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The Commendation of Christianity

In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. - Joh 16:33.

THIS is a commendation of Christianity. The Christian’s course is not darkness, but light: it will bear examination. The evidences of our religion are not arguments but facts. Prophecies are not messages like the heathen oracles; they were delivered ages before their accomplishment, and some of them are accomplishing now. The miracles recorded in the Scriptures were not done in secret places and alone, so that they could not be gainsayed or denied; but they were performed in public, before the face even of enemies. The promises by which believers are incited and comforted are as real as they are valuable, and therefore the parties interested in them are “able to give a reason of the hope that is in them.” The world is like Jael standing at the door of the tent in the evening, spreading the mantle, and bringing out the butter in a lordly dish, but hiding the hammer and nail till she had smote the nail fast into the temples of Sisera.

But it is not thus with Christianity as to the dangers or sacrifices which it may require; instead of concealing these, it tells us from the beginning we shall have tribulation, that if any man believe in Christ he shall suffer persecution. The Saviour calls upon us to count the cost and calculate the labour of the journey, and see whether we have resources to bear the expense of the one and undergo the fatigues of the other. Christianity does not encourage its converts by flattery, it does not comfort its sufferers by denying their trials, it allows them to feel them, and it allows them to feel them heavily, but it does enough to animate them under them all. It can enable the Christian to dispense with the world and the things of the world; the world that is everything to others.

As to carnal men, when they are deprived of their outward possessions, they say with Micah, “You have taken away my gods, and what have I more?” But the Christian “having nothing, yet possesses all things.” The Christian must be a very wonderful man, a man of unbounded, of infinite resources. His mouth is filled with marrow and fatness. He can dispense with plenty, and say, “Though the fig-tree does not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.” He can dispense with liberty, and say, having the presence of God, he desireth not the presence of the world. He can dispense with health and say, God “maketh all my bed in my sickness.” He can dispense with life and say, “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.”

He can dispense with the whole universe; and when the heavens pass away with a great noise, and the elements melt with fervent heat standing upon the ashes of the universe, he can exclaim, I look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

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