law enforcement officers recently urged every householder to make certain that the outside doors on our homes have double locks, not just a single bolt but an additional chain guard to frustrate and turn away any intruder. As far as our salvation is concerned, this is what God has done for us. What more security could we possibly have or desire. One of the early church fathers, Chrysostom, one day enraged the emperor by his continual preach ing on the subject of sin. The infur iated monarch said, "Chrysostom, if you do not stop this preaching,
may be storms all about us with overwhelming trials and circum stances. Then it is that we must go to our chart and compass for a "dead reckoning" to find out where we are and whom we seek to serve. In Romans 6 we are repeat edly told to "reckon ourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." You see, we are dead and our life is hidden with Christ in Cod. Think a moment of those five words, "hidden with Christ in God." This is really a double lock of spiritual security. One of our
James Worgan is a freshman Spanish major from Anaheim, California.
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