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Oct 14

A COFFIN FOR THE LAW

God had barely given the Law to Moses when He ordered
that it be put in a coffin. That’s right -- a coffin. The reason
for this is that the Mosaic covenant clearly stipulated:
         
"Now therefore, IF YE WILL OBEY MY VOICE INDEED, and keep My covenant, THEN ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people, for all the earth is Mine" (Ex. 19:5).
         
Israel, of course, did not obey God’s voice indeed, but
broke the Law before Moses even got down from Sinai. It
was because of this that God, in grace, commanded: "And
they shall make an ark..." (Ex. 25:10). This word "ark" is
rendered "coffin" in the last verse of Genesis and that is its
simple meaning. But why did God order a coffin as the very
first article of furniture for the tabernacle? The answer is:
To put the Law in. Read it for yourself:

"And thou shalt put into the COFFIN the testimony [the Law] which I shall give thee... and thou shalt put the MERCY SEAT above upon the coffin..." (Vers. 16,21).
         
If God had not put the covenant of the Law in a coffin and
met His people from a "mercy seat" none of them ever
would have been saved.

This Old Testament type has a lesson for us today, for if
God dealt with us according to our works none of us would
ever be saved, but "Christ died for our sins," meeting for us
the just demands of a broken Law, so that we might be
saved by grace through faith in His redemptive work.

Col. 2:14 says concerning this "handwriting of decrees,
that was against us," that our Lord, in death, "took it out of
the way, nailing it to His cross," and Rom. 7:6 explains:
         
"But now we are DELIVERED FROM THE LAW, that being DEAD
wherein we were held; THAT WE SHOULD SERVE IN NEWNESS OF SPIRIT, and not in the oldness of the letter."
         
Thus believers in Christ are saved "by grace... through
faith... not of works" but "unto good works, which God hath
before ordained that we should walk in them" (Eph. 2:8-10).

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Oct 15

THE MIGHTY POWER OF GOD

In 1866 Alfred Nobel invented an explosive made of
nitroglycerin absorbed in a porous material. It was by far
the most powerful explosive that had so far been invented.
         
When Nobel and his friends saw what his invention could
do, and had to decide on a name, they sought for the strong-
est possible word for power -- in any language. The word
they finally chose was the Greek word dunamis, from which
our word dynamite is derived.
         
This word, in Greek also the strongest word for power, is
used again and again in the New Testament and is gen-
erally translated simply "power."
         
When our Lord wrought miracles, for example, St. Luke
testifies that "the POWER [dunamis] of the Lord was pres-
ent to heal" (Luke 5:17). In promising His apostles that
they too would work miracles, He said: "Ye [shall] be en-
dued with POWER [dunamis] from on high" (Luke 24:49).
         
When the Sadducees questioned the resurrection, Jesus
answered: "Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the
POWER [dunamis] of God" (Matt. 22:29), and St. Paul
declares that Christ was "declared to be the Son of God with
POWER [dunamis]... by the resurrection from the dead"
(Rom. 1:4).
         
Using this same word, Paul, by inspiration, declares that
"the gospel of Christ... is THE POWER OF GOD UNTO
SALVATION, to every one that believeth..." (Rom. 1:16).
This is because, according to this gospel, or good news,
"Christ died for our sins," and "the preaching of the cross,"
he says, is to believers "THE POWER OF GOD" (I Cor.
1:18).
         
But not only are believers saved by the power of God;
they are "KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD" (I Pet. 1:5).
Indeed, the adjective of this same word "dunamis" is used in
Heb. 7:25, where we read that the Lord Jesus Christ is
"ABLE... TO SAVE... TO THE UTTERMOST [THOSE]
THAT COME UNTO GOD BY HIM." Thus the Bible uses
the very strongest word for power to show how secure is the
salvation of those who trust in Christ.

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Oct 16

THE PROMISE GOD MADE TO HIMSELF

"In hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the world [or, "ages"] began" (Tit. 1:2).
         
"The Cretians are always liars" (Ver. 12). "God... cannot
lie" (Ver. 2). What a contrast! And how reassuring to know
that our salvation depends upon the Word of God, who
cannot lie!

Our opening passage, above, however, states that God
made this promise "before the world [or, "ages"] began."
How can this be? There is no indication that He made this
promise to the angels, and there was no one else to whom
He could have made it -- except Himself, and this is exactly
the truth of the matter. Have we not all made earnest
promises to ourselves?
         
Before God ever made one promise to any man, He prom-
ised Himself that He would provide salvation and all the
riches of His grace for sinners through Calvary’s finished
work, and the promises later made to men were but pro-
gressive revelations of a firm purpose He had already made
in His own heart of love. Paul, the apostle of "the mystery,"
refers to this blessed fact again and again in his epistles:
         
"But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery... the hidden...
WHICH GOD HATH ORDAINED BEFORE THE WORLD UNTO OUR
GLORY" (I Cor. 2:7).
         
"According as HE HATH CHOSEN US IN HIM [CHRIST] BEFORE
THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD..." (Eph. 1:4).
         
"In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, BEING PREDES
TINATED ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSE OF HIM WHO WORKETH
ALL THINGS AFTER THE COUNSEL OF HIS OWN WILL" (Eph. 1:11).
         
"Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not
according to our works, but according to HIS OWN PURPOSE AND [HIS OWN] GRACE, WHICH WAS GIVEN US IN CHRIST JESUS BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN" (II Tim. 1:9).

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Oct 17

WHO’S BEEN GOOD TO WHOM?

As I left a restaurant, recently, the cashier and part
owner asked how "the pastor" was feeling. I replied: "Fine.
The Lord has been very good to me."
         
With this she began to tell how good the Lord had been to
her. She had come to America from Greece and had raised a
family and prospered here until now, with her family, she
owned and operated a good-sized restaurant. "So," she said,
"the Lord has been good to me," and after a moment’s hesi-
tation, "but then, I’ve been good to Him too!"
         
Imagine! How He needed her! It is sad, but this is the low
conception of God held by many religious, but unsaved
people. They entertain the strange notion that if they put a
few dollars into the Church, God ought to bless them -- or
the still more foolish notion that if they are good to others,
He ought to be good to them!
         
But He owes us nothing just because we may have been
good to others! And even if we sought only to please Him,
this would not make Him our debtor. He does not need us.
There is nothing we can do to enrich Him. This is why
Eph. 2:8-10 declares that salvation is "not of yourselves,"
and "not of works, lest any man should boast."
         
No, we cannot gain His favor by "being good to Him."
Yet, it is true that His children will be rewarded for faith-
fulness to Him. This is not a dispensational matter; it is a
promise that God has always held out to His people (Dan.
12:3; Matt. 25:21; I Cor. 4:5; I Thes. 2:19; II Tim. 4:7,8;
I Pet. 5:1). But such rewards are "rewards of grace."
         
Let us who know Him, then, seek above all else to be
faithful in our service to Him, not to gain acceptance with
God, for He has already "made us accepted in the Beloved"
(Eph. 1:6), but rather out of love and gratitude to Him who
gave Himself for us.

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Oct 18

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS

Strange, is it not, that when men are successful, they
generally credit themselves liberally for their success but
when things go wrong they begin to blame others -- even
God.

The writer does not have up-to-date information about
two particular plots of ground in Moscow, but some years
ago one of these was a beautiful garden, the other a patch
of weeds. Above each there was a sign. Over the one: "This
plot is cared for by the United Soviet Socialist Republic,"
over the other: "This plot is cared for by God"!
         
Evidently the atheistic Soviets who hatched this "bright
idea" did not stop to think that only God could produce the
beautiful flowers in the USSR plot. All their watering and
cultivating would have been in vain except for the God they
deny.
         
As to the other plot, they probably did not even know that
even in Eden God put the garden in man’s charge "to dress
it and to keep it" (Gen. 2:15), and later, when man sinned,
God said to Adam, "Cursed is the ground for thy sake" (Gen.
3:17). This is why the Soviets must employ a gardener to
control the weeds in even their garden! How wrong and
foolish, then, for man ever to blame God for anything that
goes wrong for him or causes him trouble!
         
Actually, when I have been asked: "If God is a God of
love, why does He allow all this trouble and misery, and
all this wickedness?" I have replied: "That’s easy. When
God sent His Son into this world offering peace and right-
eousness and prosperity they cried: ‘Away with Him’ and
nailed Him to a cross. If the Bible is true, and in this case
it has surely proved to be true, how can this world expect
peace while they still reject the Prince of Peace?"

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Oct 19

CREATION AND CHRIST

When we believing Christians hear some "scientist"
speak of "our ancestors" roaming this earth, say, 40,000,000
years ago, we become upset, and exclaim: "What nonsense!"
Why? The answer is that we know that the speaker is not
stating scientific facts; he is propagating the long-disproven
theory of evolution. Worse than that, the speaker has de-
nied God’s own account of creation by disseminating a
theory far more difficult to believe.

Yet, when the believer hears a scientist refer to some
planet, say, 460,000,000 miles away he rejoices and ex-
claims: "How great is our God!" Why the difference? Ah,
because astronomy, unlike evolution, is basically a science.
Granted, some astronomers may go far afield when they
speculate on the origin of the universe; they may even
make many errors in their calculations, but astronomy
proper is nevertheless a science, based mainly on math-
ematics and physics. This has proved to be true as men
from earth have orbited the earth and the moon and have
landed on the moon, returning back to earth again. Indeed,
it is only a few months since two soft landings (of instru-
ments) were made on the planet Venus, about 67,000,000
miles away, and all the above with the earth, the moon and
Venus, not only travelling through space at incredible
speeds, but with each all the while revolving on its own
individual axis!

The Lord Jesus Christ dwelt in glory "far above all heav-
ens" in eternity past and came to earth to subject Himself to
humiliation and death only that He might pay the penalty
for our sins and redeem us to Himself:
         
"That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus" (Eph. 27).

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Oct 20

GLORIOUS CONSUMMATION

In Eph. 1:9,10 Paul makes a statement regarding the
mystery which has baffled many students of the Word:

"Having made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself:
         
"That in the dispensation of the fulness of times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in Him."
         
This will be the glorious consummation of the mystery
but we, of the dispensation of grace, are to show men and
angels that true oneness is to be found only in Christ (Eph.
3:9-11).

The world knows nothing of this perfect oneness and,
indeed, the Church does not experience it -- except in Christ.
There is no true oneness anywhere -- in the world or in the
Church -- except in Christ. We might illustrate this by two
members of the body: our two arms. They hang from op-
posite sides of the body yet work together as one. But
wherein lies their oneness? The answer is: In the head. It
is the head which makes my arms and hands operate as
one, and so our oneness as members of Christ’s Body, is in
Christ, the Head. It is the recognition of Christ as our
Head, then, and this alone, that can make us one, experien-
tially. Thus the Apostle says:

"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 2:5).
         
Soon enough the Lord will take us out of this world and
all those events will transpire which will finally bring in
"the fulness of [the] times," when all in heaven and earth
will be "gathered together in one... in Christ"! "What a day
of rejoicing that will be"!

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Oct 21

LITTLE GIRL, ARISE

I was addressing an Assyrian audience on the raising of
Jairus’ twelve-year-old daughter by the Lord Jesus Christ,
and using the narrative to illustrate how God, through His
Word, gives resurrection life to those who are "dead in
trespasses and sins."

I had as my interpreter the incomparable Bedour Hanush
Afraim Kassab, but there was one point in the narrative
where my audience needed no interpreter. I will explain.
         
It so happens that Aramaic, spoken by our Lord on earth,
is almost identical to Assyrian and there is one small
phrase in the story where our English Version presents the
very words our Lord spoke to Jairus’ daughter: "Talitha
cumi," or "Little girl, arise."
         
Now it also happened that in our audience there was a
little Assyrian girl who, like Jairus’ daughter, was twelve
years old. As I told of Jairus’ anxiety for his dying daughter
and his anguish at the news of her death, the little As-
syrian girl could understand nothing; she had to wait until
my words were interpreted into Assyrian. But when I got to
the words "Talitha cumi" she needed no interpreter. Leap-
ing from her chair she stood looking at me with eager,
sparkling eyes, as if to say: "What do you want of me?
What can I do now?"
         
Like Jairus’ daughter, our little girl had heard and un-
derstood just those three words and had applied them to
herself. So it is with those who have received "life in
Christ." "Dead in trespasses and sins" (Eph. 2:1), they paid
little heed to the Word of God (I Cor. 2:14), but one day, by
the enabling power of the Holy Spirit, they did take heed
and believe some simple gospel passage, like "Christ died
for our sins" (I Cor. 15:3) and, applying it to themselves,
were "raised to walk in newness of life" (Rom. 6:4).
         
Nothing would please us more than if some reader should
thus apply the gospel of God’s grace to himself and receive
eternal life. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and THOU
shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31).

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Oct 22

THOU SHALT NOT SMOKE!

Have you read about the clear law against smoking ciga-
rettes in the state laws of Illinois? It’s been on the books
since 1907 and here is what it says:
         
"Every person who shall manufacture, sell or give away
any cigarette containing any substance deletrious to health,
including tobacco, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding
$100.00 or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period
not to exceed 30 days."
         
This law has been on the Illinois state law books for 96
years, but in late years, certainly, it hasn’t been enforced
and most Illinoisans don’t even know it’s there. The reason
is that so many people smoke cigarettes that the authorities
don’t even try to enforce it.
         
The prohibition era demonstrated the fact that human
behavior cannot be legislated. This is so even with the law
of God. Some people think that the Ten Commandments
were given to help us to be good, but this is not so, for the
Scriptures themselves state clearly that they were given to
show us that we are bad and need a Savior.
         
Rom. 3:19 declares that the Law was given "that every
mouth may be stopped, and that all the world may be
brought in guilty before God." Rom. 3:20 says: "By the law
is the knowledge of sin."
         
This is why we read in Rom. 8:3 that "what the law could
not do, in that it was weak [on account of] the flesh," God
sent His Son to accomplish. Also in Heb. 7:19 we read that
"the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better
hope did." This is the "better hope" that we proclaim: that
through Christ we may have "the forgiveness of sins" and
that "by Him all who believe are justified from all things,
from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses"
(Acts 13:38,39).

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Oct 23

THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH

In II Thes. 2:10 St. Paul declares that the apostates of
the coming age will "perish, because they received not the
love of the truth, that they may be saved." This is something
worth considering very seriously.
         
God calls this present dispensation "the dispensation of
the grace of God" (Eph. 3:2). During this dispensation faith-
ful Christians are proclaiming "the gospel of the grace of
God" (Acts 20:24). This is the message of God’s grace and
love in giving Christ to die for our sins so that we might be
saved from its penalty and power.
         
All, however, do not believe this glorious message or ac-
cept God’s grace in Christ. These, the Apostle declares, will
be left behind when our Lord comes, at the close of this
dispensation, to receive His own to Himself. Because they
rejected the truth, and the love it proclaimed, God will give
them up "that they might believe a lie," and put their faith
in Antichrist, "that they all might be damned who believed
not the truth" (II Thes. 2:8-12).
         
It was infinite love that brought Christ to Calvary to
suffer shame and disgrace for our sins, and this love is
being proclaimed in this dispensation of grace. But this
dispensation may be brought to a close at any time and
bring in the day of God’s wrath. How important then to
accept God’s love, and trust His Son without delay! "Be-
hold, NOW is the accepted time... Behold NOW is the day
of salvation" (II Cor. 6:2).
         
If you do not trust Christ as your Lord and Savior now
and you are caught unawares and lost for all eternity, you
will never be able to say, "It was because God did not
choose to save me." Whatever all the reasons involved in
His electing grace, He does not accept the responsibility for
your rejection of Christ. He says that the unsaved will
perish "because THEY received not the love of the truth, that
they might be saved." Don’t gamble with the future. Re-
ceive God’s gift of salvation now through faith in Christ.

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Oct 24

THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL

Twice in Galatians 2 Paul speaks of "the truth of the gos-
pel." In both cases the Apostle had been forced to speak out
to defend the purity of "the gospel of the grace of God."
         
In Verses 4,5 he refers to his contest with those at Jeru-
salem who would have brought the Gentile believers under
the law of Moses. Among them were "false brethren," he
says, "unawares brought in... to spy out our liberty which
we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bond-
age: to whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an
hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you."
         
In the second case he refers to a controversy with Peter
who, having enjoyed blessed fellowship with Gentile Chris-
tians, had been intimidated by some of his Jewish brethren
into separating himself from the Gentiles. Concerning this,
Paul writes: "But when Peter was come to Antioch, I with-
stood him to the face, because he was to be blamed" (Ver.
11). Why was Peter to be blamed? Verse 14 answers: Be-
cause he "walked not uprightly according to the truth of the
gospel," i.e., "the gospel of the grace of God," in which be-
lieving Jews and Gentiles are "one body in Christ."
         
How we should all thank God for Paul’s vigorous defense
of the gospel of grace, under which all who trust in Christ
as Savior are baptized by the Holy Spirit into the one true
Bible Church (I Cor. 12:13).
         
Doubtless Paul’s stand for "the gospel of the grace of God"
stemmed from the fact that he himself had experienced the
truth of this blessed message. As the chief of sinners he had
been gloriously saved. All his power and prestige as a Phar-
isee, all his intellectual achievement, all his rigid Law
observance meant nothing now, as in the presence of the
glorified Lord he saw himself a sinner, the chief of sinners,
and was saved by the matchless grace of God.

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Oct 25

ONENESS WITH CHRIST

"I am [have been] crucified with Christ" (Gal. 2:20).
         
What is salvation? It is actually coming into oneness
with the Lord Jesus Christ.
         
"The wages of sin is death" and "the soul that sinneth it
shall die," but Christ was not a sinner. Even Pontius Pi-
late, after having examined Him carefully, said: "I find no
fault in Him" and "I find no cause of death in Him."
         
It was therefore not His death that He died at Calvary. It
was ours. He had come from heaven to be born into the
human race as one of us in order to die our death.
         
It is when we view that death at Calvary and say: "This
is not His death He is dying. It is mine;" it is then that, by
an act of faith, we become one with Him. His death was
ours; the penalty for our sins, but it is not applied to us
until by faith we accept it as ours. Thus the Apostle Paul
declares by divine inspiration:
         
"I have been crucified with Christ" and he adds: "the life
which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith [the fidelity]
of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me"
(Gal. 2:20).
         
Since the believer has been united with Christ in death,
he is united with Him in resurrection life also. Col 2:12
says that believers are "buried with Him in baptism." This
is not baptism by water. This is a divine baptism, the work
of the Holy Spirit, for he goes on to say: "wherein also ye
are risen with Him through the faith of the operation of
God."

Little wonder the Apostle begins this lesson for believers
with the declaration:
         
"For in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the godhead bodily, and ye are complete in Him" (Col. 2:9,10).

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Oct 26

SATAN AND THE TRUTH

"If any man be in Christ he is a new creation..." (II Cor. 5:17).
         
"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus..." (Eph.
2:10).
         
"And ye are complete in Him..." (Col. 2:10).
         
"In Christ!" What a glorious truth! What a high and holy
position! No religious ceremony, neither circumcision nor
baptism, needed to make us spiritually complete. God only
asks now: "Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are
called" (Eph. 4:1).

Many Christians are satisfied with salvation through the
blood of Christ, but God wants us to have much more than
this. He wants us to have "the full assurance of understand-
ing" (Col. 2:2), to know the security, the blessedness, the
glory of a position in Christ. He wants us to know "the ex-
ceeding riches of His grace" (Eph. 2:7), and to enjoy "all
spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ" (Eph. 1:3).
         
But Satan does not!

For proclaiming these glorious truths the Apostle Paul
was bitterly opposed on every hand, even by some saved
religious leaders of his day.

And Satan has not changed!

Proclaim this message today and "your adversary the
devil" will soon be roused to action. He hates this message
of grace which the glorified Lord revealed through Paul
(Eph. 3:1-3) and let us not be asleep to the fact that, as in
Paul’s day, he will again seek to use even saved religious
leaders, evangelical "big guns," if he can, to oppose it, thus
robbing Christ of His glory and believers of their blessings.

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Oct 27

DEMON POSSESSION

The modern revival of E.S.P., fortune telling, astrology,
magic, the Ouija board, the spirit seance and a score of
other occult practices have caused many to wonder whether
human beings may be possessed or controlled by evil spirits.
       
Many Christian people recall the cases of demon posses-
sion recorded in the Bible in connection with our Lord's
earthly ministry.
       
There is indeed much evidence that there was a great
outbreak of demon activity when Christ was on earth. This
outbreak seems to have abated soon after the Lord's ascen-
sion to heaven, but many are asking: Has another such
epidemic broken out?
       
Whatever the answer to this question, the Scriptures
clearly indicate that the best defense against the activity
of Satan and his hosts is sincere faith in Christ, of whom we
read that, "having vanquished" the powers of evil at Cal-
vary, "He made a show of them openly, triumphing over
them in it" (Col. 2:15). It is on the basis of Christ's finished
work of redemption that St. Paul joins believers in...
       
"Giving thanks unto the Father, who hath made us meet [fit] to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son" (Col. 1:12,13).
       
Not only is the true believer in Christ "delivered... from
the power of darkness," but upon believing he becomes "the
temple of the Holy Spirit," a living shrine where Christ is
worshipped. Thus St. Paul says again: "What! Know ye not
that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit" (I Cor. 6:19).
How then could the Christian's body also be the dwelling
place of an evil spirit?

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Oct 28

WHO SHALL SEPARATE US?


"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?" (Rom. 8:35).
       
True Christians have been saved from the penalty of sin
for one reason alone: because of "the love of God, which is
[manifested] in Christ Jesus our Lord."
       
St. John wrote by divine inspiration:

"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and
sent His Son to be the propitiation [satisfaction] for our sin.
       
"We love Him because He first loved us" (I John 4:10,19).

Let us understand this clearly and remember it always.
It is not our love to Him, but His love to us, that saves us—
and it is His love to us that keeps us saved. This is where
we must begin the Christian life.
       
A wayward husband returned to his grieving wife one
day, after many months of living in sin. Sobbing his heart
out in remorse and shame, he told her how often he had
longed to be home again with the wife he knew to be so true
to him. Asked why, then, he had not returned sooner, he
explained that he was ashamed; to which his wife replied:
"John, I want you to know something and never forget it: I
love you." John sobbed in response: "Who wouldn’t want to
live for a woman like this!"

Just so it is the knowledge that Christ loves us no matter
what; that nothing shall ever separate us from His love; it
is this that makes the sincere believer determine, by God’s
grace, to be always true to Him.

Thus the Scripture doctrine of the believer’s eternal se-
curity in Christ by no means leads to careless living. On
the contrary, it affords the greatest possible motivation to
"live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world"
(Tit. 2:11,12).

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