Wednesday, June 9, 2021

The Unrenewed Heart Must Be Tamed

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
 
"It is plainly written on the unrenewed heart-----Selfishness is the great law of our degenerate nature. Selfishness occupies the place in the soul where Christ should sit enthroned

But the Lord requires perfect obedience; and if we truly desire to serve Him, there will be no question in our minds as to whether we shall obey His requirements or seek our own temporal interests. 
 
--Many are falling into the sin of sacrificing their religion for the sake of worldly gain, preserving a form of piety, yet giving all the mind to temporal pursuit. 
 
But the law of God must be considered first of all, 
and obeyed in spirit and in letter
 
Jesus, our great exemplar, in His life and death, taught the strictest obedience
 
*He died, the just for the unjust, the innocent for the guilty, that the honor of God's law might be preserved and yet man not utterly perish...." E.G.W.