God has purposely placed
the matter in such a position that His people must take their
choice, and lose either the Divine friendship and fellowship, or the
worldly friendship and fellowship; because those things which the
Lord loves are distasteful to the worldly, and those things which
the worldly love, evil deeds and evil thoughts, evil-speaking, are
an abomination in the sight of the Lord, and those who love and
practice such things lose His fellowship—they are not of His Spirit.
“If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of
his.” |