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Peter’s Counsel to Parents
Challenge to live consistent lives
You will doubtless have difficulties to meet, but these difficulties
are allowed to come to you, that by overcoming them you may be
strengthened to take up the work of God. There is missionary work to
be done by everyone connected with this school. Through the grace of
God, we are to reveal that we are overcomers by the blood of the Lamb,
and by the word of our testimony. Will you not, by living consistent
lives, show that you are living on the plan of addition?
I feel an intense desire that you shall put away all frivolity. Study
your Bibles. Read over and over the wonderful lessons that Christ has
given to animate you, to strengthen you, and to aid you in spiritual
growth. Why, it is a wonderful thing to escape the corruptions that
are in the world through lust; yet that is possible if you will comply
with the conditions. It rests with you whether or not you will do it.
You may have to face grave difficulties, but it is your privilege to be
so grounded in the truth that not even the severest persecution can turn
you aside from it.
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Daily faith needed
What we need is a daily, living experience in the benefits to be
derived by obedience to God. We are to encourage faith, to live by
faith. This is our privilege, and if we do, then it is not in vain that
Christ laid aside His kingly honors and came to this world to suffer and
die. He will look upon the purchase of His blood, and will be satisfied.
In that day the redeemed will cast their glittering crowns at the feet of
their Saviour, and all heaven will ring with songs of praise. May we
all be partakers of the divine nature, and be overcomers. I have tried to
speak these words for your benefit, and now I will leave you to study
this chapter for yourselves. May the blessing of the Lord rest upon
you in the work you have to do is my desire and prayer. (
Manuscript
103, 1909
. An address before the students and faculty of the Western
Normal Institute, Lodi, California, November 7, 1909.).
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