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So with all the Lord’s
disciples: their continual study should be to avoid that
hypercritical disposition to sentence and to destroy other people,
while desiring mercy for themselves. The rule which the Lord
establishes is that we must expect from Him mercy only in proportion
as we shall exercise this grace toward others. The fault-finding
disposition that is ready to accuse and condemn everybody, indicates
a wrong condition of heart, one against which all the Lord’s people
should be on guard. Mercy, goodness, we, are the elements of
character which He desires to see in the spiritual Israelites, and
with out which we cannot long continue to be His
children. |
