They subordinate all things to persona[ gain. Their very souls grow yellow as they bow before their wretched golden god. There are men in our times who seem to have a like confidence in filthy lucre. His mind was so utterly sordid that he was as honest as he could be in proffering coin for the sovereign gifts of God. He was grievously mistaken as to the purchasing power of money. His heart was wholly unchanged he was still an unregenerate sinner, in the gall of bitterness and the bonds of iniquity.ģ. His pious airs and phrases, while he worshipped with the Christians, were all make-believe. He was guilty, thus, of utter insincerity. All that he perceived were the outward phenomena the inward grace did not occur to him.Ģ. No sooner had Peter and John begun to confer the gifts of spiritual power by the laying on of hands than Simon saw that his own juggleries were cast into the shade. D.This Simon was the first heretic in the Christian Church, the first to claim its fellowship while out of sympathy with its fundamental truths. The world will be amazed as the gospel reveals its power. We may yet bring the very deceivers themselves to the feet of Christ. So let us learn confidence in the gospel message. As in Egypt, the miracles of God are infinitely more wonderful than the deceits of the false teachers. This is the true kingdom, not such as Simon pretended to show.ģ. Good tidings - liberty, peace, joy - " without money and without price."Ģ. THE VICTORY OF THE TRUTH OVER THE FALSEHOOD,ġ. The signs of man's birthright still traceable in his degrading bondage. The distinction between sorcery and marc and true science, and the wonders of human progress, has been the fruit of Christian teaching and the development of the kingdom of God. Given up to " strong delusion to believe lies."ġ. THE STATE OF THE WORLD APART FROM CHRIST. Yet the gospel found a ready soil because the true wonders could be opposed to the false.
They would not have given heed to Simon had they studied the whole Scripture. A striking instance showing that a dim twilight of knowledge is the condition favorable to the growth of falsehood and superstition. Redford Simon an example of the kind of deceivers under whose spell the ancient world was taken captive. The Type of One Stricken with Religion-Blindness The Sin of Simon or Trading in Holy Things Simon the Sorcerer, an Admonitory Example of a False Teacher Simon the Magian Unmasked and Put to Shame Success and Disappointment in Christian Work Sermons Incidents of Persecution and Dispersion
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