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to save yourself (Eph. 2:8-10). Com mit your way unto Him who is able to keep you (1 Pet. 1:5 Jude 24). He will do the rest. HOW WILE I FEEL? It depends much on 'ndividual tem perament. Feelings may possibly ac company salvation; they may not come until some service has been rendered to Christ. One is saved because God says the*transaction is completed upon ac ceptance of His Son, not because of their feelings. Feelings cannot connect the soul with God. FAITH links the possessor with God who gave it. Feelings are neither divine nor eternal. FAITH has to do with God and His eternal Word. Feel ings look inward and downward. FAITH looks outward and upward. Feelings have to do with one’s own fluctuating condition; FAITH with God’s immutable truth and Christ’s eternally enduring sacrifice. BANK ON CHRIST—not on your faith, not on your feelings. That is sufficient to complete the transaction (John 5:24). Place the death of Jesus Christ between you and God’s judgment —between Him and all your sins. Of fer His merits for your own which you should have but have not. Then, as a child of God, “follow Him.” Hundreds stumble over the very sim plicity of “God’s.Way.” Are you simple .enough to put it to the test? a» a» THE POWER IS OFF The Holy Ghost cannot be made to do what He was not sent into the world to do. If the church puts machinery into the system that is calculated to do something_ outside His offices, they will find “the power is off,” when they try to start the machine. If they run th a t. machine they will be obliged to attach a belt from the spirit of the world, and, alas, that is what the church in its pres ent state is prone to do. Not a very large percentage of the nominal church has received and re tained thé power of the Holy Ghost. Manifestly the church as an organization is a powerless institution. Feeling this, the majority, who still retain the spirit of the world, are rushing machinery
into the church that only the spirit of the world can run. As a substitute for the Holy Ghost it seems to them to do very well. But to call this power that they thus obtain the Holy Ghost, is sacrilegious, when they are doing things that nowhere in the Scripture is the Holy Ghost mentioned as doing, or being employed to do. To secularize the Holy Ghost is to start a movement, an organization or something not warranted in the Scrip tures, put the spirit of the world be hind it, and then say the Holy Ghost is doing it. To test these movements examine the men in the leading places in them. Is it likely the Holy Ghost will fill all the offices with men who have never, or do not now at least, even bear a clear, testimony to having re ceived His baptism? Will He use men in a movement that is of Him who do not know when they were converted, and are trying to raise their children to grow up in the same ignorance? Is it likely He will use men whose state ments about the Bible are not clear as to inspiration; who ignore or deny the virgin Birth, the bodily resurrection, and have no testimony about the return of the Lord?—Wm. M. Smith. No cross, no crown—no loss, no gain; They first must suffer who would reign. He best can part with life without a , sigh Whose daily living is to daily die. Youth builds for age; age builds for rest; Who builds for Heaven will build the best. Poor they may live, but rich they die, Whose treasure is laid up oh high. Oh, the sweet joy that sentence gives, "I know that my Redeemer lives!” We cannot, Lord, Thy purpose see, But all is well that’s done by Thee. —Charles Spurgeon. “I Will Give Thee a Grown of Life” Re. 2:10.
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