EXTRACTS

Were half the people around us put into heaven, they would get out as fast as they could.

What is in heaven is not in accordance with them: nothing they, like is there, and nothing is there that they like. Not one of us naturally would find a single thing according to our mind in heaven. So that the Lord says, “Ye must be born again”.

J. N. Darby (Coll. Wrtgs. N.S. Vol. 30, p.22)

I suppose circumcision has to do with the state in which we are, the flesh—“In his flesh”, therefore. Baptism has more to do with what is outside of us, with the world. One thus disappears out of the world ... Colossians is looking on to our going into the inheritance. This chapter is crucial; it is the chapter by which adjustments take place; I gradually pass out of the world and death altogether into the wide region of life.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 23, p.286)

My own impression is that holiness is the outcome of love, it works in that way. I see that in the epistle to the Thessalonians, they were to “abound in love one toward another...to the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father”—it works in that way.

F. E. Raven (N.S. Vol. 5, p.314)

It is most important that saints should be visited (especially if there are difficulties) whenever possible. I have found my judgment wholly changed when I met brethren and conversed with them, saw them in their locality.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 69, p.98)

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