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Page 240 of 316James 17:6
@@@^“Parents . . . should first reason with their children, clearly point out their wrongs, show them their sin, and impress upon them that they have not only sinned against their parents, but against God. With your own heart subdued and full of pity and sorrow for your erring children, pray with them before correcting them. Then your correction will not cause your children to hate you. They will love you. They will see that you do not punish them because they have put you to inconvenience, or because you wish to vent your displeasure upon them; but from a sense of duty, for their good, that they may not be left to grow up in sin.”—@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 1, p. 398.
James 17:9
@@@^But habitually to grab children on any and every provocation and angrily shake, cuff, slap, spank, or whip them, and in between time hold over their heads the threat to strike them, is the most damaging folly, abhorred alike by every consideration of intelligence, decency, and humanity. Its continuance will harden and brutalize, ruin instead of save. It will make its victims vicious little animals instead of noble, God-like children.
James 18:2
@@@^If your course leads them to rule over you instead of you over them, or if you rule over them with force instead of with love, it will eternally ruin them and, yes, you, too. Then when God asks, “Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?” you will be speechless.
James 18:7
@@@^God expects His people to be the head, to set the right standard. Therefore, to give an unchristian-like witness in dress away from Mt. Carmel, where one meets the world’s multitude, is even worse than to do so where one’s influence is confined strictly to believers.
James 18:11
@@@^“Economy in the outlay of means is an excellent branch of Christian wisdom. . . . Money is an excellent gift of God. In the hands of His children it is food for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, and raiment for the naked; it is a defense for the oppressed, and a means of health to the sick. Means should not be needlessly or lavishly expended for the gratification of pride or ambition.”—@9Testimonies, @7Vol. 4, p. 571.
James 18:14
@@@^In the scripture in question, the apostle Paul is urging the Christian to be faithful and full of zeal in the duties which God has placed upon him, and not to neglect his privileges and opportunities, nor to come short of his endowments, his capabilities, his “talents.”
James 19:5
@@@^Suppose you had been baptized by the apostle Paul and received into church fellowship, lived on up, and walked in the advancing light of the Lord, to the present time, you would have followed Him through all of the seven successive reformatory movements—the seven church periods. In the Protestant period, you would have been Lutheran first and Davidian last. In your thus faithfully following the light of Truth, it is neither Scriptural nor logical that God would have required you to be re-baptized every time you took a step forward.
James 19:8
@@@^1. The Davidian Seventh-day Adventists believe that the Seventh-day Adventist church was ordained of heaven and charged with a special message for the world, but that in the course of time she permitted herself to grow self-complacent, lukewarm, and careless in discharging her sacred responsibilities; and that thus having once “turned back from following Christ her Leader,” she has ever since been “steadily retreating toward Egypt,” with the consequence that her “own course of continual backsliding has separated” her from God.—@9Testimonies,@7 Vol. 5, p. 217.
James 19:9
@@@^The Davidians further believe that this tragic departure from the Lord is all too manifest in that divided state of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, the contest “between the commandments of God and the commandments of men” (@9Id@7., p. 81); that “the gold will be separated from the dross in the church”—the Modernists, those who have rendered supreme homage to “’science falsely so-called,’ . . . trusted to intellect, genius, or talent” (@9Id@7., p. 80), will be winnowed from the Fundamentalists—from those who “are standing in the light . . . sighing and crying for the abominations that are done in the land.”—@9Id@7., p. 209.
James 20:6
@@@^Against this dark background of spiritual decline and consumption (wretchedness, misery, poverty, blindness, and nakedness), and imminent end (being spued out), stands out in bold relief the sternly chiseled work of Mt. Carmel Center, as did the flaming summit of ancient Carmel amid the idolatry and decadence of apostate Israel. Again type meets antitype. To the Israel of God today, says the angel: “Ye have done worse than they.”—@9Testimonies,@7 Vol. 1, p. 129.
James 20:7
@@@^“Like a hammer to break the flinty heart; like a fire to consume the dross” (@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p.254), its voice cries unto Laodicea the unheeded warning: “I am filled with sadness when I think of our condition as a people. The Lord has not closed Heaven to us, but our own course of continual backsliding has separated us from God. Pride, covetousness, and love of the world have lived in the heart without fear of banishment or condemnation. Grievous and presumptuous sins have dwelt among us. And yet the general opinion is that the church is flourishing, and that peace and spiritual prosperity are in all her borders.
James 21:1
@@@^Like the early pioneers of the Adventist church, those who heed the @9Rod@7 are the restorers of the “old paths;” they realize the grave consequences involved in going contrary to any light the Lord chooses to send His people. And since the message of the @9Rod@7 has aroused an interest in the need of “reformation among God’s people,” we as Davidians would not only be recreant to our trust but would also be passing “by on the other side,” allowing our beloved Seventh-day Adventist church to drag in the dust, our brethren to be lost, and the world around us to perish for “lack of knowledge,” if we did not bestir ourselves to warn the church of the on-coming danger.
James 21:2
@@@^Our unselfish zeal and effort to help all Modernist Seventh-day Adventist brethren, regardless of their race, nationality, or social position, is evidence enough of our love for them and our devotion to them. We believe with the apostle Paul that we are all the children of Adam, children of adoption into the family of God through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
James 21:7
@@@^When it has accomplished this “closing work for the church” (@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 3, p. 266), then those “who have overcome every temptation in the strength of the Mighty One,” who have sighed and cried and escaped the destruction, will “be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.” Zech. 12:8. Davidians, indeed!—“a great people and a strong” (Joel 2:2), “clad in the armor of Christ’s righteousness, . . . ‘fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners,’ . . . to go forth into all the world, conquering and to conquer.”—@9Prophets and Kings@7, p. 725.
James 24:4
@@@^For permanent employment at Mt. Carmel Center, help is wanted for several vacancies. All applicants must be well established in Present Truth, or completely settled in their convictions (if recent converts) that the work of the Davidian Seventh-day Adventists is the “closing work for the church.” They must have an eye single to the work of God, recognizing the high and exalted privilege of being laborers with Him and Angels, as did Ezra and Nehemiah, Haggai and Zechariah, while rebuilding ancient Jerusalem.
James 24:11
@@@^You cannot afford to be without it. Study “to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear,” never forgetting the injunction to first “sanctify the Lord God in your hearts.” 1 Pet. 3:15. And remember that it is distributed free of charge, @9but, only those who send in for it will receive it! @7
1 Peter 5:1
@@@^Dear Brethren in Laodicea, do you know that prophecy positively declares that the people of God in the Laodicean church are in a critically dangerous condition and know it not? Well, Brethren, whether or not you realize it, whether or not you believe it, that precisely is the case. And if you hope to enter into eternal life, you must believe it, and that without delay. Whatever else you may believe or disbelieve, this one thing you must believe, “for it is the True Witness who speaks, and his testimony must be correct.” —@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 3, p. 253.
1 Peter 5:3
@@@^Think, Brethren, and rouse to life! This voice, pleading with you to awake and avert the Enemy’s pitfalls cannot possibly be the Enemy’s voice! Remember that the Lord “@9surprises@7 us by revealing His power through instruments of @9His own choice@7, while He passes by the men to whom we have looked as those through whom light should come. God desires us to receive the truth upon its own merits, — because it is truth.” — @9Testimonies to Ministers@7, p. 106.
1 Peter 6:2
@@@^“The great danger with our people has been that of @9depending upon men@7, and making flesh their arm. Those who have not been in the habit of searching the Bible for themselves, or weighing evidence, have confidence in the leading men and accept the decisions they make; and thus many will reject the very messages God sends to His people, if these leading brethren do not accept them.” — @9Testimonies to Ministers,@7 pp. 106, 107.
1 Peter 6:4
@@@^In the light of these warnings, will you not take time carefully and prayerfully to ascertain whether or not God is leading in this reformatory work? He has promised to all who will do this, that He will not leave them in darkness but will guide them into all Truth. So will you not take Him at His Word, and try Him?