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To those who comply with the conditions, “Come out from among
them, and be ye separate, ... and touch not the unclean,” God’s promise
is, “I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be
My sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”
2 Corinthians 6:17,
18
. It is the privilege and the duty of every Christian to have a rich
and abundant experience in the things of God. “I am the light of the
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world,” said Jesus. “He that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness,
but shall have the light of life.”
John 8:12
. “The path of the just is as
the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.”
Proverbs 4:18
. Every step of faith and obedience brings the soul into
closer connection with the Light of the world, in whom there “is no
darkness at all.” The bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness shine
upon the servants of God, and they are to reflect His rays. As the
stars tell us that there is a great light in heaven with whose glory they
are made bright, so Christians are to make it manifest that there is a
God on the throne of the universe whose character is worthy of praise
and imitation. The graces of His Spirit, the purity and holiness of His
character, will be manifest in His witnesses.
Paul in his letter to the Colossians sets forth the rich blessings
granted to the children of God. He says: We “do not cease to pray
for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of
His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that ye might walk
worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work,
and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might,
according to His glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering
with joyfulness.”
Colossians 1:9-11
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Again he writes of his desire that the brethren at Ephesus might
come to understand the height of the Christian’s privilege. He opens
before them, in the most comprehensive language, the marvelous
power and knowledge that they might possess as sons and daughters
of the Most High. It was theirs “to be strengthened with might by
His Spirit in the inner man,” to be “rooted and grounded in love,” to
“comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth,
and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.”
But the prayer of the apostle reaches the climax of privilege when he
prays that “ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.”
Ephesians
3:16-19
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