Thus Will Be Manifest All Who Have Loved Him

Each one should be intent on living a quiet, holy, righteous and godly life. For if we be dead unto the world and sin, we cannot live unto ourselves, but in self-denial.

All things which cannot enter the kingdom of heaven must be burnt up and consumed. The Lord has declared that no unclean person can enter into the kingdom of God and it is well that He has done so. Thus will be manifest all who have loved Him with all their heart, whose rock and refuge He has been in all distress. These are trials where our faith is put to the test, in each of which we can be made purer and more glorious.

In the old Israel, we have a complete example, for when they disobeyed His Word and walked in their own ways, God gave them over into the hands of the Philistines who subdued them. And we will fare no better today, if we will not obey, nor take advice.

We must cling to the Saviour, as we are commanded, so that we may prepare ourselves for eternity, for the time of grace is soon past. Even if the Lord does not yet appear, we are in hourly danger of being called out of time into eternity.

But we have reason to believe that His coming will be soon, for we see it by the signs of the times.
--Sermon Excerpt: Elder Bro. B.W.