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Preaching Christ: More Important Than Tongues and
Miracles, July 16
How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath
a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an
interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
1
Corinthians 14:26
.
There is a great work to be done in our world. Men and women are to
be converted, not by the gift of tongues nor by the working of miracles, but
by the preaching of Christ crucified. Why delay the effort to make the world
better? Why wait for some wonderful thing to be done, some costly apparatus
to be provided? However humble your sphere, however lowly your work,
if you labor in harmony with the teachings of the Saviour, He will reveal
Himself through you, and your influence will draw souls to Him. He will
honor the meek and lowly ones, who seek earnestly to do service for Him.
Into all that we do, whether our work be in the shop, on the farm, or in the
office, we are to bring the endeavor to save souls.
We are to sow beside all waters, keeping our souls in the love of God,
working while it is day, using the means entrusted to us in the Master’s
service. Whatever our hands find to do, we are to do it with cheerfulness;
whatever sacrifice we are called upon to make, we are to make it cheerfully.
As we sow beside all waters, we shall realize the truth of the words “He which
soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully” (
2 Corinthians 9:6
).
We owe everything to grace, sovereign grace. Grace ordained our redemp-
tion, our regeneration, and our adoption to heirship with Jesus Christ. Let this
grace be revealed to others.
The Saviour takes those whom He finds will be molded, and uses them
for His own name’s glory. He uses material that others would pass by, and
works in all who will give themselves to Him. He delights to take apparently
hopeless material, those whom Satan has debased, and through whom he has
worked, and make them the subjects of His grace. He rejoices to deliver them
from suffering, and from the wrath that is to fall upon the disobedient. He
makes His children His agents in the accomplishment of this work, and in
its success, even in this life, they find a precious reward.—
The Review and
Herald, January 5, 1905
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