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November 14th -- Colossians 2

KNIT TOGETHER IN LOVE
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THE article commonly talked about as "love" is not the apostolic article. The popular article consists of an emasculated mind, and honeyed word uttered in a silly tone. The apostolic "knitting together in love", is on the goodly foundation "of all riches of the full assurance of understanding." It is a love springing from
identical convictions -- a common love resulting from a common enlightenment; a mutual affection spontaneously generated by unity of knowledge and judgment, and this not in the scanty form of "opinion" or the cold uncertainty of "views", but in the richness of a positive and pronounced "assurance of understanding"; enthusiastic convictions if you will, without which there can be no true discipleship of Christ. This is a state of mind that stops not short at "good words and fair speeches", but shows its faith by "works", without which, a man, whatever his knowledge and understanding, or ability to speak with even higher than human tongues, is a "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal." There be many fig trees fair and promising to look upon, which, when the Master comes to inspect them and finds nothing but leaves, will wither up before His destroying curse.

ROBERT ROBERTS, Seasons of Comfort, page 36

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