Christian Cooperation and Separation - John R Rice

Christian Cooperation and Separation
determined I would say what John Wesley said, “The world is
my parish,” and that I would be for the man who is for Christ
and the Bible.
So I work with all people of God who are born-again and
live like it, all those who believe the Bible and who are willing
to work with other Christians.
I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them
that keep thy precepts.
The Bible has very clear limits on cooperation. Second John
7 to 11 is a familiar passage.
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess
not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver
and an antichrist.
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we
have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.”
Many a good Christian who has won souls loses his place of
favor with God, loses many blessings and rewards he would
have at the judgment seat of Christ, because he is not careful
to take sides against modernism and sin.
Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine
of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of
Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine,
receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil
deeds.”
Now the subject today is too broad to be covered completely
in those verses alone. But I speak on Bible cooperation among
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