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Voice Of Prophecy

H.M.S. Richards

The Big Sin

Lift up the trumpet and loudly sing, Jesus is coming again.

Cheer up, you pilgrims, be joyful and sing, Jesus is coming again.

From Los Angeles, California, we present the program of The Voice of Prophecy, a voice crying in the wilderness of these latter days, prepare ye the way of the Lord.

And now we invite our friends to listen to our radio quartet, the King's Herald, as they lift up the trumpet in song and sound the battle cry.

Sound the battle cry, see the foes, my race must stand at eye for the Lord.

Sturdier on our arms, stand firm, everyone, rest your calls upon his holy word.

Rouse then soldiers, rally round the banner, Ready steady, pass the word along.

Onward, forward, shout aloud Hosanna, Onward, forward, shout aloud, Hosanna!

O Thou God of all, hear us when we call, Help us 1 and all by Thy grace.

When the battle's done and all victory won, may we wear the crown before thy face.

Rousing soldiers rally round the banner, Ready, steady, pass the word along.

Almighty and everlasting Father, we ask thee to so control the councils of the nations that the gospel of thy beloved Son shall not be hindered, but the infinite spirit of eternal truth may move in its freedom and purity and power through all the earth.

We have sinned against thee and are not worthy of thy mercies, but in great compassion thou hast given thy son to be wounded for our transgressions.

And thy call to us is, seek ye the Lord while he may be found, for he will abundantly pardon.

Richly bless all who hear this international broadcast, creating us new and contrite hearts to walk gladly in Thy commandments and bring us at the last into thy glorious dwelling place above through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.

Is a place of quiet rest, near to the heart of God.

A place where sin cannot more last, near to the heart of God.

O Jesus, blessed Redeemer, sent from the heart of God.

Hold us to wait before thee, near to the heart of God.

We bring you greetings, friends, and an invitation to help us reach new listeners.

Why not double the size of our listening audience?

We suggest a great letter crusade for Christ and the voice of prophecy.

Write to your dearest friends and nearest relatives and invite them to tune in.

Radiologues will be mailed to you for this correspondence work if you will write to us and let us know how many you can use.

Here is a good missionary project for church service groups and young people's missionary societies.

Nearly all shut-ins and sick people who long to do something for Christ can do this much.

Really, it is thrilling to know that our friends are listening to the voice of prophecy at the same time, even though thousands of miles away.

A lady in Lytton, Indiana, writes, From the very depths of my heart come these words of gratitude and thanks for the messages over the air and of free Bible lessons.

My daughter lives in another state, but she listens to the Voice of Prophecy every Sunday.

As we are both tuned to the same station hearing the same program, we feel that we can attend services together, even though many miles apart.

After last Sunday's message, she wrote, Mother, wasn't it good?

Her little daughter, less than 3 years old, said in the letter, Mom's listening too.

So as we lift our hearts to God and listen, he unites us and we fellowship together.

Friend, won't you write to someone today and invite them to tune into the voice of prophecy?

How better could you win a soul for Christ?

And now the King's Herald says, blessed are they that do.

Blessed are they that do His commandments.

They with Joy may enter the city, free from sin, from sorrow and strife.

Sanctified, glorified, now and forever, They may have right to the tree of life.

Blessed are they that do his commandments, blessed, blessed, blessed are they.

The sin called the great transgression in Psalm 19, 13.

Surely the Lord would not warn us against something that we could never know anything about.

Moreover, sin is counted sin only when there is knowledge.

In James 4, verse 17, we read, That to him who knows to do good, and does it not, to him it sinned.

When a person doesn't know an act is wrong, he is not held accountable.

Of the educated men who rejected him, Jesus said, I'm reading John 15, 22, If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin.

But now, that is, since I have come and explained the word of God to them, they have no cloak, or as the margin reads, excuse for their sin.

When a man knows right and does wrong, God counts it sin.

According to the Bible, it's the transgression of God's law.

In that remarkable interfaith declaration of Protestants, Catholics and Jews on world peace, published in October 1942, the first point states that the moral law must govern the world, and That's the only way to get a just peace.

A Roman Catholic Bishop recently declared at a solemn mass in St.

Patrick's Cathedral in New York, that the 10 Commandments are the only basis for world power and lasting peace after victory.

And many others, Protestants and Catholics alike, are declaring the same thing.

When Christ was questioned as to which was the greatest commandment, He put duty to God first, as we read in Matthew 22, 37.

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

This is the first and great commandment, the big commandment.

And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

On these 2 commandments hang all the law and the prophets, just as your 10 fingers hang on your 2 arms.

So all the 10 commandments hang on these 2 principles, love to God and love to man.

It has never been abrogated, destroyed, abolished, weakened, done away with, made void, or annulled.

In its great principles it stands fast forever.

Psalm 119, 142, Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

We must never forget that the right preaching of faith in Christ as our Savior never makes void God's law.

Romans 321, Do we then make void the law through faith?

Now what is the big sin, the great transgression?

The following story, I believe, is a clue.

Once in the city of Chicago, a young man came to a prominent evangelist, I believe it was Dr.

He was asked if he had repented of his sins and been converted.

He said he had never been a sinner and didn't have to be converted.

He had been reared right and carefully and was a moral man and wasn't a sinner.

Then the preacher asked him what he considered the greatest sin to be.

The minister said, you're greatly mistaken.

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