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Bring God’s Word Unto the Very Life, July 18
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and
drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
John 6:53
.
The Lord Jesus is your Redeemer. Will you not appreciate the great sacrifice
He has made for you? No one has any justification for departing from Bible
principles....
He who is sensitive to the admonitions of the Lord will work out his own
salvation with fear and trembling, knowing that it is God who is working in him,
to will and to do of His good pleasure. The truth of God, abiding in the heart,
brings the principles of the law of God into daily practice.
The man who consents to be deceived is the man in whose heart the truth
is not abiding. To be occasionally a Christian, to be occasionally devout, is a
great deception. It is living a lie. An occasional glance at the Word of God is not
enough. An occasional petition to the throne of grace, a form of words, does not
bring a supply of grace for the soul’s need. In order for the truth of God to regulate
the life, it must be implanted in the heart. It must be brought into the inmost life.
The day will come when you will see that it does not pay to trifle with the
interests of your soul, allowing it to become diseased, so inefficient that Christ
declares, “Thou art neither cold nor hot.... So then because thou art lukewarm
and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth” (
Revelation 3:15, 16
).
What does this mean? That He will no longer present the name of such a one to
His Father.
Christ clothed His divinity with humanity, and came to this world to live a life
free from spot or stain of sin, that human beings, by laying hold of divinity, might
become partakers of the divine nature, thus escaping the corruption that is in the
world through lust. To those who receive Christ as a personal Saviour, the veil
that conceals the glory of God from human discernment is drawn aside. With the
eye of faith they behold eternal realities.
The Word of God is to be brought into the very life. “I am that bread of life,”
Christ declares. “Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye
have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal
life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the
flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are
life” (
John 6:48, 53, 54, 63
). Study the whole of the sixth chapter of John. Strive
for your soul’s sake to understand it.—
Letter 253, July 18, 1904
, to a longtime
Adventist in business in Battle Creek, Michigan.
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