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Page 109 of 147James 4:6
@@@^If the thinking processes of the Laodiceans were not in dire need of a complete spiritual overhauling and re-orientation, they would not “think they are all right when they are all wrong,” think that they are “rich” when in reality they are desperately “poor”—destitute of truth and righteousness!
James 4:7
@@@^Accordingly, nothing but a message with “healing in its wings” will heal the Laodicean mind of its spiritual sickness. In this hour of the church’s crisis, “those who have been timid and self-distrustful, will declare themselves openly for Christ and his truth. The most weak and hesitating in the church, will be as David—willing to do and dare.”—@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 81. Why?—Because they have the promise that “there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for @9sin@7 and for uncleanness.
James 5:1
@@@^Dear Brethren in Laodicea, take heed to this divine wisdom. Since you are already in the greatest deception, you stultify reason in your declining to investigate a claimant to truth for fear that in doing so you will be deceived. Awake, Brethren! Can you not see that study is your only salvation—your only hope of getting out of your present “sad” (@9Testimonies,@7 Vol. 3, p. 253), “terrible” (@9Id@7., p. 254), “fearful” (@9Id@7., p. 260) deception, and your only hope of protection in keeping you from plunging into the abyss? So study—study as never before! And you will @9find that this is the beginning of the very message you must have@7 in order to clear the scales from your eyes and break the invisible, but nonetheless real, shackles of inertia and self-exaltation in which the Enemy holds you bound.
James 5:9
@@@^But the @9second@7 phase, that promise of @9power@7 in Joel 2:28 which comes “afterward,” @9after@7 “the latter rain,” is that for which most Christians are praying without considering that there is a @9first@7 phase (Joel 2:23)—the “teacher of righteousness,” a final outpouring of Present Truth—which must be obtained before the final outpouring of power can be realized.
James 5:10
@@@^It is evident that the part which comes “afterward,” the Pentecostal @9power@7, comes to enable the receiver to proclaim the latter truth; and this power will not come until the church as a body, “every one grass in the field” (Zech. 10:1), not a group here and a group there, has joyously assimilated for their spiritual growth all the rain that the Teacher of Righteousness, who has now come, has brought.
James 5:13
@@@^So in the time @9between@7 the “latter rain” of truth and the “outpouring” of the Spirit’s power, there will be a consecrated number who will escape from among the “slain of the Lord.” In other words, at the first fruit harvest, when all the sinners have been taken out of the church, and the righteous left by themselves as were the 120 disciples in the upper room, then and only then can the Lord finally pour out His Spirit’s @9power@7 upon all, so that @9all@7 (all the “escaped” ones) shall prophesy, dream dreams, and see visions.
James 6:2
@@@^Only after this great purge in the Church (described also in the ninth chapter of Ezekiel), will the remnant be equipped to carry their fully blazing, lighted torch of Truth to all the Gentile world. Out of Zion will then go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. The work will then be finished, “cut short in righteousness,” and the Lord will then appear in glory—seen by every eye (Rev. 1:7).
James 8:1
@@@^Accordingly, he who really means to be present and accounted for in the swift-coming Kingdom of God is perseveringly exploring and applying the divine principles and laws of the Science of Salvation. He is earnestly laying hold upon the all-enabling power of divine grace to do all that the Truth bids him do, first things first, and all things “decently and in order” (1 Cor. 14:40), not each thing catch-as-catch-can when the urge strikes.
James 8:2
@@@^It is this careless, sporadic, hit-and-miss, irregular sort of effort to live “the principles of the doctrine of Christ,” that has resulted in Seventh-day Adventists’ laying again and again down through the years “the foundation of repentance from dead works.” While all the time thinking ourselves full of zeal “according to knowledge,” we all, as Seventh-day Adventists, have grown more and more lukewarm, lapsing little by little into a mechanical, cut-and-dried performance of the Truth, which must inevitably cause all who persist in it to be spued out.
James 9:2
@@@^“It pains me to say that there are unruly tongues among [Present Truth] members. There are false tongues, that feed on mischief. There are sly, whispering tongues. There is tattling, impertinent meddling, adroit quizzing. Among the lovers of gossip, some are actuated by curiosity, others by jealousy, many by hatred against those through whom God has spoken to reprove them. All these discordant elements are at work. Some conceal their real sentiments, while others are eager to publish all they know, or even suspect, of evil against another.
James 9:3
@@@^“I saw that the very spirit of perjury, that would turn truth into falsehood, good into evil, and innocence into crime, is now active. Satan exults over the condition of God’s professed people. While many are neglecting their own souls, they eagerly watch for an opportunity to criticize and condemn others. All have defects of character, and it is not hard to find something that jealousy can interpret to their injury. ‘Now,’ say these self-constituted judges, ‘we have @9facts@7. We will fasten upon them an accusation from which they cannot clear themselves.’ They wait for a fitting opportunity, and then produce their bundle of gossip, and bring forth their tidbits.
James 9:7
@@@^“Would all professed Christians use their investigative powers to see what evils needed to be corrected in themselves, instead of talking of others’ wrongs, there would be a more healthy condition . . . [among Present-truth believers] today.”—@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, pp. 94-96.
James 10:9
@@@^The busy bee stores and saves its honey during the summer months. Then when winter comes, she has not only enough to carry her through the hard spell but also even some to spare for her keeper. Present Truth believers should not be less wise than a little insignificant bee! Let the @9Bequeathment Certificate@7 be your reminder that where the moths cannot enter and where the thieves cannot break through, is the safest place to deposit your treasure.
James 11:8
@@@^In the first place, it now takes care of that part of the educational work, where the first tithe can not legitimately be used. And in the second place, it takes care of the needs of the worthy poor. In short it is actually the original and only true mutual insurance policy for all Present Truth believers who are eligibly holding the @9Certificate of Fellowship. @7
James 11:9
@@@^So while it is imperative that all Present Truth believers avail themselves of this @9Certificate of Fellowship@7, it is even more urgent that all such should be both first and second tithe payers, because if a @9Certificate of Fellowship @7is extended to those who are not such tithe payers, they would not only become a demoralizing influence among believers, but also deadly parasites in their midst.
James 11:12
@@@^Let us therefore honestly and intelligently ask ourselves the questions: If we fall on the world’s charity organizations or on the world’s insurance companies, then how can we Present Truth believers be the pillars of the church and thus of the world? And has the Lord appointed the church or the world to care for His peculiar people? If we, as saviours, cannot take care of the needs of those who are in the world, then the least we can do is to take care of our own.
James 13:3
@@@^“The question has been asked me, ‘Do you think that the Lord has any more light for us as a people?’ I answer that He has light that is new to us, and yet it is precious old light that is to shine forth from the Word of truth. We have only the glimmerings of the rays of the light that is yet to come to us. We are not making the most of the light which the Lord has already given us, and thus we fail to receive the increased light; we do not walk in light already shed upon us.”—@9Review and Herald@7, June 3, 1890.
James 13:5
@@@^Obviously, therefore, there cannot be even so much as a suggestion in Sister White’s writings that we already have all the Truth and need nothing more. But there @9are in the Bible@7 at least two previews of a people who will mistakenly think they have need of nothing more: (1) the five foolish virgins, who think the oil in their lamps is enough to give them light clear to the Kingdom, but who being mistaken, fail to reach their goal (See Matthew 25:1-13); (2) the Laodiceans, who @9think@7 they have need of nothing, although the Lord says they have need of everything, and who thus doom themselves to being spued out of His mouth. See Revelation 3:14-18.
James 14:1
@@@^Accordingly, these two manifestations of the Holy Spirit are seen to be inseparable. The first develops a people, by @9teaching@7 them in righteousness; the second fully @9matures@7 them, and @9clothes@7 them with power to @9proclaim@7 the truth in righteousness. In consequence, there is given in the first phase of the work “a teacher of righteousness” who trains an army of under-teachers of righteousness for the carrying out of the second phase.
James 14:4
@@@^Though many of Sister White’s manuscripts were published during the period of time stated above, yet a careful check will reveal that if any new revelation of timely Bible truth, “meat in due season,” was published therein, it was revealed to her before 1890.