Leaders with Various Talents are Needed in God's Church

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

Leaders with Various Talents are Needed in God's Church

Today's Text: Keep and seek for all the commandments of the Lord your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever. 1 Chronicles 28:8

The Message:      The last great work of David in his official position was to call the attention of the people once more to their solemn relation to God as subjects of His theocracy....      Fidelity to God is required for the reception of the blessings that He has promised to impart to all who obey His instruction. All who are accepted in His service are required to do His commandments. If with heart and mind and soul they do His holy will, they become representatives of His kingdom.      David's solemn charge should be kept in mind by those who are in positions of trust today, for it is as verily binding upon these people as it was upon Solomon at the time it was given. In this our day of probation God's people are being tested and tried as surely as they were in the days of Solomon.      This whole chapter [1 Chronicles 28] is of importance to all the people of God living in this age.... God's service is not committed to one person's judgment and option, but is divided among those who are willing to labor interestedly and self-sacrificingly. Thus all, according to the skill and ability God has given them, bear the responsibilities that He has appointed to them. The important interests of a great nation were entrusted to leaders whose talents fitted them to handle these responsibilities. Some were chosen to direct the business affairs; others were chosen to look after spiritual matters connected with the worship of God. All the religious service and every branch of the business was to bear the signature of heaven. "Holiness Unto the Lord" was to be the motto of the laborers in every department. It was regarded as essential that everything be conducted with regularity, propriety, fidelity, and dispatch.      To all who are engaged in His service, the Lord gives wisdom. The tabernacle to be borne in the wilderness, and the temple at Jerusalem, were built in accordance with special directions from God. In the very beginning He was particular as to the design and the accomplishment of His work. In this age of the world He has given His people much light and instruction in regard to how His work is to be carried forward-on an elevated, refined, ennobling basis.-Manuscript 81, 1900.

Commentary: My friend, the work that God has for us is found in the three angels message.  In it is a call for the world to come back to worship the One true God who is the Creator of all things.  "But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him." (1 Corinthians 8:6).  The Father is the Creator of all things; He is the source of all there is and He created all things by His Son Jesus Christ. The Christian world has lost sight of this important truth.  Through the doctrine of the trinity it has introduced to us a false god that is made up of three beings called the triune god.  The trinity is simply paganism in a cloak of Christianity.  That is why the last message of hope to a dark and dying world calls the world back to the One true God. If we are to take this message to the world with the power of the Spirit of God, we first must know who He is.  Jesus says in John 17:3 "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."  This is the message that we are to proclaim to the world.  This is the everlasting gospel.  Everlasting life is in our relationship with God, and this is revealed to us through His Son.  John 3:16 says "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." In God giving us His Son, He has given us Himself that we may be saved.  By Christ's death on the cross He has satisfied the claim of the law upon our life, and by His perfect life, imparted to us through His Spirit, we may have eternal life with Him.  The trinity seeks to rob us of the Spirit of Christ living with in us.  The trinity holds that the Holy Spirit is not the Father nor the Son, but is a being unto itself, and it is through this lie that Satan seeks to supplant the Spirit of Christ with his spirit. My friend, now is the time for us to look away from the false god of the trinity and look unto Jesus who is the Author and Finisher of our faith, for it is only as Christ lives within us through His Spirit that we may be saved.  "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:" (Colossians 1:27). God bless,

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