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Godly counsel for a godly walk.
Introduction
One has often said that faith and salvation go together, that obedience and happiness go together, and that happiness is a state of soul—not a question of circumstances. We hope to bring Christ before you this afternoon as the Wisdom of God for the believer's pathway. I trust that will be our subject.
Oh, how delightful it is to see our brethren happy in Christ! God delights to see His people happy, and He has made every provision in the Word for the happiness of those whom He has redeemed at such tremendous cost. When you have learned that the path of obedience and loyalty to Christ is the only path of blessing and made up your mind to walk in that path, you have started on the road that will lead to the fullest blessing from the hand of God. So we will notice in 2 Cor. 11:2,3:
"For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."
What does "the simplicity that is in Christ" mean? "Your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ?" Ah, brethren, that means to obey without reasoning. The Apostle refers here way back to the Garden of Eden, when Eve was tempted. The serpent got Eve to reasoning instead of obeying. She looked at that tree and it looked pleasant to the eye; that was perfectly true. It was good for food; and that was perfectly true. It was a tree to be desired to make one wise; that had its truth in it, too. But what did the serpent hide from Eve? That the act of taking the fruit would be disobedience, and the fruit would be death. In other words, Eve began reasoning instead of obeying.
Always remember, beloved Christian, that the Word of God is given to us for the obedience of faith. That is said twice in the Epistle to the Romans; in the first chapter and in the last chapter. It is given to us for the obedience of faith.