“Blessed are the meek.”—Matthew 5:5. Throughout the Beatitudes there is an advancing line of Christian experience. Those who have felt their need of Christ, those who have mourned because of sin and have sat with Christ in the school of affliction, will learn meekness from the divine Teacher. MB 13.2 Patience and gentleness under wrong were notContinue reading “Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing: The Beatitudes, Part 3”
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The Master Serves: The Greatness of Humility
“And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant” (Matthew 20:27, KJV). Again and again Jesus had tried to establish this principle among His disciples. When James and John made their request for pre-eminence, He had said, “Whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister.” Matthew 20:26. In My kingdomContinue reading “The Master Serves: The Greatness of Humility”
Hosanna! A 500-Year Old Prophecy, A Royal Entry
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: He is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.” Zechariah 9:9. DA 569.1 Five hundred years before the birth of Christ, the prophet Zechariah thus foretold the comingContinue reading “Hosanna! A 500-Year Old Prophecy, A Royal Entry”
How to Be Rid of a Haughty Heart
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings” (Jeremiah 17:9, 10 KJV). No man can of himself understand his errors. “The heart isContinue reading “How to Be Rid of a Haughty Heart”
The Helmet of Salvation: The Mind of Christ
“Jesus did not come to earth with outward pomp and display. . . . He clothed his divinity with humanity, and yet he did not require that any one should minister unto him. He came to labor for others. He ever strove to do men good; he provided for their necessities. Among his disciples heContinue reading “The Helmet of Salvation: The Mind of Christ”