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Live Unselfishly, and Teach People to Love Jesus, July 25
You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you,
that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong
your days in the land which you shall possess.
Deuteronomy 5:33
, NKJV.
Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. I ask you to study His life.... He came
to bring to lost souls the gift of eternal life. In the sacrifice of His Son, the Father
revealed how much He desires that sinners shall be saved. “Therefore doth my
Father love me,” Christ declared, “because I lay down my life.” The Father loves us
with a love that is but feebly comprehended.
It is because men and women lack the spirit of self-denial and self-sacrifice that
they cannot comprehend the sacrifice made by Heaven in giving Christ to the world.
Their religious experience is mingled with selfishness and self-exaltation. How
can such professors have anything but a meager hope of sharing the inheritance of
Christ? “Verily I say unto you,” He said to His disciples, “Except ye be converted,
and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
There are many who, while professing godliness, measure themselves among
themselves, and in consequence grow weak in spiritual life. Pride is not overcome.
Not until these souls fall on the Rock and are broken will they understand their need.
Oh, that they might confess their wrongs before God, and plead for the presence of
the Holy Spirit in their lives! Truth and righteousness will flow into the hearts that
are cleansed from selfishness and sin, and through the lives of those in whose souls
truth occupies the first place....
The wickedness of the world is not abating. Every year evil becomes more
prevalent, and is more lightly regarded. Let our gatherings together be made
seasons of heart searching and confession. It is the privilege of this people who
have had such great blessings to be trees of righteousness, shedding forth comfort
and blessing. They are to be living stones, emitting light. Those who have received
pardon for their sins should with earnest purpose lead those who are in the ways of
sin into paths of righteousness. Partaking of Christ’s self-denial and self-sacrifice,
they will teach men and women to give up selfishness and sin, and accept in their
place the lovely attributes of the divine nature.—
The Review and Herald, July 22,
1909
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