And I feel sure he had quoted these words of the Lord:  “They that have done good shall come unto the resurrection of life:  but they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.”  The friend who told me had ridden a part of the way home with the preacher before referred to, and in speaking to this friend he said:  “These Dunkards are odd people.  I occasionally go to their meetings, and every time I do go I am sure to hear of works!  WORKS! as if works were necessary to salvation.”  In answer to the friend who communicated this to me, I said:  “I hope the Dunkards, as he called us, will always be odd people in this regard, so long as it is written:  ’He that doeth good is of God; but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.’  ’A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit:  neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.  By their fruits ye shall KNOW them.’”

Brethren, let us think closely upon the closing words of my text:  “He that DOETH the will of my Father which is in heaven.”  An apostle says:  “This is the will of God, even your sanctification.”  Sanctification means holiness, and holiness means conformity of heart and life to God’s Revealed Truth.  The heart cannot be conformed to God’s Revealed Truth when the life is conformed to the world and sin.  “No man can serve two masters....  Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”  Jesus prays for all that believe on him through the Word:  “Sanctify them in thy truth.  Thy word is truth.”  We occasionally hear of some “professing sanctification.”  From what I have been told, those making this profession mean by it that they have attained to a state of sinless perfection.  This is a state to be devoutly wished, for it is the state of the spirits of just men made perfect.  Nothing shall enter that holy city where they dwell “that defileth, or worketh abomination, or maketh a lie.”  In this city of light and love no sin is found.

  “Those holy gates forever bar
    Pollution, sin and shame: 
  For none shall have admittance there
    But followers of the Lamb.”

All the descriptions and references to heaven found in the divine Word imply that it is a place and a state where the will of God is the supreme law of life.  “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is the footstool of my feet.”  “Swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne.”  As heaven is God’s throne, his will is the universal law for all, and that law is love.  I can think of no state so blessed and happy as that where every one of the “multitude which no man can number” “loves the Lord his God with all his heart, and his neighbor”—­every one of the assembly—­“as he loves himself.”  And from the Lord’s Prayer it is to be inferred that his people on earth should aim at the same state of perfection.