GOD WILL NOT PLAY ALONG WITH ADAM
      By A. W. Tozer
 

    Let this mind be in you, which was also in
     Christ Jesus.                             -  -  Philippians 2:5
 

           There is great need for us to learn the truths of the
     sovereignty of God and the Lordship of Christ.

           God will not play along with Adam; Christ will not be
     "used" by any of Adam's selfish brood.

           We  had  better  learn  these  things  fast,  if  this
     generation  of  young  Christians is to be spared the
     supreme  tragedy  of  following a Christ who is merely
     a Christ of convenience and not the true Lord of glory at all!

           I confess to a feeling of uneasiness about this when I
     observe  the  questionable  things  Christ is said to do for
     people  these  days.  He  is  often  recommended  as a
     wonderfully  obliging,  but  not  too  discriminating  Big
     Brother who delights to help us to accomplish our ends,
     and who further favors us by forbearing to ask any
     embarrassing questions about the moral and spiritual
     qualities of those ends.

           In our eagerness to lead men to "accept" Christ we are
     often  tempted to present  for  acceptance  a Christ  who is
     little  more  than  a  caricature  of  "that holy thing"  which
     was  conceived  by  the  Holy Ghost,  born  of  the  virgin
     Mary, to  be  crucified  and  rise  the third day to take His
     place on the right hand of the Majesty in the heavens.

         The whole purpose of God in redemption is to make
     us holy and to restore us to the image of God!

           To accomplish this. He disengages us from earthly
     ambitions  and  draws  us  away  from  the  cheap  and
     unworthy prizes  that worldly men set their hearts upon.
 
 

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     Yours in Christ,
     Paul N. F.