“Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.”
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These words are not spoken as a rebuke, nor even with surprise; Jesus is leading Philip on.
The last One with whom we get intimate is Jesus.
As Christian workers, worldliness is not our snare, sin is not our snare, but spiritual wantoning is, viz.: taking the pattern and print of the religious age we live in, making eyes at spiritual success.
Never court anything other than the approval of God, go "without the camp, bearing His reproach." Jesus told the disciples not to rejoice in successful service, and yet this seems to be the one thing in which most of us do rejoice.
Jesus Christ says, in effect, Don't rejoice in successful service, but rejoice because you are rightly related to Me.
The snare in Christian work is to rejoice in successful service, to rejoice in the fact that God has used you.
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