We need a more certain sound about personal holiness. I fear that the standard of holy living is lower just now than it has been for many years. Professing Christians seem unable to realize that there is anything inconsistent in ball-going, theater-going, gambling, card-playing, excessive dressing, novel-reading, and an incessant round of gaiety and amusements!
The line between the Church and the world seems completely effaced and forgotten! A crucified life of self-denial and close walking with God, a life of real devotedness and zeal for holy living is hardly ever to be seen! Yet surely our Lord meant something when He spoke of "taking up the cross!"
If Christ returns the second time in this generation, we shall find His words about the days of Noah and Lot fully verified. Those days are upon us!
[J. C. Ryle]
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2 Corinthians 6:17 ... Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
Luke 17:26-29 ... And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Jeremiah 6:16 ... Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.❤
