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
The Challenge of the Difficult
The Challenge of the Difficult Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. Luke 13:24. A strait gate means a gate difficult to enter.
Distinct and Separate Ways
Distinct and Separate Ways Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow