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Words of Counsel to Ministers
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deliver out of My hand: I will work, and who shall let it?”
Isaiah
43:8-13
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“I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead
them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light
before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do
unto them, and not forsake them. They shall be turned back, they
shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to
the molten images, Ye are our gods. Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye
blind, that ye may see. Who is blind, but My servant? or deaf, as
My messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and
blind as the Lord’s servant? Seeing many things, but thou observest
not; opening the ears, but he heareth not. The Lord is well pleased
for His righteousness’ sake; He will magnify the law, and make it
honorable.”
Isaiah 42:16-21
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The work outlined in these scriptures is the work before us. The
terms “My servant,” “Israel,” “the Lord’s servant,” mean anyone that
the Lord may select and appoint to do a certain work. He makes
them ministers of His will, though some who are selected may be as
ignorant of His will as was Nebuchadnezzar.
God will work for those of His people who will submit them-
selves to the working of the Holy Spirit. He pledges His glory for
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the success of the Messiah and His kingdom. “Thus saith God the
Lord, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out; He that
spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; He that giveth
breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine
hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people,
for a light of the Gentiles; to open the blind eyes, to bring out the
prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the
prison house.”
“Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and
hear for the time to come?”
Verses 5-7, 23
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The people of God who have had light and knowledge have
not carried out the high and holy purposes of God. They have not
advanced from victory to victory, adding new territory, lifting up the
standard in the cities and their suburbs. Great spiritual blindness has
been shown by those who have had great light flashed upon them
by the Lord, but who have not advanced in the light to greater and