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The Way of Transgressors, March 9
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is
hard.
Proverbs 13:15
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The news of man’s fall spread through heaven. Every harp was
hushed. The angels cast their crowns from their heads in sorrow. All
heaven was in agitation. A counsel was held to decide what must be
done with the guilty pair. The angels feared that they would put forth
the hand, and eat of the tree of life, and be immortal sinners. But God
said that He would drive the transgressors from the garden. Angels
were commissioned immediately to guard the way of the tree of life.
It had been Satan’s studied plan that Adam and Eve should disobey
God, receive His frown, and then be led on to partake of the tree of
life, that they might live forever in sin and disobedience, and thus sin
be immortalized. But holy angels were sent to drive them out of the
garden, while another company of angels were commissioned to guard
the way to the tree of life....
Satan triumphed. Others he had made to suffer by his fall. He had
been shut out of heaven, they out of Paradise.
By transgression Adam lost Eden. By the transgression of God’s
commandments man will lose heaven, and an eternity of bliss. These
are no idle tales, but truth.... I ask, On which side are you standing?
It is true that Satan’s path is made to appear attractive, but it is all
a deception; in the way of evil there are bitter remorse and cankering
care.... In the downward road the gateway may be bright with flowers,
but thorns are in the path....
“The way of transgressors is hard,” but wisdom’s “ways are ways of
pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.”
Proverbs 13:15
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3:17
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act of obedience to Christ, every act of self-denial for His sake, every
trial well endured, every victory gained over temptation, is a step in the
march to the glory of final victory. If we take Christ for our guide, He
will lead us safely.
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