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Workers Under God
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Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be
equal with God: but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon
Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and
became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore
God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which
is above every name.... Work out your own salvation with fear and
trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to
do of His good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and
disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of
God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation,
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among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word
of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run
in vain, neither labored in vain.” “I am made a minister, according
to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfill
the word of God; even the mystery which hath been hid from ages
and from generations, but now is made manifest to His saints: to
whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of
this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope
of glory: whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every
man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ
Jesus.”
Avoid Provocation
Our workers should use the greatest wisdom, so that nothing
shall be said to provoke the armies of Satan and to stir up his united
confederacy of evil. Christ did not dare to bring a railing accusation
against the prince of evil, and is it proper that we should bring
such accusation as will set in operation the agencies of evil, the
confederacies of men that are leagued with evil spirits? Christ was
the only-begotten Son of the infinite God, He was the Commander
in the heavenly courts, yet He refrained from bringing accusation
against Satan. Speaking of Him, Isaiah says, “Unto us a Child is
born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His
shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”