“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon” (Matthew 6:24 KJV). “No man can serve two masters.” We cannot serve God with a divided heart. Bible religion isContinue reading “Destiny of the Divided Heart”
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Godlikeness: The Goal to Be Reached
“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect” (Matthew 5:48 KJV). God’s ideal for His children is higher than the highest human thought can reach. “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” This command is a promise. The plan of redemption contemplatesContinue reading “Godlikeness: The Goal to Be Reached”
Murderous Mentality: Preventing Spiritual Suicide
“Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:“But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother,Continue reading “Murderous Mentality: Preventing Spiritual Suicide”
Words to the Chosen Under Fire
“My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;“Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.“But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing” (James 1:2-4 KJV). “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.” The sense of unworthiness will leadContinue reading “Words to the Chosen Under Fire”
Mourners Comforted
“Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted” (Matthew 5:4 KJV). “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” By these words Christ does not teach that mourning in itself has power to remove the guilt of sin. He gives no sanction to pretense or to voluntary humility. The mourning ofContinue reading “Mourners Comforted”
The Make-You or Break-You Word: If
“If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him” (John 14:7 KJV). The first step was now to be taken in the organization of the church that after Christ’s departure was to be His representative on earth. No costly sanctuary was atContinue reading “The Make-You or Break-You Word: If”
The Sabbath, Pt. 3
“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.“Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:“But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger thatContinue reading “The Sabbath, Pt. 3”