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Our text says that whosoever believeth might not perish! Without Christ they must perish. Think of all the inconceivable sin and wretchedness the life on earth implies and then of all the hopelessness for the world to come. Read some missionary book, giving an account of some special mission field, with definite statements as to the need, and say to God you really want to know the world in which you are placed, of which you are part, for which you are to live. Unless we study the world and take its condition in, we cannot possibly know Gods love for it, or our calling.
Or think of what Scripture says of the god of this world, of the terrible power that absolutely possesses and rules these souls, and holds them in darkness and misery, and find out wherein the power and awfulness of heathenism consists. Or look nearer home, to the ungodly masses in every Christian country. Take time to consider the state of the unconverted you know, the friends you love, the people you deal with, the thousand faces that are familiar, and regard them all as making up the perishing world, in the midst of which you are to be a shining light, a streaming fountain of life. Then you will begin to see that it needs time, and trouble, and heart, and prayer to take in the divine meaning of this word world, and that other word whosoever which is its only hope.
(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 62)
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