Prove All Things
Our
diligence in hearing God’s Gospel and honesty in self-examination
will largely be determined by the value which we set upon our soul
and its eternal interests. Alas, the vast majority of professing
Christians today are far, far more concerned about their bodies than
their souls, about carnal pleasures than spiritual riches, about the
good opinion of men rather than the approbation of God. But a few,
how few, are made serious, become in deadly earnest to hear and learn
the Gospel, and to examine well their foundation, and test by God’s
Word every inch of the ground they stand on. With the true believer
the religion of the Gospel is not something to be taken up and laid
down according to fitful moods. Where they will spend eternity is
their all-absorbing concern! Every other interest in life sinks into
utter insignificance before the vital necessity of making sure that
they have “the root of the matter” in them.
-Gospel report by preacher Arthur W. Pink
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