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5141 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 394.4 (Ellen Gould White)
… as God shall direct, for the saving of the lost, and the comfort of the suffering and the poor. With man this is impossible, for the heart clings to its earthly …
5142 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 396.2 (Ellen Gould White)
Lest the disciples should lose sight of the principles of the gospel, Christ related to them a parable illustrating the manner in which God deals with His servants, and the spirit in which He desires them to labor for Him.
5143 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 396.5 (Ellen Gould White)
… represents God's dealing with the human family. It is contrary to the customs that prevail among men. In worldly business, compensation is given according …
5144 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 397.2 (Ellen Gould White)
So God desires us to trust in Him who justifieth the ungodly. His reward is given not according to our merit but according to His own purpose, “which He purposed …
5145 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 397.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… that God has accepted him at all. He works with a humble, trusting spirit, thankful for the privilege of being a co-worker with Christ. This spirit God delights …
5146 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 398.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… reward. God desires us to appreciate His promised blessings. But He would not have us eager for rewards nor feel that for every duty we must receive compensation …
5147 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 399.5 (Ellen Gould White)
… serve God all their lives; they may have been foremost in enduring hardship, privation, and trial, and they therefore think themselves entitled to a large …
5148 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 400.1 (Ellen Gould White)
There is nothing more offensive to God than this narrow, self-caring spirit. He cannot work with any who manifest these attributes. They are insensible to the working of His Spirit.
5149 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 400.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God.
5150 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 401.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… before God. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned …
5151 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 402.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… before God, they are nothing. There is no religion in the enthronement of self. He who makes self-glorification his aim will find himself destitute of that …
5152 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 402.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… to God. In all our service a full surrender of self is demanded. The smallest duty done in sincerity and self-forgetfulness is more pleasing to God than the …
5153 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 402.4 (Ellen Gould White)
Only when selfishness is dead, when strife for supremacy is banished, when gratitude fills the heart, and love makes fragrant the life—it is only then that Christ is abiding in the soul, and we are recognized as laborers together with God.
5154 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 402.5 (Ellen Gould White)
… in God is expressed through Jesus Christ. Their joy is the joy set before Christ—“to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His work.” John 4:34. They are in co …
5155 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 403.1 (Ellen Gould White)
This is the spirit of all true service for God. Through a lack of this spirit, many who appear to be first will become last, while those who possess it, though accounted last, will become first.
5156 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 403.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… to God; it may not be the missionary who has daily faced danger and death that stands highest in heaven's records. The Christian who is such in his private life …
5157 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 403.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… which God and men measure character. God sees many temptations resisted of which the world and even near friends never know—temptations in the home, in the …
5158 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 404.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… for God in the simplicity of faith and love.
5159 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 406.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God. The psalmist says, “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” Psalm 119:105. The oil is a symbol of the Holy Spirit. Thus the Spirit is represented …
5160 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 408.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… in God's presence His Spirit is imparted to the human instrumentalities who are consecrated to His service. The mission of the two anointed ones is to communicate …