ADDRESSES ON ROMANS
me 'whiter than snow' in His precious blood." That colored woman knew the meaning of these words. My fellow,...Christian, whatever your station in life, would you obey "that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God" in your relationship to the Body of Christ? Whether you be a minister of the Gospel or a Sunday School teacher; employer or employee; a busy man of affairs or a quiet mother in the home-whoever you .are, whatever your task, let the Holy Spirit of whom we read in Romans eight fill your life, and you will be a testimony for God in this sin,...darkened world. As you "serve the living and true God" and "wait for his Son from heaven," you will become more and more like Him, "whom having not seen, ye love" (I Peter 1:8 ). THE CHRISTIAN'S RESPONSIBILITY TO THE WORLD 12:17,...13:14 The will of God for the Christian has to do with all his behavior toward the world, as well as toward the Body of Christ. It has to do with his relationship to friend, to foe, to governmental powers, and: to the business world. Our fellow,... man is our "neighbour"; and Rom. 12: 17,...13: 14 reminds us that we are to love our neighbor as ourselves. First let us look briefly at this passage as a whole; then we shall consider in some detail the verses which have to do with the Christian's responsibility to governments. These searching words speak for themselves; for they were penned by the Holy Spirit of God whose quickening power drives the message home to our hearts. And again we see the Christian virtues set before us as God's will for us in an ungodly world: Kindness, honesty, longsuffering, pa,... tience, benevolence, purity, truthfulness, love. In fact, all these graces may be summed up in the one word "love"; for "love is the fulfilling of the law"; it is "the law of Christ." The reference to the ten commandments takes us back to what we considered in chapter seven, and reminds us that the Page 230]
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