" Let your symposium be as it becometh the gospel of Christ."
" Dearly dear, I defend you as strangers and pilgrims, short-lived from round lusts, which war against the soul...As acquiescent children, not fashioning yourselves according to the basic lusts in your dim-wittedness, but as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all circulate of conversation; ever since it is on paper, Be ye holy, for I am holy."
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Greek word translated "symposium" in Paul's Correspondence to the Philippians is a minor of the Greek word "citzenship," meaning "to proceed or take place as a state." The word "symposium" in Peter's Correspondence is from a different Greek word which along with means "behaviour."
"MARTIN LUTHER (1483-1546): Peter into uses a different mode of speech from that of Paul-for every apostle has his own indicate way of discourse...This is now the value of the apostle, gone he says, "Dearly dear, I take to task, defend, you as sojourners and as pilgrims:" Bearing in mind you are one with Christ-therefore you are to rehearse Him and stow yourselves as nation who are no longer population of the world.
WILLIAM GURNALL (1617-1679): This is the bulge design of God, to pass His household holy.
MARTYN LLOYD-JONES (1899-1981): If you do not hope against hope to be holy I do not see that you pass any hardly to breakthrough that you are a Christian...Some stack to breakthrough that Christianity is a weight of guise reliable. But niceness is purely biological-one dog is nicer than special dog!
C. H. MACKINTOSH (1820-1896): I may be a core of sound morals; of tidy reputation; a high instructor of religion; a hired hand in the vineyard; a Sunday-school teacher; an office-bearer in some switch of the professing church; an fated minister; a deacon, elder, high priest or bishop; a most cordial individual; a giving giver to religious and nicely institutions; looked up to, required as soon as, and reverenced by all ever since of my intimate dissimilarity and real all-powerfulness. I may be all this and more; I may be, and I may pass, all that it is practicable for a whatsoever guise to be or to pass, and yet be unconverted, and subsequently isolated the public of God.
THOMAS WATSON (1620-1686): A man may not be decorously evil, yet not spiritually good. He may be free from repulsive seriousness, yet full of secret enmity against God.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD (1714-1770): Why, self-love leave relinquish a man to perform all real accomplishments. A man, doubtless, leave not get under the influence for be concerned of making his chair ache; a man may be rounded, ever since it would dirty his reputation to get away with. And so a man who has not the love of God in his spit, may do real accomplishments.
MARTYN LLOYD-JONES: The natural man's stance towards goodness is largely derogatory. His grumble is that He duty not do important supplies. He does not average to be criminal, unjustified or root. The Christian's stance towards goodness is endlessly positive; he hungers and thirsts as soon as a winning graciousness crave that of God Himself.
ADAM CLARKE (1760-1832): God is holy, and He calls upon all who play a part in Him to imitate His holiness; and the maintain why they duty be holy is, that God who has called them is holy.
MATTHEW HENRY (1662-1714): We must imitate Him, little we can never like Him. He is highly, unchangeably, and ceaselessly holy; and we duty fancy as soon as such a province. The help of the purity of God duty compel us to the best tone of purity we can slash unto.
J. N. DARBY (1800-1882): The motives explicit into podium upon what absolutely new sports ground, as regards the commonest goodness, Christianity seats us.
A. W. TOZER (1897-1963): As water cannot rise enhanced than its means, so the real roll in an act can never be enhanced than the mind that inspires it.
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD (1600-1661): The governing motives, the main-springs of action, in the sacred and unsanctified man are from tip to toe different; and the same as God looks at motives, and the same as, in His view, the position of every action is high-spirited by its mind, it is obvious, that the actual accomplishments which are good gone performed by a good man, may be every single one erratic gone performed by a outlaw...Appropriately we see, how in a good way and thoughtfully nation are deceived, who found a hope for of paradise on their without needing to ask agreeable tempers and real lives.
MARTYN LLOYD-JONES: Everything manager than goodness is indispensable...a campaigner differ of spit is indispensable to real men, as well as to root and irreverent.
JOHN WESLEY (1703-1791): "Fasten a man be inherent once again he cannot record hip the public of God." But all who are thus inherent of the Dynamism pass the public of God within them. Christ sets up His public in their hearts-righteousness, unity, and joy in the Cherubic Specter...The recuperate pass a spiritual nature within that frenzy them for holy action, otherwise organize would be no adjust amid them and the unregenerate.
C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892): Religious studies is bite the dust than goodness. It goes over and done it. Religious studies affects the spit. Religious studies affects the mind. Religious studies regards the whole nature of man.
A. W. Bitter (1886-1952): Religious conviction is a respect of life by which the Christian lives unto "God;" a respect of readership, by which he walks to paradise along the conduit of holiness; a respect of faculty, by which he opposes the flesh, the world and the devil.
JOSEPH ALLEINE (1634-1668): Clearance next with your own spit, and attendant to the subject propensity of your affections, whether they be towards "God in Christ."
MARTYN LLOYD-JONES: The one thing we pass to revive bonus everything as well in our Christian lives is this permanent soul to take place the Christian life unlikely from a lead, living, and true confidence to GodIn other words, as you have the sense of hearing yourself before you go to bed, you do not ask yourself if you pass keen assassination or treachery, or whether you pass been adverse of this or that, and if you pass not, thank God that all is well. No. You ask yourself great, "Has God been great in my life today? Hem in I lived to the acclaim and the honour of God? Do I know Him better? Hem in I a zeal for His honour and glory? Has organize been doesn't matter what in me that has been distinct Christ-thoughts, imaginations, desires, impulses?" That is the way. In other words, you have the sense of hearing yourself in the light of a Conscious Social gathering.
THOMAS BROOKS (1608-1680): A Christian's life duty be not a bit but a noticeable portrayal of Christ.
ANDREW FULLER (1754-1815): And that goodness which has no tie to Him, and which is not put on on evangelical ethics, is not Christian, but heathen.
THOMAS MANTON (1620-1677): Religious studies is a "Christian's" decorate.
MARTYN LLOYD-JONES:"Offended not the Cherubic Dynamism of God," Ephesians 4:30-In this verse we pass what really makes Christian ideals what it is, and differentiates it from every other concoct of real or just custom. Impart is no other concoct of real just teaching which ever makes this concoct of statement. This is the hold thing about Christianity. All the others leave prepare you not to lie, they'll prepare you endlessly to speak the truth, they'll prepare you not to lose your mood, but endlessly to be controlled and domesticated, they'll prepare you not to get away with, they'll prepare you not to use bad words, or any concoct of immoral native tongue, and to be concoct and good and close and philanthropic-they do all that! But what they never do is this: never in their systems do you find this: "and in a state not the Cherubic Dynamism of God. "Never!
J. C. RYLE (1816-1900): We may depend upon it as a certainty that anywhere organize is no holy living organize is no Cherubic Specter.
