VALOUR FOR THE TRUTH
VALOUR FOR THE TRUTH
I am glad that you have looked to me in your difficulty. The Lord grant that I may in some degree help you. My comfort is, “Them that honour me I will honour” (1 Samuel 2: 30). If you stand simply for the Lord and His truth, you will be more than conqueror. It is consideration for a person or persons which has muddled the spiritual eyesight in every instance. The man who does not know his mother’s son in his valour for the truth, not only saves himself but those who hear him. Psalm 18 up to verse 19 is pure grace. From verse 20 - 29 all depends on our righteousness. Verses 29 - 36, God is on your side; verse 37, all your enemies are consumed. The Lord first, and then His own.
In my experience, in each division which has occurred, there was no difficulty to one who had the Lord, according [p. 360] to His right, simply before him. The independency at Plymouth many did not testify against until the evil doctrine came to light. I question if any who separated simply on the ground of the doctrine, have ever been quite established. There were numerous companies in Ireland before the division; as many as thirteen in the county T. There is hardly one there now. They could not break the social tie between them. They were for a brotherhood. The social tie is very strong there; they felt that christianity strengthened it; and so it does, when Christ is the centre and source of it. But if He be not, what then?
There is no stumbling nor hesitation when there is in the soul a paramount sense of what is due to Christ. When persons are considered for, there is plenty of fickleness and feebleness. If you are decidedly set for the truth, and nothing but the truth, refusing to regard the person of any, you will succeed beyond your utmost expectation, for it is the Lord that fighteth for you; but if you draw back ... “We are not of them who draw back” (Hebrews 10: 39).
The sum of all I can say to you is, that if you can bear, after all you have learned, to hear the work of your Saviour, and the motives of God reduced down to the measure presented in ——, you are neither happy in your soul nor loyal in your heart.
The Lord bless and save you in this evil day.