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things, and knows all things, and yet you do things which He positively forbids, and says if you do He will punish you. You say that you believe God is everywhere, and yet do you live as if God were close by you all the time? You say that you believe there is a heaven above, and yet you do nothing to prepare yourself to go there. You say that you believe there is a hell beneath, a place of torment, and yet you are doing nothing to avoid being cast into it as your home forever.
This is not the faith of God, or of Christ, or of a true Christian, but it is a dead faith; as the apostle James says, "Faith
