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{Sermons on Ephesians 5:15
The Doctrine Explained
Precisians Are the Sort Who Walk in the Right Way
The Right Way Proved Most Excellent
It Is the Way of God}
The precise way is the way of God. It is not only the way in which the Lord has commanded everyone to walk, but it is where the Lord appears to them and where they have the vision and fruition of God. And therefore a godly life is often expressed by walking with God, by living in fellowship with God, communion with God, or acquaintance with God. “I have set the Lord always before me” (Psalm 16:8). “I will behold your face in righteousness” (Psalm 17:15). Enoch walked with God; Noah walked with God. Good company will make any way pleasant. However rough or dirty our way may be underfoot, it is pleasant to see the sun shine on us. “To him who orders his conduct rightly, I will show the salvation of God” (Psalm 50:23). The Lord meets His people in His ways and causes all His goodness to pass on before them, proclaiming His Name: “The Lord, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness” (Exodus 33:19, Psalm 86:15). This vision of God makes all the labors and difficulties of this way sweet and pleasant to them. Certainly this is the blessed way, because God is in it. Where is blessedness to be had, except in God? How is blessedness to be had in God, except from beholding and enjoying Him? In what is the blessedness of Heaven, if not in the vision and fruition of God? Christians, let all the ungodly world say all they can to disgrace and disparage the way of righteousness as a wretched, cheerless, and contemptible way. Yet, tell me whether they can refute your senses and make you not believe what you taste and see. Do not be discouraged. Do not let them delude you into any better opinion of their ways of sin or of any pleasure, reputation, ease, or gain that is in such ways of sin. God is in the way of righteousness, and there alone can He be found and enjoyed; therefore this is the most blessed and excellent way.
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