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By J.M. Little
f£i Special To me Peet
As the four seasons come
and go, each testifies of the
grsce^offGwl Also, the
minds us of the faithfulness
At this time our subject
M “Crace In The Fall:” I
haw enjoyed this fall more
the* perhaps any other fall
„ ‘ tofhay life. I am enjoying
v’ Lord and what He has
/done for me in salvation,
fiite you*
K‘ Fall testifies of the wi
J therteg work of the Holy
jnpirit. I don’t know if you
have ever seen it like that
or not. Listen; "For all
; •flesh is as grass, and all the
v GLORY OF MAN AS THE
i BLOWER OF GRASS,
.'.THE GRASS WITHER
ETH, and the flower there
of falleth away: But the
word of the Lord endure th
: forever. And this is the
j, Word by which the gospel is
- preached unto you (l Peter
' 1:24-25).
7 The Apostle Paul here
compares man in his proud
and natural state to beau
' tiful grass when it is In full
jj growth and very pretty.
*j When fall comes, as we are
3 having now, the grass
withereth. Why? The cool
7 Masts of air begin to wither
Tljhe summer grass. The
£Jretty summer grass is
4 Just for h season and can
n.not help but wither when a
'more powerful force blows
upon it.
So.lt is in the grace of
J . God under Holy Spirit Con
viction. When the Holy Spi
.rit comes upon a sinner, the
~ sinner is proud and boast
ful of what he is by nature,
because he really does hot
*. know who he is by nature.
But as the Holy Spirit blows
upon,'and reveals to him
^ his old adamic nature, his
', CbrKiptlon and vile and de
praved condition, that sin
ner begins to wither.
.: ‘(But the Word of the
. Lord endureth forever...”
As die gospel is preached to
v that sinner under Holy
Spirit Convictton, he dies to
his old life mat he once
■ gloried In. All the things
you once gloried in begin to
.. fade away, and the sinner
J^tfmaeif dice tn rnrarjtMM
he ever loved. You boosts
before pt your profeesion,
now as the Holy Spirit
opens your heart more and
more, you see you had
profession without posses
sion.
as the Word cuts deeper
and deeper in your heart,
; you wither as the grass
- under the cool fad blasts.
% to your heart you weep.
r Before a sinner can be
■ saved, he has to release Ms
; hold on everything! You
; ^ Weep over your lost condi
* Hon. You thought you were
> sdved, but now you see that
: you are not. All the glory of
; your church life dies. You,
too, are dying, you must
die, and you will die to
everybody and everything
before you can be resur
rected to new life in Christ
and know Him as your Lord
and your Saviour.
Under the convictions of
the Holy Spirit you lose
sight of. the things you used
to love. No one around you
< understands what is hap
pening to you but those who
$*• «*ved. Seeing your lost
condition you despair of
- ever getting to Christ. Once
lyou thought you knew
'Christ, now you know that
you don’t, and your cry
night and day is: oh, that I
‘-knew Him! Where can I
^ find Christ? .
jj You read (Spd’s Word and
- pray, and you don’t know
'what step may be your last.
■Your soul pants after
2 Christ as the hart panto
after the water brooks. I
..know it was se when the
^ Lord was dealing with my
* heart for salvation. Day
-' and night I longed to know
* Christ.
> As the Lord dealt with
my heart, I died to every
thing I had ever cherished.
tsr&rrsz
Spirit in slaying a afanar in
_
that sinner to new life in
Christ. But I know it. I
know what took place in my
heart and life, much of it I
don’t understand. But there
was a definite time when I
stood in eternity as it was.
knowing the reality of my
lost condition as a lost
sinner. And you did, too, if
you are saved.
•. If you are saved you
know exactly what I’m
talking about. If .you are a
stranger to what I am
laying down here, then you
are not saved. I’ll be Just
that dogmatic! You willjhe
to everybody! Man by na
ture is proud and puffed up.
No proud man is saVed!
Some of our preachers are
so proud, but you are Just a
proud Jackass on the road
to Hell; you are leading
your congregation to Hell,
too.
Man born by nature is a
child of the Devil, accord
ing to John 8:44, and you
are steeped in pride, the
pride in your heart has
deceived you. Every soul
by nature is deceived!
You think: you have some
goodness in you that will
make you acceptable be
fore God. Therefore, there
has been taught a doctrine
in your churches, today;
-“there is some good in the
worst of men.” That’s a lie
out of Hell! God declares in
His Word that there is no
good in man, (Romans
3:10). I’m going to let my
Lord be true and let you be
the liar.
Many have said; “we are
not hearing what Bro'
Little is preaching in our
churches.” I realize you
aren’t. Our churches today
are Just as dead and lifeless
as an old dead dog. That’s
right. Our churches today
have rejected the Holy
Spirit, therefore, you have
not true spiritual light, you
only have darkness. The
world scene is growing
worse and worse in the
midst erf more and more
churches being built.
From here at my home
and before I can drive to
the 1-85 bridge, I pass about
a dozen churches. The
truth is not preached in a
single one of them! Now
you can get mad at this
statement all you want to
and I know many of you
will. There is coming a day
when you are going to wish
you had heeded the Word of
the Lord. "And this is the
word which by the Gospel
is preached unto you.*’ '
"Listen to the Word or
perish: for I work and work
in your days, a work which
ye shall in no wise be
lieve, though a man de
clare it unto you.” (Acts
13:41). That Is what the
Lord is doing here in these
simple messages we are
bringing from week to
week. You are despising
the truth as we set forth
Christ, you are wandering
and perishing. Some of you
reason like this: "I wonder
if aU that Bro’ Little Is
saying is true about our
being lost; my pastor said
Bro’ Little was crazy, all
these people can’t be lost
like that.” AU right, just
keep on sitting there won
dering and you wiU wdnder
your way to Hell,- -rf..
The greatest thing maU
this world is just to know
Christ. Do you know
Christ? Now face that
eternal question fair and
square. Do you know
Christ?
Then when the Holy
Spirit brings you to know
Christ, you can see the
handiwork of the Lord in
nature. You can see nature
and compare the dying of
the leaves to the sinner
(taring up to the things he
cjjde loved. When the
iwes are withered, they
(• longer have their beau
tm.How is it between you
*ad the Lord? Do you See
tie beauty in Christ?
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