On one side or the other you must be if you play in the game of football. You cannot be on both sides at once, sometimes kicking the ball for one team and then for the other. You would be disqualified and dismissed from the field with dishonor.
In the game—no, the reality—of life, you must be on the side of right or on that of wrong. The Lord Jesus has said most clearly: "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Luke 16:1313No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. (Luke 16:13). Nor can any man serve two masters. No! You cannot walk at the same time in the broad way and in the narrow way. You must either be for Christ or against Him.
More than nineteen hundred years ago the world cast out Jesus, the Son of God. The world still rejects Him today. Its character has not changed though it may appear in another garb. The world wears a dress of religion and culture, and power is its god.
The most religious nation of its time crucified Christ, and so-called culture was then at its height under the powerful hand of Rome. Hebrew, Greek, and Latin were the three languages in which our Lord's accusation was written and placed over His head upon the cross. Hebrew represents religion. Greek represents culture. Latin represents power. Thus mankind, Jew and Gentile, learned and ignorant, rough and gentle, all joined in the rejection of the Son of God.
Reader, whatever your place in life today, you have a goal. Is the goal Christ? In the language He Himself used: "What think ye of Christ?" Do you, like Paul, "count all things loss" that you may win Christ? The question is still, whose side are you on?
"One Door, and only one—
And yet its sides are two.
Inside and outside!
On which side are you?”