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He says, "Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to
afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread
sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable
day to Yehovah?" Will they accept this reproof, and pray for true
repentance? Will they put away their sins and seek for pardon?
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There is a work for them to do. They are to bring the atmosphere of
heaven into their families, and into their association with their fellow men.
They are to represent the character of Elohim, even as It was revealed to Moses.
"And Yehovah descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and
proclaimed The Name of Yehovah. And Yehovah passed by before him, and
proclaimed, Yehovah, Yehovah Elohim, merciful and gracious, longsuffering,
and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving
iniquity and transgression and sin" [Ex. 34:5-7].
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They are to deal with existing evils as Yehovah has directed them.
They are not to bind themselves in a covenant with the world. The
instruction which Elohim gave through Moses to Israel is for His people today:
"Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the
land whither thou goest, lest it be a snare in the midst of thee," for Satan
works through those who know not Elohim, those who do not acknowledge Him as
their Creator and Ruler. "But ye shall destroy their altars, break their
images, and cut down their groves," the groves in which they erected their
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is Jealous, is a jealous Elohim."--Ms 48, 1900, pp. 1, 2. ("A Warning for This
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Elohim desires His people to place themselves in right relation to Him that
they may understand what He requires of them. They are to be a
commandment-keeping people wherever they are, at home or abroad, and to have
the assurance that they are accepted as His children. They are to take their
position in the world as a people whose righteousness goes before them, and
whose rereward is the glory of Yehovah. When we live before the world such
consistent lives that it can be said of us that our righteousness goes before
us, the glory of Yehovah will surely be revealed.
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The special work of Elohim's people for this time is brought before us in
the words: "They that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places:
Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be
called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. If
thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy
day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of Yehovah, honourable; and
shalt honour Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure,
nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in Yehovah;
and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed
thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father" [Isa. 58:12-14].
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Our great need as a people is that we come into right relation to Elohim.
We cannot afford to let one day pass in which we have not laid hold by living
faith on the Elohim of Israel. We need the clear light of the Sun of
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Yehovah's Sabbath; but we cannot keep this day holy unless we serve Yehovah
in the manner brought to view in the scripture: "Is not this the fast that I
have chosen, to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and
to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to
deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out
to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou
hide not thyself from thine own flesh?" [Isa. 58:6, 7]. This is the work
that rests upon every soul who accepts the service of the Messiah.
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Yehovah is constantly working for us, and our eyes should be opened to
understand and to know His ways. We are to come to Him in living faith. His
arm is not shortened, that it cannot save; His ear is not heavy, that He
cannot hear. It is our iniquities that separate us from Elohim. What we
individually need is the living testimony in our souls that we are seeking
Elohim with the whole heart, that we are putting from our lives those things
which Elohim declares should not be found there. Elohim desires that we shall
stand before the world a holy people. Why? Because there is a world to be
saved by the light of present truth. As we give to the people the truth that
is to call them out of darkness into Elohim's marvelous light, our lives,
sanctified by the Spirit of truth, are to bear witness to the verity of the
message we proclaim.--Ms 35, 1909, pp. 2, 3. ("Let Us Publish Salvation," a
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Now we can see what Yehovah delights in their doing.
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"Then shall thy light break forth as the morning." Well this is what we
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morning! What is it that will give us the light? By getting out of
ourselves and seeing what good we can do for others, that are around us. We
may feel that it is too great a task upon us, but in doing good to others it
reacts back upon us, and if we comfort others with the comfort wherewith we
are comforted the blessings will come back to us. And how? "Ye are
labourers together with Elohim." You see we are drawing in the same line with
Jehovah, and all of the heavenly intelligences are interested in the work
going on here in this earth, and if there had not been that interest none of
us could be saved. . . . "And they that shall be of thee," now mark these
words, "shall build the old waste places": What next? They shall raise up
the foundations of many generations; and they shall be called, What? "The
repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in." What is that?
It is the everlasting law of Jehovah, and it was the transgression of that
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Here it says, "And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry." What is
this hungering? If there is not a hungering, a starving for the Word of Elohim,
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I know that the work you are engaged in is the very work that should be
done in connection with the third angel's message, as the hand is connected
with the body. I have no fears of workers who are engaged in the work
represented in the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah.--Letter 24, 1898, pp. 1,
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Isaiah 58: "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and
show My people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet
they seek Me daily and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did
righteousness and forsook not the ordinances of their Elohim: they ask of Me
the ordinance of justice; they take delight in approaching to Elohim." They
seek the Messiah just the same as though they had not forsaken Him. This is a
people that seek Elohim as though they were seeking Him in obedience to Him.
That is just how they seek Yehovah. "They ask of Me the ordinance of
justice." That is the danger, and that is where the Pharisees stumbled.
They looked at their outward forms and ceremonies, and their outward
performances of worship. And the Pharisees expected that those outward
ceremonies would certainly recommend them to the Messiah, but He showed them that
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Now He says, "Behold ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with
the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your
voice to be heard on high." Here is a voice that Elohim bids shall be heard on
high, and there are voices that they make to be heard on high, and it is not
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"Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his
soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush and to spread sackcloth and
ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast and an acceptable day unto Yehovah?"
As though Yehovah would take great pleasure in that. That is not
the kind of a bowing down that He has a pleasure in. "Is not this the fast
that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy
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a purpose. Let us see what it is. "To loose the bands of wickedness, and
unto the heavy burdens." Now here is the very thing in work that Yehovah
accepts. Why? You say, "I have heard that we are not saved for our good
works." No, but we will not be saved without them. You cannot depend upon
your good works for salvation. We must have a living dependence upon a
living Elohim. And when there is a living connection with a living Elohim, the Messiah
abides in the heart by living faith, and the human agent works after the Messiah's
life. He is going to change our life and character that the Messiah reveals. And
if trials come to us we will not manifest a rebellious spirit. The
opportunities will present themselves to every one of us, because we see
oppression and unkindness, and because we see burdens that would be thrown
upon us, and let self come in and exhibit itself. We let self arise. We
want to put the trials in the right place, and where is it? the Messiah says to
everyone that is weary and heavy laden, "Come to Me." And what? "Learn of
Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart." And notwithstanding the crush of
conflict that we shall have to pass through if we accept the truth of
heavenly origin, there is meekness and lowliness in Yehoshua in every move.
Hide in Yehoshua the Messiah. Our life and character is hid with the Messiah in Elohim, so
we cannot afford to let any impulse of passion control our words or control
our actions, but we must do just as Yehoshua would have done under similar
circumstances, and we are not to be revengeful.
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Now the work that is before us we want clearly to understand. It is a
work of mercy, a work of love, a work just in the Messiah's lines. Just as the Messiah
worked. He says that the nobleman went a long journey, and to every man he
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his work, and this is the Messiah's work. It is not the man's work. He is not to
feel that all he has to do is to attend to his own individual self. No,
there is a broader field. He is to occupy till I come, and what is it, "to
occupy"? To be laborers together with Elohim. Therefore it is of the greatest
consequence that we understand in clear lines what it is to be laborers
together with Elohim. We must be imbued with the Spirit of the Messiah. We cannot
labor with Elohim merely from our intellect or our education. We cannot buy the
grace of Elohim with money; we cannot buy it with eloquence; we cannot buy it
with the power of our intellect. It is Elohim's to begin with. Does any of it
belong to us? No, it is received by us from above. We are to occupy to the
very best knowledge that we have, and sense our responsibility, and let our
light shine through us to those that are around us, and in doing that we are
doing the work of Elohim. "Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose
the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go
free, and that ye break every yoke?" How are we to do it though? It is to
present the obedience to Yehoshua the Messiah. And when we present the perfection
that there is in His requirements, in His commandments, in His law, we are
presenting that which will loose the bands of wickedness, and in the place of
making men fast, in the place of shackling them with sin, it will loose the
bands of wickedness, and those that are oppressed by the enemy. Who is the
enemy? Who is observing us on the right and on the left? It is the one who
rebelled against the law of Elohim in heaven. It is the one that fell because
of his disloyalty, and when we work in his lines we are fastening the
shackles of oppression. "His servants ye are to whom ye yield yourselves
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make us free. If we are on the Messiah's side we stand under the blood-stained
banner of Yehoshua the Messiah. The blood-stained banner of Prince Emmanuel
testifies that we are free, made free in Yehoshua the Messiah, because He is the
propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but for all who shall
believe on His name. That is the freedom that we want.
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"To let the oppressed go free." What can we say to them? We can show
them that obedience to the requirements of Yehoshua the Messiah is freedom, liberty,
and salvation. It is indeed the perfection of Yehoshua the Messiah revealed in our
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"And that ye break every yoke." We do not want to be bound any more, no
matter who it is, or what it is. There is our Elohim whom we must serve. A Elohim
who requires our service. Nothing must come in between that Elohim and our
souls, because our souls are of infinite value, and we cannot hang them on
the ministers. We cannot trust our salvation to them. We must search the
Scriptures for ourselves and know what they teach. We must obey what Elohim
says. "Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the
poor which are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou
cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?" How can you
do this? By not living extravagantly yourself. By not using every dollar
that you have to make yourself a place in the earth, but honor Yehovah Elohim
of heaven by showing that you esteem humanity from Elohim's standpoint. Yehoshua
the Messiah is our Redeemer, and we are to feel indeed that He has died to
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Now let us see what the Spirit of Elohim led His representative on earth to
do. What the character of His mission was. He says, "The Spirit of Yehovah
is upon Me because He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He
hath sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the
captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that
are bruised." How? Why, He found when He came here that the truth was so
mixed with error, that He had to take away the traditions and maxims, and to
remove the rubbish, and take the truth which had served in the enemy's lines
to strengthen error, and bring error before the people, rescue it from error
and restore it to the native loveliness of its character, and then let that
truth stand before the people. The oldest error may be pleaded because of
its age, but it may be hoary with age, but that does not make error truth.
No, it does not change error into truth. The Jews held their customs
received from tradition and repeated from age to age and from generation to
generation, and they kept accumulating till He says to them, "Ye are blind."
"Ye are both ignorant of the Scriptures and of the power of Elohim." What was
the matter? Why they had taught tradition for the commandments of Elohim? That
is not the way to do. What did the Messiah come to present? He says, "The
recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised."
Now you can see that that is in perfect harmony with what we have been
reading. "When thou seest the naked that thou cover him." What are you
doing if you have the glorious light of truth? What are you doing if Elohim
has chosen you to be a peculiar people, a royal people, a holy people? You
are to show forth the power of Him who hath called you out of darkness, out
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upon you, do not let your mouth be stopped. Do not let anybody put a
falsehood in your mouth because of tradition. Speak the truth as it is in
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Let the Spirit of Elohim speak for Himself. Do not mix in self, and your
own ideas and your own opinions. You want to present the truth as it is in
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"And that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh." How much of that
there is. There is a little church in Denver where they do not let anyone in
if they do any work, and so, of course, the Messiah does not come in, because He
set us the example by working in a carpenter's shop. They exclude everyone.
There was a seamstress taken in by a noble family, and they [the people in
the church] were highly offended and talked with them. To think that they
should let one worker come in! Have they got a secluded heaven? They are
hiding themselves from their own flesh. Do just as Yehoshua did. What did He
do? He took a position with the poor. He preached the gospel to the poor in
such simple language that they could advance the truth in every line. What
does it say in the Scriptures? the Messiah sent out a message, Come to My supper.
The preparation is made, come to My supper. But they would not hear it.
What was the matter? What had they got to do? One said, "I have bought a
piece of ground and cannot come," and another said, "I have a yoke of oxen,"
and another, "I have married a wife," and the Messiah was angry, and He said, "Go
out onto the highways and compel them to come in." How? Were they to take
and shackle them? They were to let the bright rays of light shine right upon
them in clear, steady, lines that they should follow the words of Yehoshua.
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Him? That is the very work that is to be done. Let us draw. Shall we go to
the highest? Yes, go to the highest powers in the earth and say, "We have
got a truth which will satisfy every one of you. You are not satisfied.
This is a truth so large and expansive and so deep that it will meet every
want that you have." Present to them the precious truth. There are many in
palaces that do not know what is the matter with them. Paul had converts in
Caesar's household. He did not tell them to come out, but when it came to
the point where they could not honor Elohim and stay there, they had a perfect
right to change their position, as the Messiah had the right to take the children
of Israel out of Egypt in order that they might keep the Sabbath and have Yehovah
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Hide not yourself from your own flesh. Go to work right where you are
among any people [where] there is work to do. "Lift up your eyes," says
the Messiah, "and look." Why? For the fields are ripe and ready for harvest.
What is interposing? Men interpose themselves right between the people and
the Messiah. They are working in the lines of the enemy, instead of in the light
and power of truth, and the Elohim of heaven must see in the human agent the
power that says, "Come, for all things are ready." That is what we want. We
want to give the people food. They are hungry. We do not want the froth, we
do not want the fables, but we want the word of the infinite Elohim. the Messiah
says, "Except ye eat My flesh and drink My blood, ye have not part with Me."
What is it to eat His flesh? When the disciples heard that they were
offended. They did not discern spiritual things. He says, "The words that I
speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." It is to be doers of the
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customs and blind our eyes? We have a work to do, to go to the people who
have souls to lose or souls to save. What are the terms of salvation? "Thou
shalt worship Yehovah thy Elohim, and Him only shalt thou serve." This we will
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Let us see what comes of not being self-centered, and not taking time to
brood over our ailments and afflictions. We will take time to consider that
there is somebody in the world besides ourselves, and we will begin to work
in the Messiah's lines, our spirits will become anointed and His righteousness
will go before us. Then if ye do these things "thy light shall break forth
as the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily." And it is a
double health. It is not only bodily health, but spiritual health and power,
spiritual sinew and muscle. "Thine health shall spring forth speedily; and
thy righteousness shall go before thee: and the glory of Yehovah shall be
thy rereward"--the righteousness of Yehoshua the Messiah. He has taken away our sins
because we have repented of our transgression of the law of Elohim. Our sin is
taken away and in its place the righteousness of Elohim is imputed unto us.
Here the vacuum is supplied by blessing of Elohim. That is what supplies the
place. "Thy righteousness shall go before thee." Yehoshua the Messiah our
righteousness. "And the glory of Yehovah shall be thy rereward." If the
righteousness of Elohim goes before in the path that we travel, we have got a
most glorious wake behind us. Elohim's people are blessed. They stand out
distinguished by light and love and power, and the world sees that there is
somebody who will work according to the law of Elohim.
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"Then shalt thou call, and Yehovah shall answer; thou shalt cry, and He
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putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; and if thou draw out thy
soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise
in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day: And Yehovah shall guide
thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones:
and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose
waters fail not." That is what we want, to call and Yehovah shall answer.
"Thou shalt cry, and He shall say, Here I am." He responds to our call, and
says, "What shall I do for you?" He will give you the very thing that your
soul hungers after. "If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, and
putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity." It is not only the body,
but the soul that is expressed in this work. How many we see whose light is
in obscurity. Oh, if I could find Yehoshua. I have letters come to me saying,
"How shall I find Yehoshua? I have prayed but I do not get any answer to my
prayer." the Messiah says, "If ye do these things, I will answer. I am with you.
I am right by your side." What can we suppose is the reason that we are in
obscurity? The light is shining, and here the Messiah says, "Then shall thy light
rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day." Let us thank Elohim.
Let a gratitude offering come up to Elohim. "And Yehovah shall guide thee
continually." If His words to us continue we are not in darkness. "And Yehovah
shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and . . .
thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters
fail not." Everyone who trusts in Yehoshua and drinks of the water that He
gives them, it shall be in them "as a well of water springing up unto
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"And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places." What
is the matter? Do you see any waste places down here in 1894? "Thou shalt
raise up the foundations of many generations." What is the matter? Is the
foundation gone? "And thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The
restorer of paths to dwell in." They will be called among the heavenly
intelligences, "the repairers of the breach, the restorers of paths to dwell
in." "If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure
on My holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of Yehovah,
honorable; and shalt honor Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine
own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself
in Yehovah; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth,
and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of
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Now we have to understand what the breach is. Look at the fourth
commandment. We have assembled here today to acknowledge that Yehovah
created the heaven and the earth in six days and rested on the seventh day,
and sanctified and blessed the seventh day, and set it apart for man to
observe. In observing that day, we erect a memorial which is to call Elohim to
mind and keep Him in remembrance as the only true and living Elohim to be
worshiped by human intelligences. He created the heavens and the earth and
He has given us a memorial, even the observance of the seventh-day--not the
first day. Here comes a power under the control of Satan that puts up the
first day to be observed. Elohim calls him the man of sin because he has
perpetuated transgression. He [Satan] has taken his side to be on the right
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Here is the breach that is to be made and it has been a breach for years.
Shall we let it always be a breach? Well, some say, "Why do you always talk
about the Sabbath? Why don't you talk about the Messiah?" Suppose in an
enclosure a length of fence was broken down. If we were building that length
would you ask why we paid so much attention to that part? What is it? [It
is] the Sabbath of the fourth commandment that is broken down. The
foundation of many generations is the seventh-day Sabbath of Yehovah our
Elohim. "This is the sign," He says in the thirty-first chapter of Exodus,
"this is the sign between Me and you throughout your generations." Well, now
what is the matter? They have broken it down, and the world has taken the
liberty to take a day that has no sacredness, no sanctity, and they all
worship that as the sabbath. It is a spurious sabbath. Elohim does not accept
it. They worship Elohim as though they had not departed from His ordinances,
but they have. Shall we accept this child of Papacy? The Protestant world
has taken it, the Protestant world has cradled it, the Protestant world has
nourished it, but shall we take it as divine, when Elohim says, "Six days shalt
thou labor, and do all thy work." What shall we do? Work at that broken-down
line of fence. "Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many
generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The
restorer of paths to dwell in."
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Will you please carry that home with you, and read and search and find
out about the breach, because every one of you want to become intelligent in
faith and doctrine, that you may "give an answer to every man that asketh you
a reason of the hope that is in you." Let us seek Yehovah that we may find
Him. He wants us to seek Him. Elohim help us to come right to the point, and

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every one of us be employed in lifting up the Sabbath which has been trampled
under the feet of man, and a spurious one put in its place.
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You will always find Satan on the side of the oppressor. Elohim does not
oppress. Elohim does not bring them [people] in by persecution, for He has let
them live all this time, but when Satan gets the lines in his hands, he takes
the spurious sabbath and sets it up against the perfection of the Messiah and
[says] you have got to keep it. That is the spirit of persecution and
oppression and bondage. It goes right with the spurious sabbath that has not
one syllable for its sanctity in the Word of Elohim. "If you do not keep
Sunday, you will not buy or sell." And not only that, but they work their
oppression in every way possible, but thank Elohim, He lives. He lived in the
days of the apostles when the priests said, "Do not preach any more in the
name of Yehoshua the Messiah." Somebody else's law was to come in there and show
that Elohim had a government. He sent His angel and said, "Go and tell Peter to
go and make known My words." And when they came from Peter, lo he was not
there. And one came and said, "He is in the Temple preaching." And they
sent officers to bring him without violence, and they brought him before the
council. They said to them [him], "Why do you teach in His name?" But Peter
answer and said, "Whether it be right in the sight of Elohim to hearken unto you
more than unto Elohim, judge ye."
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Elohim help us that our eyes may be anointed with the eyesalve that we may
see. He will cause you to ride on the high places of the earth, and feed you
with the heritage of Jacob thy father. Let us hide under the promise, and
let us find refuge in Yehoshua the Messiah. He will establish us in truth and

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righteousness and the glory of Yehovah shall be our rereward.--Ms 11, 1894,
pp. 1-14. ("Isaiah 58." Sermon, February 17, 1894.)

Released June 22, 1971.

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