Way-Marks; or, Directions to Persons Commencing a Religious Life
Religion
Way-Marks; or, Directions to Persons Commencing a Religious Life
Christian life
_But of the times and seasons_, ye need not that we write unto you, for
ye know Him that hath said, “Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy.
Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work, but the seventh day is
the sabbath of the Lord thy God.” Blessed is the man that doeth this,
and the son of man that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it. And if
thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, and from doing thy pleasure
on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord,
honourable, and shall honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding
thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words, then shalt thou delight
thyself in the Lord. Exhort one another daily while it is called to-day,
lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin; not
forsaking the assembling of yourselves together, as the manner of some is.
_Be not conformed to the world_, but be ye transformed by the renewing
of your minds. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth
and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. But lay
up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth
corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal. For where your
treasure is, there will your heart be also. Love not the world, neither
the things of the world. If any man love the world, the love of the
Father is not in him. No man can serve two masters, for either he will
hate the one, and love the other, or else he will hold to the one, and
despise the other.—Ye cannot serve God and mammon.—Hear now what the Lord
saith; “He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of
me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me;
and whosoever doth not _bear his cross_ and come after me, cannot be my
disciple.”
_Beloved, believe not every spirit_, but _try_ the spirits whether they
be of God; for they are not all Israel, that are of Israel; for many
walk, of whom we have told you often, and now tell you even weeping,
who are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose
glory is their shame, who mind earthly things. Not every one that saith
unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that
_doeth_ the will of my father which is in heaven.—Ye shall know them by
their fruits.
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