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Christ Will Teach the Redeemed, December 23
Activities in Heaven
And they shall be all taught of God.
John 6:45
In the school of Christ students never graduate. Among the pupils
are both the old and the young. Those who give heed to the instructions
of the Divine Teacher constantly advance in wisdom, refinement, and
nobility of soul, and thus they are prepared to enter that higher school,
where advancement will continue throughout eternity....
To dwell forever in this home of the blest, to bear in soul, body, and
spirit, not the dark traces of sin and the curse, but the perfect likeness
of our Creator, and through ceaseless ages to advance in wisdom, in
knowledge and holiness, ever exploring new fields of thought, ever
finding new wonders and new glories, ever increasing in capacity to
know and to enjoy and to love, and knowing that there is still beyond
us joy and love and wisdom infinite—such is the object to which the
Christian hope is pointing.
In the world to come Christ will lead the redeemed beside the river
of life and will teach them wonderful lessons of truth. He will unfold
to them the mysteries of nature. They will see that a master hand holds
the world in position. They will behold the skill displayed by the great
Artist in coloring the flowers of the field, and will learn of the purposes
of the merciful Father, who dispenses every ray of light, and with the
holy angels the redeemed will acknowledge in songs of grateful praise
God’s supreme love to an unthankful world. Then it will be understood
that “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
He [Christ] will impart rich stores of knowledge. He will unravel
mysteries in the providences of God which in this life we are unable to
understand.
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We must get an education here that will enable us to live with God
through the eternal ages. The education we begin here will be perfected
in heaven. We will only just enter a higher grade.
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