Monthly Archives: May 2024

If you are grieved because your neighbors or friends are doing wrong to their own hurt, if they are overtaken in fault, follow the Bible rule: “Tell him his fault between thee and him alone.” As you go to the one you suppose to be in error, see that you speak in a meek and lowly spirit; for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. The erring can in no other way be restored than in the spirit of meekness and gentleness, and tender love. Be careful in your manner. Avoid any thing in look or gesture, word or tone of voice, that savors of pride or self-sufficiency. Guard yourself against a word or look that would exalt yourself, or place your goodness and righteousness in contrast with their failings. Beware of the most distant approach to disdain, or contempt, or an overbearing spirit. With care avoid every appearance of anger; and though you use plainness of speech, yet let there be no reproach, no railing accusation, no token of warmth but that of earnest love. {RH October 26, 1876, par. 1} Above all, let there be no shadow of hate or ill-will, no bitterness nor sourness of expression. Nothing but kindness and gentleness can flow from a heart of love. Yet all these precious fruits need … Continued

Every individual, by his own act, either puts Christ from him by refusing to cherish His spirit and follow His example, or he enters into a personal union with Christ by self-renunciation, faith, and obedience. We must, each for himself, choose Christ, because He has first chosen us. This union with Christ is to be formed by those who are naturally at enmity with Him. It is a relation of utter dependence, to be entered into by a proud heart. This is close work, and many who profess to be followers of Christ know nothing of it. They nominally accept the Saviour, but not as the sole ruler of their hearts. {5T 46.4} {T31 42.4} {PH117 21.2} The evil tendencies of mankind are hard to overcome. The battles are tedious. Every soul in the strife knows how severe, how bitter, are these contests. Everything about growth in grace is difficult, because the standard and maxims of the world are constantly interposed between the soul and God’s holy standard. The Lord would have us elevated, ennobled, purified, by carrying out the principles underlying His great moral standard, which will test every character in the great day of final reckoning. But God does not require us to impose upon ourselves taxing exactions which torture the bodies he has made for a wise … Continued

5T 337.2 God does not regard all sins as of equal magnitude; there are degrees of guilt in His estimation as well as in that of finite man. But however trifling this or that wrong in their course may seem in the eyes of men, no sin is small in the sight of God. The sins which man is disposed to look upon as small may be the very ones which God accounts as great crimes. The drunkard is despised and is told that his sin will exclude him from heaven, while pride, selfishness, and covetousness go unrebuked. But these are sins that are especially offensive to God. He “resisteth the proud,” and Paul tells us that covetousness is idolatry. Those who are familiar with the denunciations against idolatry in the word of God will at once see how grave an offense this sin is. {5T 337.2} {T32 93.2} The exceeding sinfulness of sin can be estimated only in the light of the cross. When men urge that God is too good to cast off the sinner, let them look to Calvary. It was because there was no other way in which man could be saved, because without this sacrifice it was impossible for the human race to escape from the defiling power of sin, and be restored to communion … Continued

Bible Interpretation We Must Accept the Bible as it Reads We Must Accept the Bible as it Reads Christ Nature Beholding we Become Changed Beholding We Become Changed Beholding We Become Changed Consecration True Holiness is Wholeness in the Service of God True Holiness is Wholeness in the Service of God Christ Nature Beholding we Become Changed Beholding We Become Changed Beholding We Become Changed Crucifixion The Believer Crucified Self is Crucified Self is Crucified Evangelism The Loud Cry Humble Instruments Humble Instruments Health Food The Dangers of Eating Meat Those Eating Flesh of Animals Endanger Their Physical, Mental and Spiritual Health Men War Against the Truth & Remove the Force of Their Message by Wrong Habits of Eating and Drinking A Diet of Flesh Meat Renders the Mind Incapable of Understanding Truth Lustful Eating Wars Against Health and Peace and Opresses and Imperils the Soul God Cannot Enlighten the Mind and Does not Hear the Prayer of Those Who don’t Respect Digestive Organs The Dangers of Eating Meat Erroneous Eating and Drinking Result in Erroneous Thinking and Acting Erroneous Eating and Drinking Result in Erroneous Thinking and Acting Holy Spirit Early & Latter Rain It May be Falling on Hearts All Around Us It May be Falling on Hearts All Around Us Pouring Out The Lord did Not Lock … Continued