We doubt if there be any other one thing that prevents God’s people living unto God as they should so much as the fear of man. It is so very subtle and cunning that many may have it and not be aware of it. There is an independence of man that is wrong and there is an independence that is most Christ-like. Holy living is to live unto God though all the world might oppose. Our dearest friend on earth must not be allowed to cause us to deviate one hair’s breadth from trueness to God. Here is one of the places in the Christian’s life that should be closely watched and guarded. Peter swerved from the true path when he refused to eat with the Gentiles for fear of the Jews. This was after Pentecost. Paul reproved him. This took some courage on the part of Paul, but faithfulness required it.
“The fear of man bringeth a snare.” Many a one has fallen into this snare. Alas, how many have made compromise with man for man’s favor! “Conscious dependence upon God is the spirit of independence toward all men.” Perfect love casts out all fear of man. Those who can be influenced by men are not made perfect in love. It is argued by some that we should desire all men to think well of us that we might do them good. This is true, but oh, how careful we need to be that it is solely that we “might do them good.” Beware lest there be something of self there. We should desire to have influence with men for Jesus’ sake, but for no other purpose. If faithfulness to God causes you to lose influence with men, then it were better for them and you also that you lose it. If you have to step aside from godly living to have influence with men, you are ensnared.
The apostle said, “But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment.” To suppress or modify truth by word or act is coming short of holy living. To give aid, or to abet by word or deed any spirit of levity, worldliness, or untruthfulness through man’s influence is unfaithfulness to God.
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1.Anything less than perfect dependence upon God is a denial of Him.
2.Life has a language. To live holy is to have all our words and deeds to say, “Hallowed be Thy name.”
3.The rays of light that proceed from the sun are as pure as the sun. The life that flows from God must be as free from imperfections as He.
4.If the human soul would grow in moral stature and moral beauty and fruitfulness, it must keep open to the light of God and absorb that light as it falls upon it.
5.If you are not showing to the world around you that there is something better than wealth, honor, position, earthly pleasure, and the good opinions and praise of men, you are not showing forth the life of Christ.
6.He does not love us truly who does not love us well enough to tell us our faults. To love one another is to have an intense desire to see one another free from faults.
7.The man who fails to give us reproof when needed, but gives us approval instead or holds back deserving rebuke for fear of offending, is more cruel than he who withholds bread from us when we are hungry.
8.He who will listen to any words of levity, jesting, foolishness, tale-bearing, tattling, and show no disapproval makes himself a partaker of the sin.
9.It has been arranged in the plan of redemption that God and man can be so absorbed each in the other that they would think alike, will alike, feel and love and work together. This is man at his real self.
10.Man is to be loved because of what he is worth to God. We get some estimate of man’s worth to Christ by the terrible woe He pronounces upon those who would injure one of those who believe in Him.
11.The nearer you live like Christ the nearer you live like you ought to live. The more you love Him, and love with Him, and love all things for Him the more you will be like Him.
12.The trouble is not that you do not know what is right; the trouble is that you do not lay hold upon God to help you to live like you know you should.
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We can learn many a lesson about the body of Christ—the Church of God—by the study of the human body. “And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it.” If one saint suffers all the other saints suffer with this suffering one. Let us examine our experience. When one member is honored all the members rejoice with the honored one. We ought not to pass over this indifferently. There is a solemn truth here. We should not say it is true in our life if it is not really true. If the feet of your body are honored with a nice pair of shoes, see how rejoicing the hands go to work to place these shoes upon the feet. It is so in the body of Christ. Suppose you have held a prominent position in the Church. The time comes when you must surrender it to another. Do you do so rejoicingly? Man can say that he does it rejoicingly when in the heart it is not true. We ought not to be satisfied unless it is as true as heaven in our heart. Suppose you were aspiring for a position, but it is given to another. Do you rejoice in your heart? It is that way in the human body, and it is even more so in the Church of God. Suppose you are given $100.00. You rejoice. Why do you rejoice? Do you rejoice because of what use you can make of this money for your own convenience and need? You should rejoice because of what use you can make of it in honoring or glorifying Christ. This should be the sole cause of your rejoicing. Let me tell you how you can discover whether you rejoice in it for this one cause. Suppose the $100 be given to another who will use it to glorify God equally as much as you, do you rejoice just as much as if it had been given to you? If not, you are not measuring fully to 1 Cor. 12:26.
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A tourist asked at the service station the way to a certain town. The directions were carefully given. The tourist said, “You think this is the best way, do you?”
The serviceman replied, “It is not only the best way, but it is the only way.”
The Bible is the only way to heaven. Do you live to all it teaches every day? Read the sixth chapter of Matthew over very carefully. Stop at verses 6, 20, 22, 28, and 33.
Sometimes the word “Sanctification” means that which is set apart, consecrated. In this meaning the vessels in the Temple were holy. But there is a higher sense. It means a state of perfect holiness. Christ perfects them that are sanctified. Holiness means inward likeness to God. Holy living means that the outward life is in full harmony with the will of God. It means very much to be holy as God is holy and to live in harmony with the Divine mind. It can be done, but it is not everyone who professes holiness that is doing it. We ought to live in this way for Jesus’ sake. He is happiest when we are holiest. He is glorified when we do all things to His glory. In those who live holy lives is His ideal realized. We should not seek holiness that we might be happy, but because it is God’s will. Doing the will of God should be our meat and drink. We cannot do God’s will except we be holy, therefore seek holiness and holy living. Be careful, oh, be careful about being holy in the little things of life. If people live holy at all it is in the greater things. If they come short of living holy in the little things of everyday home life, they have missed true holy living.
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“As the hart pants after the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.” (Psa. 42:1). Here is intensity. By intensity we mean that burning passion of the soul after God. That intense desire to be holy as He is holy, and to glorify Him in all words and acts of life. “I opened my mouth and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.” (Psa. 119:131). Here is intensity. Panting after the commandments of God like a thirsty animal for water. The great task of the overseers of God’s church today is to keep God’s people out of a careless, go-easy, indifferent life. How few thirst after God. How few thirst and hunger for the salvation of souls. Preachers may go over the country holding revivals and find entertainment and enjoyment in doing so, but even of those, how few have such a burning passion for souls that they will wrestle with God in the midnight hour or early morning hour or any convenient time for the salvation of the lost. They may think more of what gain they will make. This would be an awful crime, but it may be one of which some are guilty. There are holiness people who act very much as if no one were going to hell. Others act as if they were just as holy as they cared to be. They seem to have no thirsting for greater perfection of life. They act as if there were no improvement to be made.
The need of today is a greater passion for goodness, a more intense longing for greater Christlikeness and a greater burden for those for whom our dear Savior gave His life. “Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.” (Psa. 119:136). Here is intensity. When did you shed a tear over sinners lost? Do not these words shame you? Dear people, the house is on fire, how can ye keep on sleeping?
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Take care of the pennies and the dimes, and you will have the dollars. A pin scratch has caused the death of folks. If you begin to think a thing is too small to be given attention, you are entering a dangerous path. Little bricks build a great house, and little sins make a great sinner. You can put more love in doing little things than in great things. There is less danger of self being in doing the little things than in doing great things. By guarding against every little evil and fault, and faithfully doing every little good thing possible, you can build up a beautiful holy life. Guard your thoughts and words. Lift up your soul to God many times a day. Keep the Lord set before your face. Spend your spare moments on your knees in a sweet little talk with Jesus.
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Take care of the pennies and the dimes, and you will have the dollars. A pin scratch has caused the death of folks. If you begin to think a thing is too small to be given attention, you are entering a dangerous path. Little bricks build a great house, and little sins make a great sinner. You can put more love in doing little things than in great things. There is less danger of self being in doing the little things than in doing great things. By guarding against every little evil and fault, and faithfully doing every little good thing possible, you can build up a beautiful holy life. Guard your thoughts and words. Lift up your soul to God many times a day. Keep the Lord set before your face. Spend your spare moments on your knees in a sweet little talk with Jesus.
Help to Holy Living by: Charles E. Orr
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“Ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ.” (2 Cor. 3:3). “All can see that you are a letter from Christ.” (20th Cent.) The Christian is Christ’s “Open Letter.” His life is a message from Christ to the world. His daily walk is a genuine letter from the Saviour of men. The Christian life is written by the same hand that wrote the New Testament and they readjust alike, word for word. If you profess to be a Christian be sure your daily life is the handwriting of Jesus. Your life in your home amid its trials and provocations should read like God’s Word. It is very confusing and discouraging to others if your life and the New Testament read differently.
The purpose of a letter is to convey the thoughts and mind of the writer. The Christian is that kind of letter. Men come to know the thoughts of God by reading the Christian’s life. He shows Christ’s patience in his patience. His life is not his life, but Christ’s life in his life. The life of a saint is a letter in which the world can read Christ’s gentleness, kindness, humility, sobriety, calmness, sympathy, love, holiness, separateness from the world, and hatred of sin. Do not think this standard is too high. If you will take time to pray and seek after this life with determined effort, leaning hard on Christ’s helpful arm, it will surprise you what a wonderful and beautiful letter you can get to be.
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