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The Bible is one of the two or three oldest books in the world,
but unlike most of the ancient books, it is found not only in
great libraries, but in almost every home of the civilized world;
and it is not only studied by learned scholars, but read by the
common people; and its many stories grasp and hold the attention
of little children. Happy is that child who has heard, over and
over again, the Bible stories until they have become fixed in
his mind and memory, to become the foundations of a noble life.
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Spiritual life
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is acquired solely by a life according to the commandments
in the Word. These commandments are given in summary in the Decalogue,
namely, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou
shalt not kill, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not
covet the goods of others. These commandments are the commandments
that are
to be done, for when a man does these his works are good and his
life is spiritual, and for the reason that so far as a man shuns
evils and
hates them so far he wills and loves goods.
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For there are two opposite spheres that surround man, one from hell,
the other from heaven; from hell a sphere of evil and falsity therefrom,
from heaven a sphere of good and of truth therefrom; and these spheres
do [not immediately] affect the body, but they affect the minds of
men, for they are spiritual spheres, and thus are affections that
belong to the love. In the midst of these man is set; therefore so
far as he approaches the one, so far he withdraws from the other.
This is why so far as a man shuns evils and hates them, so far he
wills and loves goods and the truths therefrom; for no one can at
the same time serve two masters, for he will hate the one and will
love the other. (Matt. vi. 24).
But let it be noted, that man must do these commandments from religion,
because they are commanded by the Lord; and if he does this from any
other consideration whatever, for instance, from regard merely to the
civil law or the moral law, he remains natural, and does not become
spiritual. For when a man acts from religion, he acknowledges in heart
that there is a God, a heaven and a hell, and a life after death. But
when he acts from regard merely to the civil and moral law, he may
act in the same way, and yet in heart may deny that there is a God,
a heaven and a hell, and a life after death. And if he shuns evils
and does goods, it is merely in the external form, and not in the internal;
thus while he is outwardly in respect to the life of the body like
a Christian, inwardly in respect to the life of his spirit he is like
a devil. All this makes clear that a man can become spiritual, or receive
spiritual life, in no other way than by a life according to religion
from the Lord.
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To
recognize God’s existence is to necessitate prayer to Him, by
all intelligent creatures, or, a consciously living in sin and
under condemnation of conscience, because they do not pray to
Him. It would be horrible to admit the existence of a Supreme
Being, with power and wisdom to create, and believe that the
creatures he thought of consequence and importance enough to
bring into existence, are not of enough consequence for him to
pay any attention to in the troubles and trials consequent upon
that existence.
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HOW TO BECOME LIKE CHRIST.
“But we all, with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory
of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory,
even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”--2 COR. iii. 18 (Revised Version).
I suppose there is almost no one who would deny, if it were put
to him, that the greatest possible attainment a man can make in
this world is likeness to The Lord Jesus Christ. Certainly no one
would deny that there is nothing but character that we can carry
out of life with us, and that our prospect of good in any future
life will certainly vary with the resemblance of our character
to that of Jesus Christ, which is to rule the whole future. We
all admit that; but almost every one of us offers to himself some
apology for not being like Christ, and has scarcely any clear reality
of aim of becoming like Him.
Why, we say to ourselves, or we say in our practice, it is really
impossible in a world such as ours is to become perfectly holy.
One or two men in a century may become great saints; given a certain
natural disposition and given exceptionally favouring circumstances,
men may become saintly; but surely the ordinary run of men, men
such as we know ourselves to be, with secular disposition and with
many strong, vigorous passions—surely we can really not be expected
to become like Christ, or, if it is expected of us, we know that
it is impossible.
On the contrary, Paul says, “We all,” “we all.” Every Christian
has that for a destiny: to be changed into the image of his Lord.
And he not only says so, but in this one verse he reveals to us
the mode of becoming like Christ, and a mode, as we shall find,
so simple and so infallible in its working that a man cannot understand
it without renewing his hope that even he may one day become like
Christ.
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