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© Copyright Holiness Data Ministry © -- All Rights Are Reserved For This Digital Publication, and Duplication Of This DVD By Any Means Is forbidden. Also, Copies Of Individual Files Must Be Made In Accordance With The Restrictions Of The B4UCopy.txt File On This Disc. THE NAZARENE PULPIT A Collection Of 24 Sermons From Well-Known Preachers Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season (2 Tim. 4:2). Nazarene Publishing House Kansas City, Missouri Copyright 1925 Nazarene Publishing House * * * * * * * Digital Edition 01/02/07 By Holiness Data Ministry * * * * * * * CONTENTS Foreword 01 -- This Great Salvation -- By Reuben A. (Bud) Robinson 02 -- True Holiness -- By Willis G. Bennett 03 -- Four In One -- By Edgar Painter Ellyson 04 -- The Triumphant Gospel -- By James Blaine Chapman 05 -- God's Wondrous Salvation -- By R. L. Hollenback 06 -- The Lost Christ -- By U. E. Harding 07 -- A Life Of Victory -- By Charles Brougher Jernigan 08 -- The Whole Duty Of Man -- By Bona Fleming 09 -- Carnality's Ultiviity -- By G. F. Owen 10 -- God's Irrevocable Punishment -- By Lum Jones 11 -- God's Triple Call -- By Theodore Ludwig 12 -- Pentecost And The Route To It -- By J. E. Gaar 13 -- Vindication Of God's Justice -- By Benjamin Franklin Neely 14 -- David Bringing Home The Ark -- By Charles Robinson 15 -- Christian Freedom -- By Bertha (Wilson) Lillenas 16 -- The Magnitude Of A Soul's Value -- By J. E. L. Moore 17 -- Salvation -- By Jarrette E. Aycock 18 -- The Cardinal Colors Of Salvation -- By Joseph Grant Morrison 19 -- Weighed In God's Balances -- By L. L. Hamric 20 -- The Rich Young Ruler -- By A. F. Balsmeier 21 -- The Gift Of The Spirit And The Spirit's Gifts -- By W. G. Schurman 22 -- The Symphony Of Praise -- By Floyd W. Nease 23 -- The Responsibility Of Moral Sovereignty -- By Stephen Solomon White 24 -- God's Call Disregarded -- By Aaron Merritt Hills * * * * * * * FOREWORD The true preacher puts his best intellectual and spiritual effort into his sermons, so in preparing a book by many authors, we thought there could be no better way than to include a sermon from each of twenty or more of our well known preachers. The result is the little book which we herewith present. We have called the book "The Nazarene Pulpit" because we believe it represents in a fair way what one could expect to hear in any one of the fourteen hundred churches of the Church of the Nazarene which are scattered with more or less irregularity throughout this and other lands. The themes of the preachers who have contributed to this book are quite varied, and so it must be with the ministry of any church which preaches the whole Bible to men. But the Church of the Nazarene has a special message and that special message is indicated by the large percentage of sermons on the various phases of the Wesleyan doctrine of sanctification. And regardless of the theme announced by the preacher, his great thought in every case is to encourage sinners to seek pardon and believers to press on into full sanctification. We feel therefore, that we are presenting a book that will prove, a blessing to anyone and everyone who will read it. The ministers whose sermons appear in these pages are all actively engaged in evangelistic, pastoral or educational work in connection with the Church of the Nazarene, and their voices are heard in churches or camp meetings every week in the year. If you are profited by the reading of this book, may we not count on you to help us give it the wide circulation which it deserves? The Publishers * * * * * * * 01 -- THIS GREAT SALVATION -- By Reuben A. (Bud) Robinson About Bud Robinson Rev. Bud Robinson is one of the best known preachers the holiness movement has produced, and there are few men in any calling in life who can gather a larger crowd on short notice than Bud Robinson. But he is sixty-five years old now, and everyone who has not heard him will do well to make an early effort to do so. Also buy and read his books -- especially his "Sunshine and Smiles," his life's story, and his "My Hospital Experience." Also subscribe for the Herald of Holiness in which his "Good Samaritan Chats" appear every week. -- Editor * * * In the 2nd chapter of Hebrews and third verse, we have one of the greatest questions that God ever asked man. The question is enough to scare a man to death. It is the unanswerable question. God says, "How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?" Just why the Lord asked man a question he couldn't answer, is a mystery, but still He did it. I suppose that neither our heavenly Father, nor man, can answer the question. For if a man neglects the salvation of his soul, there is no escape, for we read in Hebrews 9th chapter 27th verse, "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment." Therefore, we are all headed toward that great day and we will have to go and stand before the King, and it may be possible that we will find out that through the goodness of our heavenly Father, He asks us this question in order to wake us up, and to alarm and arouse our dead, slumbering conscience, that we might arise and bestir ourselves, and if possible make the escape from an eternal doom. But as we see there is no escape and we can't answer the question, thank the Lord there is still hope, for we can talk about the greatness of our salvation. First, salvation is great because God himself is the author of it, and everything God does is great. His little things are some of His greatest things. In the days of King Solomon they used the little red ants for their college presidents. And when Solomon met a lazy, trifling, good-for-nothing fellow he sent him off to college, and when he got there he met a red ant, and Solomon said, "Learn wisdom." Again Solomon said, "The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces." The ant represents works, and the spider represents faith. Solomon said. "The ant layeth up her store in the harvest time and the spider is in kings' palaces." To show you that the ant had more sense than lots of men, in Jeremiah 8th chapter 20th verse, Jeremiah said, "The harvest is past. The summer is ended, and we are not saved." So if the ant had sense enough to lay up his store in harvest time, and man fails to do it, then the ant is more sensible than man And the spider had taken hold with her little hands, and had gotten into the king's palace, and everybody wants to get into the palace of the king. The spider, being a representative of faith, takes hold with her hand and spins her web out of that which is invisible. No man can see with his physical eye the material that the spider uses in making her beautiful gown. And so faith is invisible, but by faith we take hold with our hands, and spider-like, we finally weave us beautiful garments, the most beautiful things the human eye ever beheld, as they are woven by that which is invisible. Now again the old Book says that our life is like the flying of the shuttle. There are two things about a shuttle, the first is it goes with great speed, but the. most beautiful thing about it is, it pulls the thread as it travels along, and the threads are various colors. When we have trouble the shuttle pulls a black thread; when we have happiness it pulls a beautiful red thread, and when we have joy it pulls a white thread, and when we are overflowing with love it pulls a beautiful blue thread. And when the garment has been woven behold we have all colors in it, and it takes these colors all mingled together to make the beautiful garment. If it was all trouble the garment would be of only one color, or if it was all happiness it would only be of one color, but all of these, the different trials and blessings mingled together, will make up the beautiful robe of righteousness that we are to weave with the hand of faith. And we will understand what Solomon meant when he said, "The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces." So we see that God's least things are some of His greatest things, and they teach us some of the most beautiful lessons as we journey from earth to heaven. Salvation Is Great Because It Is Both A Secret And A Mystery In the 25th Psalm and 12th verse we read "the secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and he will show them his covenant." We next notice in the 3d chapter of Ephesians that St. Paul said that "Salvation is a mystery that hath been hid from the ages, but is now revealed by the Lord Jesus Christ." Now there is something peculiar and strange concerning secrets and a mystery. As strange as it is, they have always had a wonderful fascination to the human family. The average man or woman is loaded down with secrets. Men sit up at night and watch their secrets. Women have worn the soles off their shoes trotting over town looking for a secret. Some men have rode the goat all night in search of a secret, and some women have looked for and trotted after the Eastern Star in the hope that they might hear or find out some secret.