Jesus Christ in the Gospels is always the One spearheading the taking action to set the stage for teaching and training disciples by doing it in front of them.
Jesus commanded "GO YE................" To those who WENT......... He promised to be beside them till Earth was ended....................... to the rest He left NO promises .......................except this one in Desire of Ages.....Divine love has been stirred to its unfathomable depths for the sake of men, and angels marvel to behold in the recipients of so great love a mere surface gratitude. Angels marvel at man's shallow appreciation of the love of God. Heaven stands indignant at the neglect shown to the souls of men. Would we knowhow Christ regards it?How would a father and mother feel, did they know that their child, lost in the cold and the snow, had been passed by, and left to perish, by those who might have saved it? Would they not be terribly grieved, wildly indignant? Would they not denounce those murderers with wrath hot as their tears, intense as their love? The sufferings of every man are the sufferings of God's child, and those who reach out no helping hand to their perishing fellow beingsprovoke His righteous anger. This is the wrath of the Lamb.To those who claim fellowship with Christ, yet have been indifferent to the needs of their fellow men, He will declare in the great Judgment day, "I know you not whence ye are; depart from Me, all ye workers of iniquity." Luke 13:27. {DA 825.4}
Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
"The sufferings of every man are the sufferings of God's child, and those who reach out no helping hand to their perishing fellow beings provoke His righteous anger. This is the wrath of the Lamb. To those who claim fellowship with Christ, yet have been indifferent to the needs of their fellow men, He will declare in the great Judgment day, "I know you not whence ye are; depart from Me, all ye workers of iniquity."
That part hit me deeply, Ed.
If that is true (and of course it is), God will have to declare to the whole SDA organization - "I never knew you" because we, as a Church, officially support abortion.
"The sufferings of every man are the sufferings of God's child, and those who reach out no helping hand to their perishing fellow beings provoke His righteous anger. This is the wrath of the Lamb. To those who claim fellowship with Christ, yet have been indifferent to the needs of their fellow men, He will declare in the great Judgment day, "I know you not whence ye are; depart from Me, all ye workers of iniquity."
That part hit me deeply, Ed.
If that is true (and of course it is), God will have to declare to the whole SDA organization - "I never knew you" because we, as a Church, officially support abortion.
May we repent speedily.
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Along with repenting of abortion, may we repent of celebrating war and supporting combatants.
A large portion of the Old Testament shows us that.
In fact, it says somewhere that he didn:t drive out all the Canaanites all at once, because he wanted the generations to come to not forget how to make war.
And then of course, Jesus will make war himself at the end.
But I do agree that the general, worldly idolization of war is unhealthy.
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