Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 6, 1962 Page: 2 of 16
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The Claude News, Claude, Atmstrotig Co., Texas, 88PT. 6, 1962.
Experience That Fortifies
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Sunday School .... 9:45 a.m. Evening Worship .... 7:30 p.m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Prayer Meeting, Wed. 7:30 p.m.
Training Union .... 6:30 p.m. Choir Rehearsal .... 8:15 p.m.
LIFE
ABUNDANT
1
by ORAL ROBERTS
THE COST OF CHRISTIANITY
Tommy was admiring Roger's
new streamlined bicycle. "It's a
real beaut!" he exclaimed.
"Yes. But it sure cost a lot.
I saved my money for two years
to buy it*" Roger answered.
Anything worthwhile costs
something, and if we want to
build a worthwhile Christian life
and have the peace and joy that
only Christ can give, we must
be willing to pay the price.
For a long moment Christ
and the rich young ruler stood
facing each other. "What good
thing should I do, that I may
have eternal life?" the young
man asked. "Go and sell that
thou hast . . . and follow me,"
Jesus answered.
All that I have? My wealth,
position, a great future? he pon-
dered. At Jesus' words, the
young man's eager smile quick-
ly died as did his desire for
eternal treasures. A great apostle
could have been born, but in-
stead a nameless young man
went his way.
There is an old saying that
you don't get something for
nothing. This is true. We must
put something in, if we are to
get something out. We must
give, if we are to receive. To
receive the blessings and mira
cles of God, we must be will-
ing to surrender ourselves to
Him. A life surrendered to
Christ is the way to personal
and eternal triumph and joy.
Jesus Christ paid the price for
our salvation by His crucifixion
on Calvary. All we need do to
receive this salvation and eternal
life is to accept it and be will-
ing to obey God. We must yield
our lives completely to Him. We
cannot decide what we are go-
ing to do and then ask God to
bless our plans, but we must put
Him first and self last. God
knows the future and what is
best for us. Therefore, we should
faithfully follow the plan He
originates for our lives.
One of the great rewards in
being a Christian is to know that
our lives are in God's care and
that they are being used to His
glory and to help others. In
Christ our energies are turned
away from the unimportant
things of life and directed to-
ward worthy goals. No matter
what we may have accomplish-
ed with our lives in the past,
God can do still more with them.
When we surrender our lives
completely to Him, we can draw
upon His ability and upon the
abundance of His spiritual
wealth,
Victorious faith
by Fredna W. Bennett
In the world ye shall have
tribulation: but be of good cheer;
I have overcome the world. John
16:33b
Even though they were sent
to proclaim "peace on earth" and
"good-will towards men," the dis-
ciples were told to expect tribu-
lations on earth and ill-will from
men.
It has always been the lot of
Christ's people to have tribula-
tions, more or less in this world,
let's consider two reasons why
we must expect tribulations:
1. Wicked men have always
persecuted Christians because
they were better than other men.
Wicked men have always been
envious of Christians because
their good deeds made their evil
deeds appear more evil. That's
why Paul told Timothy that all
who "will live godly in Christ
Jesus shall suffer persecution."
2. God corrects His children be-
cause they aren't better than they
are. In Hebrews we're told: "For
whom the Lord loveth He chas-
teneth, and scourageth every son
whom He receiveth." And speak-
ing from his own experience,
Paul said, "We must through
much tribulation enter into the
kingdom of God." And so, it is
through tribulations that we are
prepared for heaven.
But to strengthen our faith,
Jesus said, "be of good cheer; I
have overcome the world." And so
regardless of the tribulations we
may meet with, let us be of good
cheer. We know whom we have
believed and are persuaded that
He is able to keep that which we
have committed unto him against
that day."
Therefore, through Christ, we
are able to triumphantly say:
"This is the victory that over-
comes the world, even our faith."
The great deep
Howard It, Hand, Editor
Destiny Magazine
Merriniac, Mass.
When we contemplate the ex-
tent of the earth's surface that is
covered by the waters of the
Pacific Ocean, the actuality of
the Abyss, or Great Deep, also
comes to mind. In the bed of
this ocean there is an enormous
basin in area about twice the
size of Asia. There the deepest
repressions on the face of the
whole earth, six or more miles
in depth, are found.
Prior to the Deluge of Noah's
day, there was much more land
area than water, but following
the descent of the waters above
the firmament, the opposite be-
came true. In the article titled
"The World That then Was," in
Destiny of May 1954, it was point-
ed out that the ancient antedilu-
vian civilization flourished in the
location now submerged under
the waters of the Pacific Ocean.
The Apostle Peter confirms the
fact that the world known to
man prior to the Deluge is now
completely inundated and the
waters of the ocean that cover
the site of that ancient civiliza-
tion are today lapping the western
coast of America. Peter stated:
"That world was destroyed, thro-
ugh being flooded with water"
(II Peter 3:6, Smith & Good-
speed Trans.). This statement by
the Apostle has reference to
what actually existed in his day,
which he was fully aware of; that
is, the site of an ancient civiliza-
tion still under the waters of
the sea.
Whenever we gaze upon the
expanse of the Pacific Ocean,
one thought comes to mind. What
a revelation would come If it
were possible to explore its ocean
bed! Would we find there the re-
mains of gigantic cities, the form-
er habitations of the antediluv-
ian giants? Would we discover
the Great Deep, or Abyss, the
place of darkness where, accord-
ing to Job, "the primeaval giants
writhe under the ocean in their
prison" (Job 26:5, Moffatt Trans) ?
It is there also that the fallen
angels themselves, because of their
sins, were chained in the very lo-
cation where the spirits of their
offspring find their grave, Peter
declared that God did not spare
the angels that sinned, but cast
them into chains of darkness
(II Peter 2:4). Is it from this
Abyss of Darkness that the spirits
of evil ascend to harass and af-
flict the human race today?
When our Lord commanded the
unclean spirits to come out of
the possessed of a legion of devils,
they implored Him not to send
them out into the deep (Luke
8:31). The Greek word translated
"deep" is abussos, or abyss, and,
by implication, has reference to
n Great Deep; that is, an infernal
place under the waters of the sea.
With the tremendous increase
in manifestations of evil through-
out the world, are we about to
witness a major irruption from
the "dead things"; that is, the
Rephaim, whose abode is in the
Great Deep? Will this be a Sa-
tanic resurrection — a counterfiet
of the true resurrection — Sa-
tan's supreme endeavor to prevent
the latter from becoming a real-
ity? The Great Deceiver is capa-
ble of staging a gigantic imita-
tion of the coming resurrection
through a violent foray of evil
spirits from the abode of the
Rephaim which will reach the
utmost; degree of evil and will be
utterly appalling in its implica-
tions.
The Emphatic Diaglott, in its
translation of Revelation 11:18,
renders the passage: "And the
nations were angry ,and came the
wrath of thee, and the season of
the dead ones^to be judged." The
use of the phrase "dead ones" is
a specific reference to personali-
ties (disembodied spirits) apart
from the human race. They are
the Rephaim who are to come
to judgement with the ending of
the present age.
The waters of the Pacific roll
over the Great Deep from whence
evil ascends. In the last days the
Rephaim from hell will join
with the devil - directed tyrants
of the earth in an endeavor to
destroy God's people. However,
they have not reckoned with
God's pronouncement (Isa. 13:
3-6, Smith & Goodspeed Trans.):
"I have commanded my conse-
crated ones, I have summoned
my worriors, my proudly exault-
ing ones, to execute my anger.
Hark! A tumuult on the moun-
tains, like that of a multitude
of people; Hark! The uproar of
kingdoms, of nations assembled!
The Lord of hosts is mustering
a battle host. They come from a
distant land, from the end of
the heavens — The Lord and his
weapons of wrath, to destroy the
whole earth. Wail! For the day
of the Lord is at hand; as des-
truction from the Almighty will
it come."
Heaven and earth are joined
in this conflict as the Mighty
Ones of God come to the assis-
tance of righteous men and wo-
men against the combined forces
of evil. The prophets of the
Lord have assured us concerning
the outcome — the ultimate des-
truction of all evil and the estab-
lishment of righteousness through*
out the whole earth.
MerehanU Wise—Advertise
Rev. ROBERT H. HARPER
SEPTEMBER
THERE are months that seem
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to arouse in us a group of
fancies as fond recollections and
blessed memories of the past
come trooping down the avenues
of thought. To the writer, Septem-
! cr is such a month, not only be-
cause he was born on its twentieth
clay but also because it has
brought to him some of his
brightest days.
The month is remindful of an
o!d song the writer learned in his
I auth from one who no longer
walks at his side-
in the sweet gloom of this
F •.•'ember day,
I wander through the paths
we two have trod,
A.hi slill along the dear fa-
miliar way
Grow the blue aster and the
goldenrod
Don't ask why the heart m%p
quicken its beat, for there are
"thoughts that do often lie too
<k e ) for tears" and too deep for
toiling except to the silence of
one's own soul.
If perchance the very thought of
goldenrod may cause the hay ,
fever victim to sneeze, think of 1
the blue aster which is the very
flower of September and grows
still "along the dear familiar
way."
Let us hope that this September
may not provide a date for the
beginning of a third world war,
as it had a date for the beginning
of the second
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Waggoner, William J. B. & Waggoner, Cecil O. Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 6, 1962, newspaper, September 6, 1962; Claude, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth356068/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Richard S. and Leah Morris Memorial Library.