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FOLLOWING CHRIST

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 16, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 33.

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FOLLOWING CHRIST.

To follow Jesus Christ, that is Christian living. To say that we will follow no religious practise not found in His life, or that we will "walk even as He walked," is surely a safe thing to do. To take His life as the model—what more ideal position possible?
Yet it is a fact that when Christ came living a life of righteousness, temperance, and godliness, He was reviled and slandered and persecuted by the religious leaders of His time. They were eminently religious, and read and expounded the Scriptures according to the traditions of their schools. What was the trouble?
Some have thought that it was because Christ was bringing in new notions regarding the Word of God, and the religious teachers were standing by the old ways. The facts are exactly the reverse. Christ stood by the commandments of God, and declared that they made void the law of God by their traditions. Matthew 15. He said, "I delight to do Thy will, O My God; yea, Thy law is within My heart." Ps. 40:8. And out of the heart "are the issues of life." He simply lived the law of God. We are "saved by His life;" and by it promise of salvation comes to every man, with the assurance that in Him the weakest and the wickedest may live the same life of obedience.—Oriental Watchman.