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Loyal to the Family Name, October 6
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on
Christ.
Galatians 3:27
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Those who take the name of Christian pledge themselves to be true
to God. They are bound up with Him and the heavenly angels in family
relation.... Their actions in every respect are to be such as become saints.
All that is unbecoming is to be discarded. They are to live a new and holy
life....
Like a brave soldier you are to obey your Captain’s orders, even if in
so doing you sacrifice your life.... Mind and body are now to be treated
with the greatest respect, for they are Christ’s. Day by day they are to be
improved, that to the earnest gaze of the heavenly angels they may reveal
that Christ has not died for you in vain.
When you took the name of Christian you promised in this life to
prepare for the higher life in the kingdom of God. To be a Christian means
to be Christlike. Not a satanic feature is to remain on mind or body, which
are to reveal comeliness, purity, integrity, and dignity. Take the Christlife
as your pattern. Keep eternity before your view. Then you will in some
degree approach Christ’s appreciation of the heritage which cost Him so
much.
Let those who work for Christ keep their principles pure. Let the life
be untainted by any polluting practice. All heaven is interested in the
restoration of the moral image of God in man. All heaven is working
to this end. God and the holy angels have an intense desire that human
beings shall reach the standard of perfection which Christ died to make
it possible for them to reach. It is His desire that we shall be one with
Christ, complete in Christ, that we shall be heirs of heaven; but we are left
free to choose. God calls upon us to make our choice on the right side, to
connect with heavenly agencies, to adopt principles which have a reviving,
restoring influence, which will restore in us the moral image lost through
disobedience. As by faith we adopt the principles which characterize the
life of Christ, they are in the soul as a well of water, springing up unto
everlasting life. The soul overflows with the riches of the grace of Christ,
and this overflow refreshes other souls.
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