Seek Ye First...

Can we not say, and is it not true that it is today like it was in the time of Sodom and Gomorrah? As we were reminded here that they were planting and they were eating, they were marrying and they were building, and they were selling and buying and all this and that.

But we are in a time, dear ones, I often have to think, where the buying and selling of the material things is really taking overhand, even in the hearts of the children of God. There we have to watch, dear ones, first and above all things. The Lord and Saviour said, "Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all these things shall be added unto you." And certainly we can say, dear ones, we have lack of nothing as far as the material things are concerned.

But this seems to be such a dangerous time for the children of God. Even though we do not have persecution from without where we are driven from one city to the other as the disciples and the members were in those days and times, but we have an inner persecution. We have to fight against flesh and blood; we have to walk in the Spirit, as we were reminded here the other evening. Not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. That is our calling; that is the place where we must be.

And God will give us the enlightenment in His Holy Word in order that we can walk as the true children of God, to be the salt of the earth, to be a bright and shining light to the children of men that are around and about us.
--Sermon Excerpt: Bro. E.G. (1964)