THE COMPANY TO WHOM THE LORD COMES

THE COMPANY TO WHOM THE LORD COMES

I consider our meetings are made up of three classes — one there in faith, one from conviction, and one from imitation. The two latter do not prevent the Lord from coming into our midst, for they give Him His place. But I feel we must meet the attempt now made to assume the ground of Matthew 18: 20, where there is no sense of ^[p. 160] the nature of the company who I may say command His presence. I am for the very opposite of ‘slippery’ ground. I want to raise the standard to its true and proper measure, in order to expose the counterfeit. The Lord comes to those gathered to His name; no higher character could there be; but many are there like the priests in Leviticus 21 fed, but not enjoying His presence, not in communion within the veil. Sure I am that if the few in faith were to leave any company, that the rest gathered there (only in form, or at best from conviction) would soon betray their powerlessness. The Lord’s presence feeds all there, and those ministering in His presence lead on those yet without faith, though true to their convictions.