nall *that I command thee*: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I\nconfound thee before them.\u201d\n\n _Jeremiah 1:17._\n\n*5th. Pray* that God will *give power to what is said*.\n\n*Pray that God, will carry an the work after we are through.*\n\n\n\n Personal work.\n *Help in COTTAGE meetings.*\n\n\nHELP work up the \"Cottage Prayer Meetings\u201d and endeavor to get some on\nyour list to attend with you.\n\nWhen the campaign begins, personally invite those on your list and try\nto get them to attend *every night*, always calling for and taking one\nor more with you.\n\nStudy and pray about the best and most tactful ways to get the unsaved\nto the meetings.\n\n 1. Give them a timely *tract*.\n 2. *Quote* to them a *beautiful promise*.\n 3. Write them a *letter* about salvation.\n 4. Introduce them to *someone* who will speak about Jesus.\n 5. When opportunity is given, *speak to them* about becoming a\n Christian.\n 6. *Go with them* to the inquiry room, altar or anxious seat.\n 7. Ask them to your home and *pray with them there*.\n 8. Help make every meeting you attend a good one by *some part you\n can take*.\n 9. In public always be *brief* both in prayer and remarks.\n 10. Have the mind and spirit of Christ with His words dwelling in you\n richly, and ever be *ready to answer the Spirit\u2019s call*.\n 11. *Be true* to your own conscience.\n\nBe not faithless. Let me name some of Satan\u2019s forces to defeat you at\nthis point; *Timidity, Distrust, False Pride, and Fear of Giving\nOffense*.\n\nMany souls perish because of these. Do they hinder you? Ask for grace\nand *let God sink* all these with your other *sins* into the *depth at\nthe sea*.\n\n\n\n Personal Work.\n *Use of the \"PRAYER LIST\" Card.*\n\n\n*Pray for your friends*!\n\nTHERE are few people who do not have a special influence on at least one\nother person. Make a list of twelve of your acquaintances\u2014very carefully\nand prayerfully.\n\nBE careful for nothing; but in *every thing by prayer* and supplication\nwith thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.\n\n _Philippians 4:6._\n\nBy so doing you will receive a blessing and see your friends saved.\n\nDON\u2019T wait until the meeting is nearly over, hoping they may get in on\nthe \u201ctidal wave,\u201d or that the evangelist will \u201cshake the tree\" so hard\nthey can\u2019t hold on longer. But *pitch in* and do your *best*.\n(*Hand-picked fruit always keeps better*.) Get them started early so\n*they* can *work* for *others* during the revival meetings, and also\nhave the help of the meeting to establish their faith.\n\nSHOULD others seem to be working on your list, *say* nothing but\ntactfully co-operate and work with them.\n\nAs a rule select those of your own age and sex. Head your list with\n*your own name* and then begin with the unsaved person you know and love\nbest, and most desire seeing saved. If all are not converted during the\nmeetings *follow them up afterwards until they are*. Add new names to\nreplace those who become converted and work this plan all the year, \u201cin\nseason and out of season.\u201d\n\nPRAY in private earnestly and aloud for each one by name at least twice\na day. *Study* how to bring the most helpful influence to bear on them.\nBe very careful of your daily life before them and the world.\n\nKeep your list confidential so that none but the Father and yourself\nknow the names you have. Don\u2019t be satisfied unless you see them\nconverted and in the church of *their* choice. Ever afterwards look upon\nthem as your *spiritual children*, assuming *responsibility* for\n*keeping them from falling*.\n\n\n\n Personal Work.\n\n\n*1st. WHERE to Find Them.*\n\nEVERYWHERE; by our side, in the *home*, in the *school, shop* and\n*mill*; behind the *counter*, where we stand; on the *street*, where we\nwalk; in the *pew* where we worship; in the *service*, where we sing in\nthe *prayer meeting* and *inquiry room*, at the *altar*, kneeling with\nus at *family* devotion; yes, *everywhere*. Oh, reader, whatever way\nyour eye shall turn, there stand the lost ones whom Jesus came to save.\nFind them *quick, quick*! for eternity is drawing nigh.\n\n*2nd. HOW to Reach Them*.\n\n*YOU CAN WIN THEM BY LOVE*.\n\nSAY \u201cGod give us hearts big enough to let Jesus and all our neighbors\nin. Ask the spirit of God to be your guide, for there is an open window\nto every soul. In many instances, they await your coming, for they have\nno peace, as God says there is none for the wicked. Go to them in love\nas Jesus would have gone, take His manner, choose His words. Go and\ndelay not. Here is where courage plays so great a part.\n\n*3rd. WHAT to Tell Them*.\n\nTell them Jesus loves them. Everybody likes to hear good news.\n\nFOR God so loved the world, (me) that He gave His only begotten Son,\nthat whosoever *believeth in Him* should not perish, but have\n*everlasting life*.\n\n _John 3:16._\n\nTELL them that, for the gospel means nothing less. Who ever ran away\nfrom glad tidings or messages of great joy?\n\nTell them the whole Gospel, \"To-wit, that God was in Christ reconciling\nthe world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and\nhath committed unto us the word of reconciliation . . . as though God\ndid beseech you by us; I pray you in Christ\u2019s stead, be ye reconciled to\nGod.\u201d\n\n _II Corinthians 5:19-20._\n\n\n\n Personal Work.\n *HINTS and SUGGESTIONS.*\n\n\nWORKER\u2019S life text: II Timothy 2:15.\n\nWhatever your feeling of timidity in doing personal work, do not be\ndeterred by fear that you may give offense. Be *natural* and *courteous*\nin asking the simple question as to personal salvation.\n\nAs far as possible converse only with *persons of your own age* or\nyounger, of *your own sex* and walk in life.\n\nAlways deal with the inquirer *alone* if you can and in quiet; if some\none intrudes, diverting his attention, kindly tell the intruder *to be\nsilent or withdraw*.\n\nAfter a few words *to ascertain the state* of mind of the inquirer,\npresent the truth you think he needs from the Bible or this little book.\n\nDepend not on your experience or ability to apply the *Word; \u201cIt is the\nSpirit* that quickeneth.\u201d\n\nDo not be in a hurry, *take time to be thorough*; some times in our\neagerness to see souls saved, we do not make the way plain.\n\n*Let the Holy Spirit Himself show him* that when he has *believed on the\nLord Jesus Christ* he is at once saved.\n\nIf persons refuse, and seem to repulse you, *do not be dismayed* or\nthink that you have made a mistake; God often uses such refusals to\nconvict of sin and lead to repentance.\n\nIf a person baffles you with difficult questions, hand him over *to a\nmore experienced worker*.\n\nNever advise an inquirer to go home and read his Bible, or pray, or try\nto do better; this is *losing the present opportunity* with no promise\nof a future or better one.\n\nAffectionately urge *immediate* decision. *Pray with the inquirer*.\n\nBe cautious; that which is a help to one may not be to another,\ntherefore \u201c*rightly divide the Word of Truth*\u201d And hold them *to what\nGod says* and the acceptance of Christ.\n\n\n\n Personal Work.\n *Suggestive Scriptures.*\n\n\nWhen you come to Christ, does He accept or reject you?\n\nAND him that cometh to me; *I will in no wise cast out*.\n\n _John 6:37._\n\nIf you confess your sin to Him, what does He say he does with them?\n\nIF we confess our sins, he is faithful and just *to forgive us our\nsins,* and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.\n\n _I John 1:9._\n\nTO him give all the prophets witness, that through his name *whosoever\nbelieveth in him shall receive* remission of sins.\n\n _Acts 10:43._\n\nWho is it that has everlasting life?\n\n*HE that believeth* on the Son hath everlasting llfe.\n\n _John 3:36._\n\nDo you believe? If so, have you life? You say, \u201cI don\u2019t feel any\n\u201cdifferent.\u201d It is not a matter of *feeling*, but of *believing*, see\nhow God puts the order of things.\n\nIN whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the\ngospel of your salvation: *in whom also after that ye believed, ye were\nsealed with that Holy Spirit of promise*.\n\n _Ephesians 1:13._\n\nAfter you *believe*, God *seals* you. After you *commit yourself for\nChrist* confessing Him as your Saviour, the *feeling comes*. Don\u2019t \u201cget\nthe cart before the horse.\u201d\n\nAND this is the *confidence that we have in him*, that, if we ask any\nthing according to his will, he heareth us. And if we know that he hear\nus, whatsoever we ask, *we know that we have the petitions that we\ndesired of him*.\n\n _I John 5:14, 15._\n\nGOD is not a man, *that he should lie*; neither the son of man, *that he\nshould repent*: hath he said, and *shall he not do it*? Or hath he\nspoken, and *shall he not make it good*.\n\n _Numbers 23:19._\n\n\n\n Personal Work.\n *Fruit promised to faithful effort.*\n\n\nGod has chosen us and sent us forth in His service promising fruit as\nthe result of our work. Christ came to save souls.\n\nFOR the Son of Man is come to *seek* and to *save* that *which was\nlost*.\n\n _Luke 19:10._\n\nYE have not chosen me, but I *have chosen you*, and ordained you, that\n*ye* should GO *and bring forth fruit*, and *that your fruit should\nremain*.\n\n _John 15:16._\n\nGO ye into *all the world* and preach the gospel to *every creature*.\n\n _Mark 16:15._\n\nAND the lord said unto the *servant*, GO *out into the highways and\nhedges, and compel them to come in*, that my house may be filled.\n\n _Luke 14:23._\n\nAND he saith unto them, *Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men*.\n\n _Matthew 4:19._\n\nAND he that reapeth *receiveth wages*, and gathereth fruit unto life\neternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice\ntogether.\n\n _John 4:36._\n\nThere are wages that come *now as we work*, and there is a *reward* that\nwill *come bye and bye*.\n\nAND *let us not be weary* in well doing: for in due season we shall\nreap, if we faint not.\n\n _Galatians 6:9._\n\nCAST thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it *after many\ndays*.\n\n _Ecclesiastes 11:1._\n\nAND they that be wise shall *shine as the brightness of the firmament*;\nand *they that turn many to righteousness* as the stars for ever and\never.\n\n _Daniel 12:3._\n\nBEHOLD, I say unto you, *Lift up your eyes*, and look on the fields; for\nthey are *white already to harvest.*\n\n _John 4:35._\n\nLET him know, that he which *converteth the sinner* from the error of\nhis *way* shall *save a soul from death*, and shall hide a multitude of\nsins.\n\n _James 5:20._\n\n\n\n Personal Work.\n *FRUIT-BEARERS Chapter.*\n\n\nThe fifteenth chapter of John, is the \u201cfruit Chapter,\" likening Christ\nto the *vine*, and us to the *branches*; teaching us our need to abide\nin Christ, if we would bring forth fruit and have power.\n\n 1. I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.\n 2. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every\n branch that *beareth fruit*, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth\n *more fruit*.\n\nAre you bearing fruit, and purged?\n\n 3. Now ye are *clean through the word* which *I* have spoken unto you.\n\nThe word cleanses the life, as the *knife* prunes the vine.\n\n 4. Abide in me, and I In you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of\n itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye except ye abide\n in me.\n\nOnly as we abide in Christ, can we bear fruit.\n\n 5. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in\n him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: *for without me ye can do\n nothing*.\n\nWe can not do, *even a little* without Christ.\n\n 6. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is\n withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and\n they are burned.\n 7. If ye abide in me, and my words *abide in you*, ye shall ask what\n ye will, and it shall be done unto you.\n\nNote the condition in asking, \u201cif ye abide.\u201d\n\n 8. Here in is my Father glori\ufb01ed, that ye bear *much fruit*; so shall\n ye *be my disciples*.\n\n _John 15:1-8._\n\nIn order to *bear fruit*, there must be in the Christian\u2019s life:\n 1st \u201c*cleansing*\u201d (vs. 2-3.);\n 2nd \u201c*abiding*.\u201d (v. 4.);\n 3rd \"*obedience*\" (v. 10.)\n\n 1. \u201cfruit\u201d (v. 2.);\n 2. \u201cmore fruit\" (v. 2-10.);\n 3. \u201cmuch fruit\" (v. 5; 8)\n\n\n\n Personal Work.\n *For those who feel Too Weak and are Fearful.*\n\n\nIn all our work, God promises to maintain us, see His promises.\n\nAND God is able to make *all grace abound toward you*; that ye, always\nhaving *all sufficiency in all things*, may abound to every good work.\n\n _II Corinthians 9:8._\n\nAND he said unto me, My grace is *sufficient for thee*: for my strength\nis made perfect in weakness.\n\n _II Corinthians 12:9._\n\n*STRENGTH for service.*\n\n*FEAR thou not*: for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God:\n*I will strengthen thee*; yea, I will help thee; yea, *I will uphold\nthee* with the right hand of my righteousness. . . . For I the Lord thy\nGod *will hold thy right hand*, saying unto thee, *Fear not*; I will\nhelp thee.\n\n _Isaiah 41:10, 13._\n\nBE strong and of *a good courage*, fear not, nor *be afraid of them*:\nfor the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee: *he will not fail\nthee, nor forsake thee*.\n\n _Deuteronomy 31:6._\n\nLet us *wait on Him and prove* all of these promises!\n\nHE giveth *power to the faint*; and to them that have no might *he\nincreaseth strength*. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the\nyoung men shall utterly fall: *But they that wait upon the Lord shall\nrenew their strength*; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they\nshall run, and *not be weary*; and they shall *walk, and not faint*.\n\n _Isaiah 40:29-31._\n\nBUT my God shall *supply all your need* according to his riches in glory\nby Christ Jesus.\n\n _Philippians 4:19._\n\nI CAN do *all things through Christ* which strengtheneth me.\n\n _Philippians 4:13._\n\nTHOU therefore *endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ*.\n\n _II Timothy 2:3._\n\n\n\n Personal Work.\n *A word to the unwilling.*\n\n\n*God holds you RESPONSIBLE*.\n\n*SO thou, O Son of man, I have set thee a watchman* unto the house of\nIsrael; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, *and warn them\nfrom me*. When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely\ndie; If thou dost *not speak to warn* the wicked from his way, that\nwicked man shall die in his iniquity; *but his blood will I require at\nthine hand*.\n\n _Ezekiel 33:7-8._\n\n*The field is RIPE TO HARVEST.*\n\n*SAY not ye*, There are yet four months and then cometh harvest? behold,\n*I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields*; for they\nare white already to harvest.\n\n _John 4:35-36._\n\n*Are you proving FAITHFUL*?\n\n*THEREFORE be ye also ready*: for in such an hour as ye think not the\nSon of man cometh. Who then is a *faithful and wise servant*, whom his\nLord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due\nseason? *Blessed is that servant*, whom his Lord when he cometh shall\nfind so doing.\n\n _Matthew 24:44-46._\n\nI MUST work the works of him that sent me, *while it is day*: the *night\ncometh*, when no man can work.\n\n _John 9:4._\n\n*CONSECRATE yourself to the work*?\n\nI BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye\n*present your bodies a living sacrifice*, holy, acceptable unto God,\nwhich is your reasonable service.\n\n _Romans 12:1._\n\n*God is ENCOURAGING you, listen!*\n\nAND they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament;\n*and they that turn many to righteousness* as the stars forever and\never.\n\n _Daniel 12:3._\n\n\n\n Pleasures.\n *Those who want to LIVE FOR THE WORLD.*\n\n\nCount the cost friend, and see what God says concerning those who live\n*just for worldly pleasures*. Will it pay?\n\n*1st. You MAY NOT enjoy it ANOTHER DAY*!\n\nBOAST *not thyself of tomorrow*; for thou knowest not what a day may\nbring forth.\n\n _Proverbs 27:1._\n\n*2nd. You become the ENEMY OF GOD.*\n\nYE adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the\nworld *is enmity with God*? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the\nworld is the enemy of God.\n\n _James 4:4._\n\n*3rd. You reap WHAT YOU SOW.*\n\nBE not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, *that\nshall he also reap*. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh\nreap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit\nreap life everlasting.\n\n _Galatians 6:7, 8._\n\n*4th. God calls you A FOOL.*\n\nI WILL say to *my soul*, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up *for many\nyears*; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto\nhim, *Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee*.\n\n _Luke 12:19-20._\n\n*5th. God PLEADS with us.*\n\n*TURN ye*, turn ye from your evil ways; for *why will ye die*, O house\nof Israel?\n\n _Ezekiel 33:11._\n\n*6th. God warns us!*\n\nThis world with all that it has to offer, will soon *pass away* but he\nthat doeth the will of God \u201c*abideth for ever.*\u201d\n\nKNOW thou, that *for all these things God will bring thee into\njudgment*.\n\n _Ecclesiastes 11:9_\n\n\n\n Prayer.\n *HEARD and ANSWERED by God.*\n\n\nPrayer is the link that pulls down the power that blesses us and\neverybody around.\n\nWhat a glorious promise!\n\n*CALL unto me*, and *I will answer thee*, and show thee great and mighty\nthings, which thou knowest not.\n\n _Jeremiah 33:3._\n\nAND all things *whatsoever* ye shall *ask in prayer believing, ye shall\nreceive*.\n\n _Matthew 21:22._\n\nExamine your heart and see if you have faith, God is willing if you can\nbelieve Him.\n\nTHEREFORE I say unto you, *What things soever ye desire*, when ye *pray,\nbelieve* that ye receive them, and ye *shall have them*.\n\n _Mark 11:24_\n\n*IF ye abide in me*, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye\nwill, and it shall be done unto you.\n\n _John 15:7_\n\nWith all of God\u2019s promises there are conditions, Here we have one. \u201cIf\nye abide in me.\u201d Are you abiding in Him?\n\nAND this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if *we ask any\nthing according to his will*, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear\nus, whatsoever we ask, *we know that we have the petitions* that we\ndesired of him.\n\n _I John 5:14-15._\n\nAND whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that *will I do*, that the\nFather may be glori\ufb01ed in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in my name,\n*I will do it*.\n\n _John 14:13,14._\n\nIf you want God\u2019s answer to prayer, remember the conditions.\n\n*AND whatsoever we ask, we receive of him*, because we *keep his\ncommandments*, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.\n\n _I John 3:22_\n\n\n\n Prayer.\n *VICTORY through prayer.*\n\n\nCALL unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty\nthings.\n\n _Jeremiah 33:3._\n\nAND it shall come to pass, that *before they call, I will answer*; and\nwhile they are *yet speaking, I will hear.*\n\n _Isaiah 65:24._\n\nCONFESS your faults one to another, and *pray one for another*, that ye\nmay be healed. . . . Elias was a man subject to *like passions as we\nare*, and *he prayed* earnestly that it might not rain: *and it rained\nnot* on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And *he\nprayed again*, and the *heaven gave rain*, and the earth brought forth\nher fruit.\n\n _James 5:16-18._\n\nRemember that prayer is not mere petition, but communion, pouring out\nthe whole soul to God. *Prayer is the golden key that unlocks all* the\n*storehouse: of God\u2019s grace; they are opened by men and women on their\nknees*. There is little danger of too much time being spent in prayer.\nBad habits are overcome by prayer; evil thoughts and tendencies are\nrooted out by prayer; dark hours are made light by prayer; midnight of\nprayer brings noonday and victory. \u201cTrue prayer is the reflection of\nGod\u2019s thoughts back upon Himself, therefore to get God\u2019s thoughts and\npray in the spirit, I would pray over my Bible.\" Form the habit of\nprayer immediately on awakening in the morning, Make Daniel and David\nthe rule of life. Form habit of praying whenever doubt, difficulty,\ntemptation, or trial arises, any hour of the day or night.\n\nIF my people, which are called by my name, *shall humble themselves* and\npray, and *seek my face*, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I\nhear from heaven, and *will forgive their sin, and will heal their\nland*.\n\n _II Chronicles 7:14._\n\n\n\n Prayer.\n *REGULAR seasons for prayer.*\n\n\nNOW, when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his\nhouse; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, *he\nkneeled down upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave\nthanks* before his God, as he did aforetime.\n\n _Daniel 6:10._\n\n*EVENING*, and *morning*, and at *noon, will I pray, and cry aloud*: and\n*He shall hear my voice*.\n\n _Psalms 55:17._\n\nPRAY without *ceasing*.\n\n _I Thessalonians 5:17._\n\nPractice the following verses:\n\nMY voice shalt thou hear *in the morning*, O Lord; in the *morning will\nI direct my prayer* unto thee, and will look up.\n\n _Psalms 5:3._\n\n*WATCH and pray*, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed\nis willing, but the flesh is weak.\n\n _Matthew 26:41._\n\nBe continually in the Spirit of prayer.\n\n*PRAYING always with all Prayer* and supplication in the Spirit, and\nwatching there unto with all perseverance and supplication for all\nsaints.\n\n _Ephesians 6:18._\n\nBUT they that *wait upon the Lord* shall renew their strength; they\nshall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary;\nand they shall walk, and not faint.\n\n _Isaiah 40:31._\n\nWhere do you Pray?\n\nI WILL therefore *that men pray every where*, lifting up holy hands.\n\n _I Timothy 2:8._\n\nAND he spake a parable unto them to this end, that *men ought always to\npray*, and not to faint.\n\n _Luke 18:1._\n\nBE careful for nothing; but *in every thing by prayer* and supplication\nwith thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.\n\n _Philippians 4:6._\n\n\n\n Prayer.\n *CONDITIONS In answer to prayer.*\n\n\n*You must ASK!*\n\nASK, and it *shall* be given you; *seek*, and ye shall find. *Knock*,\nand it shall be *opened unto you*.\n\n _Matthew 7:7._\n\n*You must BELIEVE!*\n\nTHEREFORE I say unto you, *What things soever* ye *desire*, when ye\n*pray, believe* that ye *shall* receive them, and *ye shall have them*.\n\n _Mark 11:24._\n\n*You must be WILLING TO FORGIVE.*\n\nAND when ye stand praying, *forgive, if ye have ought against any*: that\nyour Father also which is in heaven *may forgive you* your trespasses.\n*But if ye do not forgive*, neither will your Father which is in heaven\nforgive your trespasses.\n\n _Mark 11:25,26._\n\n*You must have a CLEAN HEART.*\n\nIF I *regard iniquity* in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:\n\n _Psalms 66:18._\n\n*Must be UNSELFISH.*\n\nYE ask, and receive not, because *ye ask amiss*, that ye may *consume it\nupon your lusts*.\n\n _James 4:3._\n\n*Must DO HIS WILL.*\n\nAND this is the *confidence that we have in him*, that, *if we ask\nanything according* to *his will*, he *heareth us*.\n\n _I John 5:14._\n\n*You must be GUIDED BY HIS WORD.*\n\nIF ye *abide* in *me*, and my *words abide in you*, ye *shall ask what\nye will*, and it *shall* be done unto you.\n\n _John 15:7._\n\n*You must ASK IN HIS NAME.*\n\nVERILY, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father *in\nmy name*, he will give it you.\n\n _John 16:23._\n\nWHATSOEVER ye shall ask of the Father *in my name*, he may give it you.\n\n _John 15:16._\n\n\n\n Regeneration, or the New Birth.\n *RESULTS of Regeneration.*\n\n\n*The result of the new birth is a new heart, a new mind, a new nature, a\nnew love for God and His people.*\n\n*1st. A NEW heart.*\n\nA NEW heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within\nyou: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will\ngive you a heart of flesh.\n\n _Ezekiel 36:26._\n\n*2nd. Passing FROM DEATH to life.*\n\n*VERILY, verily*, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth\non him that sent me, *hath everlasting life*, and shall not come into\ncondemnation; *but is passed from death unto life*.\n\n _John 5:24._\n\n*3rd. Putting on a NEW MAN.*\n\nAND that ye put on *the new man*, which after God is created in\nrighteousness and true holiness.\n\n _Ephesians 4:24._\n\n*4th. Created ANEW, not made over.*\n\nTHEREFORE if any man be in Christ, *he is a new creature*: old things\nare passed away; Behold, all things are become new.\n\n _II Corinthians 5:17._\n\n*5th. Washed white, not white-washed*.\n\nNOT by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his\nmercy he saved us, by the *washing of regeneration*, and *renewing* of\nthe Holy Ghost.\n\n _Titus 3:5._\n\n*6th. VICTORY over sin.*\n\n*WHOSOEVER is born of God doth not commit sin*.\n\n _I John 3:9._\n\n*7th. Translated into a KINGDOM.*\n\nWHO hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath *translated\nus into the kingdom* of his dear Son.\n\n _Colossians 1:13._\n\n*8th. Created to be useful (workers).*\n\nFOR we are his workmanship, *created in Christ Jesus unto good works*.\n\n _Ephesians 2:10._\n\nBecause we are born with an *earthly* nature and are sinners against\nGod, we must have a heavenly nature, to be happy with God.\n\nIt is the *carnal nature* that sins. it is the *God nature* that does\nnot sin.\n\nJESUS answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,\n*except a man be born again*, he cannot see the kingdom of God.\n\n _John 3:3._\n\nTHAT which is born of the *flesh* is *flesh*; and that which is *BORN of\nthe Spirit* is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, YE MUST BE BORN\nAGAIN.\n\n _John 3:6-7._\n\n*Have YOU been born of the Spirit?*\n\nIt you are not *sure, read* the following Scriptures as they may assure\nyou, or show you how you *may be regenerated*.\n\nWHOSOEVER *believeth that Jesus is the Christ* is born of God.\n\n _I John 5:1._\n\nBUT as many as *received him*, to them gave he power to become the *sons\nof God*, even to them that *believe* on his name: which were born, not\nof blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, *but of\nGod*.\n\n _John 1:12-13_\n\n*BEING born again*, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, *by\nthe word of God*, which liveth and abideth for ever.\n\n _I Peter 1:23_\n\nWHEREBY are given unto us exceeding great and *precious promises*: that\n*by these* ye might be partakers of the *divine nature*, having escaped\nthe corruption that is in the world through *lust*.\n\n _II Peter 1:4._\n\nTHIS is my comfort in my affliction: for *thy word hath quickened me*.\n\n _Psalms 119:50_\n\nFOR in Christ Jesus I have *begotten you through the gospel*.\n\n _I Corinthians 4:15._\n\nIf you would know more regarding this subject see next page.\n\n\n\n Repentance.\n *A requisite for Salvation, what does it mean?*\n\n\nWhat is the meaning of repentance? In the greek, the word means a change\nof mind, such as leads one to *confess all his sins, forsake* them and\n*turn* to God.\n\nTHE time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: *repent ye*,\nand believe the gospel.\n\n _Mark 1:15._\n\nTHEN Peter said unto them, *Repent, and be baptized* every one of you in\nthe name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive\nthe gift of the Holy Ghost.\n\n _Acts 2:38._\n\nHave you repented, and are you ready for the blessing God has for you?\n\n*REPENT ye therefore*, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted\nout, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the\nLord.\n\n _Acts 3:19._\n\nGod is commanding us to repent.\n\nAND the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now *commandeth all\nmen every where to repent*.\n\n _Acts 17:30._\n\nAND they went out, and preached that *men should repent*.\n\n _Mark 6:12._\n\nAND that *repentance* and remission of sins should be preached in his\nname among all nations.\n\n _Luke 24:47._\n\n*EXCEPT ye repent* ye shall all likewise perish.\n\n _Luke 13:3._\n\n*REPENT ye*: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.\n\n _Matthew 3:2._\n\nI CAME not to call the righteous, *but sinners to repentance*.\n\n _Luke 5:32._\n\nDoes this verse mean *you*?\n\nBUT shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout\nall the coast of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, *that they should\nrepent and turn to God*, and do works meet for repentance.\n\n _Acts 26:20._\n\nIf you have not repented, do so at once.\n\nRead: Jeremiah 3:13; Ezekiel 18:30-32.\n\n\n\n Revival, The.\n *How to make it a success.*\n\n\n - Be a prayerful christian.\n - Always be on time.\n - Ask God to help you sing.\n - Make it a point to attend every meeting.\n - Do not quench the Spirit.\n - Be ready to obey at God\u2019s calling.\n - When you come, look, as though you enjoyed the religion you profess.\n - Shake hands as though it were not a dead fish tail but as if it were\n a pleasure.\n - Always be prompt when others are slow in testifying.\n - Watch for those who raise a hand and are convicted, and follow them\n up and lead them to Christ.\n - Make it a point to invite your friends to attend the meeting, and\n accept Christ.\n - When you come to the meeting, don\u2019t find fault with the evangelist\n or the preacher\u2019s methods. Ask yourself the question \u201cif all the\n church members were like me, would this revival be a success?\u201d\n - Make it a business at the close of each meeting to speak to some one\n about seeking Christ.\n - Always pray before the meeting and for your friends, that you may be\n able some way to lead them to Christ.\n\n \u2015\u2015\u2015\u2015\n\n _*How to Hinder a Revival.*_\n\n - Never pray. If you did, it might help some one.\n - Always make a long prayer.\n - Then you come, be sure to take a back seat and stay there.\n - If you do pray, pray at the evangelist and the people and not for\n them.\n - Never bow your head when others are praying for if you did, they\n would think you might be interested.\n - If you shake hands, do it as though it were an awful cross to you.\n - Be sure that you keep account of what the preacher says and then rip\n him up the back.\n\nI would suggest to read this over every day and see which of these\nthings you are doing. If you are a christian and found doing some of\nthese things above and hindering a revival in which you might use your\ninfluence in saving somebody else, ask yourself this question\u2014if all the\nchurch members were like me what kind of a church would my church be?\n\n\n\n Revival, The.\n *What to bring to It.*\n\n\n 1. Bring your own Bible; every work man prefers his own tools.\n 2. Bring the topic\u2014in your memory, not on the card.\n 3. Bring some matured thought on the theme\u2014from your Bible study.\n 4. Bring the best illustration or application of the theme you have\n found in your reading or other research.\n 5. Bring some wish, aspiration, sense of need\u2014sated appetites are the\n hardest to cater to.\n 6. Bring your attention: a wandering mind never wanders to God.\n 7. Bring your sympathies; give more than you expect to get, and you\n will get more than you expect.\n 8. Bring your smiles and cheerful looks and emphasize the *beauty* of\n holiness.\n 9. Bring your friend, or a stranger. How easy to increase the\n attendance by a few personal invitations!\n 10. Bring a large expectation, and God will fill it.\n\n\n\n Ridicule and Persecution.\n *My friends will LAUGH at me.*\n\n\nThe person who would ridicule you for being a Christian, is not your\nfriend.\n\nWHOSOEVER therefore shall *be ashamed of me* and of my words in this\nadulterous and sinful generation; *of him also* shall the *Son of man be\nashamed*, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy\nangels.\n\n _Mark 8:38._\n\nFOR whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever *shall\nlose his life for my sake and the gospel\u2019s*, the same shall save it.\n\n _Mark 8:35._\n\nBLESSED are they which are *persecuted for righteousness\u2019 sake*: for\ntheirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall *revile\nyou, and persecute you*, and shall say all manner of evil against you\nfalsely, for my sake. *Rejoice, and be exceeding glad*: for great is\nyour *reward in heaven*: for so persecuted they the prophets which were\nbefore you.\n\n _Matthew 5:10-12._\n\nIF ye *be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye*; for the\nspirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil\nspoken of, but on your part he is glori\ufb01ed.\n\n _I Peter 4:14._\n\nFOR unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on\nhim, but also *to suffer for his sake*.\n\n _Philippians 1:29._\n\nThink of the reward that Christ has promised to those who suffer for\nHim.\n\nAND if children, then heirs: heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ;\n*if so be that we suffer with him*, that we may be also glori\ufb01ed\ntogether.\n\n _Romans 8:17._\n\nFOR I reckon that *the sufferings* of this present time are not worthy\nto be *compared* with the glory *which shall be revealed in us*.\n\n _Romans 8:18._\n\n\n\n Ridicule and Persecution.\n *Encouragement given us.*\n\n\n*Christ was PERSECUTED FOR US!*\n\nFOR what glory is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall\ntake it patiently? but if *when ye do well and suffer for it, ye take it\npatiently*, this is acceptable with God.\n\nFor even hereunto were *ye* called, because *Christ also suffered for\nus, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps*.\n\n _I Peter 2:20, 21._\n\nLOOKING unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy\nthat was set before him *endured the cross, despising the shame*, and is\nset down at the right hand of the throne of God.\n\n _Hebrews 12:2._\n\nIt you will notice the Scripture you will see that Paul had some\npersecutions, but out of them all God delivered him. Will he not deliver\nus? Yes surely He will.\n\nTHEREFORE, I take pleasure in infirmities, *in reproaches, in\nnecessities, in persecutions*, in distress for Christ\u2019s sake: for when I\nam weak, *then am I strong*.\n\n _II Corinthians 12:10._\n\n*ENCOURAGEMENT given us to suffer.*\n\nAND they departed from the presence of the council, *rejoicing chat they\nwere counted worthy* to suffer shame for his name.\n\n _Acts 5:41._\n\nBUT and if *ye suffer for righteousness\u2019 sake, happy are ye*: and be not\nafraid of their terror, neither be troubled.\n\n _I Peter 3:14._\n\nYET *if any man suffer* as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let\nhim glorify God on this behalf. . . . Wherefore, *let them that suffer*\naccording to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in\nwell doing, as unto a faithful Creator.\n\n _I Peter 4:16, 19._\n\n\n\n Sabbath and Sunday.\n *HOW a Christian should HALLOW IT.*\n\n\nGod has always commanded his people give to him one day out of seven.\n\n*REMEMBER the sabbath day, to keep it holy*. Six days shalt thou labour,\nand do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy\nGod: *in it thou shalt not do any work*, thou, nor thy son, nor thy\ndaughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle nor thy\nstranger that is within thy gates.\n\n _Exodus 20:8-10._\n\nAND if the people of the land bring *ware or any victuals on the sabbath\nday to sell*, that we would not buy it of them on *the sabbath day*.\n\n _Nehemiah 10:31._\n\nTHIS is *the day* which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad\nin it.\n\n _Psalms 118:24._\n\nHow do you treat the Lords day?\n\nTHOU hast despised mine holy things, and *hast profaned my sabbaths*.\n\n _Ezekiel 22:8._\n\nHave you profaned God\u2019s holy day by going to excursions, and using it to\nmeet your selfish ends?\n\n*Note the example of Christ and His Church*.\n\nThey went to the synagogue, so let us go to Church.\n\nAND he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his\ncustom was, *he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day*, and stood\nup for to read.\n\n _Luke 4:16._\n\nAND he reasoned in the synagogue *every sabbath*.\n\n _Acts 18:4._\n\nI WAS *in the Spirit on the Lord\u2019s day*.\n\n _Revelation 1:10._\n\nLET no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in respect of an\nholy day, or of the new moon, or of the *Sabbath day* which are a\n*shadow* of things to come; but the *body is Christ\u2019s*.\n\n _Colossians 2:16-17, R.V._\n\n*God forbids worldly pleasure on His Day.*\n\nIF thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on\nmy holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord,\nhonourable; and shalt honour him, *not doing thine own ways*, nor\nfinding *thine own pleasure*, nor speaking thine own words:\n\nThen shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to\nride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage\nof Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.\n\n _Isaiah 58:13-14._\n\n*Commands divine worship.*\n\nLIKEWISE the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate\nbe for the Lord *in the sabbaths and in the new moons*.\n\n _Ezekiel 46:3_\n\n*Required His word to be read.*\n\nFOR they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew\nhim not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are *read every\nsabbath day*, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.\n\n _Acts 13:27._\n\n*The Lords Supper to be observed.*\n\nAND upon the *first day of the week*, when the disciples came together\nto *break bread, Paul preached unto them*, ready to depart on the\nmorrow; and continued his speech until midnight.\n\n _Acts 20:7._\n\n-\u2014Carefully abstain from all but spiritual conversation \u201cnot speaking\nthine own words.\u201d\n\nStrive to be \u201cin the Spirit on the Lord\u2019s Day,\" \"not doing thine own\nways.\"\n\nDo no work on the Sabbath Day that is not necessary.\n\n\"Have at least a Sabbath hour in every day as well as a Sabbath day in\nevery week.\u201d\n\n\n\n Salvation.\n *To WHOM offered? \u201cWhosoever will!\u201d*\n\n\nNotice the different classes to whom *salvation is offered*.\n\n*1st To the WEARY AND HEAVY- LADEN.*\n\nCOME unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, *and I will give\nyou rest*. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and\nlowly in heart: *and ye shall find rest unto your souls, For my yoke is\neasy*, and *my burden is light*.\n\n _Matthew 11:28-30._\n\n*2nd. To the HUNGRY and thirsty.*\n\n*HO, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters*, and he that hath\nno money: come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, *buy wine and milk without\nmoney* and without price.\n\n _Isaiah 55:1._\n\n*3rd. To sinners.*\n\nBUT God commendeth his love toward us, in that, *while we were yet\nsinners, Christ died for us*.\n\n _Romans 5:8._\n\nTHIS is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ\nJesus came into the world *to save sinners; of whom I am chief*.\n\n _I Timothy 1:15._\n\n*4th. To the LOST.*\n\nFOR the Son of man is *come to seek and save that which was lost*.\n\n _Luke 19:10._\n\n*5th. Whosoever WILLS to come.*\n\nAND the Spirit and the bride *say, Come*. And let him that *heareth say,\nCome*. And let him that is *athirst come*. *And whosoever will*, let him\ntake the water of life freely.\n\n _Revelation 22:17._\n\nGod has done His part in giving His son to die for our sins; will you do\nyour part? and come honestly and confess your sins?\n\nIF we confess our sins, *he is faithful and just to forgive us our\nsins*, and to *cleanse us* from all unrighteousness.\n\n _I John 1:9._\n\n\n\n Salvation.\n *Offered to the MOST sinful.*\n\n\nCOME now, and let us *reason together*, saith the Lord: *though your\nsins be as scarlet*, they shall be as *white* as *snow*; though they be\n*red like crimson*, they *shall be as wool*.\n\n _Isaiah 1:18._\n\nAND the spirit and the *bride* say Come. . . . And let him that is\n*athirst come*. And *whosoever* will, let him take of the water of life\n*freely*.\n\n _Revelation 22:17._\n\nWHEREFORE He is *able* also *to save them to the uttermost*.\n\n _Hebrews 7:25._\n\nIF *we confess our sins*, He is faithful and *just to forgive us our\nsins*, and *to cleanse us* from all unrighteousness.\n\n _I John 1:9._\n\nFOR the Son of man is come to *seek* and to *save* that which was lost.\n\n _Luke 19:10._\n\nNo one can say, \u201cI am too great a sinner, Christ cannot save me.\u201d\n\n*God says He has BLOTTED OUT our sins.*\n\n*I HAVE blotted out*, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a\ncloud, *thy sins*: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.\n\n _Isaiah 44:22._\n\nI EVEN I, am he that *blotteth out thy transgressions* for mine own\nsake, and will not remember thy sins.\n\n _Isaiah 43:25._\n\nMY little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. *And\nif any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father*, Jesus Christ the\nrighteous: And he is the *propitiation for our sins*: and not for ours\nonly, but also for the sins of the whole world.\n\n _I John 2:1-2._\n\n*FOR whosoever shall call* upon the name of the *Lord shall be saved*.\n\n _Romans 10:13._\n\nIf any one \u201c*wills*\u201d to call upon the Lord, he is sure to be heard, and\nthe Lord will save.\n\n\n\n Salvation.\n *Saved alone by FAITH, Lost through UNBELIEF.*\n\n\n*1st. Saved alone BY FAITH in Christ.*\n\nVERILY, verily, I say unto you, He that *believeth* on me hath\n*everlasting life*.\n\n _John 6:47._\n\n*BELIEVE* on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.\n\n _Acts 16:31._\n\nTO him give all the prophets witness, that through his name *whosoever\nbelieveth in him* shall receive remission of sins.\n\n _Acts 10:43._\n\nAND by him all that *believe are* justified from all things, from which\nye could not be justified by the law of Moses.\n\n _Acts 13:39._\n\n*2nd. Lost because of UNBELIEF.*\n\nHE that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that *believeth\nnot shall be damned*.\n\n _Mark 16:16._\n\nHE that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that\n*believeth not the Son* shall not see life; but the *wrath of God\nabideth on him*.\n\n _John 3:36._\n\nHE that believeth on Him (Jesus) is not condemned: but he that\n*believeth not is CONDEMNED already*.\n\n _John 3:18._\n\nNEITHER is there salvation *in any other*: for there is *none other\nname* under heaven given among men, whereby *we* must be saved.\n\n _Acts 4:12._\n\nJESUS saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: *no man\ncometh unto the Father, but by me*.\n\n _John 14:6._\n\nVERILY, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into\nthe sheepfold, *but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and\na robber*.\n\n _John 10:1._\n\n*3rd. Seek Jesus to-day.*\n\n*REPENT ye*: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.\n\n _Matthew 3:2._\n\n\n\n Salvation.\n *What must I do to be saved?*\n\n\nMAY the Holy Spirit make these few words in answer to this great\nquestion, *so plain* that you will be able to say, \"*I see it,*\u201d and I\nwill *now believe*!\n\nYou ask, \u201cWhat must I do to be saved?\"\n\n*BELIEVE* on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy\nhouse.\n\n _Acts 16:31._\n\nFOR *whosoever shall call* upon the name of the Lord *shall be saved*.\n\n _Romans 10:13._\n\n*VERILY, verily*, I say unto you, *he* that *heareth My Word*, and\n*believeth* on Him (God) that sent Me (Christ), *hath everlasting* life,\nand shall not come into judgment, but *hath passed out of death into\nlife*.\n\n _John 5:24, A.V. & R.V._\n\n*HE that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life*: and he that\nbelieveth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth\non Him.\n\n _John 3:36._\n\nYour salvation depends upon what *you do with Jesus Christ. Accept* Him\nand you are saved\u2014*reject* Him and you are lost. Thus saith the\nScriptures!\n\nBEGIN the Christian life in a humble and trusting way, as the child\nbegins with the alphabet at school. Don\u2019t look for marvels. Don\u2019t expect\nto see visions. Believe that the Spirit of Christ will come into your\nheart, and cause you to love God and delight in His will; not because\nyou may feel happy, but because you are definitely trusting Him to do\nwhat He has promised to do. If you will forsake your sins, He says He\nwill blot them out and give you His Holy Spirit. Believe the Word of the\nLord, because it is His word, and He cannot lie. He says He will help\nyou to bear your troubles. Trust Him and try Him. He says He will give\nyou strength for labor; courage for conflict; the power to resist\ntemptation, and grace sufficient for every day. Take Him at His word and\nyou will soon know for yourself how blessed it is to trust and obey.\n\n*1st. Receive Christ as a Saviour.*\n\nBUT as many as *received Him* (Christ), to *them gave* he *power* to\n*become* the *sons* of *God*, even to them that *believe on his name*.\n\n _John 1:12._\n\n*2nd. Confess Christ before men.*\n\nWHOSOEVER therefore shall *confess me before men*, him will I confess\nalso before my Father which is in heaven.\n\n _Matthew 10:32._\n\nIF thou shalt *confess with thy mouth* the Lord Jesus, and shalt\n*believe in thine heart* that God hath raised him from the dead, *thou\nshalt be saved*.\n\nFor with the *heart* man believeth unto righteousness; and with the\n*mouth* confession is made unto salvation.\n\n _Romans 10:9-10._\n\nThe \u201c*If*\u201d at the beginning of this last Scripture suggests *two*\nconditions.\n\n1st. To \"*confess*,\u201d that is, *make known* with your mouth the Lord\nJesus.\n\n2nd. To \u201c*believe*,\u201d that is, *really mean it* in your heart.\n\nIf you meet these conditions God\u2019s word says, \u201c*thou shalt be saved*\u201d.\nOur feelings are *not to be depended upon*.\n\n*3rd. OBEY Christ in the life*.\n\nHE *that hath my commandments, and keepeth them*, he it is that loveth\nme: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love\nhim, and *will manifest myself to him*.\n\n _John 14:21._\n\nThe first two steps you can take in a moment. The third step will\nrequire all your life to live it.\n\nAll who will decide to trust in Christ *now*, pray with me this prayer:\n\u201cLord Jesus I come to thee *just as I am*, and take thee at thy word;\nwash away all my sins, and give me thy Holy Spirit to help me to trust\nthee always, and do thy will in all things, for Jesus sake. Amen!\u201d\n\n\n\n Salvation.\n *Proofs that we are saved.*\n\n\nTHE Spirit itself *beareth witness with our spirit*, that we are the\nchildren of God.\n\n _Romans 8:16._\n\nAND this is the record, that God *hath given* to us *eternal life*, and\nthis life is in his Son.\n\n _I John 5:11._\n\nHE that *hath* the Son *hath life*; and he that hath not the Son of God\nhath not life.\n\n _I John 5:12._\n\nNOW he that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God, who also\nhath given unto us *the earnest of the Spirit*.\n\n _II Corinthians 5:5._\n\nWHO hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the *Spirit in our\nhearts*.\n\n _II Corinthians 1:22._\n\nAND grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby *ye are sealed* unto the\nday of redemption.\n\n _Ephesians 4:30._\n\nAND because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the *Spirit of his Son into\nyour hearts*, crying, Abba, Father.\n\n _Galatians 4:6._\n\nAND he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And\nhereby we know that he abideth in us, *by the Spirit which he hath given\nus*.\n\n _I John 3:24._\n\nNOT by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his\nmercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, *and renewing of the\nHoly Ghost*.\n\n _Titus 3:5._\n\nHEREBY know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, *because he hath\ngiven us of his Spirit*.\n\n _I John 4:13._\n\nIN whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the\ngospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were\nsealed *with that Holy Spirit of promise*.\n\n _Ephesians 1:13._\n\n\n\n Scriptures, The.\n *Given by inspiration.*\n\n\nMen who wrote the Bible, believed it to be the word of God.\n\nEzekiel, the Prophet, believed them.\n\nAND the *word of the Lord came unto me*, saying.\n\n _Ezekiel 12:21, 26._\n\nDavid, the Psalmist, believed them.\n\nNOW these be the last words of David. . . . The *Spirit of the Lord\nspake by me*, and his word was in my tongue.\n\n _II Samuel 23:1, 2._\n\nPaul, the Apostle, believed them.\n\n*ALL Scripture is given by inspiration of God*, and is profitable for\ndoctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;\n\n _II Timothy 3:16, 17._\n\nFOR this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye\n*received the word of God* which ye heard of us, ye received it *not as\nthe word of men*, but as it is in the truth, *the word of God*.\n\n _I Thessalonians 2:13._\n\nPeter, the disciple, believed them.\n\nKNOWING this first, that *no prophecy* of the Scripture is of any\n*private interpretation*. For the *prophecy came not* in old time *by\nthe will of man*: but holy men of God *spake as they were* moved by the\nHoly Ghost.\n\n _II Peter 1:20-21._\n\nJohn, the Beloved, believed them.\n\nHE that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is\ntrue. For *he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God*: for God\ngiveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.\n\n _John 3:33-34._\n\nJesus Christ, believed them.\n\nAND beginning at *Moses* and *all the prophets*, he expounded unto them\nin *all the scriptures* the things concerning himself.\n\n _Luke 24:27._\n\n\n\n Scriptures, The.\n *They supply every need.*\n\n\n*1st. They produce FAITH.*\n\nSO then *faith cometh* by hearing, *and hearing by the word of God*.\n\n _Romans 10:17._\n\n*2nd. They induce Spiritual GROWTH.*\n\nAS new born babes, *desire the sincere milk of the word*, that ye may\n*grow thereby*.\n\n _I Peter 2:2._\n\n*3rd. They BUILD us up.*\n\nAND now, brethren, I commend you to God, *and to the word of his grace*,\nwhich is *able to build you up*.\n\n _Acts 20:32._\n\n*4th. They DISCERN our hearts.*\n\nTHE word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged\nsword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of\nthe joints and marrow, and is *a discerner of the thoughts and intents\nof the heart*.\n\n _Hebrews 4:12._\n\n*5th. They keep us FROM SINNING.*\n\nTHY *word* have I *hid in mine heart, that I might not sin* against\nthee.\n\n _Psalms 119:11._\n\n*6th. They become one\u2019s WEAPON.*\n\nAND take the helmet of salvation, and the *sword* of the Spirit, *which\nis the word of God*.\n\n _Ephesians 6:17._\n\n*7th. They make our lives a SUCCESS.*\n\n*THIS book of the law shall not depart out of my mouth*; but thou *shalt\nmeditate therein day and night*, that thou mayest observe to do\naccording to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy\nways prosperous, and then shalt thou have *good success*.\n\n _Joshua 1:8._\n\nTHESE were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they *received\nthe word* with all readiness of mind, *and searched the scripture\ndaily*, whether those things were so.\n\n _Acts 17:11._\n\n\n\n Scriptures, The.\n *God\u2019s promises FOR YOU.*\n\n\nWHEREBY are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by\nthese ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the\ncorruption that is in the world through lust.\n\n _II Peter 1:4._\n\n*1st. His presence.*\n\nTEACHING them to *observe all things* whatsoever I have commanded you:\nand, *lo, I am with you always*, even unto the end of the world. Amen.\n\n _Matthew 28:20._\n\n*2nd. Guidance.*\n\nI WILL instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I\nwill *guide thee with mine eye*.\n\n _Psalms 32:8._\n\n*3rd. Divine Intercession.*\n\nWHO is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is\nrisen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also *maketh\nintercession for us*.\n\n _Romans 8:34._\n\n*4th. Grace to live.*\n\nAND God is *able to make all grace* abound toward you; that ye, always\nhaving all sufficiency in all things, may abound to *every good work*.\n\n _II Corinthians 9:8._\n\n*5th. Victory over temptation.*\n\nTHERE hath no temptation taken you but such as *is common to man*: but\nGod is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are\nable; but will *with the temptation also make a way to escape*, that ye\nmay be able to bear it.\n\n _I Corinthians 10:13._\n\n*6th. Forgiveness of sin.*\n\n*I WILL forgive their iniquity*, and I will *remember their sin no\nmore*.\n\n _Jeremiah 31:34._\n\n*7th. Answer to prayer.*\n\nTHEREFORE I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when *ye* pray,\n*believe that ye receive them*, and ye shall have them.\n\n _Mark 11:24._\n\n*8th. The Holy Spirit.*\n\nIF ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children:\nhow much more shall your *heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit* to them\nthat ask him?\n\n _Luke 11:13._\n\n*9th. Power for Service.*\n\nBUT ye shall receive *power*, after that the *Holy Ghost is come* upon\nyou: ye shall be witnesses unto me both in *Jerusalem*, and in all\n*Judaea* and in *Samaria*, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.\n\n _Acts 1:8._\n\n*10th. Divine wisdom.*\n\nIF any of you lack *wisdom, let him ask of God*, that giveth to all men\nliberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.\n\n _James 1:5._\n\n*11th. Divine strength.*\n\nFEAR thou not, for *I am with thee*; be not dismayed, for I am *thy God,\nI will strengthen* thee; *yea*, I will *help* thee; yea, I will uphold\nthee with the right hand of my righteousness. . . . For I the Lord thy\nGod will *hold thy right hand*, saying unto thee, *Fear not, I will help\nthee*.\n\n _Isaiah 41:10, 13_\n\n*12th. Divine Comfort.*\n\n*I WILL not leave you comfortless*: I will come to you.\n\n _John 14:18._\n\nWHEN thou *passest through the waters*, I will be *with thee*; and\nthrough the rivers, *they shall not overflow thee*: when thou walkest\nthrough the fire, thou *shalt not be burned*.\n\n _Isaiah 43:2_\n\n*13th. Divine teaching.*\n\nBUT the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in\nmy name, he shall *teach* you all things, and bring all things to your\nremembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.\n\n _John 14:26._\n\n*14th. Our Labor not Vain.*\n\nTHEREFORE, my beloved brethren, *be ye steadfast, unmovable*, always\nabounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor\nis not in vain in the Lord.\n\n _I Corinthians 15:58._\n\n*15th. Our work rewarded.*\n\nBE ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: *for your work\nshall be rewarded*.\n\n _II Chronicles 15:7._\n\n*16th. A Heavenly mansion.*\n\nLET not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.\nIn my Father\u2019s house *are many mansions*; if it were not so, I would\nhave told you. I go to *prepare a place for you*.\n\n _John 14:1-2._\n\n*17th. A glori\ufb01ed body.*\n\nFOR we know that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle (our physical\nbodies) were dissolved (dead), we have a building of God, a house not\nmade with hands (*the resurrection body*), eternal in the heavens.\n\n _II Corinthians 5:1._\n\n*18th. A Coming Lord.*\n\nSO Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that\nlook for him shall he *appear the second time* without sin unto\nsalvation.\n\n _Hebrews 9:28._\n\n*THIS same Jesus*, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall *so\ncome in like manner* as ye have seen him go into heaven.\n\n _Acts 1:11._\n\n\n\n Scriptures, The.\n *For the Jews.*\n\n\nGod is not done with the Jews:\n\nSAY, then, hath God cast away His people? *God forbid*.\n\n _Romans 11:1; Jeremiah 31:37._\n\n*Their land shall be restored:*\n\nAND they shall say, This land that was desolate *is become like the\ngarden of Eden*.\n\n _Ezekiel 36:35, 38; Isaiah 62:1-9; etc._\n\n*The people shall be restored:*\n\nAND I will *bring again the captivity of my people of Israel*, and they\nshall *build* the waste cities, and *inhabit* them; and they shall\n*plant* vineyards, and drink the wine of them; they shall also *make\ngardens* and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their\nland, and they shall *no more be pulled up out of their land* which I\nhave given them, saith Jehovah.\n\n _Amos 9:14, 15._\n\n*They shall be more blest than ever.*\n\nAND I will settle you after your old estates, and will *do better unto\nyou than at your beginnings*; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.\n\n _Ezekiel 36:11._\n\n*They shall be regenerated:*\n\nA *NEW heart* also will I give you, and a *new spirit* will I put within\nyou: and I will *take away the stony heart* out of your flesh, and I\nwill *give you a heart of flesh*.\n\n _Ezekiel 36:26._\n\n*These promises are unconditional:*\n\nTHEREFORE say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; I do\nnot this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but *for mine holy name\u2019s\nsake*, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.\n\n _Ezekiel 36:22,31,32._\n\nJews should be urged to read the entire New Testament, especially Mathew\nand Hebrews.\n\nRead: Zechariah 12:10; Daniel 9:26.\n\n \u2015\u2015\u2015\u2015\n\n _*Isaiah 53rd CHAPTER.*_\n\nWho hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord\nrevealed?\n\nFor he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of\na dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him,\nthere is no beauty that we should desire him. (Love him for his\nsacrifice.)\n\n*He is despised and rejected of men*; a man of sorrows, and acquainted\nwith grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; *he was despised,\nand we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs*, and carried\nour sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and\nafflicted.\n\n*But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our\niniquities*: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; *and with his\nstripes we are healed*.\n\nAll we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own\nway; *and the* Lord hath laid on him the *iniquity of us all*.\n\n*He was oppressed, and he was afflicted* yet no opened not his mouth: he\nis brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her\nshearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. (*Jesus Christ was surely\na man of, affliction.*)\n\nHe was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his\ngeneration? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: *for the\ntransgression of my people was he stricken*. (Christ bore our sins in\nHis body.)\n\nAnd he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death;\nbecause he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.\n(This is a beautiful picture of Christ.)\n\n*Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him*; he hath put him to grief; when\nthou shalt make *his soul an offering for sin*, he shall see his seed,\nhe shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in\nhis hand. (Christ the sin offering for the world.)\n\nHe shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his\nknowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; *for he shall bear\ntheir iniquities*. (That\u2019s what Christ did.)\n\n\n\n Scriptures, The.\n *Given to INSTRUCT the Church-member.*\n\n\nTHESE things have I written unto you that *believe upon* the *name* of\nthe *Son* of *God*; THAT YE MAY KNOW that ye have *eternal life*.\n\n _I John 5:13._\n\nThus the word of God assures us of salvation, and we may *know we are\nsaved* because God says so.\n\nSEARCH the *scriptures*; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and\nthey are they which testify of me.\n\n _John 5:39._\n\nNo matter where we open the Bible we may learn about the Saviour.\n\nFOR *whatsover* is BORN OF GOD overcometh the world: and this is the\nvictory that *overcometh* the *world*, even our faith.\n\n _I John 5:4._\n\nHe who has *God\u2019s life* in him, is the one who *has victory.*\n\nIF ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth\nrighteousness is BORN OF HIM.\n\n _I John 2:29._\n\nWHOSOEVER is *born* of God *doth not commit sin*; for his seed remaineth\nin him: and he can not sin, because he is born of God.\n\n _I John 3:9._\n\nThis means that the *new nature* \u201cHis seed\u201d *cannot sin*, though the old\nnature does.\n\nWE know that we have passed from death unto life, *because we love the\nbrethren*. He that loveth not his brother, abideth in death. Whosoever\nhateth his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath\neternal life abiding in him.\n\n _I John 3:14-15._\n\nThe fact that we find ourselves *loving God\u2019s people* and having\nfellowship with them, is one of the most simple proofs that we are born\nof God.\n\nSee pages 34 and 35 on *new birth*.\n\n\n\n Scriptures, The.\n *HOW TO READ them HELPFUL thoughts.*\n\n\n*1st.* Read it regularly. Have a certain time each day when you can read\nit without hurry.\n\n*2nd.* Read it prayerfully. God\u2019s book cannot rightly be apprehended\nwithout the aid of God\u2019s Spirit. \u201cOpen thou mine. eyes, that I may\nbehold wondrous things out of thy law.\"\n\n*3rd.* Read it studiously. When you come to something, you do not fully\nunderstand, stop and obtain light upon it from commentary, references,\nBible dictionary, etc.\n\n*4th.* Read it consecutively. Aim to read the Bible through from Genesis\nto Revelation in the course of a year, but do not hurry the reading in\norder to get through it in that time.\n\n*5th.* Read it sympathetically. Ask when, where, by whom, and for what\npurpose each book that you read was written. In that way get the\nstandpoint of the sacred writer, and put yourself in sympathy with him.\n\n*6th.* Read it, noting its perspectives, observe the dates of events, by\nthe aid of the Bible margin, and so keep them in your mind at their\nproper relative distances from each other; thus, Abraham, though he\nappears in Genesis 12, is halfway between Adam and Christ.\n\n*7th.* Read it topically. By the aid of a concordance and a Bible Text\nBook. See what it has to declare upon Faith, Love Justification, etc.\n\n*8th.* Read it in a spirit of obedience. Seek in it for direction. Make\nits precepts the rule of your life.\n\n*9th.* Read it in faith. Take it as God\u2019s word to yourself. Look upon\nits promises as your own\n\nTHIS book is the word of God showing the state of a man, the way of\nsalvation the doom of sinners, the happiness of believers.\n\nIts doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding, its histories are\nimmutable. Read it to be wise, believe it to be safe practice it to be\nholy, and live it to be happy.\n\nIt contains light to direct you food to support you, and comfort to\ncheer you.\n\nIt is the traveler\u2019s map, the pilgrim\u2019s staff, the pilot\u2019s compass, the\nsoldier\u2019s sword and the christian\u2019s charter.\n\n\n\n Scriptures, The.\n *Importance of Bible study.*\n\n\nHave a good print Bible, well bound of your own; keep it where you spend\nmost of your time and then search it.\n\n*SEARCH the Scriptures*; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and\nthey are they which *testify of me*.\n\n _John 5:39._\n\nTHESE were more noble than those in Thessalonica in that they received\nthe word with all readiness of mind, and *searched the scriptures daily,\nwhether those things were so*.\n\n _Acts 17:11_\n\nSet apart at least ten minutes (longer if possible) each day. Choose an\nhour for study when your mind is clearest. The writer finds the first\nthing in the morning, his best time. May the first four words in the\nBible be your motto, \u201cIn the beginning God.\u201d\n\nTHE Lord God has given me the *tongue* of the learned, *that I should\nknow how to speak a word in season to him that is weary*: he wakeneth\nmorning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.\n\n _Isaiah 50:4._\n\nAT that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of\nheaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and\nprudent, and *hast revealed them unto babes*.\n\n _Matthew 11:25._\n\nAND now, brethren, I commend you to *God*, and to the *word* of His\n*grace*, which is *able* to *build* you *up*, and to give you an\ninheritance among all them which are sanctified.\n\n _Acts 20:32_\n\nSTUDY to *shew thyself approved unto God*, a workman that needeth not to\nbe ashamed, *rightly dividing the word of truth*.\n\n _II Timothy 2:15_\n\n\n\n Scriptures, The.\n *How to study them.*\n\n\n*1st*. When you open your Bible never forget that *it is God\u2019s word*,\nnot man\u2019s word.\n\nFOR this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye\nreceive the word of God which ye heard of us, ye receive it *not as the\nword of men*, but as it is in truth, *the word of God*, which\neffectually worketh also in you that *believe*.\n\n _I Thessalonians 2:13._\n\nFOR the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man; but *holy men\nof God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost*.\n\n _II Peter 1:21._\n\n*2nd.* Read your Bible as if it were written for *you only*.\n\nFOR whatsoever things were written aforetime were written *for our\nlearning*, that *we through patience* and *comfort of the scriptures\nmight have hope*.\n\n _Romans 15:4._\n\nALL *scripture* is given *by inspiration of God*, and is profitable for\n*doctrine*, for *reproof*, for *correction*, for *instruction* in\nrighteousness.\n\n _II Timothy 3:16._\n\n*3rd*. Study with *prayer*, making the *psalmist\u2019s prayer* yours.\n\nOPEN thou *mine eyes*, that I may behold *wondrous things* out of *thy\nlaw*.\n\n _Psalms 119:18._\n\n*4th*. Study with *meditation* expecting help, comfort, blessing and\nsuccess in living for God.\n\nTHIS book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou *shalt\nmeditate therein day* and *night*, that thou mayest observe to do\naccording to all that is written therein: for then thou *shalt* make thy\nway *prosperous*, and then thou *shalt* have *good success*.\n\n _Joshua 1:8_\n\nOne of the most important things in eating is chewing. Don\u2019t let any one\nchew your spiritual food for you.\n\nTHY words were found, and *I did eat them*; and *thy word was unto me\nthe joy and rejoicing of mine heart*.\n\n _Jeremiah 15:16._\n\n*5th.* Study your Bible depending upon the Holy Spirit to teach you. You\nwill fail to learn if you do not.\n\nBUT the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in\nmy name, *He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your\nremembrance*, whatsoever, I have said unto you.\n\n _John 14:26._\n\nBUT when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the\nFather, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he\nshall testify of me.\n\n _John 15:26._\n\nNEVERTHELESS I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go\naway: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if\nI depart, I will send him unto you.\n\n _John 11:7_\n\n*6th.* And as you read *pray*: \u201cThou light of life shine into my heart,\nand reveal thyself to me now from thy word.\u201d\n\nStudy to know God\u2019s will and do it, Christ-like, holy in living and\nhumble in service.\n\nIF any man will do *His will*, he *shall know* of the *doctrine*, (R.V.\nTeaching) whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.\n\n _John 7:17_\n\nCleanse your life by the application of the word.\n\nWHEREWITHAL shall a young man *cleanse his way*? by taking heed thereto\naccording to *thy word*.\n\n _Psalms 119:9._\n\n\n\n Scriptures, The.\n *How to memorize?*\n\n\nIn preparing this book I trust that I have done something toward\nsupplying a long-felt need among the Christians who desire to be soul\nwinners.\n\nLooking at the great number of scripture references in this book it\nwould seem like asking something that was impossible to suggest the\nmemorizing of *all* these passages. Yet it is a comparatively easy task\nif undertaken in the right manner.\n\nIn memorizing:\n\n*1st.* Memorize the difficulty then locate the verses under that\ndifficulty and memorize the verses and where they are found. For example\nsay John 1:29 \u201cBehold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the\nworld\u201d instead of merely saying \u201cBehold the Lamb of God,\u201d etc., omitting\nto say John 1:29.\n\n*2nd.* Learn it. Don\u2019t get a faint, indefinite idea of it. *Take no\n\u201csnap shot\u201d but give it a \u201ctime exposure.\u201d* If you want to remember any\ntext in after years as well as at the present time, let it make a deep,\nclear, vivid impression on your mind.\n\n*3rd.* There are a great many \u201cmethods\u201d or \u201cschemes\u201d of memorizing\nadvanced in this day of ours, but the writer\u2019s opinion is that the best\nway of memorizing is to *get to work and do it*. If it is easily\nacquired by some easy method, you may depend on it that *it will be as\neasily lost*.\n\n*4th.* Read the verses over twenty times, close your Bible, see if you\ncan repeat it correctly, *then to be sure, read* it again. *I have made\na practice of writing out on paper* the passages to be memorized. *Once\nwriting the verse is worth a dozen repetitions of it by mouth*. In\nJoliet after talking on personal work one night a lady came to me and\nsaid \u201cHow did you memorize so many passages of scripture to meet the\ndifficulties?\u201d I said to her, \u201cDid you ever ride on the train?\u201d \u201cOh yes,\nhundreds of times.\" \u201cDid you notice the brakeman come in and call out\nthe station? How did he know it was the right station? He went over that\nroad every day, and that is what you and I have to do.\n\n*5th. Review, Review, Review.* That\u2019s the secret of memorizing. *Review*\nevery *day*. *Review* every *week*. *Review* every *year*. *Review,\nReview, Review*.\n\nHow many people you hear saying: \u201cI know the verse one day but forget it\nthe next.\u201d *Well you need to review, that\u2019s all*.\n\n*6th.* Use the passages of Scripture. Seek occasions for talking to\npersons who have difficulties. *Practice! Practice!! Practice!!!* That\u2019s\nwhat the *lawyer*, *preacher*, and *doctor* have to do, and that is what\nI had to do. Be \u201cseasonable\u201d or \u201cunseasonable,\u201d in season or out of\nseason, only *seek* your *opportunity* to *practice*.\n\n*7th.* Will you join the author in committing to memory the Gospel of\nSt. John in a year? Learn three verses a day and review constantly\nuntil a chapter is repeated at one time?\n\nThy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.\n\n _Psalms 119:11._\n\n\n\n Scriptures, The.\n *The word of God our TESTIMONY.*\n\n\n*THE WORD OF GOD IS YOUR TESTIMONY.*\n\nBE *ready* ALWAYS to *give* an *answer* to *every man* that *asketh* you\na *reason of the hope* that is in you with *meekness* and *fear*.\n\n _I Peter 3:15._\n\nWHOSOEVER therefore *shall confess me before men*, him will *I confess\nalso before my Father* which is in *heaven*.\n\n _Matthew 10:32._\n\nBUT *whosoever* shall *deny me before men* him will *I also deny before\nmy Father* which is in *heaven*.\n\n _Matthew 10:33._\n\n*IF thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus*, and shalt believe\nin thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be\nsaved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; *and with\nthe mouth confession is made* unto salvation.\n\n _Romans 10:9-10._\n\nDAVID prayed, \"*O Lord, open thou my lips*, and my *mouth* shall show\nforth thy praise.\"\n\n _Psalms 51:15._\n\nLive so that you can say with the Psalmist.\n\nI HAVE not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy\nfaithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness\nand thy truth from the great congregation.\n\n _Psalms 40:10._\n\nFOR I am *not* ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the *power* of\n*God* unto *salvation* to *every one that believeth*.\n\n _Romans 1:16._\n\nTHE law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his\nlips: He walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from\niniquity.\n\n _Malachi 2:6._\n\nRead: I John 5:15; II Timothy 2:12.\n\n\n\n Skeptic.\n *The HONEST enquirer, though skeptical.*\n\n\nIF you are an honest doubter, let me ask you to pray, \u201cO God, if there\nbe a God show me the truth and I will follow it.\" Read the book of John\nand walk in the light as fast as he reveals it to you, and if you do not\nunderstand everything at once, remember you do not understand many other\nthings you use and believe;\n\nBUT these (the writings of John\u2019s gospel) are written that ye might\n*believe* that *Jesus* is the *Christ*, the *Son* of *God*; and that\n*believing* ye might have *life* through *His name*.\n\n _John 20:31._\n\nIF any man *will do his will*, he shall *know* of *the doctrine*.\n\n _John 7:17._\n\nGod tells us that an unregenerated man cannot understand spiritual\nthings.\n\nBUT the *natural man* receiveth not the things of *the Spirit of God*:\nfor they are *foolishness unto him*: neither can he know them, because\nthey *are spiritually discerned*.\n\n _I Corinthians 2:14._\n\nThe blind man (Mark 8:24), saw \u201c*men as trees.\u201d walking* when Christ\nfirst gave him sight, but he used what sight he had and then Christ gave\nhim more.\n\nIf you use the light you have, the Spirit will give you more. Many have\nhad the same experiences through which Thomas the Apostle, passed; read\nit.\n\n*EXCEPT I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my\nfinger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I\nwill not believe*. And after eight days again his disciples were within,\nand Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the door being shut, and stood in\nthe midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach\nhither *thy finger*, and behold *my hands*; and reach hither thy hand,\nand thrust it *into my side*: and be not faithless, *but believing*. And\nThomas answered and said unto him, *My Lord and my God*.\n\n _John 20:25-28._\n\n\n\n Spiritualism Fortune Telling.\n *God WARNS against It.*\n\n\n*REGARD not* them that have *familiar spirits*, neither seek after\nwizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord thy God.\n\n _Leviticus 19:31_\n\nTHE soul that turneth after such as have *familiar spirits, and after\nwizards*, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against\nthat soul, and will cut him off from among his people.\n\n _Leviticus 20:6._\n\n*Beware of Spiritualism.*\n\nBELOVED, *believe not every spirit*, but try the spirits whether they\nare of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.\nHereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that\nJesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that\nconfesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and\nthis is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should\ncome: and even now already is in the world.\n\n _I John 4:1-3._\n\nEVEN him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and\n*signs and lying wonders*, And with all *deceivableness of\nunrighteousness* in them that perish; because they received not the love\nof the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall\nsend them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all\nmight be damned who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in\nunrighteousness.\n\n _II Thessalonians 2:9-12._\n\nTHERE shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his\ndaughter to pass through the fire, or that *useth divination or an\nobserver of times or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer or a\nconsulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer*.\n\n _Deuteronomy 18:10-11._\n\n\n\n Temperance.\n *God\u2019s WARNING against INTEMPERANCE.*\n\n\n*WOE unto them that rise up early in the morning*, that they may follow\nstrong drink, that continue until night, till *wine* inflame them.\n\n _Isaiah 5:11._\n\n*WOE unto them that are mighty to drink wine*, and men of strength to\nmingle strong drink.\n\n _Isaiah 5:22._\n\nWOE unto him that *giveth his neighbor drink*, that putteth the bottle\nto him, and maketh him drunken also.\n\n _Habakkuk 2:15._\n\nHEAR thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. *Be\nnot among winebibbers*; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard\nand the glutton shall *come to poverty*: and drowsiness shall clothe a\nman with rags. . . . Who hath *woe*? who hath *sorrow*? who hath\n*contentions*? who hath *babbling*? who hath *wounds* without cause? who\nhath *redness of eyes*? They that *tarry long at the wine*; they that go\nto seek mixed wine. *Look not thou upon the wine* when it is red, when\nit giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the\nlast it *biteth like a serpent*, and *stingeth like an adder*.\n\n _Proverbs 23:19-21, 29-32._\n\nWINE is a *mocker*, strong drink is *raging*: and whosoever is deceived\nthereby *is not wise*.\n\n _Proverbs 20:1._\n\nHE that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that *loveth wine* and\noil *shall not be rich*.\n\n _Proverbs 21:17._\n\nAND *be not drunk with wine*, wherein is excess; but be filled with the\nSpirit.\n\n _Ephesians 5:18._\n\nBUT Daniel *purposed in his heart* that he *would not defile himself*\nwith the portion of the king\u2019s meat, *nor with the wine which he drank*.\n\n _Daniel 1:8._\n\n\n\n Temptation.\n *How to gain the VICTORY.*\n\n\nWhen you are tempted remember that Christ has promised to deliver you.\n\nTHERE hath no *temptation taken you but such as is common to man*: but\nGod is *faithful*, who will *not suffer (you)* to be *tempted above*\nthat *ye are able*; but will WITH THE TEMPTATION ALSO MAKE A WAY OF\nESCAPE, that ye may be *able to bear it*.\n\n _I Corinthians 10:13._\n\nTHE Lord *knoweth* how to *deliver the Godly out of temptation*.\n\n _II Peter 2:9._\n\n*BLESSED* is the man that *endureth temptation*: for when he is tried, .\n. . he shall receive the crown of life. . . . Let no man say when he is\ntempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil,\nneither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is *drawn\naway of his own lust*, and enticed.\n\n _James 1:12-14._\n\nBE *strong* and of *good courage*; be not *afraid*, neither be thou\n*dismayed*: for the *Lord* thy *God* is with thee *whithersoever thou\ngoest*.\n\n _Joshua 1:9._\n\nFEAR thou not, for *I am with thee*: be not dismayed; for I am thy God:\n*I will strengthen thee*; yea *I will help thee*; yea, *I will uphold\nthee* with the right hand of my righteousness.\n\n _Isaiah 41:10._\n\nFOR we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling\nof our infirmities; but was *in all points tempted like as we are*, yet\nwithout sin. Let us *therefore* come boldly unto the throne of grace,\nthat we may obtain mercy, and *find grace to help in time of need*.\n\n _Hebrews 4:15-16._\n\n*WATCH and pray*, that ye enter not into temptation.\n\n _Matthew 26:41._\n\n*RESIST the devil, and he will flee from you*.\n\n _James 4:7._\n\nRead: Revelation 3:10; Romans 8:35-39.\n\n\n\n Unpardonable Sin.\n\n\nREMEMBER, as long as there are desires in your heart to do good, you\nhave not sinned away your day of Grace; for these desires are the result\nof the Holy Spirit doing his office work to bring you to God.\n\nALL that the Father giveth me shall come to me; *and him that cometh to\nme I will in no wise cast out*.\n\n _John 6:37._\n\nTHE Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count\nslackness; but is *longsuffering* to usward, *not willing that any\nshould perish, but that all* should come to repentance.\n\n _II Peter 3:9._\n\nWHEREFORE he is *able to save them to the uttermost* that come unto God\nby Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.\n\n _Hebrews 7:25._\n\nGod is willing to save all who will come to Him, no matter what feelings\nor conditions are.\n\nFOR *whosoever* shall call upon the *name* of the *Lord shall be saved*.\n\n _Romans 10:13._\n\nShow just what the unpardonable sin is?\n\nWHEREFORE I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be\nforgiven unto men: *but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost* shall not\nbe forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of\nman, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy\nGhost, *it shall not be forgiven him*, neither in this world, neither in\nthe world to come.\n\n _Matthew 12:31-32._\n\nVERILY I say unto you, all sing shall be forgiven unto the sons of men,\nand blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: But he that shall\nblaspheme against the *Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness*, but is in\ndanger of *eternal damnation*.\n\n _Mark 3:28-29._\n\n\n\n Unforgiveness.\n *For those who will not forgive.*\n\n\nDo not delay one moment, you must forgive them or God will not forgive\nyou.\n\nTHEREFORE if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest thy\nbrother *hath aught against thee*; Leave there thy gift before the\naltar, *and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother*, and then\ncome and offer thy gift.\n\n _Matthew 5:23, 24._\n\nHave you forgiven *all*?\n\nAND when ye stand praying, *forgive, if ye have ought against any*: that\nyour Father also which is in heaven may *forgive you your trespasses*.\n\n*BUT if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father* which is in heaven\n*forgive your trespasses*.\n\n _Mark 11:25, 26._\n\nAND be ye *kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another*,\neven as God for Christ\u2019s sake hath forgiven you.\n\n _Ephesians 4:32._\n\nFOR if ye *forgive men their trespasses*, your heavenly Father will also\nforgive you:\n\n*But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father\nforgive your trespasses*.\n\n _Matthew 6:14, 15._\n\nPUT on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of\nmercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, and longsuffering;\nForbearing one another, *and forgiving one another*, if any man have a\nquarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.\n\n _Colossians 3:12, 13._\n\nIf you refuse to forgive your neighbor, you make it impossible for God\nto forgive you.\n\nLET all *bitterness*, and *wrath*, and *anger*, and *clamour* and *evil\nspeaking, be put away* from you *with all malice*.\n\n _Ephesians 4:31._\n\n\n\n Worldly Amusements.\n *\"I see no HARM in them\"*\n\n\n*LOVE not the world*, neither the things that are in the world. *If any\nman love the world*, the love of the Father is not in him.\n\n _I John 2:15._\n\nWHEREFORE, if meat make my brother to offend, I will *eat no flesh*\nwhile the world standeth, *lest I make my brother to offend*.\n\n _I Corinthians 8:13_\n\nPaul was willing to give up meat for the sake of others. Can you not\ngive up something?\n\nAND whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all *in the name of the Lord\nJesus*, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.\n\n _Colossians 3:17._\n\nWHETHER therefore ye eat, or drink or whatsoever ye do, *do all to the\nglory of God*.\n\n _I Corinthians 10:31_\n\n*BE YE not unequally yoked together with unbelievers*.\n\n _II Corinthians 6:14._\n\n*NO man can serve two masters*: for either he will hate the one, and\nlove the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other,\n*Ye cannot serve God and mammon*.\n\n _Matthew 6:24._\n\nYE adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that *the friendship of the\nworld is enmity with God*.\n\n _James 4:4_\n\nWHEREFORE *come out* from among them, and *be ye separate*, saith the\nLord.\n\n _II Corinthians 6:17_\n\nNO man that warreth *entangleth himself with the affairs of this life*;\nthat he may *please him* who hath chosen him to be a soldier.\n\n _II Timothy 2:4_\n\nFOR ye are bought with a price: therefore *glorify God in your body*,\nand in your spirit, which are God\u2019s.\n\n _I Corinthians 6:20_\n\n*WALK in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes*: but\nknow thou, that *for all these things* God will *bring thee into\njudgment*.\n\n _Ecclesiastes 11:9_\n\nKNOW ye not that ye are *the temple of God*, and that the *Spirit of God\ndwelleth in you*? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God\ndestroy; for the *temple of God is holy, which temple ye are*.\n\n _I Corinthians 3:16, 17._\n\nDO you think that you could retain the Holy Spirit while on a Ball Room\nfloor? Would that not be defiling the temple of the Holy Spirit? Your\nbody is that temple.\n\nTHEY profess that they know God; *but in works they deny him*, being\nabominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.\n\n _Titus 1:16._\n\nWhen you are on a dance floor or sitting at the card table, are you\nconfessing Christ by your works? Could you invite Him to join you? Can\nyou ask a blessing on it.\n\nBE careful for nothing; *but in every thing by prayer and supplication*\nwith thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God.\n\n _Philippians 4:6._\n\nWHETHER therefore ye eat, or drink, *or whatsoever ye do, do all to the\nglory of God*.\n\n _I Corinthians 10:31._\n\nDo you dance and play cards for the glory of God?\n\n*BE ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers*: for what\nfellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion\nhath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial? or\nwhat part hath he that believeth with an infidel? *And what agreement\nhath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living\nGod*:\n\n _II Corinthians 6:14-16._\n\nSome say: \u201cAll my friends dance, and my pastor does not object to our\ndances.\u201d\n\nI must say with Paul:\n\nIF any man preach *any other gospel unto you* than that *ye* have\nreceived, *let him be accursed*.\n\n _Galatians 1:9._\n\n\n\n Young Converts.\n *What they should do.*\n\n\nBy doing these *four* things nobody can write backslider after your\nname.\n\n*1st. Every day say something To GOD.*\n\n*PRAY* without ceasing.\n\n _I Thessalonians 5:17._\n\nBE careful for nothing; but in *everything by prayer and supplication\nwith thanksgiving* let your *requests be made known unto God*.\n\n _Philippians 4:6._\n\nIF *ye abide in me*, and *my words abide* in *you*, ye *shall ask* what\nye will, and it *shall* be done unto you.\n\n _John 15:7._\n\nTHEREFORE I say unto you, *What things soever ye desire*, when ye pray,\nbelieve that ye receive them, and *ye shall have them*.\n\n _Mark 11:24._\n\nCALL *unto me, and I will answer thee*, and show ye great and mighty\nthings, which thou knowest not.\n\n _Jeremiah 33:3._\n\nCONFESS your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that *ye*\nmay be healed. The *effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man\navaileth much*.\n\n _James 5:16._\n\nNOW, when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his\nhouse; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, *he\nkneeled down upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave\nthanks* before his God, as he did aforetime.\n\n _Daniel 6:10._\n\nEVENING, and *morning*, and at *noon*, will I *pray*, and cry *aloud*:\nand He *shall hear my voice*.\n\n _Psalms 55:17._\n\nIF my people which are called by my name, *shall humble themselves*, and\npray, and *seek my face*, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I\nhear from heaven, and *will forgive their sin*, and will heal their\nland.\n\n _II Chronicles 7:14._\n\nNeglect praying, and you will backslide.\n\n*2nd. Everyday let God say something TO YOU.*\n\nSEARCH *the scriptures*; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and\nthey are they which testify of me.\n\n _John 5:39._\n\nTHY *words were* found, and *I did eat them*; and thy word was unto me\n*the joy and rejoicing of my heart*.\n\n _Jeremiah 15:16._\n\nSTUDY *to show thyself approved unto God, a workman* that needeth not to\nbe ashamed, RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH.\n\n _II Timothy 2:15._\n\nAS newborn babes, *desire the sincere milk of the word*, that ye may\ngrow thereby.\n\n _I Peter 2:2._\n\nTHY *word have I hid in mine heart*, that I might not sin against thee.\n\n _Psalms 119:11._\n\nAND take the helmet of salvation, and the SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, which is\nthe *word of God*.\n\n _Ephesians 6:17._\n\nTHY word is a *lamp* unto my *feet*, and a *light* unto my *path*.\n\n _Psalm 119:105._\n\nTHESE were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received\nthe word with all readiness of mind, and *searched the scriptures daily,\nwhether those things were so*.\n\n _Acts 17:11._\n\nSet apart at least ten minutes a day for your Bible and let God speak to\nyou.\n\nTHIS book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt\n*meditate therein day and night*, that thou mayest observe to do\naccording to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy\nway prosperous, and then thou *shalt have good success*.\n\n _Joshua 1:8._\n\n*3rd. Every day say something FOR GOD.*\n\nWHOSOEVER therefore shall *confess me before men*, him will *I confess\nalso before my Father* which is in heaven. But whosoever shall *deny me*\nbefore men him will *I also deny before my Father* which is in heaven.\n\n _Matthew 10:32-33._\n\nTHAT if thou shalt *confess with thy mouth* (not your influence) the\nLord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him\nfrom the dead, thou *shalt be saved*. For with the *heart man believeth*\nunto righteousness; and with the *mouth confession* is made unto\nsalvation.\n\n _Romans 10:9-10._\n\nLET your *light so shine before men* that they may *see your good\nworks*, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.\n\n _Matthew 5:16._\n\nYE are my *witnesses*, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have\nchosen.\n\n _Isaiah 43:10._\n\nWHOSOEVER therefore shall be *ashamed of me and my words*, in this\nadulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the *Son of man* be\nashamed.\n\n _Mark 8:38._\n\nWHOSOEVER shall *confess that Jesus is the Son of God*, God dwelleth in\nhim, and he in God.\n\n _I John 4:15._\n\nSING unto the Lord, bless his name; *shew forth* his salvation *from day\nto day*.\n\n _Psalms 96:2._\n\nRETURN *to thine house, and shew* how great things God hath done unto\nthee.\n\n _Luke 8:39._\n\nAND he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny\nhimself, and *take up his cross daily*, and follow me.\n\n _Luke 9:23._\n\n*4th. Every day do something FOR GOD.*\n\nTHEREFORE my beloved brethren, *be steadfast, unmovable, always\nabounding in the work* of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor\nis not in vain in the Lord.\n\n _I Corinthians 15:58._\n\nGO ye into *all the world* and preach the gospel to *every creature.*\n\n _Mark 16:15._\n\nAS we *have therefore opportunity, let us do good* unto all men.\n\n _Galatians 6:10._\n\nI MUST work the works of him that sent me, *while it is day*: the *night\ncometh*, when no man can work.\n\n _John 9:4._\n\nLET him know that he which converteth *the sinner* from the error of his\nway *shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins*.\n\n _James 5:20._\n\nAND they that be wise shall *shine as the brightness of the firmament*;\nand *they that turn many to righteousness* as the stars for ever and\never.\n\n _Daniel 12:3._\n\nAND whosoever shall *give to drink* unto one of these little ones *a cup\nof cold water* only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you,\n*he shall in no wise lose his reward*.\n\n _Matthew 10:42._\n\nIN as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my\nbrethren, *ye have done it unto me*.\n\n _Last clause. Matthew 25:40._\n\nAND *let us not be weary* in well doing: for in due season we shall\nreap, if we faint not.\n\n _Galatians 6:9._\n\nSAY not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold,\nI say unto you, *Lift up your eyes*, and look on the fields; for they\nare *white already to harvest*.\n\n _John 4:35._\n\nHEREIN is my Father glori\ufb01ed that *ye bear much fruit*.\n\n _John 15:8._\n\n\n\n\n GENERAL INDEX\n\n\nAge\u2014 (see \u201cI am too young\")\n\nAmusements\u2014(see \u201cWorldly Amusements\u201d)\n\nAnswers to prayer\n\nAssurance\u2014 How you may know you are saved\n\nBackslider\u2014 God\u2019s warning to\n\nBackslider\u2014 How he may return\n\nBaptism\u2014 It follows Salvation\n\nBaptism\u2014 Practiced by Christ and others\n\nBible\u2014 (see \u201cScriptures\u201d)\n\nBusiness\u2014 I will be hindered in making money\n\nCareless\u2014(see \u201cI am not concerned\u201d)\n\nCeremonies\u2014(Do not save) see \u201cBaptism\u201d\n\nChrist\u2014His Deity\n\nChristian living\u2014 Those trying to be Christians\n\nChristian living\u2014 Strength to hold out\n\nChristian living\u2014 How to grow in grace\n\nChristian living\u2014 Results of keeping close to Christ\n\nChristian living\u2014 Results following repentance and faith\n\nChristian Science\n\nChurch\u2014 Must I join to be a Christian?\n\nCompanionship\u2014 (see \u201cMy companions keep me from Christ\u201d)\n\nConfession\u2014 Confessing Christ publicly\n\nConsecration\n\nConversion\u2014 (instantaneous)\n\nConverts\u2014 (see Young Converts)\n\nDaily Living\n\nDaily Prayer\n\nDecision\u2014(see \u201cNot now\u201d)\n\nDeity of Christ\n\nDelay\u2014(see \u201cNot now\u201d)\n\nDoubter\u2014The honest\n\nDoubter\u2014The honest (also)\n\nEverlasting Life\n\nExcuses\u2014 I am a member of the church\n\nExcuses\u2014 I am good enough\n\nExcuses\u2014 I am not very bad\n\nExcuses\u2014 I am not good enough\n\nExcuses\u2014 I am too great a sinner\n\nExcuses\u2014 Not now\n\nExcuses\u2014 There are Church members no better than I\n\nExcuses\u2014 My companions keep me from Christ\n\nExcuses\u2014 I cannot give up my evil ways\n\nExcuses\u2014 There is too much to give up\n\nExcuses\u2014 I can not surrender all\n\nExcuses\u2014 The Christian life is too hard\n\nExcuses\u2014 I have tried and failed\n\nExcuses\u2014 I can\u2019t hold out\n\nExcuses\u2014 I have no feeling\n\nExcuses\u2014 I am not concerned\n\nExcuses\u2014 The Indifferent\n\nExcuses\u2014 Those who know not the way\n\nExcuses\u2014 I don\u2019t know what or how to believe\n\nExcuses\u2014 I can\u2019t understand\n\nExcuses\u2014 I can\u2019t see\n\nExcuses\u2014 My heart is too hard\n\nExcuses\u2014 I am too young\n\nExcuses\u2014 I believe everyone will be saved\n\nExcuses\u2014 It is too late\n\nExcuses\u2014 Don\u2019t talk to me\n\nFaith\u2014Necessary to salvation\n\nFeeling\u2014(see \u201cI have no feeling\u201d)\n\nForgiveness\u2014(see \u201cUnforgiveness\u201d)\n\nFormalist\n\nFortune-Telling\u2014(see \u201cSpiritualism\u201d)\n\nFriendship\n\nGiving (systematically)\n\nGod\u2014(see \u201cDoubter\u201d)\n\nGrowth\n\nHabits\n\nHell\u2014 A real place\n\nHell\u2014 \u201cGod is unjust to damn\u201d\n\nHell\u2014 Condition of the lost\n\nHoliness\n\nHoly Spirit\n\nHypocrites\n\nInconsistency\u2014(see \u201cHypocrites\u201d)\n\nIndifferent\u2014The\n\nIntemperance\n\nJews\u2014Scriptures for them\n\nJoining the church\n\nLove\u2014For your neighbor\n\nMoralist\u2014 Trusts in self-righteousness\n\nMoralist\u2014 Who trusts in good works\n\nNeglecting\u2014 (see I am not concerned)\n\nPersecution\u2014(see \u201cRidicule\u201d)\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 Its great importance\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 Qualifications needed\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 The soul-winner\u2019s prayer\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 Help in cottage meetings\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 Use of the \u201cPrayer list\u201d card\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 Three helpful hints\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 Hints and suggestions\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 Suggestive scriptures\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 Fruit promised\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 Fruit-bearer\u2019s chapter\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 For those Who are weak\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 A word to the careless\n\nPower\u2014 God\u2019s Keeping\n\nPower\u2014 God\u2019s Keeping (also)\n\nPrayer\u2014 Heard and answered\n\nPrayer\u2014 Victory through\u2019 prayer\n\nPrayer\u2014 Regular seasons for prayer\n\nPrayer\u2014 Conditions in answer to prayer\n\nPrayer-meetings\u2014(Preparation for)\n\nPromises\n\nRegeneration\u2014 The new birth\n\nRegeneration\u2014 (Results of)\n\nRejection\n\nRepentance\n\nRevival\u2014 How to make it a success\n\nRevival\u2014 What to bring to it\n\nRules for daily living\n\nRules for daily prayer\n\nRules for daily prayer (also)\n\nSabbath and Sunday\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 Given by inspiration\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 They supply every need\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 God\u2019s promises for you\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 For the Jews\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 For Church members\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 How to read them\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 Importance of Bible study\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 How to study them\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 How to memorize\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 Our Testimony\n\nSelf-denial\n\nService\n\nSoul-Winning\n\nSpiritualism\n\nStrength to hold out\n\nStrength to hold out (also)\n\nSuggestions\u2014(see \"Converts\")\n\nTrying to be a Christian\n\nTemperance\n\nTemptation\n\nTestimony\n\nTestimony (also)\n\nUnbelief, Lost through\n\nUnforgiveness\u2014For those who will not forgive\n\nUnpardonable Sin\n\nWork\u2014(see \u201cPersonal Work\")\n\nWorkers\u2014Hints\n\nWorldly Amusements\n\nYoung Coverts\n\n\n\n\n INDEX FOR CHRISTIANS\n\n\nAmusements\u2014(see \u201cWorldly Amusements\u201d)\n\nAnswers to prayer\n\nAssurance\u2014How you may know you are saved\n\nChristian Living\u2014 Those who are trying to be Christians\n\nChristian Living\u2014 Strength to hold out\n\nChristian Living\u2014 How to grow in grace\n\nChristian Living\u2014 Results of keeping close to Christ\n\nChristian Living\u2014 Results following repentance and faith\n\nChristian Science\n\nConfession\u2014 Confessing Christ publically.\n\nConsecration\n\nConverts\n\nDaily Living\n\nDaily Living (also)\n\nDaily Prayer\n\nForgiveness\u2014(see \u201cUnforgiveness\u201d)\n\nFortune-Telling\u2014(see \u201cSpiritualism\u201d)\n\nGiving\u2014(systematically)\n\nGod\u2014(see \u201cDoubter\u201d)\n\nGrowth\n\nHoliness\n\nHoly Spirit\n\nHypocrites\n\nInconsistency\u2014(see Hypocrites\u201d)\n\nIndifferent\n\nIntemperance\n\nJews\u2014 Scriptures for them\n\nJoining the Church\n\nLove\u2014For your neighbor\n\nPersecution\u2014(see \u201cRidicule\")\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 Its great importance\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 Qualifications needed\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 The soul-winner\u2019s prayer\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 Help in cottage meetings\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 Use of the \u201cPrayer-list\u201d card\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 Three helpful hints\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 Hints and suggestions\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 Suggestive scriptures\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 Fruit promised\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 Fruit-bearer\u2019s chapter\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 For those who are weak\n\nPersonal Work\u2014 A word to the careless\n\nPleasures\u2014For those hindered by them\n\nPower\u2014God\u2019s Keeping\n\nPower\u2014God\u2019s Keeping (also)\n\nPrayer\u2014 Heard and answered\n\nPrayer\u2014 Victory through.\u2019 prayer\n\nPrayer\u2014 Regular seasons for prayer\n\nConditions in answer to prayer\n\nPrayer-meetings\u2014preparation for\n\nPromises\n\nRegeneration\u2014 The new birth\n\nRegeneration\u2014 Results of\n\nRejection\n\nRepentance\n\nRevival\u2014 How to make it a success\n\nRevival\u2014 What to bring to it\n\nRidicule and Persecution\n\nRules for daily living\n\nRules for daily prayer\n\nRules for daily prayer (also)\n\nSabbath and Sunday\n\nSalvation\u2014 To whom offered\n\nSalvation\u2014 Offered to the most sinful\n\nSalvation\u2014 Saved alone by faith\n\nSalvation\u2014 What must I do to be saved\n\nSalvation\u2014 Proof we are saved\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 Given by inspiration\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 They supply every need\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 God\u2019s promises for you.\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 For the Jews\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 For Church members\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 How to read them\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 Importance of Bible study\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 How to study them\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 How to memorize\n\nScriptures, The\u2014 Our Testimony\n\nSelf-denial\n\nSelf-righteousness\n\nService\n\nSin\u2014 (\u201cI am not very bad\u201d)\n\nSin\u2014 (\u201cI am too bad\u201d)\n\nSin\u2014 (\u201cI am too bad\u201d) (also)\n\nSin\u2014 Unpardonable\n\nSkeptic\n\nSoul-winning\n\nSpritualism\n\nStrength to hold out\n\nStrength to hold out (also)\n\nStrength to hold out (as well)\n\nSuggestions\u2014(see \u201cConverts\")\n\nSurrender\n\nTrying to be a Christian\n\nTemperance\n\nTemptation\n\nTestimony\n\nTestimony (also)\n\nUnbelief, Lost through\n\nUnforgiveness\u2014For those Who will not forgive\n\nUnpardonable Sin\n\nWork\u2014(see \u201cPersonal Work\u201d)\n\nWorkers\u2014Hints\n\nWorldly Amusements\n\nYoung Converts\n\n\n\n\n INDEX FOR THE UNSAVED\n\n\nAge\u2014 (see \u201cI am too young\")\n\nBackslider\u2014 God\u2019s warning to\n\nBackslider\u2014 How he may return to God\n\nBaptism\u2014 Follows Salvation\n\nBaptism\u2014 Practiced by Christ and others\n\nBible\u2014 (see Scriptures)\n\nBusiness\u2014I will be hindered in making money\n\nCareless\u2014(see, I am not concerned)\n\nCeremonies\u2014(Do not save)\u2014see Baptism\n\nChrist\u2014His Deity\n\nChurch\u2014Must I join to be a Christian?\n\nCompanionship\u2014(see \u201cMy companions keep me from Christ\u201d)\n\nConversion (instantaneous)\n\nDecision\u2014(see \u201cNot now\u201d)\n\nDeity of Christ\n\nDelay\u2014(see \u201cNot now\u201d)\n\nDoubter\n\nDoubter (also)\n\nEverlasting Life\n\nExcuses\u2014 I am a member of the church\n\nExcuses\u2014 I am good enough\n\nExcuses\u2014 I am not very bad\n\nExcuses\u2014 I am not good enough\n\nExcuses\u2014 I am too great a sinner\n\nExcuses\u2014 Not now\n\nExcuses\u2014 There are Church members no better than I\n\nExcuses\u2014 My companions keep me from Christ\n\nExcuses\u2014 I cannot give up my evil ways\n\nExcuses\u2014 There is too much to give up\n\nExcuses\u2014 I cannot surrender all\n\nExcuses\u2014 The Christian life is too hard\n\nExcuses\u2014 I have tried and failed\n\nExcuses\u2014 I can\u2019t hold out\n\nExcuses\u2014 I have no feeling\n\nExcuses\u2014 I am not concerned\n\nExcuses\u2014 The Indifferent\n\nExcuses\u2014 Those Who know not the way\n\nExcuses\u2014 I don\u2019t know what or how to believe\n\nExcuses\u2014 I can\u2019t understand\n\nExcuses\u2014 I can\u2019t see\n\nExcuses\u2014 My heart is too hard\n\nExcuses\u2014 I am too young\n\nExcuses\u2014 I believe everyone will be saved\n\nExcuses\u2014 It is too late\n\nExcuses\u2014 Don\u2019t talk to me\n\nFaith\u2014 Necessary to salvation\n\nFeeling\u2014 (see \u201cI have no feeling\u201d)\n\nForgiveness\n\nFormalist\n\nFriendship\n\nGod\u2014 (see \"Doubter\")\n\nHabits\n\nHell\u2014 A real place\n\nHell\u2014 \u201cGod is unjust to damn\u201d\n\nHell\u2014 Condition of the lost\n\nHypocrites\n\nInconsistency\u2014(see Hypocrites)\n\nIndifferent, The\n\nMoralist\u2014Who trusts in self-righteousness\n\nMoralist\u2014Who trusts in good works\n\nNeglecting\u2014(see \u201cI am not concerned\u201d)\n\nPersecution\u2014(see \u201cRidicule\u201d)\n\nPleasures\u2014For those hindered by them\n\nRejection\n\nRepentance\n\nRidicule and Persecution\n\nSalvation\u2014 To Whom offered\n\nSalvation\u2014 Offered to the most sinful\n\nSalvation\u2014 Saved alone by faith\n\nSalvation\u2014 What must I do to be saved\n\nSalvation\u2014 Proof We are saved\n\nSelf-righteousness\n\nSin\u2014 (\u201cI am not very bad\u201d)\n\nSin\u2014 (\u201cI am too bad\u201d)\n\nSin\u2014 (\u201cI am too bad\u201d) (also)\n\nSin\u2014 Unpardonable\n\nSkeptic\n\nStrength to hold out\n\nStrength to hold out (also)\n\nSurrender\n\nTrying to be a Christian\n\nUnbelief, Lost through\n\nUnforgiveness\u2014 For those who will not forgive\n\nUnpardonable Sin\n\nWorldly Amusements\n\n\n\n\n Songs:\n\n\n\n\n The Bible Railway.\n\n\n\n\n Consecration.\n\n\n\n\n A Man May Be Down But He Never is Out.\n\n\n\n\n Transcriber\u2019s Note\n\n\n - Bible verse abbreviations have been changed to full book names for\n consistancy.\n - Corrected bible verse reference errors which did not match quoted\n verse.\n - Minor typographical errors have been silently corrected.","title":"Rescue the Perishing: Personal Work Made Easy","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":37520}