PREACHING JESUS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1047, 11 August 1930, Page 14

PREACHING JESUS

CHRIST OF THE CROSS LIFTS MAN TO NEW PLANE LIGHT OF THE WORLD “Preaching Jesus” was the subject of Mr. Little’s sermon at the Church of Christ, POusonby, yesterday morning. Basing his remarks on the incident of the conversion of the Ethiopian, as recorded in the eighth chapter of the Acts, the preacher stressed the fact that God made man the medium of conveying to his fellowman the message of salvation from sin, which was to be found only in Christ Jesus. Returning on his homeward way from Jerusalem, the Ethiopian was studying the Scriptures, when Philip the evangelist joined him and asked if he understood what he was reading. .A reply in the negative, and an invitation to Philip to expound the portion of scripture to him was taken full advantage of by the evangelist and ( beginning at the same scripture, he preached unto him Jesus. The Apostle Peter said that ‘ln none other is there salvation,” and it is only as the Christ of the Cross ‘.s exalted that man is lifted to the higher plane and rejoices in the salvation which Jesus came to give. At the evening service Mr. Knight was the preacher. Dealing with the subject, “Afraid of the Darkness, Afraid of the Light—Which?” the speaker said that there were many in the world today who were afraid of the light: and why? Because their deeds were evil and would not stand the light of the day. Slinking along dark alleyways, they were a terror even to themselves, every nook and cranny seemed to hold for them that which would reveal their evil ways; hence the furtive glances as they pursued their way. It was ever thus, said the speaker, when men chose the darkness to hide their works. It was hard to understand why men chose the darkness, rather than the light, because there was no happiness in the patli they were treading: the end of the journey was soon reached and, oh, the degradation and the shame! As they had lived, so they died, and their lives had gone out in the blackness of despair. How different is it with the one who was living in the light, whose actions were manifest that all might see. There were no furtive glances as he pursued his way, living In the light which Jesus Christ brough*- into the world. His life was a living epistle, known and read by all men. The preacher concluded with an earnest appeal that his hearers take the True Light into their lives. By so doing they themselves would become lights, leading others to Him who said: “I am the Light of the World.”