“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of
Christ.” 2 Corinthians 5:10
Paul says that we
must all, preacher and people alike, “appear before the judgment seat of
Christ.” If you learn to live in the white light of Christ here and now,
judgment finally will cause you to delight in the work of God in you. Keep
yourself steadily faced by the judgment seat of Christ; walk now in the light
of the holiest you know. A wrong temper of mind about another soul will end in
the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are. One carnal judgment,
and the end of it is hell in you. Drag it to the light at once and say – “My
God, I have been guilty there.” If you don’t, hardness will come all through.
The penalty of sin is confirmation in sin. It is not only God who punishes for
sin; sin confirms itself in the sinner and gives back full pay. No struggling
nor praying will enable you to stop doing some things, and the penalty of sin
is that gradually you get used to it and do not know that it is sin. No power
save the incoming of the Holy Ghost can alter the inherent consequences of sin.
“But if we walk in
the light as He is in the light.” Walking in the light means for many of us
walking according to our standard for another person. The deadliest Pharisaism
to-day is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
3月16日竭誠為主
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