II Corinthians 4:5-7
"For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, Who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us."
March 30th
"Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted." Psalm 107:17
"FOOLS are afflicted because of their transgression, and because of their iniquity!" They are FOOLS because of their heart's hardness and SLOWNESS in believing ALL that the Prophets have spoken. When a person ceases to be a "fool" (commencing to truly believe with his whole heart and being), then a spiritual revolution sweeps through his being and TRANSFORMS his life! First, he ceases from "iniquity"! Such are the grosser sins against which civil laws have been decreed in every Christian country, and in many others. Next, he realizes that such righteousness is but SKIN-deep. Then commences a self-analysis of the INNER man in relationship to the Laws of God, and the highest moral standard of which present man is capable. This STANDARD was voiced by the God-man in that He said A LUST within the heart is spiritual (moral) adultery: it is "DEFILEMENT": it is transgression in the spiritual realm (Matt. 5:28).
Why Christian Suffering? (continued tomorrow...)