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| ??MM .Ill I II THE PULPIT. A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. A. H. C. MORSE. Subject: Powerful Promises. Brooklyn. N. 1'.?Sunday morning, in Strong Place Baptist Cliureh. the pastor. the Rev. A. H. C. Morse, had as his subject. "Powerful Promises." The text was from II Peter i:4: "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these we might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption which is in the world through lust." Mr. Morse said: At any rate the Bible is frank. It says the plainest things about man's sin. But it also holds before him a wonderful hope. To-day he is mired in corruption. To-morrow he may have escaped from this and become like God. The whole gospel is found in LK~\\ viu.?. We have here a statement of the fact of sin and its origin. The fact is "corruption"' and the origin "through hist." 1 know that there are worldly-wise men who sneer at the third chapter of Genesis. But this I have noticed, that they are uniformly unable to give us a simpler solution of the mystery of evil. Somewhere and at some time the race must have sinued. The stream of life has been poisoned, and this must have taken place at its fountain liead. for we cannot find any divisions which do Dot have the entire characteristics of the whole. The Bible says the event took place in the first man, before a single son was born, and he lusted after something which was forbidden to him, and that by his disobedience he fell from a primal innocency. and lurched the race, and entailed a condition of corruption. And that we have aggravated this calamity by repeating sin and deepening the ruin. But I am not so much concerned today about the origin of the condition. We can leave that with a single word. But there are certain facts that cannot be brushed aside. A man may ques/ tion the story as it is written in Scripture. but he cannot deny it. for it does not come wifllin the region of denial. Neither can lie deny the story as it is reproduced in life to-day. Have'you never plucked forbidden fruit? Have you never lusted for pleasure which has been distinctly forbidden? And'as a consequence of transgression, have you never experienced a repulsive sickness and an intolerable loathing, so that you have known wlnu is the meaning of this phrase, "the corruption which is in the world through Inst?" Do you not know anything at ail of the lashings of remorse? Let me ask you another question. How does it happen that the* heart is so constantly "running down?" Why must it be repeatedly wound up and fastened with ratchets? Why do we have to inaice and renew resolves, and lash the will to the "sticking piace?" Why is it that a man never backslides into holiness: Why cannot we take off the brakes and find ourselves gliding into the highest moral living? Everything. we are told, tends to move in the line of least resistance. Do wo find that we are drifting toward charity and holiness and benevolence and virtue? Nay. but to all of us these graces are the fruit of serious toil. They are magnificent possessions, more precious than gold and sparkling gems, but they are gotten only by struggle and privation' and self-denial. And that word "self-denial" contains a fossil history of primal sin. It tells us of an evil self that must be constantly denied, because its desires are wrong. But whence this evil self, and whence these wrong desires? But let us come a little closer to this subject. Let me hint at the things that we cannot spread before the public, our secret thoughts and faults which are hidden. The thoughts that creep into the heart and nestle there. Can you tell me whence they come? Tell me. for instance, whence ccu-ne the envy and jealousy and malice and evii desire, and the lust for go'd that makes <1 A 4*AW K1AA/1 iuc unci t aiiu uiu inii IUI IJIVUU ;which crimsons the Laud of murder? Do you not think these things arise in human life as malaria and pestilence from a death-dealing bog? Do they not bespeak what this Scripture calls a "corruption which is in the world through lust?" I suppose that the an- j gels before the throne ef Clod would shirk from having their thoughts proclaimed with the trumpet of Gabriel. I know that Jesus has torn open His heart and flung out a challenge which no man can accept. "Which of you convineeth Me of sin?" said He. But we cannot do that. We hide our thoughts and cover our faults with a crimson blush, and walk among our nearest friends with a coward's step. But what has befallen man? If God made him innocent?and nobody questions this?something must have happened to corrupt his,thoughts and make them so black that he stands iu dread of the day for which all other days were made, when this hidden history shall be revealed. There is something pathetic in man's attempts to assert his worth. We speak, for instance, of the "Majesty of conscience" ar.d the "Dignity of human nature," and of the "Fatherhood of Gcd," and the "Brotherhood of . man" as if these terms were true and meaningful. Take the first of these and see what comfort there is in it. "The majesty of conscience!" But do you not know tliat*conscicnce almost always speaks in judgment? It seems to have lost its authority to command if it over possessed that authority. It cannot insist upon obedience, but can only., raise its vorce in remonstrance. It can be easily overruled, and voted down, and then it can only record a minority vote, and lapse into silence. fhorc* id innvA in fliic jlsui j ^ uiv/ic in cv-iijnui t than a statement of the fact of sin. Here nre also "these great and precious promises whereby we may bocome partakers of the divine nature." That is. men may become as Clod. And the warrant for this promise is found In the fact of correspondence between the divine and the human. The natural man cannot discern spiritual things, and it is no use to talk to him about thein. for there is no correspond-, ence. no basis of affinity, no ground of fellowship. But man was made in the image of <iod. and it was possible for Hod to take upon Himself man's nature; and it is within the po.ver of every man. by the grace of Hod. to take on also the divine nature, to be made like (Jod. That is what is said in the word be t I fore us. And this is done by a single act. Man fell, wo are told, by reaching after the divine attributes. "Ye shall be as God" was the lying promise of the tempter, and by listening to that we were cast to the level of beasts. But now God returns to us with the promise that after all we shall be as Himself, sharers in His nature and conformed to His image. It seems strange to you that for a single sin so serious consequences should be entailed. This could only be because the stream was poisoned at its sonrce, and the race sinned in, its first man. But here is something which is quite as great. The Lord God is making to Himself a new creation. He has begun it in one new Man. who kept His j life without spot or blemish. Ana in His life and federal headship we share by a single act of faith. The consequences of faith are quite as great as the consequences of disobedience. "He j that believeth on Him hath everlasting life." And that does not mean that his life is prolonged in endless time, j but that it is endowed with an immortal nature. It is received the instant he believes, as by a new birth, and has passed from death unto life. He hath been already delivered from the bondage and corruption of the kingdom of darkness and has been colonized in the kingdom of His Son. He is born of God. a son of the Most High, a citizen of heaven. A single sin has stained the race. We laid hold on death and spite of tears and cries and struggle, we have not been able to loose the hand. One single act of faith takes hold on eternal lifo, and in spite of sins and falls and failure that prize can never be wrested from our grasp. And this is all by faith. Men have said to me that the scheme or saivauon is arunrarv. xi x& ??mt they say, to shut the world up to faith. But. ray friend, do you not know that this entire universe is arbitrary? There is nothing more arbitrary than the laws of mathematics, or of health or of gravitation. It is not strange that every son of Adam is shut up to the multiplication table? Is it not strange that if a man wants to compute numbers in China he must use the identical system that we use? That three and two make five there as they do here? No, there is but one law for light or heat or electricity or numbers, or gravitation in all the earth. And there is but one way of salvation for all the earth. Here it is said "through these promises," which only means that a man believes in Christ. A promise is nothing except for the value of the person who makes it. Some men may make their promises, and no man gives them heed. But if one promises whose character you know, then you count on them as ycu count upon the shining of the sun. We hear a good deal in these'days about education into the kingdom of God. about the natural development of righteousness. But development is only unfolding, and that the race has been doing in all the centuries, and each age surpasses the last in the j enormity of sin. Education is drawing out, but'how can you draw holiness from a heart that is "deceitful above all things and desperately wicked?" Education can never do the work. It is like putting a new handle on the nn/l lnnritlfr ttlD Art'r in tVlf* Tfpll. ?1 LMUJJ (1 LIU l\.lt I i llg, kUV. uup ... ..... .. You may wonder at the fancy of bringing in a new and supernatural life by belief in precious promises. But all questions are answered by the experiences of history. Great men have been regenerated by single words of Scripture. This was true of Augustine and Luther and Spurgcon and scores of others whom time fails me to mention. They were not only new men, but mighty sons of God. Wonderful was this? As great as the wonder of all forms of life. Look into the acorn and tear its halves apart, and tell me if you can see therein the stalwart oak. Analyze the seed of wheat and tell me if you can see therein the waving fields of grain. "Well," said Jesus, "the words which I speak unto you they are spirit and ihey are life." You cannot see the spirit, you cannot see the life, but can you say they are not there? I i hold.tip to you these great and precious promises, and there are saints and missionaries and noble lives and giant charities and mighty revolutions there. There are' heaven and an eternal weight of glory wrapped up in that. And our growth in grace and the likeness of God is not a process of mending and improvement. But it is a new creation by which we become iike God. And now 1 have finished. I know I have borne down hard on sin. I wish I did not have to do so. I wish with you that the word were not in the language because it was not in the heart. If one of those phantom friends of the astronomers should come to this earth and say to me "I understand this is a beautiful place, but for one thing. I understand it is filled with sin and rebellion against the rule of God." I wish I could shy to him, "My friend, yon have been .misinformed. There is' no sin." But I tell you frankly. I could not say that to him. I would have to say to him: "Alas' 'tis true, 'tis pity, and pity 'tis, 'tis true." But I could also say to him that sin cannot hold us in its cruel grasp. I would poiut him yonder, and say, "Do you see that golden splendor? That is the gospel of .Tesus. It is filled with sweetness, and* by that we are restored and have hocorae partakers of the divine nature.'" And isn't that more than the fact of sin? God's Way, God's promises are ever on the ascending scale. One leads up to another fuller and more blessed than itself. In Mesopotamia God said: "I will show thee the land.'' In Canaan: "I will give thee all the laud, and children innumerable as the grains of saifd." Ir is thus that God allures us to saintliness. Not giving us anything till we have dared to act. that He may test us. 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