How do Christians bear faithful witness to Christ among the unconverted? How recommend our faith in God and open a door for the promotion of the Gospel? 1 Every sphere is most suitable for Christians to commend the Christian faith: private and public, whether husbands, wives, servants, or masters; 'walking' as Christians in all conversation, conduct and course of life.
2 This walk is conducted in wisdom: by, 1)'redeeming the time'; 2) 'suavity of speech' (John Calvin); 3) prayer.
3 The Christian is ever mindful of this obligation because of its objective: 'to those that are without'; because 1) we are absolutely convinced of the perilous state of sinners; 2) we are absolutely convinced of the only remedy for that state; 3) we are absolutely convinced that our walk will have results upon those that are without. Therefore the Christian's walk is always purposeful, deliberate, thoughtful.
Application. 1 Three things Christians must avoid: diminishing the Gospel by public quarrels amongst themselves before the ungodly; diminishing the Gospel by tolerating anything that undermines it; diminishing the Gospel by pretending that no changes are required by becoming a Christian. 2 Three things Christians must remember about this walk: it is of a higher standard than nature; it is answerable to and agreeable with the glorious truths the Gospel speaks of; it commends the beauty, excellency and glory of the Gospel. 3 A solemn obligation:- to live so as to commend the Christian faith to those that are without.
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