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Chapter 8Awake To Earnestness! |
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THERE are many who desire the resurrection of the wise, and, as Balaam would like to be of the number; but who either gave themselves no trouble to attend to it, or are ignorant of the means of attainment, or will only labour for it according to their own suppositions or possibilities. These suppose everything but prove nothing. The blessedness of the resurrection is a laborious acquisition - a contention for the mastery over ourselves, and the world around us. This can only be attained by the "taught of God", who understand His doctrine and yield the faithful and self-sacrificing obedience He requires. Then "labour to enter into his rest; for many shall seek to enter in and shall not be able". They will be excluded from the Kingdom of God because they have not sought entrance into it in the appointed way. "Seek first the Kingdom of God," saith the Great Teacher, "and His righteousness." How highly important is this exhortation now, seeing that in a very short time the resurrection will have transpired, and no further invitation to inherit it be presented to the world. Ought we not, then, to awake to earnestness, and by rigid scrutiny of our faith and practice, obtain a scriptural satisfaction, if we shall be able to stand unabashed before the Judge of the living and the dead? -- Bro. J. Thomas
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