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Saturday, November 22, 2014

 

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CONTENTS

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Letters To The Elect Of God

In A Time of Trouble


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The Two Classes


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People in Christ's day were the same as they are now -- there were genuine men and women, and there were some decided frauds. Christ could do what we cannot do - discriminate between the one class and the other. "He knew what was in man." This ability came through divine inspiration. "The Spirit of the Lord" rested on him (Isa. 11:2-3). His varied treatment of the two classes was solemnly instructive. To the sincere and upright he was kind, sympathetic, communicative. To the make-believes he was cold, angry, and oftentimes strangely silent. When he did speak his utterances were terrible: "Ye hypocrites, ye generation of vipers." What is the lesson? Christ lives; his character, authority, and power are unaltered. Ere long, his friends and his foes are again to confront him. Loving words and crushing words will once more be heard from his lips. Let us pause. We have to appear before Christ! He will speak to us. Are we his friends or his foes? Let us search our hearts. If hypocrisy is lurking there, let us root it out. We all have the power to do this. Let us be open minded with Christ, seeking to hide nothing. Christ will show no mercy to shams. A penitent publican is more endurable in his eyes than a self-righteous scribe or Pharisee. The men and women who please Christ -- who need not fear the outcome of an interview with him -- are those who look upon God as a reality, and commune with Him as such, who recognise and confess their much unworthiness, and whose constant aim it is to grow better. To Christ, as to his Father, the Scripture applies: "With the pure Thou wilt show Thyself pure; and with the froward Thou wilt show Thyself unsavoury." -- A.T. Jannaway

 


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