The Word of God Abides in You

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 16, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 36.

The Word of God Abides in You

Moreover, although seed may be sown in good ground, and may have taken root, yet if it be plucked up before it matures fruit, all will have been in vain. So if we would be overcomers at last, the good seed must remain fixed in our hearts. Says John: “I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.” 1 John 2: 14. The condition of strength, and of overcoming the wicked one, is that the word of God abides in us. Compare with this the words of Christ: “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” John 15: 7. “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.” 2 Cor. 5: 17. Now if he abides in Christ, and the incorruptible seed, the word of life, abides in him, he has the promise that whatever he shall ask shall be done for him. What a boundless promise! And since such an one would be sure to ask for deliverance from the wicked one, we readily see that he must necessarily overcome the world.