SIMULTANEOUS MISSION

Northern Advocate, 8 June 1936, Page 2

SIMULTANEOUS MISSION

BAPTIST CHURCH On Saturday evening Mr J. O. Sanders gave an inspiririg lantern lecture on the life of D. L. Moody, the great evangelist, to a full church. Many gained a fresh vision of the possibilities of life frorri the story of the life of one of the greatest men of the last century. On Sunday Mr Sanders again preached to a crowded corigregatiori on the subject, “What is God like?” The text chosen was John 3: 16, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Sori that whosoever oelieveth in Hirn should riot perish, but have everlasting life.” Nature could not answer the question. . Philosophy could orily define God as the unknowable and unapproachable first cause. Science could demonstrate His existence, but, could not define His character. How then could we know God? The answer was, “The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath told Hirri forth.” To know what God was like, we needed only to look at Christ —weeping at the grave of Lazarus, playing with little children, forgiving the woman taken in sin, praying, when hanging on the Cross, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” That was what God was like— He was a loving God. His love was broad enough to embrace the world; it went to the length of giving His only Son to die for the sins of each individual in the world; it reached to the depths of degradation and would save the vilest sinner, and would raise him to the heights of God’s own throne. Then the text showed that God was an angry God—angry with sin. That love and anger could co-exist in God could be illustrated by a loving parent who was i at the same time angry with his child j because of his wrong-doing. God was angry with the wicked every day. It was not the love of God, but the blood of Christ which rnade atonement for the soul. If God could have overlooked sin. He could have spared His Son. He had done all He could to prevent men from perishing. It was their 6wn fault now if they perished.