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Present-Day Work
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Christ, whose one thought is to bring the message of present truth
before the people of the world. They stand continually ready to
offer their services. But my heart aches when I see so many who are
satisfied with a cheap experience, an experience that costs them but
little. Their lives say that for them Christ has died in vain.
If you do not feel that it is an honor to be a partaker of the
sufferings of Christ; if you feel no burden of soul for those who are
ready to perish; if you are unwilling to sacrifice that you may save
means for the work that is to be done, there will be no room for you
in the kingdom of God. We need to be partakers with Christ of His
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sufferings and self-denial at every step. We need to have the Spirit
of God resting upon us, leading us to constant self-sacrifice.
Get Ready
“Behold, I come quickly,” Christ declares; “and My reward
is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”
Revelation 22:12
. The Lord at His coming will scrutinize every
talent; He will demand interest on the capital He has entrusted. By
His own humiliation and agony, by His life of toil and His death
of shame, Christ has paid for the service of all who have taken His
name and profess to be His servants. All are under deepest obligation
to improve every capability for the work of winning souls to Him.
“Ye are not your own,” He says; “for ye are bought with a price;”
therefore glorify God by a life of service that will win men and
women from sin to righteousness.
1 Corinthians 6:19, 20
. We are
bought with the price of Christ’s own life, bought that we may return
to God His own in faithful service.
We have no time now to give our energies and talents to worldly
enterprises. Shall we become absorbed in serving the world, serving
ourselves, and lose eternal life and the everlasting bliss of heaven?
Oh, we cannot afford to do this! Let every talent be employed
in the work of God. Those who receive the truth are, by their
efforts, to increase the number of men and women who shall be
laborers together with God. Souls are to be enlightened and taught
to serve God intelligently; they are to be continually increasing in
the knowledge of righteousness.