CHAPTER LXIII
INTERPRETATION OF ROMANS 13: 3–4 (CONTINUED)
Impossible
to Serve
Two Masters(:We cannot be true servants of God unless we follow the precepts of Christ. Secular authority is too much confused with evil and violence. Christ said:)
Therefore, to serve God according to Christ's faith means to follow his example in patience, in humility, in poverty, and in saving work. It is an extraordinary thing that the world cannot recognize this service; neither can an evil man recognize it, but only he whom He chooses; for it depends on the true love of God – a love which the world has not, knows not, and cannot comprehend, since it is filled with evil graces contrary to the Divine love. A dirty barrel . . . cannot be a fitting container for new wine; similarly, the service of God cannot be confused with the ways of this world.. . . (:Serve God, or serve Nero and the pope, you cannot serve both.:)
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