one of those thin skinned folks who are always preaching tolerance, then
please do not read this...
Quote of the Day
“Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God”
(Matthew 22:29).
The source of error is ignorance. The man who does not know
the Scriptures nor the power of God is an ignoramus. In the days of Noah,
“…they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage…and knew not”
(Matthew 24:38,39).
“…as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the
Son of man be” (Matthew 24:37).
Devotion of the Day
Are you God’s Enemy?
Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the
world is the enemy of God.
James 4:4
James 4:4
If any man love the world, the love of the
Father is not in him.
I John 2:15
I John 2:15
How conclusive these statements! The friend of the world makes
himself thereby the enemy of God. We would not use so strong a term as “enemy,”
but God does.
“The friendship of this world is enmity with God.” Not mild
disagreement but utter hostility!
And John does not say that if any man love the world the love of
the Father is weak in him – it is not in him at all. Why is it that we hear so
little of this today? Because Christians and churches that have compromised
with the world and gone into alliance with it are in no position to say “amen”
to such an unequivocal pronouncement as this. We have become artists at
soft-pedaling Bible verses that come too uncomfortably close to where we live,
and these certainly are two that are played pianissimo while we pull out all
the stops on others.
But no exegetical sleight of hand can tone down these texts. The
friend of the world is God’s enemy. The lover of the world has no love of God
in him.
Vance
Havner
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