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Posted by WildB (Member # 2917) on :

Acts 5:38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
Acts 5:39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

In every age some great causes which are God's are pressing for decision.
In many of them we may be disqualified for taking sides. But feel that you
are bound to cast your influence on the side which conscience approves,
and bound to settle which side that is. Deborah's fierce curse against
Meroz because its people did not come up to the help of the Lord against the
mighty was deserved.
But the region in which such judicial calmness, which shrinks from taking
its side, is most fatal and sadly common, is in regard to our own individual
relation to Jesus, and in regard to the establishment of His kingdom among
men.
'He that is not with Me is against Me.' (Matthew 12:30, Luke 11:23)
Being neutral is opposition.
Not to gather with Him is to scatter. Not to choose Him is to reject Him.
Gamaliel had a strange notion of what constituted 'refraining from these
men and letting them alone,' and he betrayed his real position and
opposition by his final counsel to scourge them, before letting them go.

That is what the world's neutrality comes to.

How poor a figure this politic clergyman, mostly anxious not to commit himself, ready to let whoever would risk a struggle with Rome, so that he kept out of the fray and survived to profit by it, cuts beside the disciples, who had chosen their side, had done with 'ifs,' and went away from the Council rejoicing 'that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His Name'! Who would not rather be Peter or John with their bleeding backs than Gamaliel, sitting soft in his presidential chair, and too cautious to commit himself to an opinion whether the name of Jesus was that of a prophet or a pretender?

Who's side are you on? Peter and John's (Jesus') or Gamaliel's?

Posted by Found in Him (Member # 7596) on :

Psalms 107
2Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

...in words, actions and deeds!

Posted by WildB (Member # 2917) on :

Amen

Posted by Betty Louise (Member # 7175) on :

Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it!
Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb;
Redeemed through His infinite mercy,
His child and forever I am.

Refrain

Redeemed, redeemed,
Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb;
Redeemed, redeemed,
His child and forever I am.

Redeemed, and so happy in Jesus,
No language my rapture can tell;
I know that the light of His presence
With me doth continually dwell.

Refrain

I think of my blessèd Redeemer,
I think of Him all the day long:
I sing, for I cannot be silent;
His love is the theme of my song.

Refrain

I know there’s a crown that is waiting,
In yonder bright mansion for me,
And soon, with the spirits made perfect,
At home with the Lord I shall be.

Refrain

Posted by Found in Him (Member # 7596) on :

[Big Grin]

Oh yes Sister Betty! Amen!

Posted by bluefrog (Member # 7448) on :

That's Plum Purdy ! Amen

Posted by Betty Louise (Member # 7175) on :

That was written by Fannie Mae Crosby. A blind woman who wrote so many wonderful hymns.
betty

Posted by bluefrog (Member # 7448) on :

Thanks Betty, that makes it even better.

It just occured to me, I have never known a blind person.

By His stripes we are healed...I wish more knew about this. I wonder if she does ?