(1) Our Lord, who was Himself the Father’s servant in whom His soul
delighted, said to His disciples: “One soweth and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour.” So we should make sure that He sent us, as otherwise we cannot labour in faith, and our services will not be acknowledged by Him.
(2) Our duty is: Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry (2 Tim. iv, 2-5). We clearly see that Churches in this land have set their back upon God’s truth, and that they have turned to fables, so let us keep closely to God’s Word in everything pertaining to doctrine, worship and practice.
(3) Another duty is: “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath the believer with an infidel? or what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God, as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you” (2 Cor. vi, 14-17). Let us take heed that we will keep separate from the mixture of the world and the flesh and the devil which has become almost universal in the churches in this country. The Holy Ghost has depicted clearly in the above quotation, the conduct of Churches in Scotland today; so our duty is plain. Let us, as we have already come out from among them, keep separate from men who cater to men’s lusts instead of holding the faith in worship and practice. Alas, that it should be necessary!
I pray the Lord may give us one heart and one way, that we may all think and speak the same things; and that He may always preserve this church from the infection of error of one sort or another. John Willison.
Christ is all
by Dean Henry Law