| — Revelation 2:7 |
No man may turn his back in the day of battle or refuse to go to the
holy war. We must fight if we would reign, and we must carry on the
warfare till we overcome every enemy, or else this promise is not for
us, since it is only for "him that overcometh." We are to overcome the
false prophets who have come into the world and all the evils which
accompany their teaching. We are to overcome our own faintness of heart
and tendency to decline from our first love. Read the whole of the
Spirit's word to the church at Ephesus. If by grace we win the day, as
we shall if we truly follow our conquering Leader, then we shall be
admitted to the very center of the paradise of God and shall be
permitted to pass by the cherub and his flaming sword and come to that
guarded tree, whereof if a man eat, he shall live forever. We shall thus
escape that endless death which is the doom of sin and gain that
everlasting life which is the seal of innocence, the outgrowth of
immortal principles of Godlike holiness. Come, my heart, pluck up
courage! To flee the conflict will be to lose the joys of the new and
better Eden; to fight unto victory is to walk with God in paradise.
C.H. Spurgeon
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