Someone writes from far away saying that he is “spiritually starving, for Bible study and prayer are sometimes tasteless.”
Is there anyone one who can testify that he/she has never felt this way?
The fault lies with “Babylon,” that great system of false and counterfeit faith that has removed Christ far away from us because:
(a) Babylon teaches that in His incarnation Christ did not take upon Himself our true human nature which is fallen and sinful, but Babylon teaches that Jesus took upon Himself the sinless nature of Adam before the Fall, so that therefore Christ is separated from us, removed far away.
(b) If Babylon is right, then Christ could not be the One that Hebrews describes as “touched with the feeling of our infirmities,” and “was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (4:15).
(c) But Babylon is wrong; for Christ has come all the way to where we are in our lost and sinful condition, yet without sin. He has “condemned sin” in our fallen, sinful flesh and proved for all the world and the universe to see that if one has a fallen sinful nature he need not continue in sin.
(d) Now the Lord says, “Come out of her [Babylon], My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues” (Rev. 18:4).
(e) Around the world there are”144,000” people who believe the truth and have chosen to “come out” of Babylon, and to “follow the Lamb [the crucified and risen Christ] whithersoever He goeth” (Rev. 14:4).
(f) Come, join them! “And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely” (Rev. 22:17).
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