Exodus 8:25-32 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go you, sacrifice to your God in the land.… The old life — so far as that old life is associated with old companions and with practices which are evil — must be abandoned. It does not mean that you arc to turn hermit or nun; but in spirit and practice you belong to another commonwealth. But the Christian in the world is to be as distinct from it as the Gulf Stream is from the ocean through which it flows. Christian and Great-Heart passed through Vanity Fair, but they were not citizens of that place. You are not to turn your back in pharisaical self. righteousness upon your did friends; but henceforth you can only have to do with them on the basis of your out-and-out loyalty to Christ. If you can go with them and take Christ with you to their feasts and pleasures, then go; but if the condition of your going is that you leave your Master behind you, then of course you are not to go: you cannot. Be true to the Master, and your worldly associates will spare you any pains on the point. They will adjust themselves to you, or, rather, from you, until the moment comes when they want a true friend, a guide and helper in some spiritual crisis, and they will come to you, passing by those Christians (?) who are "serving God in the land." (G. F. Pentecost, D. D.). Parallel Verses KJV: And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.WEB: Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!" |
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