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God’s High Standard
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ask, Do they speak in harmony with the word? Do they refuse a
plain “Thus saith the Lord” because they see that it involves a cross?
On Which Side are You?
Are we on the side of those who refuse to be loyal to God? They
have no interest in knowing God. They reject the divine Son of God,
the personification of all human goodness. They place themselves
with those who, although no fault could be preferred against Christ,
chose instead a thief and a murderer. This testifies to the moral taste
of the world. Shall we be on the side of the world, or on the side of
Christ, who declared, “I have kept My Father’s commandments”?
The word of Jehovah will stand forever. “In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The
same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him;
and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him
was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in
darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.... He was in the
world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him
not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as
many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons
of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born,
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but
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of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we
beheld His glory, the glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father,)
full of grace and truth.”
Those who receive Christ by faith as their personal Saviour
cannot be in harmony with the world. There are two distinct classes:
One is loyal to God, keeping His commandments, while the other
talks and acts like the world, casting away the word of God, which
is truth, and accepting the words of the apostate, who rejected Jesus.
Whom Will You Choose?
On whose side are we? The world cast Christ out; the heavens
received Him. Man, finite man, rejected the Prince of life; God, our
Sovereign Ruler, received Him into the heavens. God has exalted
Him. Man crowned Him with a crown of thorns; God has crowned
Him with a crown of royal majesty. We must all think candidly. Will