Sermon at Loma Linda University
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Confession of heart to be sought
Parents need to come up on a higher platform. They have a sacred
work to do in bringing their children into harmony with Christ. Parents,
do not neglect this work. You need to move constantly in the counsel
and fear of the Lord God of Israel. Talk with your children in regard to
the lessons of the word; pray with them. Seek for confession of heart
from them. Show them which is the wrong and which is the right way,
and their need of yielding their wills to the will of God if they would
be overcomers. I see many parents taking a course with their children
that will shut them out of the kingdom of God. O that these might now
repent, and seek to redeem the time, that God might help them to act
their part.
I did not expect to speak more than a few words to you this after-
noon. I want you to have the light and blessing that the Lord desires to
give you. Reach out for these blessings, seek for a fitness for eternal
life, that others may see that you are coming into harmony with heaven.
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When the soul takes its position on the side of right, all heaven is filled
with rejoicing and praise and thanksgiving. Shall we not take hold with
Christ to do our best? Pray with your children. Impress their minds
with the thought that Christ was given to our world that we might love
His beauty of character and seek to follow Him in every particular.
If you will follow on to know the Lord, the blessing of God will rest
upon you. We need to glorify God more than we do, to praise Him
with uplifted soul. If we would study more faithfully the virtues of His
character, we would desire to be more like Him. If in the minor points
we would carry out the directions of the Lord, He will give us strength
to follow Him in the large matters. We need to see the necessity of
bringing the principles of the truth into every purpose and action of
the life.
There is a large work to be carried on in this locality. Consider
how God has wrought to bring these buildings into our possession.
We have made every possible effort to establish the work in this place;
and there are but few who know of the real difficulties we have had
to meet. Now we are in possession and, for this I thank the Lord with
heart and soul and voice.