By j. RICHARD CHASE
cross-roads attempting to decide whether or not we will serve Christ and be free, or continue in bond age to Satan and live a life that is governed by human nature. We are already traveling on one road or the other! The ancient Pythagoreans did believe that man stood at the fork of a road and was asked to decide whether he would travel the path of virtue or that of vice. In fact, the Pythagoreans used the Greek letter, Upsilon, to show the deci sion man must make. To the Py thagoreans, man travels down a single path until he comes to the fork in the road where this basic decision in life must be made. Such a philosophy is foreign to the Bible. Either you are bound to Christ or Page 5
us off to our face, it is human na ture to respond with hatred. If we have not fully comprehended the freedom that is ours in Christ, we will respond with human nature, not our spiritual nature. Hatred is but one of the common qualities found in the life of any individual who has not experienced or claimed the full freedom that is his in Christ. We would be off base if we said that we are bound neither to Christ nor to Satan. I do not be lieve it is possible for an individual to be fully free from such things as hate, jealousy and envy apart from the new life that is ours in Christ. In fact, Christ told us in Matthew 6:24 that we can serve only one Master. Today, we are not at the
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