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Selfishness and World Loving
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heart, encircle them with your sheltering arms, love them tenderly.
If you fail to do this, “Found wanting” will be written against you.
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There is a work for you
both
to do. Forever cease your murmur-
ings. Brother G, suffer not the close, penurious, selfish spirit of your
wife to control
your
actions. You have been drinking in the same
spirit, and you have both robbed God. The plea of poverty is upon
you lips, but Heaven knows it is false; yet your words will be all
true; you will be poor indeed, if you continue to cherish the love
of the world as you have done. “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have
robbed Me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed Thee? In tithes
and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse.” Wipe off this curse as
fast as possible.
Brother G, as God’s steward, look to Him. It is He to whom
you are to give account of your stewardship, not to your wife. It is
God’s means that you are handling. He has only lent it you a little
while to prove you, to try you, to see if you will be “rich in good
works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate,” laying up in
store for yourselves a good foundation against the time to come,
that ye may lay hold on eternal life. God will require His own with
usury. May He help you to prepare for the judgment. Let self be
crucified. Let the precious graces of the Spirit live in your hearts.
Turn out the world with its corrupting lust. “Love not the world,
neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world,
the love of the Father is not in him.” If your profession is as high as
heaven, and yet you are selfish and world-loving, you can have no
part in the kingdom with the sanctified, the pure and holy. “Where
your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” If your treasure is in
heaven, your heart will be there. You will talk of heaven, eternal life,
the immortal crown. If you lay up your treasure on earth, you will
be talking of earthly things, worrying about losses and gains. “What
shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his
own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”
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There is light and salvation for you if you will only feel that you
must have it or perish. Jesus can save to the uttermost. But, Sister
G, if God has ever spoken by me, you are terribly deceived in regard
to yourself, and must have a thorough conversion, or you will never
be one of that number who have come up through great tribulation,