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and Divine aid is needed. The Christian has this Divineaid in his access to God through his Great Advocate, theRedeemer.Cain heeded not God's warning. He ruled not thebeast. He was overcome by it. His brother's blood cried,figuratively, to God. In other words, all injustice criesout to the God of Justice, and sooner or later the Divinepenalty will be meted out. But as we have seen, the judgmentsof the Lord are "just and righteous altogether."His judgments are left for the Great Mediator of theNew Covenant to execute in sympathy and in kindness,during the Millennial Age. That will be the World'sJudgment Day. Only accepted believers in Christ, begottenof the Holy Spirit, are now on trial for life eternal ordeath eternal.BROTHER-HATERS ARE MURDERERSThe Great Teacher, addressing, not the world, but theChurch, declares that brother-haters are murderers inGod's sight. In other words, a spirit of hatred is a spiritof murder. Alas, how many have vicious, wicked, hatefuldispositions, merely controlled by their fear of the law!Yet it is not the world, but only the Church, that is beingspecially dealt with thus far. But alas! how many of theprofessed followers of Jesus occasionally harbor a spiritof hatred, and sometimes manifest it in anger, malice, envy,strife, works of the flesh and the devil!Christians are accounted as New Creatures becausebegotten of the Holy Spirit. These are to fight a goodwarfare against their own flesh and its imperfections.Sin crouches before the door ready to devour them asNew Creatures. They must watch and pray and striveagainst the fallen nature. They must cultivate the fruitsand graces of the Holy Spirit--meekness, gentleness, patience,brotherly-kindness, love. If they do not do so, if,on the contrary, they are brother-haters and manifestthe murder spirit, they have the warning that they willlose the great Prize--joint-heirship in the Kingdom.The Scriptural assurance is, "We know that no murdererR5151 : page 393hath eternal life abiding in him." (I John 3:15.)Whatever elements of the spirit of murder may still lurkin our flesh must be determinedly warred against, and,proportionately, we must become copies of our HeavenlyFather and of our Lord Jesus. Thus we shall ultimatelyshare with our Lord in His great Kingdom, which isshortly to be set up, and to bless the world with the lightand the knowledge of the glory of God.====================R5151 : page 393

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