Shun the World’s Pleasures Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1 John 2:15. The true Christian will not desire
The Condition of Sonship
The Condition of Sonship Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my
God or Mammon
God or Mammon? No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24.
Who Has Our Friendship?
Who Has Our Friendship? Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. James 4:4. The Scriptures furnish abundant evidence that it
Where Are You Pitching Your Tent?
Where Are You Pitching Your Tent? If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Christ’s Representatives in the World They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. John 17:16, 17. Jesus . . . says, “I sanctify myself, that
A Marked Distinction
A Marked Distinction I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. John 17:15. Christians are to stand out distinct from the world as God’s standard bearers, showing