Kicking Things off with A.W.

November 30, 2006

Lar,
Here’s a Tozer quote that might help us kick off our discussion today.

“No sin is private. It may be secret but it is not private.

It is a great error to hold, as some do, that each man’s conduct is his own business unless his acts infringe on the rights of others. “My liberty ends where yours begins,” is true, but that is not all the truth. No one ever has the right to commit an evil act, no matter how secret. God wills that men should be free, but not that they be free to commit sin….

Coming still closer, we Christians should know that our unchristian conduct cannot be kept in our own back yard. The
evil birds of sin fly far and influence many to their everlasting loss. The sin committed in the privacy of the home
will have its effect in the assembly of the saints. The minister, the deacon, the teacher who yields to temptation in
secret becomes a carrier of moral disease whether he knows it or not. The church will be worse because one member sins. The polluted stream flows out and on, growing wider and darker as it affects more and more persons day after day and year after year.”

Amen and Amen.  Let us remember these words and fight for holiness by the grace of God, knowing that what is best for our own soul is also best for everyone else.  Holiness of life is a blessing to all.

Striving for holiness with you,

Joe

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