Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Do not allow your love to grow cold.
Matthew 24:12(KJV)
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. Many people are affected by their surroundings whether good or bad. Iniquity means a state of lawlessness, and because this condition will be prevalent a great number of disciples were going to become cold in their love for God.
The abounding of iniquity operates to cool the love of Christians. When iniquity be said to abound. When those who are set for the defense of the gospel can see its doctrines corrupted without emotion. When those who live in total disregard of practical religion increase. When all classes give each other countenance in crime, and provoke each other to it by example, by the solicitation, and by menaces (Genesis 6:5-7; Genesis 19:12-13).
This would be the case of many, but not of all; for in the midst of this abounding iniquity, there are some, the ardour of whose love to Christ, to his Gospel, to the saints, and to man did not abate: but then there are many, whose love for Christ, through the violence of persecution, is greatly damped; and through the treachery of false brethren, are shy of the saints themselves, not knowing who to trust; and through the principles of the false teachers, the power of godliness, and the vital heat of religion, were almost lost; and through a love of the world, and of carnal ease and pleasure, love to the saints was grown very chill, and greatly left.
This might be true of such, who were real believers in Christ; who might fall under great decays, through the prevalence of iniquity; since it does not say their love shall be lost, but wax cold. The genuine fruit and effect of all these evils was the lukewarmness and coolness among Christians.
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