09 - The Believer's Attitude

Hence, the only possible course for the believer is to withdraw wholly from the world and its affairs, and be as our Lord, who could say “the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in Me.” Our Lord gave no directions to His disciples to start a temperance movement, or to endow a college or library, or to erect church buildings, or to do any of the things that pass in this day for “Christian work,” and which the world can admire and can take part in, because they tend to embellish and adorn its Christless civilization. His one command to us was “that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His Name among all Nations, beginning at Jerusalem: (Luk 24:47).