SO SPEAK, SO DO by E. R. Jones

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 16, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 23.

SO SPEAK, SO DO.

By E. R. Jones

THE apostle James (chap. 2:12) says: "So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty." The Judgment is a certainty in every individual case; "for we must all appear before the Judgment-seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body." It will be an investigation of all the words that have been spoken, and all the acts that have been done, comparing them with that great standard of righteousness called "the law of liberty;" this law is the one a part of which says, "Thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not commit adultery." See James 2:11; Ex. 20:13, 14. It is therefore the ten commandments.

All whose words and deeds have been in harmony with the requirements of the law of God, will be acquitted in the Judgment; and those who have disregarded its claims and refused obedience will be condemned. The first of these will be rewarded with everlasting life, while the latter will go away into everlasting punishment. Matt. 25:46. The obedient will have joy; the disobedient will have darkness, weeping, and gnashing of teeth.

The Judgment will be a solemn scene. It will forever fix the destinies of all. Reader, in that day you will sincerely wish that you had lived in perfect obedience to all God's holy precepts. It will then be too late to change. It is not too late now. Examine carefully every part of this law, and so speak and so do as they that shall be judged by it. "Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." James 1:25.

E. R. JONES.