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Selling the Birthright
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Still there is room. The command is then given: “Go out into the
highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house
may be filled. For I say unto you, that none of those men which
were bidden shall taste of my supper.” Here is a class rejected of
God because they despised the invitation of the Master. The Lord
declared to Eli: “Them that honor Me I will honor, and they that
despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.” Says Christ: “If any man
serve Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there shall also My
servant be: if any man serve Me, him will My Father honor.” God
will not be trifled with. If those who have the light reject it, or neglect
to follow it out, it will become darkness to them.
An immense sacrifice was made on the part of God’s dear Son,
that He might have power to rescue fallen man and exalt him to His
own right hand, make him an heir of the world and a possessor of the
eternal weight of glory. Language fails to express the value of the
immortal inheritance. The glory, riches, and honor offered by the Son
of God are of such infinite value that it is beyond the power of men
or even angels to give any just idea of their worth, their excellence,
their magnificence. If men, plunged in sin and degradation, refuse
these heavenly benefits, refuse a life of obedience, trample upon
the gracious invitations of mercy, and choose the paltry things of
earth because they are seen, and it is convenient for their present
enjoyment to pursue a course of sin, Jesus will carry out the figure
in the parable; such shall not taste of His glory, but the invitation
will be extended to another class.
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Those who choose to make excuses and continue in sin and
conformity to the world will be left to their idols. There will be a
day when they will not beg to be excused, when not one will wish
to be excused. When Christ shall come in His glory and the glory of
His Father, with all the heavenly angels surrounding Him, escorting
Him on His way with voices of triumph, while strains of the most
enchanting music fall upon the ear, all will then be interested; there
will not be one indifferent spectator. Speculations will not then
engross the soul. The miser’s piles of gold, which have feasted his
eyes, are no more attractive. The palaces which the proud men of
earth have erected, and which have been their idols, are turned from
with loathing and disgust. No one pleads his lands, his oxen, his
wife that he has just married, as a reason why he should be excused