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All Members Called to be Missionaries, June 11
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a
peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath
called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
1 Peter 2:9
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The Holy Spirit, Christ’s representative, arms the weakest with might
to press forward unto victory. God has organized His instrumentalities to
draw all men unto Him. He sends forth to His work many who have not been
dedicated by the laying on of hands. He answers objections that would arise
against this method of labor, even before they arise. God sees the end from
the beginning. He knows and anticipates every want, and provides for every
emergency. If finite men to whom He commits His work do not bar the way,
God will send forth laborers into His vineyard.
To every converted soul He says: “Go ye into all the world, and preach
the gospel to every creature” (
Mark 16:15
). It is not necessary that the Lord
should first sit in earthly legislative councils, and inquire of those who think
they must plan for His work, “Will you permit men whom I have chosen,
to unite with you in working in some part of My moral vineyard?” Christ
was standing only a few steps from His heavenly throne when He gave His
commission to His disciples, and included as missionaries all who would
believe on His name.
Jesus wants every minister to whom He has committed a sacred trust to
remember His injunctions, to consider the vastness of His work, and to place
the obligation of preaching the gospel to the world upon the large number to
whom it belongs. “Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and
to rise from the dead the third day; and that repentance and remission of sins
should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem”
(
Luke 24:46, 47
). The power of God was to go with those that proclaimed the
gospel. If those who claim to have a living experience in the things of God
had done their appointed duty as God ordained, the whole world would have
been warned, and the Lord Jesus would have come to our world with power
and great glory.—
The Home Missionary, August 1, 1896
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