In the Spirit's Power - William W. Prescott

“Now the just shall live by faith; but if any man
draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him.”
Heb. 10:38. Here living is the leading thought. The
keeping of the commandments has been going on,
yet here is a time when Christ seems to delay. If we
live by faith, we shall live through all the
destruction about us. “A thousand shall fall at thy
side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall
not come nigh thee.” “The just shall live by faith.”
“Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the
reward of the wicked.” That is the promise of God
to us, but He also says, “Ye have need of patience.”
“Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have
seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very
pitiful, and of tender mercy.” Job endured,
although he could not see the reason for it. But in
that trial of Job God was working out before the
universe the fact that His love can keep a man
when all temporal blessings are taken away.
In the 18th chapter of Luke we have the case of
the widow and the unjust judge recorded as
instruction for us, with reference to the delay of the
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