Tell Your Children
Divine Commission and Examples Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. Joel 1:3. Not until parents themselves walk in the law of the Lord with perfect hearts, will they be prepared to command their children after them. A reformation in this respect is needed,—a […]
Look on the Fields
Divine Commission and Examples Say not ye, there are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. John 4:35. Vast territories are opened before us where the light of truth has never penetrated. Whichever way […]
Preach the Word
Divine Commission and Examples Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 2 Timothy 4:2. The subject of Christ’s teaching was the Word of God. He met questioners with a plain, “It is written,” “What saith the Scripture?” “How readest thou?” At every opportunity, when […]
Go Ye
Divine Commission and Examples Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Matthew 28:19. The gospel commission is the great missionary charter of Christ’s kingdom…. The disciples were to carry their work forward in Christ’s name. Their every word […]
Christ Came to Call Sinners
Jesus Came to Do His Father’s Work I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Mark 2:17. He who came from heaven to be our example spent nearly thirty years of His life in common, mechanical labor; but during this time He was studying the Word and the works of God, and […]
He Shall Justify Many
Jesus Came to Do His Father’s Work He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Isaiah 53:11. True holiness is wholeness in the service of God. This is the condition of true Christian living. Christ […]
