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He Will Not Fail

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 9, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 22.

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"He Will Not Fail"

THE inspired writer gives us these words: "Behold, My servant, whom I uphold; My chosen, in whom My soul delighteth: I have put My Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles. He will not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street. A bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth. He will not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law." Isa. 42: 1-4.
Matthew quotes from this prophecy, and applies it to Christ. How good are the words, "He will not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set justice in the earth"!
When here in person, Christ spoke as never man spoke. His labors had the endowment of all the mighty power of the divine and the infinite. He gathered to Him a dozen rather obscure men. One of them turned traitor; and on the night of His betrayal, they all forsook Him and fled. When He went to Calvary, He had to go alone. He had no sympathetic supporters or brave defenders. His cause has had to suffer the apparent defeats of hypocrisies, apostasies, and all sorts of misrepresentations; but in the face of all these stands the divine Word, "He will not fail nor be discouraged."
Soon the triumph of His work will come. Soon His voice will be heard calling the righteous dead from their graves, and together with the righteous living, they will be robed in immortality, to enter upon their eternal reward. The work of the plan of salvation will be complete. The Master's courage will be rewarded.
When we are laboring, under difficulties, to advance the cause of Christ, we may draw both consolation and strength from Him whom the failures and difficulties incident to human weakness can not discourage, and who eventually surmounts all the obstacles and obstructions that satanic cunning or fury can throw in His way.