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December 1926
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believer is an authorized ambassador from the Court of Heaven to do business down here on this mundane sphere. He is empowered and directed to deliver the K ing ’s message to the people. He is not responsible for the message, but will be held to a strict account for the delivery of it. Education, special equipment, environ
THE BUSINESS OF THE BELIEVER: "DO BUSINESS TILL I COME"
It is enough that the disciple shall be as his Lord. Our Lord was a business man. “ My Father worketh hitherto and I work,” are His words. What ceaseless energy was manifested _____________
ment a n d a lo t of other things play no part in this matter. Education, equipment and environment may largely increase t h e responsibility, but the obligation is u p o n each and all to stress t h e s t o r y to t h e people. Some of the most successful agents of the Lord are poorly equipped f r o m t h e world’s point of view, but G o d uses them. The business is simple. Get your message, go and deliver i t ! So long as a man or woman lives anywhere in the world who has never heard of Christ and the Cross, every be liever is obligated to get the news of recon ciling grace to such an one. It is a paying busi ness. D o e s it pay T Y e s ! a thousand times, y e s ! G o o d , reliable dividends! There is a sense of satisfaction, a real joy in doing the w ill of God in this business that nothing else gives. It is "the incomparable w o r k . It pays now and w ill bring returns through out eternity. The Lord help us to attend to our business above editorial ivas the
by Him “ who w e n t about doing good and healing all that were o p p r e s s e d of the d ev il.” W h i l e He lived here He labored hard. When He left the world He laid the burden of service upon His followers. In the parable of the pounds, the Lord represents Himself as the nobleman going into a far country. To His servants He com manded, “ Occupy (do business) till I come.” The supreme business in this world is t h a t which a loving Lord has committed to His servants—the giving of the glorious Gospel to a perishing people. This work was not left to the church in a general sort of a way, so that no one is spec ially responsible f o r it, but in a definite way, so that there is an individual respon sibility for it. It is a p e r s o n a l business. E v e r y servant had some p o u n d s . “ To every man his work .” “ The Spirit divideth to every man severally as He w ill,” but there is an every man in that division. 'Every man shall
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••TB» Word of Ood I* L inn* and Activo' ' (Hob. 12:4, a ▼.). ■ 'Who Ooopolo pom o» » leeret vlrtao and myttorioni efficacy, a warmth which ponotratoo and aootbas tha heart o o o o The Gospel la not a hook. It la a Uvtng boina, with vifor, a power that contacta ovary- thing that oppoaoa.” —Sapoteen. "Whan wo road: ‘The Word of God la living’ wo are to understand thereby that It Uvea with a spintosi, an Inexhaustible and Inextinguishable Ufo—In a wood, a Divins Ufo. If the Word of God ho Indeed living la thla souse, than wo haw hors a fact of the most tre mándoos elgnlllcouce. " —Philip Kano.
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give an account of himself.” There are no exceptions, which is His business (The It is a practical business. There has been a good deal leader in the first issue o f The King s ¿Justness.)
of nonsense about this matter of spreading the Gospel and telling out the story of salvation. There has been a tendency to shift the responsibility upon a favored class, to evade the personal relation under the cover o f a prevailing belief that certain qualifications were essential to the work, and the non-possession of them was sufficient excuse for non-service. But every
WORTH WHILE WORK In reproducing the first cover page and the first edi torial of the first issue of The King’s Business, the editor-in-chief (who is with this number laying down his official connection with the magazine) asks the indulgence of the readers for a brief reference to some
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