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not in grasping means for the service of self, but in laboring
together with God?
All who are striving for the crown of everlasting life will be
tempted as was their Master before them. He was proffered the
kingdoms of the world if He would
pay homage to Satan. Had Christ
yielded to this temptation, the world
would have passed forever under the
sway of the wicked one. But, thank
God, His divinity shone through
humanity. He did that which every
human being may do in the name and
strength of Jesus. He said, “Get thee
hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou
shalt worship the Lord thy God, and
him only shalt thou serve” (Matt.
4:10). If this is the way you meet
temptation, Satan will leave you, as he
left Christ, and angels will minister
unto you, as they ministered unto Him.
To those who have thought and talked of the great advantages
to be gained by worldly association, the Lord declares, through
the prophet Malachi:
“Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye
say, What have we spoken so much against thee? Ye have said,
It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept
his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the
Lord of hosts? And now we call the proud happy; yea, they
that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are
even delivered” (Mal. 3:13-15).
These are the thoughts of many, if the words are not spoken.

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“Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another:
and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord,
and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith
the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and
I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth
him. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous
and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that

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serveth him not. For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn
as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly,
shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up,
saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor
branch” (Mal. 3:16 to 4:1).
Here are the people that in the world are
judged to be greatly favored; but there
comes a time when the children of God are
distinguished as those who are honored of
God because they have honored Him.
“Behold, what manner of love the Father
hath bestowed upon us, that we should be
called the sons of God: therefore the world
knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and
it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but
we know that, when he shall appear, we
shall be like him; for we shall see him as he
is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself,
even as he is pure” (1 John 3:1-3).

The Better Way
While temporal honor and riches and power are the great objects of ambition with the men of this world, the Lord points
out something more worthy of our highest aspirations:
“Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not
the rich man glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory
in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the
Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all
them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised” (Jer.
9:23-25).
“Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I
lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that
believeth on him shall not be confounded. Unto you therefore
which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is
made the head of the corner, and a stone of stumbling, and a
rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. But ye
are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a
peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him
who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light”
(1 Peter 2:6-9).
“Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope
to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the
revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not fashioning
yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
but as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all
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