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Pictures of God's Character Continued through the 66 books What is God Like? |
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He's Honest. God Does Not Lie (Titus 1:2) He will provide eternal life to those who meet the conditions. |
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Ready to Do Every Good work |
| He gave Himself that He might redeem us from all iniquity. And purify unto Him a peculiar people. Titus 2:14 |
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He is perfect and has high moral standards |
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Expects His character to be seen in His leaders of His church. |
| Therefore, when God calls someone to share His light, you must expect to find these qualities in them. God does not make mistakes in His choices. He enables His leaders to perform as He has described. He wants us to speak evil of no man, to not be violent but gentle, showing teachable ness. (3:2) |
| In the work of setting things in order in all the churches, and ordaining suitable men to act as officers, the apostles held to the high standards of leadership outlined in the Old Testament Scriptures. They maintained that he who is called to stand in a position of leading responsibility in the church "must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers." Titus 1:7-9. {AA 95.2} |
| "Those who have not brought the lower passions into subjection to the higher powers of their being, those who have allowed their minds to flow in a channel of carnal indulgence of the baser passions, Satan is determined to destroy with his temptations"- AH 327 |
| "It is wrong for Christians to associate with those whose morals are loose. An intimate, daily intercourse which occupies time without contributing in any degree to the strength of the intellect or morals is dangerous." AH 462 This would include interacting daily with those who have rough dirty language and jokes. This would include game interactions online using computer. |
| Even among Christian parents there has been too much sanctioning of the love of amusements. Parents have received the world's maxim, have conformed to the general opinion that it was necessary that the early life of children and youth should be frittered away in idleness, in selfish amusements, and in foolish indulgences. In this way a taste has been created for exciting pleasure, and children and youth have trained their minds so that they delight in exciting displays; and they have a positive dislike for the sober, useful duties of life. They live lives more after the order of the brute creation. They have no thoughts of God or of eternal realities, but flit like butterflies in their season. They do not act like sensible beings whose lives are capable of measuring with the life of God, and who are accountable to Him for every hour of their time. {AH 526.2} Mothers to Invent and Direct Amusements.--Instead of sending her children from her presence, that she may not be troubled with their noise and be annoyed with the numerous attentions they would desire, she will feel that her time cannot be better employed than in soothing and diverting their restless, active minds with some amusement or light, happy employment. Adventist Home |