PROMISE FOR FEBRUARY 6TH

"No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper." Isaiah 54:17

MANY tongues have arisen against the Lord's Zion as a whole and against each member individually--tongues laden with the "poison of asps," tongues bitter with envy, malice, hatred and strife,--tongues which hesitate not to slander and misrepresent, to say all manner of evil falsely. And to a large extent these weapons and tongues have succeeded, have wrought havoc with the sheep, as also with the Shepherd; and God permitted it--He neither stopped the weapon nor stilled the tongue; and yet He assures us apparently to the contrary of this in our text. What is the true explanation?...The explanation is that "Ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit"...ye are new creatures in Christ Jesus.....(Rom. 8:9; 2 Cor. 5:17). The weapons and tongues merely do injury to the old creature--to the flesh, which we have already consecrated to death anyway. R. 3050, c.2, p.8-9.