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j g bellettThe Moral Glories of Our Lord -  A devotion regarding the Moral Glory in the character of the Lord Jesus.  All of his life went up to God as a sacrifice of sweet savour. Every expression of Himself in every measure, however small, and in whatever relationship it was rendered, was incense to his father.  Whatever Adam lacked, the Lord fulfilled completely in his perfect life.  J G Bellett was a brother from the United Kingdeom who wrote his works in the 1800's. 
Men who ate themselves to death Print E-mail
Themes: "Saved - Evidences, Power of the Gospel

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In the late 1900's there was a tribe of savages living on a remote island in the South Pacific. Everyone was afraid of these savages because they were fierce and had killed many people. Even worse, they were cannibals. They would fight with other tribes and carry captives back to their camp to eat them.

This wicked practice continued until the beginning of the 1970's. Suddenly, important members of the tribe starting dying without any known reason. One day they would be healthy; a few days later they would pass into eternity to meet their God. The tribe's witch doctors tried all their own medicine, but the plague continued. So horrible was the situation that for the first time, the tribe appealed to their more civilized neighbors for medical help.

Doctors from other regions came to study the perplexing sickness. After the illness had been thoroughly examined, the cause of the mysterious problem was finally discovered: Cannibalism! By eating the brains of their victims, the savages contracted this fatal disease. The doctors urged the tribe to forsake their ways before the entire tribe was destroyed, but the tribal leaders refused. They had been cannibals for so many years that they could not change. Even the shocking deaths of their friends were not enough to change their minds. The practice was continued, and the disease raged unchecked.

Into this scene a different type of man walked. He did not tell them of medical findings or point to the many new graves. He taught the people of a man named Jesus Christ and read to them from a book he called the Bible. He did not have the education of the doctors or the authority of the government leaders, but he told them of a loving God who had sent His Son from heaven. So moved were the people of the tribe by this message from God that many were saved. In fact, not only were they saved, they understood the wickedness of cannibalism and forsook this terrible sin.

Because one man succeeded in the power of God where many others had failed, the devastating disease caused by cannibalism is almost unheard of in that area today. It is clear in the story about Elijah that it was only by the power of God that the prophets of Baal were defeated. Even so, the men and women of this savage tribe could not be helped without God. Isaiah 45:22 says, "Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." The tribal leaders, doctors, and government officials all tried to fix the problem in their own way; but, in the end, the only real solution was from God. Proverbs 14:12 says, "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."


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