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2981 The Present Truth, vol. 11 January 10, 1895, page 21 paragraph 3
… to the flesh; who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the …
2982 The Present Truth, vol. 11 April 18, 1895, page 256 paragraph 13
… say, “God is the true Baal,” nor was there any attempt to turn the rites of Baal and Astarte into the service of God. The message was clear, “If the Lord be God, follow …
2983 The Present Truth, vol. 11 July 25, 1895, page 470 paragraph 3
… tendency to make many believe that such indulgence may even glorify God. Not long since another minister, Mr. F. B. Meyer, started a week-day service for men, supplying …
2984 The Present Truth, vol. 11 September 26, 1895, page 614 paragraph 5
… high services. The Lord does not desire His Church to adopt the livery of Paganism in His service, and He calls, “Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith …
2985 The Present Truth, vol. 11 October 17, 1895, page 659 paragraph 11
… to the position to which they felt sure that God had called them. But then they were not chosen ones, according to God’s heart. If David had refused to perform …
2986 The Present Truth, vol. 11 December 5, 1895, page 770 paragraph 6
… ready to die for Him and for His commandments? I fear more to transgress God’s law than that of the Emperor, for if I sin knowingly, the result will be the second …
2987 The Present Truth, vol. 13 November 18, 1897, page 722 paragraph 4
… is to stay there until God makes it plain to him that he should leave. “Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. Art thou called being a servant …
2988 The Present Truth, vol. 14 May 19, 1898, page 308 paragraph 5
… life to the service of others. But His own burdens He carried to God. He did not ask others to carry them for Him. Even so it should be with us. If every one in the house …
2989 The Present Truth, vol. 14 July 21, 1898, page 454 paragraph 3
… God's power in the least things, then God can use him in the performance of what men call great things; and yet he may never be used in that kind of service. If …
2990 The Present Truth, vol. 14 November 3, 1898, page 690 paragraph 1
… should call him, and he be not ready to serve. So in the service of God. To wait upon Him means to be constantly devoted to Him. He who waits on the Lord recognises …
2991 The Present Truth, vol. 14 December 29, 1898, page 821 paragraph 3
… , and God is no respecter of persons, we see in their call the call of all men. It rests with us, by humble acceptance of the will of God, to make our calling and election …
2992 The Present Truth, vol. 15 January 19, 1899, page 38 paragraph 7
… meat to do His Father's will. God does not call men to exhaust themselves and His service, but to drink of the Fountain of life, and glorify Him by letting the …
2993 The Present Truth, vol. 15 January 26, 1899, page 67 paragraph 7
God saves men only for service. The object of our cleansing is not merely that we may escape destruction, but that we may be messengers of salvation. As soon …
2994 The Present Truth, vol. 15 April 6, 1899, page 212 paragraph 1
… honourable service as is preaching sermons or writing books. To guide a team of horses is in itself as dignified a calling as to guide a State; and the man who …
2995 The Present Truth, vol. 15 May 18, 1899, page 320 paragraph 6
… able to keep God's commandments. God will listen to no excuses in the judgment, such as, “I was at service, and my employers would not allow me to keep the commandments …
2996 The Present Truth, vol. 15 June 8, 1899, page 358 paragraph 1
… God the service due Him, for Egypt is “the house of bondage.” Exodus 20:1-3. The recognition of God as the one, true God, to the exclusion of all false gods, means …
2997 The Present Truth, vol. 15 August 31, 1899, page 547 paragraph 1
… service of God become secondary to anything else. Nothing is more foolish than for a man to weigh his chances of getting a living against the call to obey …
2998 The Present Truth, vol. 15 October 26, 1899, page 675 paragraph 5
… Him to do is ours also, and all the encouragement that God speaks to Him, He speaks to us also. Jesus calls us to join Him in His service, saying, “Take My yoke upon …
2999 The Present Truth, vol. 15 November 9, 1899, page 707 paragraph 1
… midday, to hear the Word of God read and expounded? That is what the people did in the time of Ezra. Nowadays an hour's service is regarded as outrageously long …
3000 The Signs of the Times, vol. 7 September 15, 1881, page 416 paragraph 2
… . God had specified the fire that should be used in the services of the Sanctuary. Certain fire was set apart for this use and called holy. None other was to be …