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Page 37 of 316Obadiah 14:8
@@@^“God requires all who profess to be his chosen people, though they are not teachers of the truth, to be careful to preserve personal cleanliness and purity, also cleanliness and order in their houses and upon their premises. We are examples to the world, living epistles known and read of all men. God requires all who profess godliness, and especially those who teach the truth to others, to abstain from all appearance of evil.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 2, pp. 610-615.
Jonah 3:1
@@@^Its being true that nature is God’s open book to all nations, tongues, and peoples, be they small or great, learned or illiterate, we are admonished by the lesson from this year’s harvest to avail ourselves of the moisture (truth) from above while we are now in the time of the latter rain, which is to give us the development that will recommend us to the heavenly garner. Therefore, just as the complete success of Mt. Carmel’s crops depended upon the April-May rains, so the completeness of our holiness and salvation depends upon the showers of the “latter rain” (teacher of righteousness—Joel 2:23, margin) as God, Himself, is the “husbandman” of the field, and the Creator of the rain, He would not cause either too much or too little rain (Present Truth) to fall upon the grain (church). Consequently, we who have the opportunity to make use of all the Present Truth (rain) which God sends, will, if we in any way deprive ourselves of it, fail in our Christian development, as did Mt. Carmel’s fields fail in their development, falling short of yielding a full crop to the “Husbandman” Who hath long waited for His “first fruits” of the promised seed.
Jonah 4:12
@@@^I believe He is more interested in the work and its management than you and I will ever be, and if for some reason He does not see fit, as you think, to instruct me in all the details of the work, then He must, to be wise and consistent, have called on some one else to assume the management of His great work. Hence, why does not that one come forth to take this heavy load from my shoulders? And if God has not called on someone else besides me to assume this great responsibility, what shall you and I do about it? Shall we sit down on “our lees” and wait, although He says, “Go”? In the case of such a predicament, if we should select someone who has no special call from God, will his management of the work be divine if my management is not? You will pardon me for my sincere questions though a bit immodest they may be, for I am trying to help you view the situation from the angle where the light shines clearest. If we should appoint someone not appointed by God, Himself, especially if that one be less informed in the message than he who is managing now, would our appointee’s human wisdom be less apt to mismanage or make mistakes?
Jonah 10:2
@@@^God regards those who fail to comply with His requirements as unfaithful and disloyal to Christ, the Master Teacher, and to His cause. Parents need to learn that the children which God has intrusted to them are God’s Own heritage and not theirs. If they fail to respond to His earnest plea, what will they answer when He asks them, “Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock? What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?.” (Jer. 13:20, 21.)
Jonah 10:9
@@@^From these brief statements, we see that the true education is to make the individual perfect in Christ, and that in God’s original plan for the education of His children, the family was to be the school; also that “This was the method of education that God desired to establish in Israel. But when brought out of Egypt there were among the Israelites few prepared to be workers together with Him in the training of their children. The parents themselves needed instruction and discipline. Victims of lifelong slavery, they were ignorant, untrained, degraded. They had little knowledge of God, and little faith in Him. They were confused by false teaching, and corrupted by their long contact with heathenism.”—Id. 34.
Jonah 11:7
@@@^That fathers and mothers fail not of realizing this great desideratum, God has laid upon them “the responsibility of giving a Christian education to the children intrusted to them. In no case are they to let any line of business so absorb mind and time and talents that their children are allowed to drift until they are separated far from God. They are not to allow their children to slip out of their grasp into the hands of unbelievers . . . They are to train them to become workers together with God.
Jonah 11:10
@@@^“If God, in His providence, has established a school among our own people [at Mt. Carmel], and if in place of sending your [children] where [they] would be in the society and under the influence of those who love the truth, you place [them] in [a worldly class], who have no respect for God or His law, I ask you, how you expect the Lord will work to counteract the evil influence that must surround [them], and which you have voluntarily chosen. Will He commission his angels to do the work which He has left for you to do? God does not work in that way; He expects us to follow the light He has given in His word.
Micah 7:10
@@@^“Instead of uniting with those who bear the burdens, to lift up the standard of morals, and working with heart and soul in the fear of God to correct the wrongs in their children, many parents soothe their own consciences by saying, ‘My children are no worse than others.’ They seek to conceal the glaring wrongs which God hates, lest their children shall become offended, and take some desperate course. If the spirit of rebellion is in their hearts, far better subdue it now than permit it to increase and strengthen by indulgence. If parents would do their duty, we should see a different state of things. Many of these parents have backslidden from God. They do not have wisdom from Him to perceive the devices of Satan and to resist his snares.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 4, p. 651.
Micah 12:2
@@@^Make them love their work by keeping up their interest in it. Be as God. Teach them in the same manner in which He is teaching you. He never scolds you. He demonstrates His love for you, then explains the right and wrong sides of life, and plainly warns you of the results that will follow in whichever course you may pursue—a blessing from the one and a cursing from the other. Be careful that while doing this you do not turn them against God by saying that if they are not good, He will punish them in this way or in that way, but rather teach them that their own evil course will lead them to reap only curses, while God is pleading with them to avoid the evil results.
Nahum 4:2
@@@^“Satan has many helpers. Many who profess to be Christians are aiding the tempter to catch away seeds of truth from other hearts. Many who listen to the preaching of the Word of God make it the subject of criticism at home. They sit in judgment on the sermon as they would on the words of a lecturer or a political speaker. The message that should be regarded as the word of the Lord to them is dwelt upon with trifling or sarcastic comment. The minister’s character, motives and actions, and the conduct of fellow-members of the church, are freely discussed. Severe judgment is pronounced, gossip or slander repeated, and this in the hearing of the unconverted. Often these things are spoken by parents in the hearing of their own children. Thus are destroyed respect for God’s messengers, and reverence for their message. And many are taught to regard lightly God’s Word itself.
Nahum 8:13
@@@^Paul explains that those who live not the principles of the doctrine of Christ, and who do not “go on to perfection,” but who lay “again, the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms and of the laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. . . . who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away,” “it is impossible” “to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame.” (Heb. 6:1-6.)
Habakkuk 5:11
@@@^And what think you, brother, sister, will happen for the same disregard of specific orders at this time when the event that is taking place is not that of the burning of a city, or the removing of an ark, but God’s setting up of the kingdom, destroying the nations, and conquering the earth? Will God now look less frowningly upon such indifference, neglect, and carelessness than in former days, and be less exacting, less quick to punish, for it? Or, do you think it is true that “the times have changed,” and “that we need not look for miracles and the marked manifestation of God’s power as in former days”; do you, too, think that “He is too merciful to visit His people in judgment?”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 5, p. 211.
Habakkuk 6:4
@@@^@1@9My weary soul was half asleep@7@1@9Exhausted, faint from study deep;@7@1@9Because I found the truth I’d known@7@1@9Was with satanic fables sown.@7@1@9But as I searched the Word of God,@7@1@9I found light in the Shepherd’s Rod.@7@1@9I there beheld the Spirit’s toil,@7@1@9The “Stick” and “Tree” and “Bowl of Oil.”@7@1@9For light comes from this bowl alone;@7@1@9God’s Spirit makes the message known.@7@1@9Oh, message fair, thou art sublime,@7@1@9God always sends His truth on time!@7@8
Habakkuk 6:9
@@@^@1@9I will digest the Symbol’ Code,@7@1@9Make Present Truth my lone abode.@7@1@9I’ll gather up the fragments too,@7@1@9I’ll do what e’re God bids me do.@7@1@9Yes, I this “Woman” do behold,@7@1@9Whose seed must be as pure as gold.@7@1@9‘Tis God’s true church in every age;@7@1@9‘Tis all the faithful who engage@7@1@9In his great plan of saving souls@7@1@9Instead of money-raising goals.@7@1@9O Lord, just this one thing I plead,@7@1@9Make me one of this “Woman’s” seed.@7@1@9I dare not loose my Golden crown,@7@1@9And by God’s horsemen be trod down.@7@1@9Then with the wicked be in hell,@7@1@9When I could with the faithful dwell.@7@1@9So very sad would be my fate,@7@1@9Should I neglect Salvation great;@7@1@9Fail to obey I can’t afford;@7@1@9And fall by His appointed sword.@7@1@9And there remain a thousand years,@7@1@9But to awake with bitter tears;@7@1@9To be one hundred years a slave,@7@1@9And then, alas, a fi’ry grave.@7@8
Habakkuk 7:8
@@@^“Who are the subjects of the kingdom of God?—All those who do His will. They have righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. The members of Christ’s kingdom are the sons of God, partners in His great firm. The elect of God are a chosen generation, a peculiar people, a holy nation, to show forth the praises of Him Who hath called them out of darkness into His marvelous light. They are the salt of the earth, the light of the world. They are living stones, a royal priesthood. They are in co-partnership with Jesus Christ. These are they that follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth.”—Testimonies to Ministers,” p. 422.
Habakkuk 8:15
@@@^“Many who, like ancient Israel, profess to keep God’s commandments, have hearts of unbelief while outwardly observing the statutes of God. Although favored with great light and precious privileges, they will nevertheless lose the heavenly Canaan that God has promised them as the reward of their obedience.
Habakkuk 9:3
@@@^“Many who profess our faith are in this position: They are weak and powerless because they trust in their own strength. God works mightily for a faithful people, who obey His word without questioning or doubt. The Majesty of Heaven, with His army of angels, leveled the walls of Jericho without human aid. The armed warriors of Israel had no cause to glory in their achievements. All was done through the power of God. Let the people give up self and the desire to work after their own plans, let them humbly submit to the divine will, and God will revive their strength and bring freedom and victory to His children.” — Ibid., p. 164.
Habakkuk 9:5
@@@^“In ancient times God spoke to men by the mouth of prophets and apostles. In these days He speaks to them by Testimonies of His Spirit. There was never a time when God instructed His People more earnestly than He instructs them now concerning His will, and the course that He would have them pursue. But will they profit by His teachings? Will they receive His reproofs and heed His warnings? God will accept of no partial obedience; He will sanction no compromise with self.” — Ibid., p. 148.
Habakkuk 10:5
@@@^A herculean task indeed it was to bring the beloved church of God out from under the rubbish of tradition which had been accumulating ever since her members had, in search of “light”, turned away from God, and begun to receive uninspired explanations of the Scriptures, and to punish those who dared oppose the doctrines which they themselves had privately established, and this they continued up to the time that the deadly blow struck her captors and set her at liberty to choose her own doctrines. Of this event, Luther writes: “I stood up against the pope, indulgences, and papists, but without violence or tumult. I put forward God’s word: I preached and wrote—this was all I did. And yet while I was asleep, . . . . the word that I had preached overthrew popery, so that neither prince nor emperor has done it so much harm. And yet I did nothing; the Word alone did all.”—The Great Controversy,” p. 190.
Habakkuk 12:8
@@@^“It was not the will of God that Israel should wander forty years in the wilderness; He desired to lead them directly to the land of Canaan, and establish them there, a holy, happy people. But ‘they could not enter in because of unbelief’. . . . ln like manner, it was not the will of God that the coming of Christ should be so long delayed, and His people should remain so many years in this world of sin and sorrow. But unbelief separated them from God.”—“The Great Controversy,” p. 458.