A small bit from something I was just reading:
Ulrich Zwingli, Letter to Oswald Myconius, July 24, 1520
We Christians will never lack people who persecute Christ in us, even though they make a show of coming themselves in the name of Christ. Genuine Christians, however, are those who have the mark by which Christ indicated he would acknowledge his own, when he said that everyone will recognize that you are my disciples when you keep my commandments (John 13:35; 15:14). Those who obey human law more than the divine plainly lack the sign of Christ, because they give priority to their own commandments over those of Christ.
When you are molested by those people, then, it is grist for your mill; think of them as the flies of Egypt, as the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Amorites, the Hittites, and the Jebusites who wish to draw you over to their side. They allow you to win the crown when you fight against them. Human life on earth is like military service. Armed with the weapons of Paul, those who will earn honor for themselves must fight bravely in the frontline if, with three bright stones, they wish to dash to the ground a world that has elevated itself like Goliath (1 Sam 17:49).
Ulrich Zwingli, Letter to Oswald Myconius, July 24, 1520
We Christians will never lack people who persecute Christ in us, even though they make a show of coming themselves in the name of Christ. Genuine Christians, however, are those who have the mark by which Christ indicated he would acknowledge his own, when he said that everyone will recognize that you are my disciples when you keep my commandments (John 13:35; 15:14). Those who obey human law more than the divine plainly lack the sign of Christ, because they give priority to their own commandments over those of Christ.
When you are molested by those people, then, it is grist for your mill; think of them as the flies of Egypt, as the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Amorites, the Hittites, and the Jebusites who wish to draw you over to their side. They allow you to win the crown when you fight against them. Human life on earth is like military service. Armed with the weapons of Paul, those who will earn honor for themselves must fight bravely in the frontline if, with three bright stones, they wish to dash to the ground a world that has elevated itself like Goliath (1 Sam 17:49).
A small bit from something I was just reading:
Ulrich Zwingli, Letter to Oswald Myconius, July 24, 1520
We Christians will never lack people who persecute Christ in us, even though they make a show of coming themselves in the name of Christ. Genuine Christians, however, are those who have the mark by which Christ indicated he would acknowledge his own, when he said that everyone will recognize that you are my disciples when you keep my commandments (John 13:35; 15:14). Those who obey human law more than the divine plainly lack the sign of Christ, because they give priority to their own commandments over those of Christ.
When you are molested by those people, then, it is grist for your mill; think of them as the flies of Egypt, as the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Amorites, the Hittites, and the Jebusites who wish to draw you over to their side. They allow you to win the crown when you fight against them. Human life on earth is like military service. Armed with the weapons of Paul, those who will earn honor for themselves must fight bravely in the frontline if, with three bright stones, they wish to dash to the ground a world that has elevated itself like Goliath (1 Sam 17:49).
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