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THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
The worst enemies this government has are the educated skeptics who scoff at the faith of the brave men and true who braved the dangers of terrific storms and the inhospitality of savage red men to escape the blight of opposition to faith in God. There is a higher court than skeptical col lege professors, or destructive critics in pulpits or universities. The day of Judgment is just ahead and men will have to give an account to God for the deeds done in the body. —French E. Oliver. ¿Wc. ate ate ate 1 ^ 0 MUTUAL Admiration Societies In Heaven The natural religion of fallen man is salvation by personal merit. This is the heresy of heresies that underlies all false systems. Man, in his pride, declines to plead guilty before God. Any wise lawyer when he sees his client cannot prove his innocence, advises him to plead guilty and throw himself upon the mercy of the court. That mercy cannot be exercised until the prisoner has plead guilty. “ Who can say I am pure from my sin?” (Prov. 20:9). Who measures up to the glory of God? (Rom. -3:23). Either salvation must come to us wholly because we deserve it or wholly because God graciously bestows it. The Word of God condemns every one of us. “ There are none righteous, no not one’ ’—and there isn’t the slightest hope that any man can deserve eternal life. Boasting is excluded.. Salvation is ‘ 1not of works, lest any man should boast. ’ ’ If salvation could be attained through one’s own merits, and entirely apart from the atoning work of our Lord, Jesus Christ—what kind of a place would heaven be? Instead of saying “ Unto Him that loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood***#*unto Him be glory and
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