THE CHRISTIAN HAS LIMITED LIBERTY

                         THE CHRISTIAN HAS LIMITED LIBERTY

           Some think they are at liberty to introduce anything into

                  God's worship, providing that God has not, in so many

            words prohibited it. This is evidently a mistake. Such a plan

                   of prodeedure would open the floodgates for inumerable

             innovations. On this principle every kind of food might be

                      brought into the Lord's Supper, and the offering of

              animal sacrifices and the burning of insence might be added

                       to the worship. One must remember that law is inclu-

               siive and exclusive, including the things commanded and

                        excluding all else. This principle is too well known to

                need argument. Besides in religious matters, God alone

                         has the right to guide man , and when man undertakes

                 to add forms of service or worship not authorized by God's

                          law, he assumes perogatives which belong excxlusively

                  to God. He is presuming to to take the office of God, and one

                            who has proper reverance for God so regards him.

When God told Noah to build the ark he said to him,"See that you build it

according to the pattern I showed you." Man needs to understand that God's word

today gives us a pattern by which we direct the affairs of life pleasing to Him!