Till He Come SAMPLE

Till He Come
with this dread adversary; let us tell his Conqueror of him, and
entreat Him to shorten his chain. I admire the forcible words of
a dying woman to one who asked her what she did when she
was tempted by the devil on account of her sin. She replied,
“The devil does not tempt me now; he came to me a little while
ago, and he does not like me well enough to come again!” “Why
not?” “Well, he went away because I said to him, Chosen,
chosen!” “What did you mean by that?” “Do you not remember
how it is said in the Scripture, ‘The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan;
even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee’?” The
aged woman’s text was well taken, and well does the enemy know
the rebuke which it contains. When Joshua, the high priest,
clothed in filthy garments, stood before the angel, Satan stood
at his right hand to resist him, but he was silenced by being told
of the election of God: “The Lord which hath chosen Jerusalem
rebuke thee.” Ah, brethren, when Christ’s right hand is upon us,
the evil one departs! He knows too well the weight of that right
hand.
Conclude the verse, — “and of death.” Our Lord has the keys
of death, and this will be a joyful fact to us when our last hours
arrive. If we say to Him, “Master, whither am I going?” He
answers, “I have the key of death and the spirit world. Will we
not reply, “We feel quite confident to go wherever Thou wilt
lead us, O Lord”? We shall then pursue His track in His company.
Our bodies shall descend into what men call a charnel-house,
though it is really the unrobing-room of saints, the vestibule of
heaven, the wardrobe of our dress where it shall be cleansed and
perfected. We have a fit spiritual array for the interval, but we
expect that our bodies shall rise again in the likeness of “the Lord
from heaven.” What gainers we shall be when we shall take up
the robes we laid aside, and find them so gloriously changed, and
made fit for us to wear even in the presence of our Lord! So, if
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