Hold us up LORD, with Thy Everlasting Arms!
"If
any man come to Me,
and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and
brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My
disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after Me,
cannot be My
disciple."
-LUKE
14:26, 27 [KJV]
There
is no middle path to heaven—there is no intermediate state between
hell and heaven; no purgatory for that numerous class who think
themselves hardly good enough for heaven, yet hardly bad enough for
hell. No; there is no intermediate road nor state. We
must win Christ as our own most blessed Jesus, and with Him
enjoy the happiness and glory of heaven, or sink down to Hell
with all our sins upon our head beneath His
most terrible frown. The soul then that has been charmed with
the beauty and blessedness of JESUS longs to win Him, and that not
for a day, month, or year, but for eternity; for in obtaining Him, it
obtains all that God can give the soul of man to enjoy as created
immortal and for immortality.
Under
the influence of His grace, it feels at times, even here below, all
its immortal powers springing forth into active, heavenly life, and
looks forward in faith and hope to a glorious eternity, where it will
be put into possession of the highest enjoyment which God can give to
man, even union with Himself by virtue of union with His dear Son,
according to those wonderful words of the Redeemer Himself— "That
they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me,
and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us"
[JOHN
17:21].
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
Excerpt
from “EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES”
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