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interests, and they will be left with those whom they did not try to
save. “But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My Lord
delayeth His coming; and shall begin to smite his fellow servants,
and to eat and drink with the drunken; the Lord of that servant shall
come in a day when he looketh not for Him, and in an hour that he is
not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion
with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Let there be an earnest consideration of these words. Let none
say, “That does not mean me; I am a Christian.” Who says this, your-
self or He who reads the heart? The unfaithful steward had solemn
responsibilities entrusted to him; before the world he appeared as
a servant of Christ; but, oh, how deplorable for himself, and for
all connected with him; he is an evil servant! He is imperiling his
Lord’s goods. He is teaching souls to trample upon the holy law of
God. He calls Christ, “My Lord.” But he says, “My Lord delayeth
His coming.” He does not say that Christ will not come; he does not
scoff at the idea of His second coming; but he tells the people that
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His coming is delayed. He is removing from the minds of others
the conviction that the Lord is coming quickly. His influence leads
men to presumptuous, careless delay. Thus they are off their watch
and they echo the words of the unfaithful watcher; still others catch
them up, and the evil spirit, and men are confirmed in their world-
liness and stupor. Their course is downward, not upward; they are
not looking for and hasting unto the day of God. Earthly passions,
corrupt thoughts, take possession of the mind.
The evil servant smites his fellow servants who are seeking to do
the will of his Lord. He eats and drinks with the drunken, those who
are carnally minded, notwithstanding their profession of Christianity.
They are opposed to Christ and the work He came to our world to
do, which was to live the law of God in humanity, to be an example
to all humanity.
Christ was surrounded by His disciples, and a vast congregation
were listening to His words when He said, “Take heed to yourselves,
lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and
drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you
unawares.” “Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.”
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