Message from Scripture: 5/29/2021

 

Our message from Scripture today is Matt. 6:22. “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.”

 

There is an old saying, "What goes around comes around."  Listen to these words, written by Alexander Campbell December 4, 1826, and see how modern and relevant they still sound.

 

“The spirit and temperament of the ancient Christians inclined and drew them, as the law of gravitation does all bodies to the center of the system, to a most devout conformity to all the institutes of the Prince of Life.  They loved His will supremely.  Neither fire nor water, famine or sword, good fame or bad fame, prevented them in their obedience.  They took joyfully the spoiling of their goods, and loved not their lives unto death, rather than renounce their allegiance in any one point to Him who died for them.  His laws and institutions were all in all to them.  They reasoned this way:  if Jesus died for us, we owe our lives to Him. Our only concern should be, ‘Lord, what would You have us to do?’”

 

“Let the spirit, then, of the ancient Christians be restored, and we shall soon see their order of things clearly and fully exhibited.  ‘If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light;’ and if the heart be right, the practice will bear the test of examination.  The spirit of the present order of things is too much akin to the spirit of this world. Its supreme petition is not ‘Lord, what will You have me to do,’ but, ‘O Mammon!  Tell us plain, tell us fully, what you would have us to do to gain your admiration and, if possible along with this, to save our souls.’  This is not the spirit of all, but this appears the leading and triumphant spirit of the present order of things.”

 

Today, lets go out to serve our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ from His will, not the spirit of the world. God bless.

 

Robert