But
rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be
overjoyed when his glory is revealed. 1
Peter 4:13
I want to
bring you my postulate that most present-day Christians live sub-Christian
lives. As a result, Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so
weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone and if it were medicine it
would not cure anyone!
Most
Christians are not joyful persons because they are not holy persons, and they
are not holy persons because they are not filled with the Holy Spirit, and they
are not filled with the Holy Spirit because they are not separated persons.
The Spirit
cannot fill whom He cannot separate, and whom He cannot fill, He cannot make
holy, and whom He cannot make holy, He cannot make happy!
My
postulate further insists that the average modern Christian is not Christlike.
The proof of this is apparent in the disposition that we find among the
children of God. They have moral weaknesses and suffer frequent defeats. They
have a dulled understanding and often live far below the standard of the
Scriptures and thus outside the will of God.
To be
honest, let us admit that the application of the gospel is being pulled down to
the standard of the most carnal, the cheapest saintling hanging on by the teeth
anywhere in the kingdom of God!
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