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Be the first to start one ». About Vance Ferrell. Vance Ferrell. Books by Vance Ferrell. When Dana Schwartz started writing about a 19th-century pandemic ravaging Edinburgh in her latest book, Anatomy: A Love Story, she had no idea Read more Their hearts are not purified through the truth.

God looks on their outward ceremonies of humility as a solemn mockery. He regards all religious sham as an insult to Himself. But their deeds were tainted by the leprosy of selfishness and covetousness. They had nothing ex- cept that which they had first received from God. He bestowed His goods on them that they might be His helping hand, doing what Christ would do were He in their place, giving a true representation of the prin- ciples of heaven.

The inward work of grace is needed. Hu- miliation of soul is essential. God looks upon this. He will graciously receive those who will humble their hearts before Him. He will hear their petitions and Message of Isaiah Fifty-eight 35 heal their backslidings. God is wait- ing—waiting for humiliation and repentance.

He will receive all who will turn unto Him with their whole hearts. They ask why, since they observe so many ceremo- nies, the Lord does not give them special recognition. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. These worshipers, while mourning and lamenting, retain all their objectionable traits of char- acter.

Their hearts are not humbled, nor cleansed from spiritual defilement. They have not received the soft- ening showers of the grace of God. They are destitute of the Holy Spirit, destitute of the sweetness of the heavenly influences. They manifest no repentance, nor faith that works by love and purifies the soul. They are unjust and selfish in their dealings, mercilessly oppressing those whom they regard as their inferiors. Yet they charge God with a neglect to manifest His power to them, and exalt themselves above others be- cause of their righteousness.

The Lord sends them a message of positive reproof, showing why they are not visited by His grace. The house of Jacob, at the time this warning was given to Isaiah, appeared to be a very zealous people, seeking God daily, and They were not walking in the truth. Goodness, mercy, and love were not practiced. While presenting an appearance of sorrow for their sins, they were cherishing pride and avarice. At the very time when they were showing such outward humiliation, they would exact hard la- bor from those under them or in their employ.

They placed a high estimate on all the good that they had done, but a very low estimate on the services of oth- ers. They despised and oppressed the poor. And their fasting only gave them a higher opinion of their own goodness. Wherever such sins are found, seasons of fast- ing and prayer are indeed necessary; but they must be accompanied with sincere repentance and decided reformation. Without such contrition of soul, these seasons only increase the guilt of the wrong-doer.

The Lord has specified the fast He has chosen, the one He will accept. It is that which bears fruit to His glory, in repentance, in devotion, in true piety. Avarice will be put away, and fraud and oppression will be repented of and renounced. All the authority and influence will be used to help the poor and oppressed. And thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. We need the water of life that flows from Jesus Christ, which will be in us a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

We shall not call righteousness unrighteousness, nor think that things that the Lord has forbidden are right. We shall understand where the Lord is working. There are some who I know have been led astray by the enemy. But God wants to make you a partaker of the divine na- ture. He wants no yoke of human authority on your neck, but that you shall look to Him who is able to save to the uttermost every one that comes to Him in Again, I urge you to consider Isaiah 58, which opens a wide and extensive vineyard to be worked upon the lines which the Lord has pointed out.

When this is done there will be an increase of moral resources and the church will no more remain almost stationary.

There will be bless- ing and power attending their labor. The selfishness that has bound up their souls they have overcome, and now their light is being given to the world in clear, bright rays of a living faith and godly example. The Lord has His promises for all who will do His require- ments. What can be done for them? The light which the Lord has given me has been repeated: It is not best to es- tablish institutions for the care of the aged.

Nor should they be sent away from home to receive care. Let the members of every family minister to their own relatives. When this is not possible, the work belongs to the church, and it should be accepted both as a duty and as a privilege. Let them deny themselves luxuries and needless ornaments, that they may make the suffer- ing needy ones comfortable. In doing this they prac- Message of Isaiah Fifty-eight 39 tice the instruction given in the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah, and the blessing there pronounced will be theirs.

All can do something for the needy little ones, by helping to place them in homes where they can be cared for. Read this chapter care- fully and understand the kind of ministry that will bring life into the churches. The work of the gospel is to be carried by means of our liberality as well as by our labors. When you meet suffering souls who need help, give it to them. When you find those who are hungry, feed them. Let our people everywhere be encouraged to have a part in it.

This chapter is explicit, and is enough to en- lighten anyone who wishes to do the will of God. There is plenty of opportunity for everyone to be a blessing to humanity.

There may be, and there is, a danger of bury- ing up the great principles of truth when doing the work that is right to do. This work is to be to the mes- sage what the hand is to the body. The spiritual ne- cessities of the soul are to be kept prominent. Here we see how Upon those who keep the Sabbath of the Lord is laid the responsibility of doing a work of mercy and benevolence.

Medical missionary work is to be bound up with the message, and sealed with the seal of God. Shall we say that the medical missionary work needs cleansing? These are plainly specified in the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah. God will not be a party to any dishonest transaction. If we desire health and the true joy of life, we must put into practice the rules given in this Scripture. Of the ser- vice acceptable to Him, and its blessings, the Lord says, [Isaiah ].

And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday. And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones. And thou shalt be like a wa- tered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. This is the special work now before us.

All our praying and abstinence from food will avail nothing unless we resolutely lay hold of this work. Sacred obligations are resting upon us. Our duty is plainly stated.

The Lord has spoken to us by His prophet. The thoughts of the Lord and His ways are not what blind, selfish mortals believe they are or wish them to be.

The Lord looks on the heart. If self- ishness dwells there, He knows it. We may seek to conceal our true character from our brethren and sis- ters, but God knows. Nothing can be hid from Him. It is to deal thy bread to the hungry and to bring the Wait not for them to hunt you up and entreat of you a home for them- selves.

You are to search for them and bring them to your house. You are to draw out your souls after them. You are with one hand to reach up and by faith take hold of the mighty arm which brings salvation, while with the other hand of love you reach the oppressed and relieve them. Will you fail and be crushed under the burden, and your family be de- prived of your assistance and influence? Oh, no; God has carefully removed all doubts upon this question, by a pledge to you on condition of your obedience.

This promise covers all that the most exacting, the most hesitating, could crave. God can renew the physical strength. And more, He says He will do it.

And the promise does not end here. The promise does not stop even here. The light of the righteous- ness of Christ will be our front guard, and the glory of the Lord will be our rereward. Let us thank the Lord for this assurance. Let us constantly stand in a posi- tion where the Lord God of heaven can favor us. Let us consider that it is our high privilege to be in con- nection with God—to be His helping hand.

As Christians we are to have a righteousness that shall be devel- oped and seen—a righteousness that represents the character of Jesus Christ when He was in our world. They have lost their bearings. They know not what course to pursue. Let the perplexed ones search out others who are in perplexity, and speak to them words of hope and encouragement.

When they begin to do this work, the light of heaven will reveal to them the path that they should follow. By their words of consolation to the afflicted they themselves will be consoled. By helping others, they themselves will be helped out of their difficulties. We need to be more fervent in prayer. Many wonder why their prayers are so lifeless, their faith so feeble and wavering, their Christian experience so dark and un- certain.

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Let the sorrowful ones, who walk mournfully before the Lord, arise and help some- one who needs help. Arouse your associates to work under some name whereby they may be organized to cooperate in har- monious action. Get the young men and women in the churches to work.

Make regular, organized efforts to lift the church mem- bers out of the dead level in which they have been for years.

When the church accepts its God-given work, the promise is [Isaiah , quoted]. Christ is our righteousness; He goes before us in this work, and the glory of the Lord follows. As the mem- Message of Isaiah Fifty-eight 45 bers of our churches individually take up their ap- pointed work, they will be surrounded with an entirely different atmosphere. A blessing and a power will at- tend their labors. They will experience a higher cul- ture of mind and heart.

The selfishness that has bound up their souls will be overcome. Their faith will be a living principle. Their prayers will be more fervent. The quickening, sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit will be poured out upon them, and they will be brought nearer to the kingdom of heaven.

Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations. And thou shalt be called, The re- pairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in. If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from do- ing thy pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honor Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Their names The Lord has sent us messages for this time, to establish Christianity upon an eternal basis; and all who believe present truth must stand, not in their own wisdom but in God, and raise up the foun- dation of many generations. These will be registered in the books of heaven as repairers of the breach, the restorers of paths to dwell in.

We are to maintain the truth because it is truth, in the face of the bitterest opposition. God is at work upon human minds; it is not man alone that is working. The great illuminating power is from Christ; the brightness of His example is to be kept before the people.

With the work of advocat- ing the commandments of God and repairing the breach that has been made in the law of God, we are to mingle compassion for suffering humanity.

We are to show supreme love to God; we are to exalt His me- morial, which has been trodden down by unholy feet: and with this we are to manifest mercy, benevolence, and the tenderest pity for the fallen race. Love revealed for suffering human- ity gives significance and power to the truth. The work of beneficence enjoined in this chapter is the work that God requires His people to do at this time.

It is a work of His own appointment. Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in. All who love God will show that they bear His sign by keeping His com- mandments. They are the restorers of paths to dwell in. Its observance is bound up with the work of restoring the moral image of God in man. This ministry, rightly performed, will bring rich blessings to the church. They are to magnify the law and make it honorable, to build up the old waste places, and to raise up the foundations of many generations.

To those who do this work, God says [Isaiah , quoted]. Each Sabbath institution bears the name of its author, an ineffaceable mark that shows the authority of each.

It is our work to lead the people to under- stand this. God has called us to uplift the standard of His down-trodden Sabbath. How impor- tant, then, that our example in Sabbathkeeping should be right.

They must have another and deeper experience before they discern the snares spread to take them in the net of the deceiver. There must be no halfway work done now. The Lord calls for staunch, decided, whole-souled men and women to stand in the gap, and make up the hedge [Isaiah , quoted]. God had permitted apostasies to take place in order to show how little dependence can be placed in man. We are always to look to God; His work is not yea and nay, but yea and amen.

Message of Isaiah Fifty-eight 49 forth in the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah. There is wis- dom and blessing for those who will engage in the work as presented. This chapter is explicit, and there is in it enough to enlighten anyone who wishes to do the will of God. In His Word God has united these two lines of work, and no man should divorce them. Who is it that shall build the old waste places, and raise up the foundations of many generations?

Where are the people who have had light from heaven to see that a breach has been made in the law of God? As the temple of God was opened unto His people, the light of the law of God, which was in the ark, shone forth. Here is the patience of the saints: Here are they that keep the command- They see that the Sabbath of the fourth commandment has been supplanted by a spu- rious sabbath, a day that has no sanction in the Word of God.

Amid great opposition they become loyal to their God, and take their position under the standard of the third angel. Here we see how medical missionary work and the gospel ministry are to be bound together as the message is given to the world.

The work in the cities is the essential work for this time. When the cities are worked as God would have them, the result will be the setting in operation of a mighty movement such as we have not yet wit- nessed. Especially does the temperance reform de- mand our attention and support. Men and women must be instructed, and ministers and people should feel that the burden of the work rests upon them to agitate the subject, and urge it home upon others.

They are to reach a much higher standard in spiritual advance- ment than they have yet reached. They are to awake out of sleep, and go without the camp, working for souls that are ready to perish. The medical mission- ary workers are doing the long-neglected work which God gave to the church. I wish to tell you that soon there will be no work done in ministerial lines but medical missionary work. The meaning of genu- ine medical missionary work is known by but few. As He Christ went from place to place He blessed and comforted the suffering and healed the sick.

The reason that the Lord does not manifest His power more decidedly is because there is so little spirituality among those who claim to be- lieve the truth. There is a work, as yet untouched, that must be done. The mission of Christ was to heal the sick, encourage the hopeless, bind up the broken- hearted.

This work of restoration is to be carried on. But they will be disappointed, for they are wrong. They must act; they must take hold of the work themselves, and earnestly cry to God for a true knowledge of themselves. The scenes which are passing before us are of sufficient magnitude to cause us to arouse, and urge the truth home to the hearts of all who will listen.

The harvest of the earth is nearly ripe. As they go from house to house they will find access to many hearts. Many will be reached who otherwise never would have heard the gospel message.

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