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Page 87 of 316Obadiah 6:1
@@@^“How few there are in our day who follow this example! On the part of too many parents there is a blind and selfish sentimentalism, miscalled love, which is manifested in leaving children, with their unformed judgment and undisciplined passions, to the control of their own will. This is the veriest cruelty to the youth, and a great wrong to the world. Parental indulgence causes disorder in families and in society. It confirms in the young the desire to follow inclination, instead of submitting to the divine requirements. Thus they grow up with a heart averse to doing God’s will, and they transmit their irreligious, insubordinate spirit to their children, and children’s children. Like Abraham, parents should command their households after them. Let obedience to parental authority be taught and enforced as the first step in obedience to the authority of God.”
Obadiah 6:5
@@@^“These facts must be pressed home upon parents; they must arouse, and take up their long-neglected work. Parents who profess to love God are not doing his will. Because they do not properly restrain and direct their children, thousands are coming up with deformed characters, with lax morals, and with little education in the practical duties of life. They are left to do as they please with their impulses, their time, and their mental powers. The loss to the cause of God in these neglected talents lies at the door of fathers and mothers; and what excuse will they render to Him whose stewards they are, intrusted with the sacred duty of fitting the souls under their charge to improve all their powers to the glory of their Creator?”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 5, pp. 324-326.
Obadiah 7:2
@@@^In His Providence, God has ever limited the advancement of His cause on earth to the measure of the liberality of His people. Under the Hebrew economy, the building of the tabernacle progressed in direct ratio to the response of the people to the plan of Moses to raise means for its erection. Again, when God worked upon the hearts of the Jews to rebuild the temple at Jerusalem, their efforts, prospered to the degree of their benevolence. Likewise, throughout the Christian era the gospel has advanced just in proportion to the obedience and self-sacrifice of its supporters.
Obadiah 7:5
@@@^In the light of the foregoing statements, we, must conclude, with the Spirit of Prophecy, that “Spiritual prosperity is closely bound up with Christian liberality” (“The Acts of the Apostles,” p. 344), and that therefore, God’s cause today in the closing work for the church, will advance only as we make a covenant by sacrifice. Indeed, if sacrifice is what God required in Moses’ day, in Nehemiah’s and Paul’s, when the demands of the work were comparatively small, how could He possibly require any less today when “@9all@7 things” are to be restored, and when the gospel must go to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people in just a short time?
Obadiah 7:8
@@@^The Lord further says: “In order to advance the cause of God, means are necessary.” However, “it is not the plan of God to rain down means from heaven in order that His cause may be sustained,” (“Testimonies for the. Church,” Vol. 2, p. 660), but rather that all “shall arouse, and lay their prayers, their wealth, and all their energies and resources, at the feet of Jesus, . . .” Then “the cause of truth will triumph.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 4, p. 475.
Obadiah 8:4
@@@^“Those to whom God has intrusted means should provide a fund to be used for the benefit of the worthy poor who are sick and not be able to defray the expenses of receiving treatment at the institution. There are some precious, worthy poor whose influence has been a benefit to the cause of God. A fund should be raised to be used for the express purpose of treating such of the poor as the church where they reside shall decide are worthy to be benefited.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 1, p. 494.
Obadiah 8:10
@@@^“The selfish love of ‘me and mine,’ keeps many from doing their duty to others. Do they think that all the work they have to do is for themselves and their own children? ‘Inasmuch,’ says Christ, ‘as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.’ Are your own children of more value in the sight of God than the children of your neighbors? God is no respecter of persons. We are to do all we can to save souls. None should be passed by because they have not the culture and religious training of more favored children. Had these erring, neglected ones enjoyed the same home advantages, they might have shown far more nobility of soul and greater talent for usefulness than many who have been watched over day and night with gentlest care and overflowing love. Angels pity these stray lambs; angels weep, while human eyes are dry, and human hearts are closed against them.”—“Testimonies for the Church.” Vol. 4, p. 423.
Obadiah 11:2
@@@^This is God’s cure for mineral and vitamin-starved human beings; and His counsel to those who are well is that they shall include in their diet a greater proportion of fresh vegetables than any other food. If you do this religiously, believing that this is God’s special prescription for your ailment, you shall hear Him say, “According to your faith be it unto you.”
Obadiah 11:3
@@@^Many Present Truth ministers have made the grave mistake of leaving for a new field of interest before a solid foundation has been laid in their old field of labor. Thus, interests have been left to die out, and the work of God has been just that much retarded. This is not in God’s order, for, as is set forth in the following statements from the Spirit of Prophecy, He required His ministers to do their work with thoroughness, leaving their work effectually bound off.
Obadiah 13:4
@@@^There is but one way of knowing that we are being led, by Christ our Lord, in the straight path to the pearly gates, and that is, by neither adding to nor taking from the Word of Truth, but by carefully following in the way of light, going not a step ahead of it, lingering not a step behind it, nor walking along its side-edges, but by following right in the middle of the road. Hence, let not your zeal for progress drive you ahead of the light and make you to walk in the darkness; neither let your caution against running too far ahead cause you to drop back and lag behind; nor yet let carelessness verge you toward the edges. Stay in the center of the road, where the light shines the brightest. Do not follow ideas which stand upon implications, upon enlargements, upon diminishings, of the meaning of authoritative statements. Says Christ: “If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the Book of Life.” (Rev. 22:18, 19.)
Obadiah 14:1
@@@^“I was pointed back to the children of Israel anciently, and was shown that God had given specific directions in regard to the material and style of dress to be worn by those who ministered before him. The God of Heaven, whose arm moves the world, who sustains us and gives us life and health, has given us evidence that he may be honored or dishonored by the apparel of those who officiate before him. He gave special directions to Moses in regard to everything connected with his service. He gave instruction even in regard to the arrangement of their houses, and specified the dress which those should wear who were to minister in his service. They were to maintain order in everything, and especially to preserve cleanliness.
Obadiah 14:7
@@@^“Here, according to the light that has been given me, there has been a manifest neglect among our people. Ministers sometimes stand in the desk with their hair in disorder, looking as if it had been untouched by a comb and brush for a week. God is dishonored when those who engage in his sacred service are so neglectful of their appearance. Anciently the priests were required to have their garments in a particular style to do service in the holy place, and minister in the priest’s office. They were to have garments in accordance with their work, and God distinctly specified what these should be. . . .
Obadiah 16:8
@@@^To try to convince the questioner by a long-drawn-out article with proofs from the Scriptures, is needless, for the question reveals that the person is not acquainted with past church history. Therefore, the best way to answer his query is to ask him to tell us the number of times God has sent messages to His church that they made neither trouble nor separation among His people. If facts prove his answer, to be in favor of this question, then of course, as Christians, we must change our position, and admit that the SRod is not a message from God. But if past church history, disproves his logic, then, of course, we shall expect from him, as an honest Christian and a seeker for truth, a letter of confession, stating that his logic has not refuted the SRod.
Jonah 3:7
@@@^Do not, my brothers and sisters, abuse God’s mercy, and turn a deaf ear to His pleadings by questioning and criticizing everything now “in the unfolding of truth,” when you should be feeding on the “green pastures” and on the holy “rain,” lest He surprise you at your “unholy feast.” (“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 5, p.690.) Why should we be like the Jews of old who questioned and criticized Christ’s work, character, and experience, all the way from His parentage to His resurrection? They thought themselves wise in doing this, but as their deeds later proved both to themselves and to the world, they were but fools. And now may we, brother, sister, profit by their experience, and take the Lord’s advice to lay aside all human wisdom and become child-like, so that He may fill us with divine wisdom, thus proving both to ourselves and to the world that we are not as the Jews of old. God has delegated no one either to look after or to supervise His work. He is well able to take care of it, and without our criticisms, but He cannot take care of our salvation if we do not allow Present Truth to “engross the whole mind, the whole attention” (“Early Writings,” p. 118), to impel us to spread the message, and to eradicate our long cultivated evil habits, rather than to allow Satan to urge us to try to direct the work.
Jonah 8:5
@@@^Brother Houteff’s marriage is far more in accordance with the accepted customs of today than were the above marriages in their day. Abraham’s case alone is sufficient to satisfy those whom the truth can convince. Moreover, as God knew beforehand what Brother Houteff was going to do, then were his marriage to cast reproach upon the purifying message, thereby causing anyone to lose eternal life, God, for that one’s life, and for His Own honor, would not have intrusted His message to Brother Houteff.
Jonah 8:12
@@@^My brethren, make your decision on the merits of the message, itself, rather than on Brother Houteff’s good or bad deeds. God has not delegated anyone of you to decide for Him Brother Houteff’s marriage. Neither has He instructed any of you to take, as a criterion in settling your own case, Brother Houteff’s marriage. Who knows but what God is testing you, who, like Peter, thought that you would stand with the message, regardless of what might come; but who are now showing your true relation to it?
Jonah 9:11
@@@^Will you not then, my brethren, praise God for “taking the reins in His Own hands”? Will you not sing: “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring, again Zion”? (Isa. 52:7, 8.)
Jonah 10:10
@@@^So it is with us today. In fact, “Said the angel, Ye have done worse than they” (“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 1, p. 129), with the result that parents now, more than the children, are in greater need than ever before of “instruction and discipline.” Hence, though, in God’s plan the family is still the ideal school, and thus, ideally, the place for “children of tender ages,” yet both experience and the word of God reveal that we have followed in the footsteps of ancient Israel to do even worse than they to vitiate by our practice the ideal of the family as the school.
Jonah 11:12
@@@^O, before it is forever too late, may the Spirit of God, with mighty force, send home to the hearts of parents, these fearful facts that they may quickly arouse from their long stupor, and fight for the lives of their children by placing them where God can save them!
Jonah 14:1
@@@^Only by diligent service may we hope to fill the place which God has for each one of the ever—“living saints.” And if the subjects of the “kingdom of heaven” are comparable to the infinitesimal mustard seed, which grew up to be a tree, so that the birds of the air came and lodged in the branches thereof, then shall we not arm ourselves with the power of the “Spirit of truth” (John 16:13), and be among the @9few@7 who “escape” the wrath of the Lamb and who “gather @9all@7 their brethren out of all nations”? Is not this a more glorious experience to look forward to and talk about than that often discussed ‘fleeing time,” which carries with it the conclusion that God’s people shall go into hiding instead of into glory?