6/14/2023 0 Comments One spirit one church songWe do not wish to have a charity so large that it takes in chaff as well as wheat: we wish to be just charitable enough to use the fan thoroughly to purge God's floor, but yet charitable enough to pick up the most shrivelled ear of wheat, to preserve it for the Master's sake, who is the husbandman. But on the other hand, we have no wish to see the church multiplied at the expense of its purity. When we rebuke sharply, we would be anxious lest the rebuke should fall where it is not needed, and should bruise and hurt the feelings of any who God hath chosen. God forbid that by any of our winnowing, we should ever cast away one of the precious sons of Zion. We wish Christ's church to be as large as possible. Now, that is what I desire for Christ's Church, and what every Christian will desire. He wants to have as much as possible-to have as little loss as possible in the winnowing, and yet to have it as well winnowed as may be. On the other hand, he would not so winnow his wheat as to drive away any of the good grain, and so make the quantity less than it need to be. He does not look upon the quantity alone for what is the chaff to the wheat? He would rather have a little clean than he would have a great heap containing a vast quantity of chaff, but less of the precious corn. When a farmer comes to thrash out his wheat, and get it ready for the market there are two things that he desires-that there may be plenty of it, of the right sort, and that when he takes it to market, he may be able to carry a clean sample there. "These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit."-Jude 1:19
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