The Call to Young People

Divine Appointment

The Lord has appointed the youth to be His helping hand.Testimonies, vol. 7, p. 64.

With such an army of workers as our youth, rightly trained, might furnish, how soon the message of a crucified, risen, and soon-coming Saviour might be carried to the whole world! Education, p. 271.

We have an army of youth today who can do much if they are properly directed and encouraged. We want our children to believe the truth. We want them to be blessed of God. We want them to act a part in well-organized plans for helping other youth. Let all be so trained that they may rightly represent the truth, giving the reason of the hope that is within them, and honoring God in any branch of the work where they are qualified to labor.
General Conference Bulletin, vol. 5, no. 2, p. 24 (Jan. 29, 30, 1893).

We can not sin without God knowing about it..

fourth chapter of Genesis! Cain and Abel were brothers, the sons of Adam and Eve. How they should have loved each other! Yet we find that Cain killed Abel. Why did he do this?

Well, Cain was a husbandman, that is, a man who tilled the ground; Abel was a shepherd, who kept sheep. One day each offered a sacrifice to God. Cain brought the fruit of the ground, and Abel brought a perfect lamb. This perfect lamb was a type, or "picture", of the perfect Lamb of God, Jesus, Who was to come and sacrifice Himself to cover the sins of the world, and make it possible for man to again be in fellowship with God.

God accepted Abel's offering, but not Cain's. Why? Well, I am quite sure that it was because Abel offered his sacrifice according as God had commanded, and had faith in the promised Saviour; but Cain simply acknowledged God's goodness in giving him the fruits of the earth. Cain's produce was not according to God's command, and was the work of his own hands. While the accepted sacrifice of Abel was according to God's plan, and pictured the coming Redeemer Jesus, to die for our sins.

God had no doubt told them, too, that when they came to worship Him, they were to bring a lamb or a kid as a sacrifice for their sins; this Abel had done, but Cain had not. So Cain was angry because God had accepted Abel's offering and not his; and now he hated his brother Abel.

God knew the evil thoughts which Cain had towards his brother, and asked him,

"Why art thou wroth?" (That means, "Why are you so angry?")

and said, "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?"

But then Cain did still more wickedly. When they were out in the field, just the two of them alone, he killed his brother. Was it not a cruel deed?

They were alone when this murder was committed, yet one eye saw it all. God's eye sees everything!

God saw it, and said to Cain: "Where is Abel, thy brother?"

This true story from the Bible teaches us that we cannot sin without God knowing about it! Cain then told God a lie. He answered, "I know not." But, of course, he really did know. God was angry with Cain for his sin, and sent him as a fugitive and vagabond to wander on the earth.

The Higher Education

The most essential lessons for teachers and students to learn, are those which point, not to the world, but from the world to the cross of Christ.

Higher education is an experimental knowledge of the plan of salvation, and this knowledge is
secured by earnest and diligent study of the Scriptures such an education will renew the mind
and transform the character, restoring the image of God in the soul. It will fortify the mind
against the deceptive whisperings of the adversary, and enable us to understand the voice of God.

It will teach the learner to become a co-worker with Jesus Christ, to dispel the moral darkness
about him, and bring light and knowledge to men. It is the simplicity of true godliness-- our
passport from the preparatory school of earth to the higher school above.

 There is no education to be gained higher than that given to the early disciples, and which is
revealed to us through the word of God. To gain the higher education means to follow this word
implicitly; it means to walk in the footsteps of Christ, to practice His virtues. It means to give up
selfishness and to devote the life to the service of God.

Higher education calls for something greater, something more divine, than the knowledge to be obtained merely from books. It means a personal, experimental knowledge of Christ; it means emancipation from ideas, from habits and practices,that have been gained in the school of the prince of darkness, and which are opposed to loyalty to God. It means to overcome stubbornness, pride, selfishness, worldly ambition, and unbelief. It is the message of deliverance from sin.
Elleen G White Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students (1913) pg 12

A YOUNG ADULT’S ENCOUNTER WITH ELLEN WHITE . . . ON SALVATION

Ellen White makes the topics of salvation and the love of Christ, who died for me, both simple and personal. When I open The Desire of Ages, He’s right there. He’s so real, so able to save.

When I read what Ellen White says about the topic of salvation,it’s like no other author. What she writes has to do with me personally. It’s my life she’s talking about—my feelings and experiences.

I recognize them. This is a salvation of experience, one I can touch, because it’s about Jesus. I know she knew Jesus personally.Whatever any other writer knew, it doesn’t compare with
this.

Other writers may have something important to say, they may try to share the right ideas, but in the pages of The Desire of Ages Ellen White is trying to share salvation through Jesus. And the best
thing is she makes me want it! I want it with all my heart.

 In her writings she talks about salvation in the real world—my world. It’s not about only ideas. It’s not a beehive of rhetoric. The intellectual part has its place, but when I get up in the morning to face my day spiritually, what I want needs to be clear, vivid, and personal. I find that in her writings.

 My strength to save myself is like “ropes of sand,” as she puts it. I know she’s right because I’ve felt those ropes crumble in my hands. What she describes I can touch, for it’s a theology of flesh and blood. It’s about Jesus!

By  Ellen

Witnesses...........

We are Christ's witnesses, and we are not to allow worldly interests and plans to
absorb our time and attention.
Ellen G White Testimonies for the church, vol. 9, pp. 53, 54.

"Ye are My witnesses, saith the Lord. . . . I have declared, and have saved, and I have
showed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are My witnesses." "I the
Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give
thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; to open the blind eyes, to bring
out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house."
 Ellen G White The Acts of the Apostles, p. 10.

The people of the world are worshiping false gods. They are to be turned from their false
worship, not by hearing denunciation of their idols, but by beholding something better. God's
goodness is to be made known. "Ye are My witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God."--
Ellen G White  Christ's Object Lessons, p. 299.

All who would enter the city of God must during their earthly life set forth Christ in their
dealings. It is this that constitutes them the messengers of Christ, His witnesses. They are to bear a plain,decided testimony against all evil practices, pointing sinners to the Lamb of God, who taketh
away the sin of the world.
Ellen G White Testimonies for the church, vol. 9, p. 23.

Personal Ministry...........!

 Christ neglected no opportunity of proclaiming the gospel of salvation. Listen to His wonderful words to that one woman of Samaria. He was sitting by Jacob's well, as the woman came to draw water. To her surprise He asked a favor of her. "Give Me to drink," He said. He wanted a cool draft, and He wished also to open the way whereby He might give to her the water of life. "How is it," said the woman, "that  Thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans." Jesus answered, "If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give Me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water.... Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." John 4:7-14.

How much interest Christ manifested in this one woman! How earnest and eloquent were His words! When the woman heard them, she left her waterpot, and went into the city, saying to her friends, "Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" We read that "many of the Samaritans of that city believed on Him." Verses 29, 39. And who can estimate the influence which these words have exerted for the saving of souls in the years that have passed since then?
Wherever hearts are open to receive the truth, Christ is ready to instruct them. He reveals to them the Father, and the service acceptable to Him who reads the heart. For such He uses no parables. To them, as to the woman at the well, He says, "I that speak unto thee am H