Sublime

Thus the defective doctrine of sin and the shallow idea of joy, working together, of necessity produce a superficial kind of person and a very inadequate kind of Christian life.

After that, there is the outcome of all this, `persecuted for righteousness' sake'.

he needs a nature that will love the light and hate the darkness-the exact opposite of his loving the darkness and hating the light.

In verses 3--12 our Lord and Saviour has been delineating the Christian character. Here at verse 13 He moves forward and applies His description.

The second main difficulty is the exact opposite to that; and it is interesting to observe how heresies almost invariably cancel one another out.

Sadly,

Holiness and love must go together; and it is a part of holy love to unmask the false and the spurious and to denounce the hypocritical.

But lastly I put it in a positive form. If only we knew something of the glory and the wonder of this new life of righteousness, we should desire nothing else.

Just make sure you aren’t speaking insignificant human words but the Word of God.