Zebach SDA Church

* Hate corrupts good judgment, and anger disrupts good reasoning.

* To go to God one must have an offering, and a sacrifice. The giving of your heart to Christ is the offering, and the living of your life in Christ is the sacrifice.

* God, out of love for man, saved him in order that he out of love for God will serve Him.

The best times of my life is being in nature, growing up in the country was truly a blessing; the fresh air, the cool breeze the lovely birds in the air making the air vocal with their lovely songs, the fishes in the river, the indescribable beauty of the flowers, the lively rabbit running through the bushes, yes in nature there are so many beautiful and marvelous things, but in everything there is a lesson to learn. Nature is a lesson book, the study of which we may gain a knowledge of the creator and be attracted to Him by the things of use and beauty which He has provided for us. We are told in psa.19: 1 " The heavens declare the Glory of God and the firmament sheweth His handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. " God has given us all these beautiful things in nature as an expression of His Love that we may obtain the correct views of Him, we are not to worship the things of creation and nature, but in them we are to see the love of God. Our heavenly Father would not only have us discern the love of God displayed in the beautiful flowers around us, but He would have us learn from it the lessons of simplicity, and of perfect Faith and confidence in our heavenly Father. Sophianna Gomez.

The church is God’s fortress, His city of refuge, which He holds in a revolted world. Any betrayal of the church is treachery to Him who has bought mankind with the blood of His only-begotten Son. From the beginning, faithful souls have constituted the church on earth. In every age the Lord has had His watchmen, who have borne a faithful testimony to the generation in which they lived. These sentinels gave the message of warning; and when they were called to lay off their armor, others took up the work

God's handiwork in nature is not God Himself in nature. The things of nature are an expression of God's character and power; but we are not to regard nature as God. The artistic skill of human beings produces very beautiful workmanship, things that delight the eye, and these things reveal to us something of the thought of the designer; but the thing made is not the maker. It is not the work, but the workman, that is counted worthy of honor. So while nature is an expression of God's thought, it is not nature, but the God of nature, that is to be exalted. {MH 413.2}

“God will use you when you are willing to be used in His appointed way. Remember that the church of believers constitutes the body of Christ, and "that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another" (1 Corinthians 12:25). God calls upon you to unite with your brethren. He has assigned different gifts to the different members of His body. He has given them such talents and opportunities as will best promote His glory and the advancement of His kingdom. He is put to shame when the members of His body work contrary one to the other.

In order to be saved, we must know by experience the meaning of true conversion. It is a fearful mistake for men and women to go on day by day professing to be Christians yet having no right to the name. In God's sight profession is nothing, position is nothing. He asks, Is the life in harmony with My precepts? There are many who suppose that they are converted but who are not able to bear the test of character presented in the Word of God. . . . {HP 20.2}

The great truth of the conversion of the heart by the Holy Spirit is presented in Christ's words to Nicodemus: "Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born from above {margin}, he cannot see the kingdom of God. . . . That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit" (John 3:3-6). {HP 21.2} It is by the renewing of the heart that the grace of God works to transform the life. No mere external change is sufficient to bring us into harmony with God. There are many who try to reform by correcting this bad habit or that bad habit, and they hope in this way to become Christians, but they are beginning in the wrong place. Our first work is with the heart. . . . {HP 21.3} The leaven of truth works secretly, silently, steadily, to transform the soul. The natural inclinations are softened and subdued. New thoughts, new feelings, new motives, are implanted. A new standard of character is set up--the life of Christ. The mind is changed; the faculties are aroused to action in new lines. Man is not endowed with new faculties, but the faculties he has are sanctified. The conscience is awakened. {HP 21.4}

Evangelism Pg.368,369:Dealing With Wrongs in God's Way.--God is not pleased with the slothful work done in the churches. He expects His stewards to be true and faithful in giving reproof and correction. They are to expel wrong after the rule God has given in His Word, not according to their own ideas and impulses. No harsh means must be used, no unfair, hasty, impulsive work done. The efforts made to cleanse the church from moral uncleanness must be made in God's way. There must be no partiality, no hypocrisy. There must be no favorites, whose sins are regarded as less sinful than those of others. Oh, how much we all need the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Then we shall always work with the mind of Christ, with kindness, compassion, and sympathy, showing love for the sinner while hating sin with a perfect hatred.-- Manuscript 8a, 1888