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Chapter 27 |
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It is very important that we should understand well how we may abide in Christ. Jesus tells us plainly, “If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love.” Jesus Himself, in His incarnation, was under the same law of obedience. He says, “Even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in His love.” Nothing can take the place of obedience in Christian life. In absolutely no other way can we abide in Jesus Christ’s love.
One of the great privileges of Christian life is friendship with Christ. Those who abide in Him and do His Will shall become His friends. “Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.” That is the way we are to show our love for Christ. It is not enough to say we love Him. That is well so far as it goes, and if we prove it by our deeds it is all right. Shortly before his death, Dean Stanley closed a sermon with some quaint lines, the authorship of which he said he did not certainly know.
Say well is good, but do well is better.
Do well seems spirit, say well the letter.
Say well is godly, and helpeth to please;
But do well lives godly, and gives the world ease.
Say well to silence sometimes is bound,
But do well is free on every ground.
Say well has friends some here, some there,
But do well is welcome everywhere.
But say well to many God’s word cleaves,
But for lack of do well it often leaves.
If say well and do well were bound in one frame,
Then all were done, all were won, and gotten
Were gain.
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