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92 and rushing madly on toward the day of
reconciliation,
wrath. Rev. 6:15-17.
But there is no gloom in the future for those "who have
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fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us/'
and "who have received the Spirit of adoption," become
"children" and "heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ
. . . For I reckon that the sufferings of this present
time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that
shall be revealed in us." Rom. 8:15-18.
There seems to be a prevailing disposition to balance
up the good and the bad in the world by a process of gen-
eral average, in which the triumphs of art and science,
the progress in inventions, discoveries, etc., are counted as
moral goodness, and it is concluded that the world, on the
average, is growing better.
But this is utterly fallacious and, we fear, a grand de-
ception of Satan.
The Church and the World.
First, there is no such thing as averaging together the
true church and the world. There is no possible consan-
guinity. The one is "from beneath," the other "from
above." The one "is of this world," the other "not of
this world." John 8:23. They must not be yoked to-
gether, for there is no fellowship, communion, concord,
part or agreement between them. They are and always
God, and they shall be my peo- are In the world. If any man
love the world, the love of the
pie.
17. Wherefore come out from Father Is not in him.
among them, and be ye sepa- Also John 14 :18-22, 16 :33,
rate, saith the Lord, and touch 17 :14, James 4 :14, 1 John
not the unclean thing; and I 5 :19.
will receive you, (92) 2 Cor. 5:20. Now then
18. And will be a Father unto we are ambassadors for Christ,
you, and ye shall be my sons. as though God did beseech you
Eph. 5 :11. And have no fel- by us : we pray you in Christ's
lowshlp with the unfruitful stead, be ye reconciled to God.
works of darkness, but rather re- 21. For he hath made him to
prove them. "be sin for us, who knew no fain ;
12. For it Is a shame even to that we might be made the
speak of those things which are righteousness of God in him.
done of them in secret. (93) Heb. 6:14. That by two
1 John 2 :15. Love not the immutable things, in which it
world, neither the tilings that too? impossible for God to lie,