Chapter 11—What Are We Worth?
[
Portion of a sermon delivered in the St. Helena Sanitarium chapel,
January 23, 1904, and appearing in Notebook Leaflets, The Church,
No. 7.
]
The Lord desires every one of us to be decidedly in earnest. We
cannot afford to make a mistake in spiritual matters. The life-and-death
question with us is, “What shall I do that I may be saved, eternally
saved?” “What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life—a life that
measures with the life of God?” This is a question that it becomes
every one of us to consider carefully
While living in this world we are to be God’s helping hand. Paul
declared, “Ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building” (
1 Corinthi-
ans 3:9
). We are to cooperate with God in every measure that He
desires to carry out. Are we fulfilling the purpose of the eternal God?
Are we daily seeking to have the mind of Christ and to do His will in
word and work?
What a condition the human family is in today! Have you ever
seen before such a time of confusion—of violence, of murder, theft,
and every other kind of crime? In this time, where are we individually
standing?
In the fifty-eighth of Isaiah we have read of those who “fast for
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strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness” and we
have learned that God will not accept such a fast. “Ye shall not fast as
ye do this day,” He declares, “to make your voice to be heard on high”
(
Isaiah 58:4
).
“Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his
soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth
and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day
to the Lord?
“Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of
wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens [instead of binding them on],
and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not
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