ACTIVITY:
RELIGIOUS; SERVICE: MOTIVES FOR

Much religious work is being done these days that is not owned by our Lord and will not be accepted or rewarded in that great day. Superior human gifts are being mistaken for the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and neither they who exercise these gifts nor the Christian public before whom they are exercised are aware of the deception. Never has there been more activity in religious circles and, I confidently believe, never has there been so little of God and so much of the flesh. Such work is a snare because it keeps us busy and at the same time prevents us from discovering that it is our work and not God’s.

1 Corinthians 3:12–14; 1 Corinthians 4:3–5; 1 Corinthians 15:9–10; Philippians 2:12–13; Colossians 1:28–29; 1 Timothy 4:7, 8

The Size of the Soul, 42.