Pig in Your Parlor

If we do not exactly know the particulars of what Heaven is then we know to a certainty, what it is not. We are sure that it is not like earth. There are no ale-houses, gambling parlors, or theaters there.

How then could those whose hearts are set upon these things possibly be happy even in Heaven, where they would be separated forever from all that they love? Heaven must be a Hell to an un-humbled, unsanctified sinner even if he could be admitted there. The company, the employments, the enjoyments are of the same kind with what he despised on earth. If you admit a pig into your parlor among your friends he would find no pleasure there. He would rather be in the sty, or wallowing in the mire in a ditch!

Well, such were some of us, yes, such were all of us once! And you, my dear friends, though you were not vile profligates like me, you were carelessly swimming down the stream of the world, and, when upon the edge of the whirlpool which would have eternally swallowed you up, He snatched you with a strong hand, set your feet upon a rock, and established your goings, and has put a new song in your mouth!

[John Newton]

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2 Corinthians 6:14 ... Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

1 Corinthians 15:10 ... But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.


Revelation 5:9 ... And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;❤