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Everyone to Work for the Lost, December 27
And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love,
and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
1 John 4:16
, NKJV.
“If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us”;
and that love cannot be restrained.... Only by becoming partakers of the divine
nature can the law of God be fulfilled by men and women. Only those who love
God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength, and their neighbor as themselves,
can give glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, good will to men. This
was the work of Christ; and when His work is appreciated and represented by His
followers, the great result will be achieved in the “joy that was set before him” in
the saving of the souls for whom He gave His life.
The Lord has been laboring constantly from age to age to awaken in the souls
of human beings a sense of their divine kinship, and thus to establish an order
and divine harmony proportionate to the great and eternal deliverance He has
wrought out for everyone who will receive Him. The Lord calls upon all who
profess to believe in Him to be coworkers with Him, to use every God-given ability,
opportunity, and privilege to lead perishing souls within the sphere of their influence
to Jesus Christ.
Here is the only hope for transformation of character; this will give peace and
joy in believing, and fit them for the society of the heavenly angels in the kingdom
of God. Oh, how earnest, persevering, and untiring should be the efforts of every
sin-pardoned soul to seek to bring other souls to Jesus Christ, that their neighbors
shall become joint-heirs with Jesus!
Whoever is your neighbor is to be sought for, labored for. Are they ignorant? Let
your communication, your association, make them more intelligent. The outcast,
the youth, full of defects in character, are the very ones God enjoins upon us to
help. “I came not to call the righteous,” said Christ, “but sinners to repentance.” ...
Those who will be humble enough to learn, the very nobility of the world will
consider it an honor to go to heaven in their company, and angels of God will
cooperate with such as are workers together with God. We need to hunger and thirst
after righteousness, that we may have Christ in us as a well of water, springing up
into everlasting life.—
Special Instruction Relating to the Review and Herald Office
and the Work in Battle Creek, 4-6
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