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The Medical Ministry, August 20
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with
power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were
oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
Acts 10:38
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Our work is clearly defined. As the Father sent His only-begotten Son into
our world, even so Christ sends us, His disciples, as His medical missionary
workers. In fulfilling this high and holy mission, we are to do the will of God.
No one man’s mind or judgment is to be our criterion of what constitutes
genuine medical missionary work....
True medical missionary work is of heavenly origin. It was not originated
by any person who lives. But in connection with this work we see so much
which dishonors God that I am instructed to say, The medical missionary
work is of divine origin, and has a most glorious mission to fulfill. In all its
bearings it is to be in conformity with Christ’s work. Those who are workers
together with God will just as surely represent the character of Christ as Christ
represented the character of His Father while in this world.
I am instructed to say that God will have the medical missionary work
cleansed from the tarnish of earthliness, and elevated to stand in its true
position before the world. When schemes that imperil souls are brought into
connection with this work, its influence is destroyed. This is why there have
arisen in the carrying forward of medical missionary work many perplexities
that demand our careful consideration....
Nothing will help us more at this stage of our work than to understand
and to fulfill the mission of the greatest Medical Missionary that ever trod the
earth; nothing will help us more than to realize how sacred is this kind of work
and how perfectly it corresponds with the lifework of the Great Missionary.
The object of our mission is the same as the object of Christ’s mission. Why
did God send His Son to the fallen world? To make known and to demonstrate
to mankind His love for them. Christ came as a Redeemer. Throughout His
ministry He was to keep prominent His mission to save sinners.—
Medical
Ministry, 24
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