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God’s High Standard
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“If any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a
man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself,
and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man
he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and
continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the
work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you
seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his
own heart, this man’s religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled
before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows
in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
This is the word of the living God. The law is God’s great moral
looking glass. He is to compare his words, his spirit, his actions,
with the word of God. If we decide that in these last days we have
no work assigned to us that is out of the common course of the
nominal churches, we shall meet with great disappointment. The
great question to be investigated, weighed, and decided is, What can
I do to reach souls that are lost? God calls for a work to be done by
Seventh-day Adventists that I need not define. Unless the work is
first done in their own hearts, all the specific directions that might
be given to point out their course of action will be labor in vain.
Read the second chapter of James. Practice the truth in your
daily life and you will know the work that the Lord has given you to
do. Read also the fourth chapter, especially
verses 5-12
; and chapter
5, especially
verses 13-20
. These chapters are a dead letter to the
larger number of those who claim to be Seventh-day Adventists.
I am directed to point you to these scriptures, and to the seventh
chapter of Matthew. You need to study every word as for your life.
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What the church in Battle Creek needs is to be doers of the
word. This will lead a large number out of Battle Creek into other
places, towns, and cities, where people have not had the light and
opportunities that you have had. Many souls are now hanging in
the balance. They are not with Christ. They are not gathering with
Christ. Their influence is divided. They scatter abroad.
Especially give heed to these words: “Therefore whosoever
heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them, I will liken him
unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain
descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon
that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And