THE LORD'S WITNESSES

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Jul 26, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 30.

THE LORD'S WITNESSES.

1. For what does Isaiah say Christ was given? "Behold, I have given Him for a Witness to the people, a Leader and Commander to the people." Isa. 55:4; also John 18:37 and Rev. 1:5.

2. What did Christ give up in order to be an earthly witness for God? "Existing in the form of God, [He] counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men." Phil. 2:6, 7.

3. What does Christ design that His disciples should be? "Ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you; and ye shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." Acts 1:8.

4. Of what must the true disciple deprive himself? "Whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he can not be My disciple?" Luke 14:33. "I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus My Lord; for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ." Phil. 3:8.

5. From whom do we receive all that we have? It is God that "giveth to all life, and breath, and all things." Acts 17:25. "Thine, O Jehovah, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty; for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is Thine." 1 Chron. 29:11.

6. To whom do we ourselves belong? "Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; for ye were bought with a price." 1 Cor. 6:19, 20.

7. To whom then is all our service due? "Glorify God therefore in your body." 1 Cor. 6:20. "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service." Rom. 12:1.

8. In what way may we witness that we love the Lord? "If ye love Me, keep My commandments." John 14:15. "And this commandment have we from Him, that he who loveth God love his brother also." 1 John 4:21; also verse 20.

9. In what way would God have us witness to our obligation to Him? "Honor Jehovah with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thine increase." Prov. 3:9. "Bring ye the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house." Mal. 3:10. "God loveth a cheerful giver." 2 Cor. 9:7.

10. What would God have us specially witness to the world? "Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, . . . teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you." Matt. 28:19, 20. "And this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony [witness] unto all the nations; and then shall the end come." Matt. 24:14.