Post by Lee on Jun 10, 2014 2:47:42 GMT
This is a divine principle which has many illustrations. The world at large will only arrive at peace when it has been purified by the terrible doings of the Prince of Peace, who will be as a refiner's fire and a fuller's soap, before he speaks peace to the people.
The individual application of the principle is that which mostly concerns us at the present moment. Purity must precede glorification. It is written of the Holy City: "There shall not enter therein anything that defileth."
The list of excluded persons includes "Drunkards, revilers, extortioners, fornicators, adulterers, effeminate, abusers of themselves with mankind" (1 Cor. 6:9).
Nothing is more incontrovertible in our most holy faith, than that righteousness of a high order is indispensable to secure approval at the hands of the Judge of the quick and dead. A continuance in sin in any form is fatal to our prospects in relation to that great day when every man will stand nakedly revealed in the presence of men and angels.—Bro. Roberts.
1956 Berean p 373
The individual application of the principle is that which mostly concerns us at the present moment. Purity must precede glorification. It is written of the Holy City: "There shall not enter therein anything that defileth."
The list of excluded persons includes "Drunkards, revilers, extortioners, fornicators, adulterers, effeminate, abusers of themselves with mankind" (1 Cor. 6:9).
Nothing is more incontrovertible in our most holy faith, than that righteousness of a high order is indispensable to secure approval at the hands of the Judge of the quick and dead. A continuance in sin in any form is fatal to our prospects in relation to that great day when every man will stand nakedly revealed in the presence of men and angels.—Bro. Roberts.
1956 Berean p 373