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THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NE S S
July, 1942
A S YOU Christian young men and / \ women face your future serv- X JL Ice for the Lord Jesus Christ, you are called to deal with the most vital issues in the universe. You must possess settled convictions concerning fundamental issues if there is to be any real power in your Christian wit nessing. Convictions Concerning Fundamental Matters The best way to settle forever the issue of the Bible as God’s infallible Word is to “honor the command ments’ —and “the promises will honor you.” Let this issue be settled now by obeying God’s Word, and you shall experience the overwhelming riches of His wonderful promises in His compassionate grace toward you. You who expect to go lorth in Christ’s service must have deep con victions concerning God, concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s Son; the Holy Ghost; the living Word of God as the revelation of God to man. You need to understand, in experience, the Word’s basic teachings, among which, are those concerning the holiness of God, the deity of Jesus Christ, the personality and power of the Holy Ghost, the Sinfulness of men, and the atonement through the blood of Jesus Christ. Also you need to be clear as to the coming again of our Saviour, the hope of the church, and heaven and hell as the final destinies of the redeemed and the lost. Great and deep spiritual experi ences bring forth great convictions which will be a mighty stabilizing force in your life. Seeing oneself sin ful. and lost, in grace receiving re
pentance unto life, coming to a per sonal saving knowledge of J e s u s Christ, washed in His atoning blood, a new creature in Christ Jesus through the regenerating miracle of the Holy Spirit by faith in His name, and en dued with power from on high—a deep grasp of these truths will bring these great spiritual experiences Into your lives. The motto of Bengel was, “Apply thyself wholly to the Scriptures, and apply the Scriptures wholjy to thy self.” We should have convictions that plow deep channels in our souls. Then you may send forth your God-pro duced convictions as a torrent into the world, sparkling with the gems of grace, love, and compassion. Your Call to Service You must KNOW that God has called you into His service. God’s call is fool proof, revealed in a two fold way, first by the Word of God, and secondly by the voice of God in the receiver of the soul, confirming the Word. It is a call to lay down your life for Jesus your Lord and a lost world, henceforth to take and obey orders from the Captain of your soul. The call of God must be a settled fact in your life, else you may be tossed from post to pillar and finally find yourself confused on the battle field of service—yea, discouraged and dismayed. If you know not as yet what your particular calling is, seek it with all your heart in prayer and faith (Heb. 11:6) until the God of heaven answers your cry, and you, too, shall know your call and field of service.
Another matter in which you will need the Lord’s specific guidance' is the finding of your life’s companions. Live with the spiritually lame, and you will limp, It would be far better to have a husband or wife with a crippled leg than with a crippled soul. Better a companion trained in the ways of God than in the ways of -the world. Better a soul channeled for God than for self. Success and Failure “They which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ” (Rom. 5:17). “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us” (Rom. 8:37). Faith and victory, doubt and failure, each links to its comrade. In this battle of life, we must proceed ener getically and heroically. “I press to ward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus,” says the saintly Paul (Phil. 3:14). In all pursuits of secular life we must, of necessity, concentrate in order to be fruitful. There must also be great godly enthusiasm for the Christian work in which you engage. God would have each Christian be come a living link between the deep and desperate need of this dark world and the rich resources that are resi dent in the risen Christ. If God could turn the cross into victory, there is no disaster which He could not turn to spiritual gain if we would but be lieve in Him. “Success” is a commercial term; “fruitfulness” is the theological term. Both reveal a desired state and bring forth recognition. In business, “suc-
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