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Faith in Modern Times...
This faith is not only like a transmitter, trying to break through to contact God,
but like a delicate receiver, sensitive to messages from God.
God hath (has) dealt to every man the measure of faith." Romans 12:3.
... a noted naturalist, and a musician friend were walking together on Sixth Avenue in New York City, amid the after theater
throng and the rumbling, honking, clanging babel of noise and confusion. Suddenly my friend stopped and unceremoniously brought his
friend to a halt. "Listen," he said. "Do you hear that?" "Hear What?" "That Cricket!" The musician drew up in doubt and amazement.
"Cricket!" he replied. "How could anybody hear the song of a cricket in this bedlam?" "Come with me." he said, and he led his friend down a basement stairs, and there in a niche of the wall sat a small black cricket singing its bedtime song.
"How could a man have ears sharp enough to tune in a cricket, and at the same time dull enough to tune out all the street noise?"
"Let us return to the street." There he took from his pocket a dime and tossed it onto the sidewalk. Scores of people in both directions
stopped in their tracks as if they had heard a pistol shot, and looked toward the spot where the dime had fallen.
"You see." explained my friend, "The people have their ears tuned to dimes and dollars.
I have mine tuned to the sounds of nature." It is more than a mere sanctimonious platitude to say that the hour is growing late, five
minutes to twenty some say, and it is time that modern man began tuning his ears to sounds that, to him, have grown dangerously indistinct.
Some healing balm of Heaven needs to touch the calloused ear drums of this generation. The heart of man needs contact with God.
If God should speak to puzzled modern man, what would be His first words? *
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Start with God—the first step in
learning is bowing down to God;
only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
...Read Proverbs...to gain wisdom...
*Source: God Speaks to Modern Man, by Arthur L. Lickey, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Published 1952, Page 15. >http://www.adventistbooks.org/si/box 105 gstmm.html<
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"My Spirit will not struggle with man forever. He will die. He will have only 120 years to live until I judge him."
Genesis 6:3 New International Reader's Version Source: www.BibleGatewy.com
Learn: insight, intuitiveness, penetration, sixth sense Source: http://thesaurus.reference.com/
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God's Purpose
The Bible prophet foresaw our day of marvels. What is Heaven's purpose in this stupendous display of the very fireworks of knowledge? The purpose is twofold:
The one is to open the way for the removal of every barrier between man and man. Through science all men have become neighbors.
The war of 1812-14 might never have been fought had our Congress known of peaceful moves made in the British Parliament only two days before was was declared. At the close of that war the Battle of New Orleans was fought two weeks after the treaty of peace had been signed. The conflicting forces did not know the war was over.
God is giving man one last chance for human understanding, for peace and unity. What man does with this golden opportunity is, of course, quite dependent upon his decisions.
The second and likewise urgent purpose of God is very clear. "He [God] will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth." Romans 9:28.
Christ put in these words: "The gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." Matthew 24:12.
When did the church arose to the task of going to the world with the gospel ? Just when the world was changing from candlelight to the floodlights of modern knowledge and inventions - about 1800.
Today's missionaries can reach distant points in a few hours or days. Transportation of every kind is becoming more efficient and universal.
Someone said that modern life is a race between education and catastrophe, and it looks as if catastrophe is the black horse. It might more wisely be said that life is the steady teamwork of education and character. If education, science, and information keep running ahead of character, this vehicle we call civilization will be pulled into the ditch of destruction.
Source: God Speaks to Modern Man, by Arthur L. Lickey, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Published 1952, Page 15. >http://www.adventistbooks.org/si/box 105 gstmm.html270 - 272.
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God does not select angels who have never fallen, but fallen man who has felt the redeeming power of the grace of Christ sanctifying his own life, and the bright beams of truth warming his own heart. As they have been in peril themselves, they are acquainted with the dangers and difficulties of others, and the way to reach others in like peril. {ST, January 8, 1880 par. 7}
Signs of the Times
Said Paul, "We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us." This is the reason why angels were not chosen to preach the truth. The gospel was committed to weak and erring men that God might have all the glory. The supremacy of God is to be discerned in the frail instrument chosen to proclaim the message of truth. {ST, January 8, 1880 par. 8}
Christ makes no apology when He declares, "I am the light of the world." He was, in life and teaching, the gospel, the foundation of all pure doctrine. Just as the sun compares with the lesser lights in the heavens, so did Christ, the Source of light, compare with the teachers of His day. He was before them all, and shining with the brightness of the sun, He diffused His penetrating, gladdening rays throughout the world. . . . {TMK 97.3} True Missionary
Measured by finite minds, men are called learned and great, but with all their boasted wisdom, their science and learning, they cannot thus know God, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent. . . . No man who has ever lived, or who ever will live, can claim to be the infallible guide, the supreme revealer of truth. Men may seek to reach the highest standard in learning, but there is One, "a teacher sent from God," who still stands higher than they. No human teacher can equal Him. {TMK 97.4}
There is many a church in our land composed of men of intellect, men of power, men of wealth, and may be thought to be a strong church. Its members can do much in worldly enterprises; they can build churches, endow colleges, and do many great works; they may have imposing forms and ceremonies, but these do not emit light from the throne of God to the world. They dazzle, but do not illuminate. That church which does not heed God's Word is weak and dark, it receives not Heaven's light, therefore cannot reflect it to others. {PrT, November 4, 1886 par. 13} The Present Truth
Let all who claim to be united to Christ do their work for time and for eternity by leaving a bright track heavenward. We cannot let our light go out in darkness without being stumbling-blocks to others. Rightly related to the Light of the World, we can reflect His light upon those who are in darkness. {PrT, November 4, 1886 par. 14}
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