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The Tenth Commandment
Thou shalt nor covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not cover thy
neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his
ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.
IN THE TWELFTH CHAPTER Of Luke, our Saviour lifted two danger
signals. "Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is
hypocrisy" (v. 1), and "Take heed, and beware of covetousness" (v.
15).
The greatest dupe the devil has in the world is the hypocrite; but
the next greatest is the covetous man, "for a man's life consisteth
not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth" (Lk 12:15).
I believe this sin is much stronger now than ever before in the
world's history. We are not in the habit of calling it a sin. In his
first epistle to the Thessalonians Paul speaks of a "cloak of
covetousness" (2:5). Covetous men use it as a cloak and call it
prudence and foresight. Who ever heard it confessed as a sin? I have
heard many confessions, in public and private, during the past forty
years, but never have ] heard a man confess that he was guilty of
this sin. The Bible does not tell of one man who ever recovered from
it, and in all my experience I do not recall many who have been able
to shake it off after it had fastened on them. A covetous man or
woman generally remains covetous to the very end.
We may say that covetous desire plunged the human race into sin. We
can trace the river back from age to age until we get to its rise in
Eden. When Eve saw that the forbidden fruit was good for food and
that it was desirable to the eyes, she partook of it, and Adam with
her. They were not satisfied with alt that God had showered upon
them, but coveted the wisdom of gods which Satan deceitfully told
them might be obtained by eating the fruit. She saw, she desired,
then she took! Three steps from innocence into sin.
A SEARCHING COMMANDMENT
It would be absurd for such a law as this to be placed upon any
human statute book. It could never be enforced. The officers of the
law would be powerless to detect infractions. The outward conduct
may be regulated, but the thoughts and intents of a man are beyond
the reach of human law.
But God can see behind outward actions. He can read the thoughts of
the heart. Our innermost life, invisible to mortal eye, is laid bare
before Him. We cannot deceive Him by external conformity. He is able
to detect the least transgression and shortcoming, so that no man
can shirk detection. God cannot be imposed upon by the cleanness of
the outside of the cup and the platter.
Surely we have here another proof that the Ten Commandments are not
of human origin, but must be divine.
This commandment, then, did not, even on the surface, confine itself
to visible actions, as did the preceding commandments. Even before
Christ came and showed their spiritual sweep, men had a commandment
that went beneath public conduct and touched the very springs of
action. It directly prohibited-- not the wrong act, but the wicked
desire that prompted the act. It forbade the evil thought, the
unlawful wish. It sought to prevent-- not only sin, but the desire
to sin. In God's sight it is as wicked to set covetous eyes as it is
to lay thieving hands upon anything that is not ours.
And why? Because if the evil desire can be controlled, there will be
no outbreak in conduct. Desires have been called "actions in the
egg." The desire in the heart is the first step in the series that
ends in action. Kill the evil desire, and you successfully avoid the
ill results that would follow upon its hatching and development.
Prevention is better than cure.
We must not limit covetousness to the matter of money. The
commandment is not thus limited; it reads, "Thou shalt not covet ...
anything." That word "anything" is what will condemn us. Though we
do not join the race for wealth, have we not sometimes a hungry
longing for our neighbor's goodly lands, fine houses, beautiful
clothes, brilliant reputation, personal accomplishments, easy
circumstances, comfortable surroundings? Have we not had the desire
to increase our possessions or to change our lot in accordance with
what we see in others? If so, we are guilty of having broken this
law.
GOD'S THOUGHTS ABOUT COVETOUSNESS
Let us examine a few of the Bible passages that bear down on this
sin, and see what are God's thoughts about it.
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of
God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Co 6:9-10,
italics added).
Notice that the covetous are named between thieves and drunkards. We
lock up thieves and have no mercy on them. We loathe drunkards and
consider them great sinners against the law of God as well as the
law of the land. Yet there is far more said in the Bible against
covetousness than against either stealing or drunkenness.
Covetousness and stealing are almost like Siamese twins-- they go
together so often. In fact we might add lying, and make them
triplets. The covetous person is a thief in the shell. The thief is
a covetous person out of the shell. Let a covetous person see
something that he desires very much; let an opportunity of taking it
be offered; how very soon he will break through the shell and come
out in his true character as a thief. The Greek word translated
covetousness means "an inordinate desire of getting." When the Gauls
tasted the sweet wines of Italy, they asked where they came from and
never rested until they had overrun Italy.
"For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor
covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the
kingdom of Christ and of God" (Eph 5:5).
There we have the same truth repeated; but notice that covetousness
is called idolatry. The covetous man worships mammon, not God.
"Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as
fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over
them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of
fifties, and rulers of tens" (Ex 18:21, italics added).
Isn't it extraordinary that Jethro, the man of the desert, should
have given this advice to Moses? How did he learn to beware of
covetousness? We honor men today if they are wealthy and covetous.
We elect them to office in church and state. We often say that they
will make better treasurers just because we know them to be
covetous. But in God's sight a covetous man is as vile and black as
any thief or drunkard. David said: "The wicked boasteth of his
heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth"
(Ps 10:3). I am afraid that many who profess to have put away
wickedness also speak well of the covetous.
A SORE EVIL
"He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he
that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. When goods
increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there
to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
The sleep of the labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or
much: but the abundance of the rich, will not suffer him to sleep.
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches
kept for the owners thereof to their hurt" (Ec 5:10-13).
Isn't that true? Is the covetous man ever satisfied with his
possessions? Aren't they vanity? Does he have peace of mind? Don't
selfish riches always bring hurt?
The folly of covetousness is well shown in the following extract: If
you should see a man that had a large pond of water, yet living in
continual thirst, nor suffering himself to drink half a draught for
fear of lessening his pond; if you should see him wasting his time
and strength in fetching more water to his pond, aIways thirsty, yet
always carrying a bucket of water in his hand, watching early and
late to catch the glimpse of rain, gaping after every cloud, and
running greedily into every mire and mud in hopes of water, and
always studying how to make every ditch empty itself into the pond;
if you should see him grow grey in these anxious labors, and at last
end a thirsty life by falling into his own pond, would you not say
that such a one was not only the author of his own disquiet, but was
foolish enough to be reckoned among madmen? But foolish and absurd
as this character is,it does not represent half the follies and
absurd disquiets of the covetous man."
I have read of a millionaire in France who was a miser. In order to
make sure of his wealth, he dug a cave in his wine cellar so large
and deep that he could go down into it with a ladder. The entrance
had a door with a spring lock. After a time, he was missing Search
was made, but they could find no trace of him. At last his house was
sold, and the purchaser discovered this door in the cellar. He
opened it, went down, and found the miser lying dead on the ground
in the midst of his riches. The door must have shut accidentally
after him, and he perished miserably.
A TEMPTATION AND A SNARE
"They that will be [that is, desire to be] rich fall into temptation
and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown
men in destruction and perdition" (1 Ti 6:9). The Bible speaks of
the deceitfulness of two things-- "the deceitfulness of sin" and
"the deceitfulness of riches." Riches are like a mirage in the
desert which has all the appearance of satisfying and lures the
traveler on with the promise of water and shade; but he only wastes
his strength in the effort to reach it. So riches never satisfy: the
pursuit of them always turns out a snare.
Lot coveted the rich plains of Sodom, and what did he gain? After
twenty years spent in that wicked city, he had to escape for his
life, leaving all his wealth behind him.
What did the thirty pieces of silver do for Judas? Weren't they a
snare?
Think of Balaam. He is generally regarded as a false prophet, but I
do not find that any of his prophecies that are recorded are not
true; they have been literally fulfilled. Up to a certain point his
character shone magnificently, but the devil finally overcame him by
the bait of covetousness. He stepped over a heavenly crown for the
riches and honors that Balak promised him. He went to perdition
backwards. His face was set toward God, but be backed into hell. He
wanted to die the death of the righteous, but he did not live the
life of the righteous. It is sad to see so many who know God miss
everything for riches.
Then consider the case of Gehazi. There is another man who was
drowned in destruction and perdition by covetousness. He got more
out of Naaman than he asked for, but he also got Naaman's leprosy.
Think how he forfeited the friendship of his master Elisha, the man
of God! So today lifelong friends are separated by this accursed
desire. Homes are broken up. Men are willing to sell out peace and
happiness for the sake of a few dollars.
Didn't David fall into foolish and hurtful lusts? He saw Bathsheba,
Uriah's wife, and she was "very beautiful to look upon," and David
became a murderer and an adulterer. The guilty longing hurled him
into the deepest pit of sin. He had to reap bitterly as he had
sowed.
I heard of a wealthy German out West who owned a lumber mill. He was
worth nearly two millions of dollars, but his covetousness was so
great that he once worked as a common laborer carrying railroad ties
all day. It was the cause of his death.
"And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against
the Lord God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done: When I saw
among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred
shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then
I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the
earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it" (Jos
7:20-21, italics added) .
He saw-- he coveted-- he took-- he hid! The covetous eye was what
led Achan up to the wicked deed that brought sorrow and defeat upon
the camp of Israel.
We know the terrible punishment that was meted out to Achan. God
seems to have set danger signals at the threshold of each new age.
It is remarkable how soon the first outbreaks of covetousness
occurred. Think of Eve in Eden, Achan just after Israel had entered
the Promised Land, Ananias and Sapphira in the early Christian
church.
A ROOT EXTRACTOR
"For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some
coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced
themselves through with many sorrows" (1 Ti 6:10).
This tenth commandment has therefore been aptly called a
"root-extractor," because it would tear up and destroy this root. No
one but God can rid us of it. Matthew tells us that the
deceitfulness of riches chokes the Word of God. Like the Mississippi
river, which chokes up its mouth by the amount of soil it carried
down. Isn't that true of many businessmen today? They are so
engrossed with their affairs that they have not time for religion.
They lose sight of their soul and its eternal welfare in their
desire to amass wealth. They do not even hesitate to sell their
souls to the devil. How many a man says, "We must make money, and if
God's law stands in the way, brush it aside."
The word "lucre" occurs five times in the New Testament, and each
time it is called "filthy lucre."
"A root of all kinds of evil." Yes, because what will not men be
guilty of when prompted by the desire to be rich? Greed for gold
leads men to commit violence and murder, to cheat and deceive and
steal. It turns the heart to stone, devoid of all natural affection,
cruel, unkind. How many families are wrecked am the father's will!
The scramble for a share of the wealth smashes them to pieces.
Covetous of rank and position in society, parents barter sons and
daughters in ungodly marriage. Bodily health is no consideration The
uncontrollable fever for gold makes men renounce all their settled
prospects and undertake hazardous journeys--no peril can drive them
back.
It destroys faith and spirituality, turning men's minds and hearts
away from God. It disturbs the peace of the community by prompting
to acts of wrong. Covetousness has more than once led nation to war
against nation for the sake of gaining territory or other material
resources. It is said that when the Spaniards came over to conquer
Peru, they sent a ": message to the king, saying, "Give us gold, for
we Spaniards have a disease that can only be cured by gold."
Dr. Boardman has shown how covetousness leads to the transgression
of every one of the commandments, and I cannot do better than quote
his words: *Coveting tempts us into the violation of the first
commandment, worshiping mammon in addition to Jehovah. Coveting
tempts us into a violation of the second commandment, or idolatry.
The apostle Paul expressly identifies the covetous man with an
idolater: "Covetousness, which is idolatry.' Again: Coveting tempts
us into violation of the third commandment, or sacrilegious
falsehood: for instance, Gehazi, lying on the matter of his
interview with Naaman the Syrian, and Ananias and Sapphira perjuring
themselves in the matter of the community of goods.
"Again: Coveting tempts us into the violation of the fourth
commandment, or Sabbath-breaking. It is covetousness which
encroaches on God's appointed day of sacred rest, tempting us to run
trains for merely secular purposes, to vend tobacco and liquors, to
hawk newspapers. Again: Coveting tempts us into the violation of the
fifth commandment, or disrespect for authority; tempting the young
man to deride his early parental counsels, the citizen to trample on
civic enactments. Again: Covetousness tempts us into violation of
the sixth commandment, or murder. Recall how Judas' love of money
lured him into the betrayal of his divine Friend into the hand of
His murderers, his lure being the paltry sum of, say, fifteen
dollars.
"Again: Covetousness tempts us into the Violation of the seventh
commandment, or adultery. Observe bow Scripture combines greed and
lust. Again: Covetousness tempts us into the violation of the eighth
commandment, or theft. Recall how it tempted Achan to steal a goodly
Babylonish mantle, (two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of
gold of fifty shekels weight. Again: Covetousness tempts Us into the
violation of the ninth commandment, or having false witness against
our neighbor. Recall how the covetousness of Ahab instigated his
wife Jezebel to employ sons of Belial to bear blasphemous and fatal
testimony against Naboth, saying, "Thou didst curse God and the
king."
HOW TO OVERCOME
You ask me how you are to cast this unclean spirit out of your
heart? I think I can tell you.
In the first place, make up your mind that by the grace of God you
will overcome the spirit of selfishness. You must overcome it, or it
will overcome you. Paul said: "Mortify therefore your members which
are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection,
evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which
things sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience"
(Col 3:5-6).
I heard of a rich man who was asked to make a contribution on behalf
of some charitable object. The text was quoted to him, "He that hath
pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath
given will he pay him again" (Pr 19:17). He said that the security
might be good enough, but the credit was too long. He was dead
within two weeks. The wrath of God rested upon him as he never
expected.
If you find yourself getting very miserly, begin to scatter, like a
wealthy farmer in New York state I heard of. He was a noted miser,
but he was converted. Soon after, a poor man who had been burned out
and had no provisions, came to him for help. The farmer thought he
would be liberal and give the man a ham from his smokehouse. On his
way to get it, the tempter whispered to him:
"Give him the smallest one you have."
He had a struggle whether he would give a large or a small ham, but
finally he took down the largest he could find.
"You are a fool," the devil said.
"If you don't keep still," the farmer replied, "I will give him
every ham I have in the smokehouse."
Mr. Durant told me he woke up one morning to find that he was a rich
man, and he said that the greatest struggle of his life then took
place as to whether he would let money be his master, or he be
master of money; whether he would be its slave, or make it a slave
to him. At last he got the victory, and that was how Wellesley
College came to be built.
In the next place, cultivate the spirit of contentment. "Let your
conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such
things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor
forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and
I will not fear what man shall do unto me" (Heb 13:5-6).
Contentment is the very opposite of covetousness, which is
continually craving for something it does not possess. "Be content
with such things as ye have" (Heb 13:5), not worrying about the
future, because God has promised never to leave or forsake you. What
does the child of God want more than this? I would rather have that
promise than all the gold of the earth.
Would to God that we might be able to say with Paul, "I have coveted
no man's silver, or gold, or apparel" (Ac 20:33). The Lord had made
him partaker of His grace, and he was soon to be a partaker of His
glory, and earthly things looked very small. "Godliness with
contentment is great gain," he wrote to Timothy; "having food and
raiment therewith let us be content" (1 Ti 6:6, 8). Observe that he
puts godliness first. No worldly gain can satisfy the human heart.
Roll the whole world in, and still there would be room.
May God tear the scales off our eyes if we are blinded by this sin.
Oh, the folly of it, that we should set our heart's affections upon
anything below! For we brought nothing into this world, and it is
certain we can carry nothing out. "Be not thou afraid when one is
made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; for when he
dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after
him" (Ps 49:16-17).
The Handwriting Blotted Out WE HAVE NOW CONSIDERED the Ten
Commandments, and the question for each one of us is-- are we
keeping them? If God should weigh us by them, would we be found
wanting or not wanting? Do we keep the law, the whole law? Are we
obeying God with all our heart? Do we render Him a full and willing
obedience?
ONE LAW, NOT TEN
These Ten Commandments are not ten different laws; they are one law.
If I am being held up in the air by a chain with ten links and I
break one of them, down I come, just as surely as if I break the
whole ten. If I am forbidden to go out of an enclosure, it makes no
difference at what point I break through the fence. "Whosoever shall
keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of
all" (la 2: 10). The golden chain of obedience is broken if one link
is missing.
We sometimes hear people pray to be preserved from certain sin, as
if they were in no danger of committing others. I firmly believe
that if a man begins by willfully breaking one of these commandments
it is much easier for him to break the others. I know of a gentleman
who had a confidential clerk and insisted on his going down Sunday
morning to work on his books. The young man had a good deal of
principle, and at first refused; but he was anxious to keep in the
good graces of his employer and finally yielded. He had not done
that a great while before he speculated in stocks, and became a
defaulter for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. The employer
had him arrested and put in the penitentiary for ten years, but I
believe he was just as guilty in the sight of God as that young man,
for he led him to Cake the fist step on the downward road. You
remember the story of a soldier who was smuggled into a fortress in
a load of hay, and opened the gates to his comrades. Every sin we
commit opens the door for other sins.
ALL HAVE COME SHORT
For fifteen hundred years man was under the law, and no one was
equal to it. Christ came and showed that the commandments went
beyond the mere letter; and can anyone since say that he has been
able to keep them in his own strength? As the plummet is held up, we
see how much we are out of the perpendicular. As we measure
ourselves by that holy standard, we find how much we are lacking. As
a child said, when reproved by her mother and told that she ought to
do right: "How can I do right when there is no right in me?" "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Ro 3:23), "There is
none righteous, no, not one" (Ro 3:10).
I do not say that all are equally guilty of gross violations of the
commandments. It needs a certain amount of reckless courage openly
to break a law, human or divine; but it is easy to crack them, as
the child said. It has been remarked that the life of many
professors of religion is full of fractures that result from little
sins, little acts of temper and selfishness. It is possible to crack
a costly vase so finely that it cannot be noticed by the observer;
but let this be done again and again in different directions, and
some day the vase will go to pieces at a touch. When we hear of
someone who has had a lifelong reputation for good character and
consistent living, suddenly falling into some shameful sin, we are
shocked and puzzled. If we knew all, we would find that only the
fall has been sudden, that he has been sliding toward it for years.
Away back in his life we should find numerous cracked commandments.
His exposure is only the falling of the vase to pieces.
FALSE WEIGHTS
Men have all sorts of weights that they think are going to satisfy,
but they will find that they are altogether vanity, and lighter than
vanity.
The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save
him. "Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish" (Lk 13:3, 5).
"Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not
enter into the kingdom of heaven" (Mt 18:3). I have often heard good
people say that our meetings were doing good, they were reaching the
drunkards, and gamblers, and harlots; but they never realized that
they needed the grace of God for themselves.
Nicodemus was probably one of the most moral men of his day. He was
a teacher of the law. Yet Christ said to him: "Except a man be born
again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." It is much easier to reach
thieves and drunkards and vagabonds than self-righteous Pharisees.
You do not have to preach to those men for weeks and months to
convince them that they are sinners. When a man learns that he has
need of God and that he is a sinner, it is very easy to reach him.
But the self-righteous Pharisee needs salvation as much as any
drunkard that walks the streets.
I read of a minister traveling in the South who obtained permission
to preach in the local jail. A son of his host went with him. On the
way back the young man who was not a Christian, said to the
minister:
"I hope some of the convicts were impressed. Such a sermon as that
ought to do them good."
"Did it do you good? the minister asked.
"Oh, you were preaching to the convicts" the young man answered.
The minister shook his head, and said: "I preached Christ, and you
need Him as much as they."
If you do not repent of your sins and ask Him for mercy, there is no
hope for you. Let me ask you to take this question home to yourself.
If a summons would come at midnight for you to be "weighed in the
balances," what would become of your soul?
Many are only making a profession. Are you ready to be weighed--
ready to step into the scales? A great many would be found like
those five foolish virgins. When the hour came, they would be found
with no oil in their lamps. If you have only an empty lamp, or are
living on mere formalism, I beg of you to give it up. Give up that
dead, cold, miserable lukewarmness. God will have none of it. Are
you lusting to your good works? Do you drink your Bible, your
crucifix, your prayers, your churchgoing will help you?
Or do you set your hope upon your education, your wealth, your
earthly distinctions? What will your university education amount to,
and all your wealth and honors, if you go down through lust and
passion and covetousness, and lose your soul at last? We are not
redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold but with the
precious blood of Christ. If you have not Christ when God weighs
you, "Tekel" will be your sentence.
DO NOT DESPAIR
I can imagine that you are saying to yourself, "If we are to be
judged by these laws, how are we going to be saved? Nearly every one
of them has been broken by us-- in spirit, if not in letter." I
almost hear you say: "I wonder if Mr. Moody is ready to be weighed.
Would he like to put those tests to himself?" With all humility I
reply that if God commanded me to step into the scales now, I am
ready. "What!" you say, "haven't you broken the law? Yes, I have. I
was a sinner before God, the same as you; but forty years ago I pled
guilty at His bar. I cried for mercy, and He forgave me. If I step
into the scales, the Son of God has promised to be with me. I would
not dare to step in without Him. If I did, how quickly the scales
would fly up!
CHRIST IS ALL Christ kept the law. If He had ever broken it, He
would have to die for Himself; but because He was a Lamb without
spot or blemish, His atoning death is efficacious for you and me. He
had no sin of His own to atone for, and so God accepted His
sacrifice. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to
everyone that believeth. We are righteous in God's sight, because
the righteousness of God which is by faith in Jesus Christ is unto
all and upon all them that believe.
If we had to live forever with our sins in the handwriting of God on
the wall, it would be hell on earth. But thank God for the Gospel we
preach! If we repent, our sins will all be blotted out. "You, being
dead in your sins . . . hath he quickened together with him, having
forgiven you all trespasses; blotting out the handwriting of
ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took
it out of the way, nailing it to his cross" (Col 2:13-14).
LOVE, THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW If the love of God is shed abroad in
your heart, you will be able to fulfill the law. Paul reduced the
commandments to one: Love is the fulfilling of the law" (Ro 13:10).
Someone has written the following:
Love to God will admit no other God. Love resents everything that
debases its object by representing it by an image. Love to God will
never dishonor His name. Love to God will reverence His day. Love to
parents makes one honor them.
Hate, not love, is a murderer. Lust, not love, commits adultery.
Love will give, but never steal. Love will not slander or lie.
Love's eye is not covetous.
ARE YOU READY?
It is the height of madness to turn away and run the risk of being
called by God to judgment and have no hope in Christ. Now is the day
and hour to accept salvation, and then He will be with you. Do you
step aside and say: "I'm not ready yet. I want a little more time to
prepare, to turn the matter over in my mind"? Well, you have time,
but bear in mind it is only the present; you do not know that you
will have tomorrow. Wasn't Belshazzar cut off suddenly? Would he
have believed that that was going to be his last night, that he
would never see the light of another sun? That banquet of sin didn't
close as he expected. As long as you delay you are in danger. If you
don't enter into the kingdom of heaven by God's way, you cannot
enter at all. You must accept Christ as your Saviour, or you will
never be fit to be weighed.
My friend, do you have Him? Will you remain as you are and be found
wanting, or will you accept Christ and be ready for the summons?
"This is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and
this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life: and he that
hath not the Son of God hath not life" (1 Jn. 5:11, 12).
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