Why Hasn't Jesus Come back Yet? "We may have to remain here in this world because of insubordination many more years" ---EGW, 1901
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 Help! I don't know how much longer I can wait!"Educate the youth in such a way that they shall understand that it is not possible for them to live a Christian life..." |
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by the workers who have not been following the divine Leader. We may have to
remain here in this world because of insubordination many more years, as did the
children of Israel, but for Christ's sake, His people should not add sin to sin by
charging God with the consequence of their own wrong course of action. Now, have men who
claim to believe the Word of God learned their lesson that obedience is better than
sacrifice? ----Spalding and Magan Collection, page 202 (Dec.
1901 letter to P. T. Magan)Wake
up, brethren and sisters in our churches, and watch unto prayer. Educate the youth
in such a way that they shall understand that it is not possible for them to live a
Christian life, and to increase in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and
yet not be actively engaged in trading upon the talents that God has given,--diffusing to
others the knowledge of the truth. Individually we are to put to use our knowledge of
the truth in instructing the ignorant, in enlightening those who are in darkness. We are
to seek wisdom of God in all things, and then improve every opportunity that is possible,
to make the path of duty plain to others. When each one does the duty that lies nearest
him, how sinful will appear the thought of devoting God-given powers to the pursuit
of amusements. O what sin and guilt we are living in when not earnestly using
every jot of influence we possess to advance the kingdom of Christ in the world. Souls
are perishing, and few have any concern about it; but those who are indolent in serving the Master, though they may even
be employed in the work, will, through neglect of prayer and watching, neglect all other
duties, and lose at last all interest in religious things, and be themselves ready to die,
except they repent, and return unto the Lord. Why not meet the expectation of the heavenly
intelligences, and "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling?"
"For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do
all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the
sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye
shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the
day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain." ---Advent
Review and Sabbath Herald, 12-12-1893
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In What have we been
insuborinate?
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