If God were not our King; if He took no
care of us men and our doings; if mankind had it all their own way on
earth, and were forced to shift for themselves without any laws of
God to guide them, then the best thing every man could do would be to
fight for himself; to get all he could for himself, and leave as
little as he could for his neighbours; to make himself out as great,
and wise, and strong, as he could, and try to make his neighbours buy
him at his own price. That would be the best plan for every man, if
God was not King; and therefore the world says that that is the best
plan for every man, because the world does not believe that God is
King, and hates the notion that God is King, and laughs at and
persecutes, as Jesus Christ said it would, those who preach the
kingdom of God, and tell men, as I tell you in God's name: "You were
not made to be selfish; you were not meant to rise in the world by
boasting and pushing down and deceiving your neighbours. For you are
subjects of God's kingdom; and to do so is to break his laws, and to
put yourselves under His curse; and however worldly-wise all this
selfishness and boasting may seem, it is sin, whose wages are death
and ruin."
For, my friends, let the world try to forget God as it will, He does
not forget the world.
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