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“Go ... Teach All Nations”
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right in His sight, ... I will put none of these diseases upon thee, ...
for I am the Lord that healeth thee.”
Exodus 15:26
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For the sick we should use the remedies God has provided in
nature and point them to Him who alone can restore. We should
teach them to believe in the Great Healer, to take hold upon His
strength.
Only by partaking of Christ’s love, through faith, can the life-
giving energy flow from us to the people. There were places where
the Saviour Himself could not do many mighty works because of
their unbelief. So now unbelief separates the church from her divine
Helper. By her lack of faith, God is disappointed and robbed of His
glory. Where there is no active labor for others, love wanes, and
faith grows dim.
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Angels marvel at man’s shallow appreciation of the love of God.
How would a mother and father feel if they knew that their child,
lost in the cold and the snow, had been left to perish by those who
might have saved it? The sufferings of every man are the sufferings
of God’s child, and those who reach out no helping hand to their
perishing fellow beings provoke His righteous anger.
How the Gospel Has Power
Christ gave His disciples their message. Teach the people, He
said, “to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.”
That which He had spoken, not only in person but through all the
Old Testament, is here included. There is no place for tradition,
man’s theories, or laws ordained by ecclesiastical authority. “The
law and the prophets,” with the record of His own words and deeds,
are the treasure to be given to the world.
The gospel is to be presented, not as a lifeless theory, but as a
living force to change the life. Those whose course has been most
offensive to Him He freely accepts. When they repent, He imparts to
them His divine Spirit and sends them into the camp of the disloyal
to proclaim His boundless mercy. Through His grace men may
possess a Christlike character and rejoice in His great love.
He is not content merely to announce these blessings; He
presents them in the most attractive way, to excite a desire to possess
them. So His servants are to present the riches of the unspeakable