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Have we not the example of Jesus Christ? Are we better than he? Surely if ever there is one who might justly plead that the common worship of the community had nothing to offer him it was the Lord Jesus Christ. But every Sabbath found him seated in his place among the worshiping people, and there was no act of stated worship which he felt himself entitled to discard.

“Vocation”- it is the call of God, addressed to every man, whoever he may be, to lay on him a particular work, no matter what. And the calls, and therefore also the called, stand on a complete equality with one another... Every vocation, liberal, as we call it, or manual, the humblest and the vilest in appearance as truly as the noblest and the most glorious, is of divine right.

Sometimes we hear it said that 10 minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than 10 hours over your books. “What!” is the appropriate response, “than ten hours over your books on your knees.” Why should you turn from God when you turn to your books, or feel that you must turn from your books in order to turn to God?

Although this is for seminary students, he raises the point to those that study God’s Word to be aware of the sin of becoming “weary of God”. And if you are one who has extra time to study God’s word do you count it as a privilege?

But aptness to teach alone does not make a minster; nor is it his primary qualification. It is one of a long list of requirements which Paul lays down as necessary to meet in him who aspires to this office. And all the rest concern, not his intellectual, but spiritual fitness. A minister must be learned, on pain of being utterly incompetent for his work. But before and above being learned, a minister must be godly.

“A minister must be both learned and religious. It is not a matter of choosing between the two. He must study, but he must study as in the presence of God and not in a secular spirit. He must recognize the privilege of pursuing his studies in the environment where God and salvation from sin are the air he breathes.”

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