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Page 236 of 316Philemon 27:2
@@@^To these workers, the 144,000, the Lord graciously promises: “And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien [those who are not of the 144,000] shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves” (Isa. 61:5, 6), if now ye arise and hasten to effect full
Philemon 28:3
@@@^My brethren, if you want a part in this never-so-glorious work, the crowning act in the redemption of the world, you must now hasten quickly to make ready. Let not the cares of this life rob you of the crown of eternal life. Do not hold back, letting Satan put in your mouth the excuse: “I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused:” or, “I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused:” or “I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.” Luke 14:18-20. “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.” I John 2:16, 17.
Philemon 29:4
@@@^According to the parable, the laborers whom the Master hires, go out in faith not knowing what they are to receive at day’s end. If the message of @9The Shepherd’s Rod@7 is God’s, then His laborers had better learn that it is to be carried out altogether in His, not in man’s, way, and that those who are working for pay as reward for their labors, are not working for Christ, but rather for themselves; also that should the office give financial support to any who labor just part time, there would follow the obligation to pay all who did anything, be it little or much — a precedent which could only damage rather than up-build both the worker and those for whom he might labor.
Philemon 31:2
@@@^“Rash, overbearing expressions do not harmonize with the sacred work that Christ has given his ministers to do. When the daily experience is one of looking unto Jesus and learning of Him, you will reveal a wholesome, harmonious character. Soften your representations, and let not condemnatory words be spoken. Learn of the great Teacher. Words of kindness and sympathy will do as good as a medicine, and will heal souls that are in despair. The knowledge of the word of God brought into the practical life will have a healing, soothing power. Harshness of speech will never bring blessing to yourself or to any other soul.
Philemon 34:1
@@@^“Those who teach and preach the most effectively are those who wait humbly upon God, and watch hungrily for His guidance and His grace. Watch, pray, work — this is the Christian’s watchword. The life of a true Christian is a life of constant prayer.” — @9Gospel Workers@7, p. 257.
Philemon 34:2
@@@^“A certain preacher whose sermons converted many souls, received a revelation from God that it was not his sermons or works by all means, but the prayers of an illiterate lay brother who sat on the pulpit steps pleading for the success of the sermon. It may be with us in the all-revealing day. We may believe, after laboring long and wearily, that all honor belongs to another builder whose prayers were gold, silver, and precious stones, while our sermonizing, being apart from prayer, is but hay and stubble.” — C. H. Spurgeon.
Philemon 34:3
@@@^“God’s messengers must tarry long with Him, if they would have success in their work. The story is told of an old Lancashire woman who was listening to the reasons that her neighbors gave for their minister’s success. They spoke of his gifts, of his style of address, of his manners. ‘Nay,’ said the old woman, ‘I will tell you what it is. Your man is very thick with the Almighty.’
Hebrews 6:2
@@@^In order to help in this crucial hour, it is necessary that we as true and loyal Seventh-day Adventists continue to be searchers of truth, wisdom, and knowledge of God. Make certain not to trip on the stumbling blocks of others, but to turn them into stepping stones to Christian progress.
Hebrews 7:2
@@@^As their record shows, the Bereans made a thorough and unbiased investigation of the messages which came to them, that they might know whether “those things” were so. In so doing they were neither misled by the enemy nor reproved by Inspiration, but rather were led by their open-mindedness to keep pace with the Truth, and were honored for their noble course. But the priests, whom God had previously made recipients of the Word, upon learning that the common people were hearing the Truth gladly, came and confused them. For this, those dignitaries were condemned — and all who gave heed to their voice rather than to the then unpopular one, were thus misled.
Hebrews 8:2
@@@^It is these so-called venial sins of becoming prejudiced and self-satisfied, and of leaning upon others, that have ever led God’s people away from Him. Then too, the fear of coming in contact with error has all too often kept them from coming in contact with advancing Truth. These pet fears and sins condone by most Christians and even defended by many, have, at the introduction of each advancing Truth, robbed multitudes of eternal glory.
Hebrews 8:3
@@@^Ponder anew the experience of the people in the days of Paul: “And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few. But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the Word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.” Acts 17:10-13.
Hebrews 12:5
@@@^“Even us, whom He hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? As He saith also in Osee, I will call them My people, which were not My people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.” Rom. 9 :24-26.
Hebrews 16:1
@@@^“Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel, . . . But . . . took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: . . . In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel; . . . until the Lord removed Israel out of His sight, as He had said by all His servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away . . . to Assyria . . . and in the cities of the Medes.” 2 Kings 10:28, 31, 32; 17:23; 18:11. Herewith came to pass the forewarning: “I . . . will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.” Hos. 1:4.
Hebrews 17:3
@@@^By this divine interposition, the Lord fulfilled His promise: “But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.” Hos. 1:7.
Hebrews 19:3
@@@^In spite, though, of the Lord’s repeated great mercy and wonderful deliverances in her behalf, Judah’s continual sins finally led her utterly to forsake Him by denying His only begotten Son: “And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas.” Luke 23:18. Thus did Judah’s backsliding at last bring upon her the dreadful anathema: “ . . . ye are not My people, and I will not be your God.” Hos. 1:9.
Hebrews 20:3
@@@^In the Christian era the church started out in an even more advantageous spiritual condition than in the Jewish era. Besides, she could have profited by the example of the fallen Jews. But as the verses just quoted reveal, she utterly failed to do so. Instead, as with the passing of Joshua, the Jews began to depart from their God, so with the passing of the apostles, the Christians drifted likewise. In lowering the Christian standard and exalting the pagan, the church played the harlot with the heathen. In this way conceiving and bringing forth her so-called converts, “she . . . hath done shamefully,” saith the Lord, “for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.”@9 @7
Hebrews 21:1
@@@^These sentiments, she reflected by her attitude that her every candidate for membership, even those not fully converted to Christ, should nevertheless be baptized into the regular fellowship; meanwhile their financial support would further the work of God.@9 @7
Hebrews 21:3
@@@^To give church membership to those who have not brought forth “fruit meet for repentance” is an even more costly stunt than to barter for cherries as though they were worth their weight in gold. Besides this foolish act of giving away shares in the church’s estate, one cannot begin to count the cost of the demoralizing influence that such subversive “stockholders” exert upon the true people of God. By such folly, the early church unwittingly furthered the design of the Wicked Seed-sower, and also brought upon herself the Dark Ages of religion. Yet even in spite of this frightful consequence, which should have taught her unforgettably the lesson to consecrate her zeal to the building up of a Spirit-born membership only, she still continues heedless in her
Hebrews 24:2
@@@^God’s method of bringing His church to a self-realization of her dangerous condition is portrayed in Christ’s parable of the prodigal. Had the father denied the boy’s request to go, the lad would forever have been embittered with a feeling of what he believed was his father’s injustice, and no one could ever have convinced him that his father did not deprive him of the opportunity of winning great wealth and a name for himself. But his bitter experience along the husk-path of disillusionment taught him the great lesson in his life, as nothing else could ever have taught it to him.@9 @7
Hebrews 25:2
@@@^Just as God chastened her in olden time by permitting Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, to abolish the ceremonial system by destroying ancient Jerusalem and its temple, just so did He chasten her in the Christian era by permitting Rome to gain control over her and to supplant her true religious system by a counterfeit — a pagan priesthood and a pagan sabbath. Then was His word fulfilled: “I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.”@9 @7