A Worldly Christian by C. H. Spurgeon “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Mat. 6:24 No man can serve God and mammon, because there is not enough life in the heart to serve the two. Alas! Many people try this, and they fail both ways. I have known a man who has tried to let some of his heart run into the world, and another part he allowed to drip into the church, and the effect has been this; when he came into the church, he was suspected of hypocrisy. “Why,” they said, “if he were truly obeying the Lord, could he have done yesterday what he did, and then come and profess so much today?” The church looks upon him suspiciously; or if he deceives them, they feel he cannot be trusted because he has not given all his heart to the Lord. What is the effect of his conduct in the world? Why, his religion is a fetter to him there. Any mention of God or His commandments, especially any expression of guilt, makes the world uncomfortable around him, and they also do not trust him. The world will not have him, and the church will not have him; he wants to go between the two, and both despise him. “If you can get along with the world, then you are out of step with God.”
Posted on: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 12:51:44 +0000
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