God Wants Us to Live Forever Abiding in Him and Doing His Will ㅡ
“Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.”
(1 John 3:1)
As we see everyone busy in this life we see that everyone has an object.
Some have their eyes turned away from the law of God to things of minor interest; but yet God presents before us the love of His infinite Son.
He presents before us that which He has given for the salvation of the fallen world.
And He tells us the world did not know Him.
And why? Because the cares of this world occupy all the faculties of the mind.
The affections are centered just where the mind is.
So notwithstanding the love of God that was manifested for us, notwithstanding He did not withhold His only begotten Son that our affections might be centered on things above, notwithstanding all the sacrifice that has been made for the fallen race, notwithstanding He has placed before each of us a crown of immortality that shall not fade away, that He has promised us a place where Christ and angels shall meet us, notwithstanding there is an eternal weight of glory waiting the faithful; yet notwithstanding all this, for the fleeting pleasures of this earth, the world throws away these things of eternal interest.
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”
(1 John 2:15-17)
(Sermons and Talks Volume Two 48)
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