with Christ; by grace ye are saved." It must be
made obvious to all by these texts that salvation from sin by grace saves
from walking according to the course of the world.

Again the apostle gives testimony: "But God forbid that I should glory,
save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified
unto me, and I unto the world." Gal. 6:14. How true! When man accepts
Christ he is by him separated from the world. Jesus was not of the world.
He was the light of the world. The world was in darkness. Light is the
opposite of darkness. Had he been of the world and like the world he would
not have been a light. Christians are said to be "the light of the world,"
and are to shine as lights in the world. They are lights in the world
because of the righteous principles they possess and manifest. They are
like Jesus and in as direct contrast to the world as he. The Savior says,
"I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they
are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou
shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them
from the evil. They are not of the world even as I am not of the world."
John 17:14-16.

It is impossible for the heart's affections to be centered upon opposing
natures. For instance, it is impossible for man to admire honesty and
dishonesty; to love temperance and intemperance; to enjoy peace and
strife. It is equally impossible for man to both love and possess sin and
righteousness. "No man 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 can not serve God and mammon." Mat. 6:24. It is impossible to
love God and the world: "Love not the world, neither the things that are
in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in
him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of
the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the
world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth
the will of God abideth forever." 1 John 2:15-17. "For do I now persuade
men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I
should not be the servant of Christ." Gal. 1:10. "Ye adulterers and
adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with
God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of
God." Jas. 4:4.

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