The miracles of Jesus - Classical Christian Literature by Athleo.net

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94 REPEATED SIN AND
tions which were heard two, and even three, thousand
miles away, were not perceived by the people who
lived at the foot of the mountain. The explanation
of that curious fact given by scientific students is
that
the air was filled with volcanic dust, which, like a
thick curtain, cut off all the sound waves. Around
the pathway of the transgressor there is sometimes
an atmosphere in which every spiritual voice is
deadened into dumbness. The sphere in which you
live and move is charged with the cares and secular
interests of life, perhaps permeated through and
through with follies and dissipations which separate
between the inward ear and the ominous thundernotes
which might prove your salvation. You stand
at the focus of danger. Others hear the warning
tones. The angels who wait in their thousands
before this new Sinai may listen with awe. And yet
you are stone-deaf and unheeding. "Ye stiff-necked
and uncircumcised in heart and in ears, ye do always
resist the Holy Ghost."
" To-day, if ye will hear His
voice, harden not your hearts."
The voice still speaks in the temple, and its tones
are full with both warning and mercy. Saved from
pain, helplessness, and shame, by a miracle of pity, see
to it that you do not put your salvation into needless
jeopardy. He who heals our impurities magnifies
His word no less by making it mighty to keep from
sin. The second command, as well as the first,
becomes a fulfilled promise as we are in the act of
obeying it. Let there be no temporising, no submission
to the new temper of impotence which seeks
to insinuate itself afresh into the life. If the
Deliverer has come to you, give Him the love for