HOW GOD GAINS THE RULE

HOW GOD GAINS THE RULE AND THE GOVERNMENT OF HIS CHILDREN

He doesn’t do it by stick and carrot method. He doesn’t threaten with a curse from behind and hold out before them a promise of reward. That’s not how God governs His children -that’s beneath the dignity of God to use that method. It’s beneath the dignity of a parent to use that method. God doesn’t use that method to control His children. Beloved, God writes the principles of the new covenant in the heart of the new nature -that’s how God gains the rule and government over His children.

ReadDeuteronomy 28:1-68-under the law God pronounced curses upon them if they did not obey the law but He also held out promises of rewards if they would obey the law. That’s the way you control the wicked. That’s not how you control a child of God. The Apostle Paul in1 Thessalonians 4:9says that as touching brotherly love you need not that I write unto you for ye are taught of God to love one another. How is God going to gain control of a person’s affections? He teaches them to love. How does He do that? Through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. You don’t need men to teach you to love one another. God teaches you to love one another and you bible readers realize that upon this hinges all the law and the prophets -to love God with all thy heart and thy neighbor as thyself.