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THE KING’S BUSINESS
king; that we should reign in life in Christ Jesus; that we should sit as kings on the throne with the King of kings and Lord of lords. And yet so many of us are just merely existing Christians. Our names are in the church book, but we count for nothing else in all the church activity. We go to Sunday morning service and think that will serve for all week. Per haps you give a few dollars a year to help keep things going, but that is the end of it. If fifty of you died out of the church you would not be missed. The church would go on just the same and there would not be any disorganizing of a single organ ization. You are just like a jelly fish. You can shape them whatever way you like. You can put them in a religious mold or you can put them in a worldly mold. WE SHOULD ALL BE OVERCOMERS. And there are others who are tak ing a part in the work of the church, and if they died, they would be missed. They are the men and wom en that count, and yet you can almost count them on your fingers. It is the Lord’s will that we should all be over comers, and He gives us these prom ises to encourage us. Will you look at chapter 21, verse 7: “He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.” Shall inherit all things. God says if you will only be an overcomer, He will give you what you need. The Lord says, that if you are an over- comer you will inherit all things, and not only this, but the very things the worldly Christian is going after. We have them in the truest and best sense, in all their purity and blessedness, filling our hearts. Now, who are bur foes? There is always one thing about the Bible and that is, it never under-estimates or
over-estimates the power and strength of our enemies. The Bible always shows them in their true light. How many there are! How strong they are! What their size is and what their weapons are! The Bible tells us everything about them. Why, if you go to our British government and say to the War Minister, “I can give you every detail of the German army,” that War Minister would make it worth your while. We have spies by the hundred, and they are trying to find out everything in con nection with the armies of France and Germany, so that if war comes they are ready to start right in. Well, in this old Book here, we have full information about our enemies—their size, their power and everything that we need to know about them. OUR FIRST ENEMY. Our first enemy is the world. The world is not so much a sphere as an atmosphere. Some people say, “Well, I never lie, I never, chew or smoke tobacco. I don’t go to the dances or play cards or go .to the theatre, etc,” but the atmosphere of their lives may be worldly. The Pharisees could boast about what they didn’t do, but they were true worldlings. It is the kind of atmosphere in which we live and move and have our being which counts. The world is always the most malicious and malignant enemy that opposes the progress of God’s, work in our lives. The world may be in your home; the world may be in your business; the world may be in your social engagements, and you will find it is a million times harder to meet the enemy there than it is to meet him outside. It is generally in the camp where the danger is. The danger is always in the pastry of life, not in the porridge. The danger of life is not in the battle field, but in
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