Souvenir Summer Sermons ~ Paperback ~ Tent Evangel

Excerpt from Souvenir Summer Sermons: Preached in Tent Evangel, Broadway and 56th St., New York City But He found none there; and then, in order that He might teach a great spiritual lesson. He cursed the tree. And that tree has been full of lessons to all the centuries since. Next morning, as He passed the place again with His disciples, Peter's quick eye saw what had happened, and he called the Lord's attention to the tree. He, instead of deducing the obvious lesson of the curse of God upon spiritual barrenness or sterility, diverged from it and deduced another, which to me is wonderful in depth and strength. What He really said was this: You see that tree; now, if you can reckon on God as I did, you may not only have the power that blighted that tree, but whenever mountains block you in you may move mountains. Evidently, Jesus in His human life did not work miracles by His divine attributes of omnipotence. He put that aside and prefered to live a purely human life, using pure faith in God-the faith that we can have through the Holy Ghost that came at Pentecost. "Have faith in God!" What did those words mean ? I shall never forget the occasion when in my church, Hudson Taylor, the head of the China Inland Mission, stood up and spoke from these words as a text. I did not know all the meaning that there was in them for the speaker, but I remember that he said the words were to be read as saving "Count on God," "Reckon on God's faithfulness" - not on your faith in God, but upon God's faithfulness to you. Afterwards I heard something of his life story. When quite a young man he had heard God say to him, "I am going to evangelize inland China, and if you are willing to go there with Me. I will do the work through you." And he determined to obey the call, and so began to reckon on God's faithfulness, with results that are known to all the world. Jesus in His earthly life divested Himself of His omnipotence, which He forbore to use that He might lead such a life as yours and mine might be. and that He might begin and lead the life of faith as you and I can. He is now glorified with the glory He had before the world was made, and has all power in Heaven and on earth delivered to Him. So that He has the human power of the Son and the divine power of God over all blessed forever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.