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W.D. Frazee

Medical Missionary Work- Part 3

May we open Thy Word and listen to the voice of the Spirit speaking through the inspired pages.

May the Spirit of inspiration come upon us all.

We thank Thee that the same voice which spoke in the long ago can speak, belongs to speak, to each 1 of us here.

O my Master, for this little time that we're together this morning.

In 2 Chronicles, the 25th chapter, we have a very interesting story.

You know, the Bible says that what things whoever were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

In this 25th chapter of 2 Chronicles, we read about the experience of Amaziah.

In the fifth verse, he gathered all Judah together, and he had 300, 000 choice men able to go forth to war.

Then beside that, he hired 100, 000 mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

He hired from the neighbor, apostate Israel, A hundred thousand more for a hundred talents of silver.

But there came a man of God to him saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee, for the Lord is not with Israel to wit with all the children of Ephraim.

But if thou wilt go to it, be strong for the battle.

God shall make thee fall before the enemy.

For God hath power to help and to cast down.

And I am, as I have said to the man of God, but what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?

And the man of God answered, The Lord is able to give thee much more than this.

Now there are several lessons that throng in on us as we read this.

First, he should have asked counsel of God when?

Second, it isn't a good thing to confederate, not only with the world, but even with those who bear the name of the people of God, when because of their apostasy the Lord is not with them.

We need a great deal of discernment to know how to apply this in a way that is not bigoted and narrow on the 1 hand, or too broad on the other.

The third thing we notice here is that even when we have gotten into a hard situation, thank God we can back out.

Do you know why people that build cars put a reverse gear in the car?

There are times when the only way out is to back out.

Now, Amaziah was a leader, but the spirit of prophecy said, Amaziah, you'd better back out of this.

Oh, but he says, look at all the money we've invested.

See, all the money we've already invested.

Yes, the Prophet said, I know about that.

But the Lord is able to give you much more than this.

It pays to listen to the spirit of prophecy, even when it means to back up and back out.

Now you notice the result of it was that the ones that were not allowed to go, their anger was greatly kindled.

And at any rate, God blessed, and He went ahead with the program as God had planned.

Now this morning I'd like to have us think for a little about this matter of following the Lord on every detail.

While we're here in 2 Chronicles, let's go to the 20th chapter and the 20th verse.

This is when Moab, Edom, and Ammon came against Judah and Ammon came against Judah, and Jehoshaphat sought the Lord earnestly, and the Lord heard him, told him to put singers before the army as they went out.

The last part of the 20th verse, Jehoshaphat said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established.

Believe his prophets, so shall you prosper.

And God has given us, in the Bible and the spirit of prophecy, so much precious counts.

I'm so glad for this book, Medical Ministry, aren't you?

Page 61, Page 61, the bottom of the page.

What does she mean, I'm instructed to say?

Yes, it's in some idea that popped into her head.

I am instructed to say that in our educational work there is to be no compromise in order to meet the world's standards.

God's commandment-keeping people are not to unite with the world, to carry various lines of work according to worldly plans and worldly wisdom.

Our people are now being tested as to whether they will obtain their wisdom from the greatest teacher the world ever knew or seek to the God of Ekron.

Let us determine that we shall not be tied by so much as a thread to the educational policies of those who do not discern the voice of God and who will not hearken to his commandments.

Down below the middle of the page, There is danger in their attaching themselves to worldly institutions and working under the ministrations of worldly physicians.

Now, This is why we have a total Seventh-day Adventist staff.

Have we reached the time when literally thousands of our people are not afraid of this danger?

Scores of institutions where the world and the Church are all mixed up.

We've come to a time, and it's to weep about, when it's considered a wonderful goal to have a certain percentage of the total staff, seventh day.

The objective of a total SDA staff has long since been surrendered as impracticable, impossible.

But now, dear ones, let me ask you something.

You will all agree in the answer to this.

Is merely having the name on the church book, is that the goal?

What is the reason for having a total SDA stat?

Isn't it so that everyone is a living, vibrant Christian, capable of receiving from Jesus and passing on to the patient and the student?

And you notice in what we read from 2 Chronicles there, 25, that God did not want even the children of Ephraim to go with that army of Judah.

They had their golden calves that they were worshipping.

And I want to tell you something, friends.

There's too many members of the remnant church and too many institutions of the remnant church that are worshipping golden calves.

And God says, be careful, don't get into that.

Don't assume that that kind of help is what you need.

Now I'll be frank with you, I don't know all the reasons why our minds are led to this this much, and I doubt if anybody here does, But I have found by long experience that God often burdens our minds to study something to get us ready for something we're going to meet a few minutes later or days or weeks later.

And as I saw somewhere, this quaint little way of putting it, the best time to prevent an accident is before it happens.

And if you and I will study the spirit of prophecy and be afraid of worldly education and worldly institutions and worldly physicians and worldly educators in any life, oh dear ones, God wants to make this little place truly a centre from which light will radiate in many directions.

Now you take in this matter of equipment.

My mind was led yesterday to look up something in a little book that Elder Burden got out in Loma Linda, back before most of us here was born, printed in their little press.

This is called the Medical Evangelistic Library.

There were several numbers of this, this tiny little booklet, but In it, much of it is quotations from the testimonies that Sister White sent Elder Burton.

I want to read just a little here this morning, and let me say so that I won't be misunderstood.

I do not have any specific thing in mind.

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