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Last Updated on : October 11, 2014

 

 

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The Bedside Watchman

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THERE are only two states of existence before God: the flesh and the spirit, darkness and light, death and life. The unbeliever walks "according to the course of this world . . . according to the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience . . . fulfilling the desires of the flesh . . . and are by nature the children of wrath".
This is a truth which must be courageously faced. However good, in the worldly sense, however gentle or loving, the unbeliever isdisobedient to God -- and it is He who judges, not we ourselves. That
is why Paul wrote: "Do not unite yourself with unbelievers; they are no fit mates for you. What has righteousness to do with wickedness? Can light consort with darkness? Can Christ agree with Belial or a believer join hands with an unbeliever? Can there be a compact between the temple of God and the idols of the heathen? And the temple of the living God is what we are" ( 2 Corinthians 6:14-16, N.E.B.).

JOHN MARSHALL, The New Life, page 39

 


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