Blueridge Believer
Puritan Board Professor
My daughter sent me this one this afternoon. It is especially needed this day and time among us in my opinion:
“Well-fortified cities have broad walls, and so did
Jerusalem in her glory days. The New Jerusalem must,
similarly, be surrounded and preserved by a broad wall of
nonconformity to the world and separation from its patterns
and ideas. There is a tendency today to break down this holy
barrier and make the distinction between the Church and the
world merely nominal. Believers are no longer fixed on
godliness, questionable literature is widely read, frivolous
pastimes are eagerly indulged, and a general laxity
threatens to deprive the Lord’s special people of those
sacred distinctives that separate them from sinners. It will
be a bad day for the Church and the world when the proposed
amalgamation is complete, and the sons of God and the
daughters of men shall be united, and another deluge of
wrath is ushered in. Beloved readers, make it your aim in
heart, in word, in dress, in action to maintain the broad
wall, remembering that the friendship of this world is
enmity against God.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
“Well-fortified cities have broad walls, and so did
Jerusalem in her glory days. The New Jerusalem must,
similarly, be surrounded and preserved by a broad wall of
nonconformity to the world and separation from its patterns
and ideas. There is a tendency today to break down this holy
barrier and make the distinction between the Church and the
world merely nominal. Believers are no longer fixed on
godliness, questionable literature is widely read, frivolous
pastimes are eagerly indulged, and a general laxity
threatens to deprive the Lord’s special people of those
sacred distinctives that separate them from sinners. It will
be a bad day for the Church and the world when the proposed
amalgamation is complete, and the sons of God and the
daughters of men shall be united, and another deluge of
wrath is ushered in. Beloved readers, make it your aim in
heart, in word, in dress, in action to maintain the broad
wall, remembering that the friendship of this world is
enmity against God.” ~ Charles Spurgeon