Christ has proclaimed the conditions of membership into His kingdom. He has sent His servants throughout the world, saying, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you." Matthew 28: 19, 20. To-day they are preaching that the coming of His kingdom is near; and they are gathering out those who will be loyal to God.
It costs something to be loyal to God now. It cost Job something; but there is a power in the love of Jesus Christ to hold: there is something in His love that will satisfy every longing soul, and fill with fatness all who will come to Him. The call is now, "Come out from among them, and be ye separate."
The two kingdoms cannot be joined together. And yet there has seemed to be a tendency to try to make them run together. You cannot do it. They are perfectly opposed to each other; light and darkness will not mix. Love and hate are opposite characteristics, and will not co-mingle.
At the crucifixion the cross of Jesus Christ made a separation between the repentant and the unrepentant, and today it makes the same division. And God is now sending forth a special message.