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the friendship of the world, therefore you are decidedly on the side of
Satan. The natural heart is at enmity against God, and will resist the
clearest evidence of truth. The wicked will not endure the light that
condemns their wrong course of action.
You have opened your heart to doubt and skepticism, but you will
never be able to be an honest infidel. You may boast that you do not
believe the Bible; but you will be perjuring yourself all the time, for
you know better.
I entreat you to make earnest work for eternal life. Break the snare
of Satan; work against his devices. Let this be the language of your
soul. “There is nothing in the universe that I fear so much as that
I shall not know all my duty, or that, knowing, I shall fail to do it.”
“Stand up for Jesus” were the words of a dying saint. Yes, Brother
I, stand up for Jesus. It will take all to do this. You may have to
change your position in the world; but a name, distinction, office, are
to you a snare, imperiling your soul. A calculating, worldly wisdom is
continually seeking to turn you away from the Saviour. A bold, defiant,
blasphemous infidelity will attempt to crush His gospel, not only out
of your own soul, but out of the world. But stand up for Jesus. In the
presence of your relatives and friends, in all your business relations, in
your associations with the world,—anywhere and everywhere, under
all circumstances,—stand up for Jesus.
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