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Bring a Return to God, December 12
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the
fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
Psalm 89:11
.
[Many in this world] are proving themselves to be dishonest in dealing with
God’s property. They love not the truth. They turn away from the righteousness
of Christ to the beggarly elements of the world. They trample under their feet the
precepts of God’s law, especially the Sabbath commandment. The heart of the
Saviour is grieved by their conduct. He desires to save every soul whom He has
purchased. O that men would understand this, and place themselves in connection
with the great Master Worker!
Soon the Lord is coming to this earth with power and great glory, and the work
that we are to do now is outlined in the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah. Who is
doing this work? Who is building the Lord’s altars? Who is preparing the people
for the great day of the Lord? Now, just now, everyone who claims to be a child
of God should bring of his means to God’s treasury, that there may be a supply to
draw from to provide the workers with facilities for entering new places to present
the truth to those who have never heard it. Let there be no dearth in the Lord’s
treasury. From His treasure God supplies all our necessities. Shall we be only
consumers? Shall we not be producers, giving of our means that the truth may be
presented to many people, who will acknowledge and accept the message, and in
turn give back to God His own, and themselves be numbered among producers? ...
We are not only to receive God’s gifts. With a full sense of our accountabil-
ity we are to bring a return to Him, that there may be in His treasury for the
advancement of His work an ample supply of means, a supply from which His
workmen may draw to enable them to carry the message from city to city and
from country to country. God’s self-sacrificing workers should be provided with
sufficient facilities to make their work a success....
“The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof” (
Psalm 24:1
). This world is
the Lord’s storehouse, from which we are ever drawing. He has provided fruits and
grains and vegetables for our sustenance. For us He makes the sun to shine and
the rain to fall. The whole human family, good and evil, are constantly drawing
from God’s storehouse. It makes every difference with those so highly privileged
how they receive the Lord’s gifts and how they treat the contract the Lord has
made with them. He has made them His almoners, directing them to draw from
His storehouse, and then make a return to Him in gifts and offerings, “that there
may be meat in mine house.”—
Manuscript 73, December 12, 1900
, “Bring an
Offering Unto the Lord.”
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