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"The pride of thine heart
hath deceived thee,..."
(Obadiah 1:3). Some of you
here know too much to be
saved, pride has deceived you.
Others of you don't know
enough to be saved. A man
told me over 20 years ago: "I'm
getting this truth from you,
another from So and So, and
another from So and So, and
then after a while I feel I'll be
saved." His heart was
deceived 20 years ago and
lost, and today he is more
deceived. Hear the Word, if
you can; "...he (Christ) calleth
his own sheep by name,...and
the sheep follow him... And a
stranger will they not fol
low..." (John 10: 3,4,5). When
the Lord gives a sinner the
Effectual Call, the sinner will
not follow an unsaved reli
gious leader. Note especially
that my Lord said: "A
STRANGER WILL THEY
NOT FOLLOW." The reason
you run here and there listen
ing to strangers is because
you have not heard the
Effectual Call. When God
awakens you by this effectual
calling, you are obligated to
put yourself under the teach
ing of the truth! Before you
are saved you must come out
of the religious world. You will
not listen to the hirelings,
including those on WHVN. If
you were awakened you would
know they are hirelings. Some
of you here I will not be able
to help, you think you know
more about how God saves a
sinner than I do. But all the
while you have never known
the deceitfulness of your
wicked heart. I wept much
here over the last year or so as
I saw Satan circling a heart,
planting doubts and questions
in that heart and puffing
them up in pride. When the
Holy Spirit awakens a sinner,
that sinner has a broken spir
it, a teachable spirit. Some
here I cannot teach. When the
Holy Spirit awakened me to
my lost condition, I couldn't
call God's servant a liar
because the Holy Spirit
showed me that man was
teaching the truth. After God
saved me, I saw how ignorant
I was and felt I knew nothing.
I was so helpless and I had to
depend on the Lord for every
spiritual step I made. I can’t
describe how helpless and
nothing I felt myself to be. I
find just the opposite in some
here who profess to be saved,
you know everything. But I
detect in your testimony that
you don't know what it means
to be a completely lost sinner
with all hope gone. (Luke
19:10). Some profess to have
been saved under my late
pastor, but you have never
told me how you were awak
ened to your lost condition.
And you never say how his
message bless your heart. And
you almost never mention his
name to me, and there is not a
special love in your heart for
him that I find in the heart of
others who give outward evi
dence of knowing Christ. As I
said, all I can go by is the out
ward evidence.
Church news...
Continued from page 13A
•Salem Baptist
5318 Salem Church Road
The 15th anniversary and
appreciation celebration for
the Rev. Anthony Jinwright
will be Feb. 11-18. Each night
will feature guests ministers:
the Rev. John McCullough Jr.
of Friendship Baptist Church
in Gastonia; the Rev. James
Logan of South Tryon Church;
the Rev. Benjamin Hinton of
Tabernacle Baptist Church in
Gastonia; the Rev. Cardes H.
Brown Jr. of New Light
Baptist Church in Greensboro;
the Rev. Billy Wilson of Boyd
Hill Baptist Church in Rock
Hill and more.
The Rev. Henry J. Lyons,
president of the National
Baptist Convention, USA Inc.,
will be the banquet speaker 6
p.m. Feb. 18 at the Radisson
Plaza Hotel, Two
NationsBank Plaza. Donation
is $30.
The Rev. Anthony L.
Jinwright is pastor. For more
information contact Walter
Holtzclaw at 355-4117.
•Second Calvary Baptist
114 Nelson Ave.
Lemar Foster Jr. has been
called to minister God's word.
He will preach his first ser
mon 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
• • •
The Rev. Lemar Foster Sr.,
pastor of New Hope Baptist
Church in California, will be
the guest speaker 11 a.m.
Sunday.
The Rev. Steve L. Carlton
Sr. is pastor. For more infor
mation, call 399-0378.
Shiloh Institutional
Baptist
2400 Greenland Ave.
Shiloh Institutional Baptist
will celebrate the fifth
anniversary of pastor Rev.
Clinton Ceasar Sr. through
Sunday.
Closing services are at 5
p.m. Guest speaker is Pastor
Marion Newton, Jehovah
Missionary Baptist Church,
Sumter, S.C.
•Solid Rock Missionary
Baptist
125 Wadsworth St.
The church family will cele
brate its first church anniver
sary Sunday through Feb. 4.
The Rev. George Cook of
Greater Mt. Sinai Baptist
Church will be the guest
speaker 4 p.m. Sunday. The
revival portion will be 7 p.m.
Monday through Feb. 1. The
church's pastor, the Rev.
Charlene Hendricks-Stewart,
Sunday school lesson
Continued from page 10A
us to find activities and expe
riences that make us feel
good. We have lost sight of the
interdependent relationship of
pain and pleasure. Simply
put, to have a rainbow there
has to be a little rain. A
Chinese philosopher points
out that in order to feel the
exquisite sensation of scratch
ing, one must first endure the
discomfort of a big itch.
If gain follows pain, it fol
lows that the greater the pain
the greater the gain. And no
greater pain has ever been
experienced that the torture of
Christ on the cross. The physi
cal torment was very real, but
the spiritual dimensions of the
agony were greater still. No
wonder Jesus cried out, "My
God, my God, why have you
forsaken me?" (Matthew
27:46, New International
Version). He bore our sins at
Calvary, and at that moment
our iniquities separated the
sinless Son from the forgiving
Father.
No pain ever achieved
greater gain. By His sacrifice
we are justified - perceived by
God to be righteous in spite of
out transgressions. His pain
was/is our gain.
When John the Baptist saw
Jesus coming to the Jordan,
he announced His arrival by
saying "Behold the Lamb of
God, which taketh away the
sin of the world!" (John 1:29).
There are other words he
might have chosen.
He might have said, "Behold
the Son of David, who has
come to restore the kingdom
of Israel!" or, "Behold the
Master Teacher, who has
come to proclaim the truth of
God!" or. Behold the Great
Physician, who has come to
heal the sick!" or, "Behold the
Great Reformer, who has
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rvhich shad guide you dotim Cife's path of
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and it shall water my grounds at any moment
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come to show us a new way to
live!" He might have said any
of these, for they were all true.
But he reached instead for the
very purpose for which Christ
had come and said, "Behold
the Lamb of God, which
taketh away the sin of the
world.."
This, the most powerful of
the Servant Songs, anticipates
better than any other Old
Testament prophecy the sig
nificance of Christ's coming.
In some way the suffering of
the servant Israel led to God's
redeeming the nation from the
bondage of the Babylonian
captivity.
But that pales in comparison
to the sacrifice of Jesus
Christ. God's ultimate
Servant, at Calvary. There the
very Son of God offered him
self to be slain He paid the
penalty for the sins of all
mankind so that we all might
be brought back to God.
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NottaidtighwoyTtafcSofetyAdminBftalion
will deliver the messages.
The closing banquet ceremony
will be 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2 at
Renaissance Place on N.
Tryon Street. The Rev. L.C.
Riddick will be the guest
speaker.
For more information, call
364-8092.
•Statesville Avenue
Presbyterian U.SA.
3435 Nevin Road
The church's 44th anniver
sary will be celebrated 4 p.m.
Sunday. Ted Hayes will pre
sent the program.
For more information, call
548-8664.
Trinity Park Baptist
9115 Trinity Road
Help for students in kinder
garten through second grade
to improve their reading skills
will be offered second and
fourth Fridays in January.
Volunteers will be available
to listen to children read and
read to them starting Friday.
•University Park Baptist
2400 KeUerAve.
The church family will con
duct worship services every
fourth Friday of the month.
No time was given.
The Rev. Claude R.
Alexander is pastor. For more
information, call 392-1681.
•Walls Memorial AME
Zion
2722 Bancroft St.
Walls Memorial AME Zion,
Johnson C. Smith University
and the Know Bookstore is co
sponsoring a traveling exhibi
tion which explores the
African presence in biblical
Eden 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday
and Sunday. The exhibit
offers the general public the
opportunity to gain a new and
uplifting cultural and histori
cal perspective on the African
presence in the Bible.
Ahmadiel BenYehuda,
Minister of Information and
national spokesman for the
African Hebrew Israelite
Community, will lecture 1
p.m. Friday on the campus of
JCSU.
A rally will feature African
dancers, drummers and guest
speakers 5 p.m. Sunday at the
church.
The Rev. Sheldon R.
Shipman is pastor. For more
information, call 375-5361.
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