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W.D. Frazee

Medical Missionary Work- Part 1

And responsibility as I think of this meeting together this morning with some of the leaders of our work here in Wildwood.

God has promised wonderful things to those who meet the condition.

He says we do not know what the Lord will do for us if we will come into line.

That's what we want, is to come into line, isn't it?

First Chronicles, the twelfth chapter, and the thirty-second verse.

This chapter tells of the gathering of the children of Israel to make David king.

In the 22nd verse it says, For at that time, day by day, there came to David to help him until it was a great host, like the host of God.

But in the midst of the report of the different tribes, In the 32nd verse comes this interesting statement concerning the men of Issachar.

Of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do, The heads of them were 200, and all their brethren were at their commandment." There is a relation between the 2 facts stated here.

All their brethren were at their commandment.

That indicates unity, cooperation, good organization, good functioning, doesn't it?

But what's the other fact stated earlier in the verse.

Now, in order to know what to do, What does it say these men had?

Did you ever wake up in the night and look at your watch?

To see whether to roll over and go back to sleep, or to see whether it was time to get up.

We've all had that experience many times.

And looking at the prophetic clock gives insight as to present duty.

And we can never understand how to run a sanitarium for God unless we know what time it is.

Well, it's easy to say it's the last hour, and it is.

But I want us to think about this against the backdrop of the stream of time.

Here time has been running on for 6000 years.

We think of 1844, when Jesus entered the Most Holy.

And we look ahead and we think of the coming of Jesus.

And here we are in this little remnant of time, just before the close of probation, while Jesus is still in the sanctuary.

Why is he waiting now, when chronologically his coming should have been long ago.

Well, he's waiting for the fruit to be ripe.

May I say, I'm assuming the fact that all of us here this morning are well informed on hundreds of matters and will not take time to prove everything we refer to.

Rather, I want to talk with you about the implications and applications of what we know.

But if at any point in these studies we have together, we touch points that you are not sure of, Make a note of that.

Give me opportunity to give you references that will support those statements.

Oh, I pray that all of us may be men that have understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do.

The coming of Jesus is not delayed because men had not yet visited the moon.

There are a vast number of things that even the remnant people of God are thinking about today that have no bearing on the coming of Jesus.

There is 1 thing that Christ is waiting for, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

Luke, the first chapter, gives that concerning the work and mission of John the Baptist.

Our work is today what his work was back there.

Now this is the mission of the Most Holy Place in the Heavenly Sanctuary.

I suppose you have read our article in last week's review, a digest of what was given at the Fall Council.

I suggest you read that and ponder over it, not just because of its identification with this place, but because of our identification, yours and mine, with the great truth of that message.

Christ is in the sanctuary and must be until his people learn to quit breaking his law, thus breaking his heart.

Hansen was sharing with me the day before yesterday.

He'd been pondering over those wonderful statements in Education those wonderful statements in Education 263 on the suffering of Jesus not being confined to the cross, but rather the cross is a revelation to our dull senses of the pain that from its very inception sin has brought to the heart of God.

All heaven suffered in Christ's agony, but that suffering did not begin or end with his manifestation in humanity.

Every departure from the right, Every deed of cruelty, every failure of humanity to reach his ideal brings grief to him.

Hansen was telling me that he had noted much of this before, but the thing that struck him this Sabbath as he pondered over the page was that statement, every failure of humanity to reach his ideal brings grief to him.

So there's more to this thing, dear ones, than merely quitting some sins, stealing or lying or anger, anything like that.

Higher than the highest human thought can reach is God's ideal for his children.

Do we think that we have yet reached the ideal, personally, institutionally?

Now let's look at the implications of that.

That means that we need still to be changed.

Do you know it's a hard thing to change human beings?

This is the problem that God has been up against for 6000 years.

And nearly all the fruit drops off the tree before it's ripe.

What I mean is, nearly everybody dies before his character is fully changed.

He may be saved, like the thief on the cross, or like Manasseh, or like a lot of other people.

But Christ is hungry to see a generation of saints who fully reflect his image.

This is not an extension of the Red Cross or the public health service.

Good is the work those organizations are doing.

We are an extension of the work of Jesus in the most holy place, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

Now what does sanitarium work have to do with this making ready a people?

As far as saving people like Jesus saved the thief on the cross, that could be done without knowledge of health and health principles, couldn't it?

Having multitudes of people in various ages been saved without knowing anything about the Sabbath or health reform?

Well, why cumber up things in this confused age?

Why not do like Billy Graham and some of his imitators within the remnant church, and just simply as the saying is, preach Christ and make it simple, And just help people to accept Jesus, come to the altar and give their hearts to God, and receive, don't miss it, the assurance of eternal life.

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