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Selling the Birthright
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Dear brother, life or death is before you. Do you know why your
steps have faltered? why you did not persevere with courage and
firmness? You have a violated conscience. Your business career
has not been straightforward. You have something to do here. Your
father did not look upon business principles in the correct light. You
regard them as do worldlings in general, but not as God regards
them. “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Have you done
this? “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind.”
If this commandment is obeyed, it prepares the heart to obey the
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second, which is like unto it: “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” All the
Ten Commandments are embodied in the two specified. The first
includes the first four commandments, which show the duty of man
to his Creator. The second embraces the last six, which show the
duty of man to his fellow man. On these two commandments hang
all the law and the prophets. They are two great arms sustaining all
ten of the commandments, the first four and the last six. These must
be strictly obeyed.
“If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.” Very
many who profess to be Christ’s disciples will apparently pass along
smoothly in this world, and will be regarded as upright, godly men,
when they have a plague spot at the core, which taints their whole
character and corrupts their religious experience. “Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself.” This forbids us to take advantage of our
fellow men in order to advantage ourselves. We are forbidden to
wrong our neighbor in anything. We should not view the matter
from the worldling’s standpoint. To deal with our fellow men in
every instance just as we should wish them to deal with us is a rule
which we should apply to ourselves practically. God’s laws are to be
obeyed to the letter. In all our intercourse and deal with our fellow
men, whether believers or unbelievers, this rule is to be applied:
“Love thy neighbor as thyself.”
Here many who profess to be Christians will not bear the mea-
surement of God; when weighed in the balances of the sanctuary,
they will be found wanting. Dear brother, “come out from among
them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean
thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye
shall be My sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” What