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THE TIME IS COMING
AND THE OPPORTUNITY IS GOING
Rev. Dr Robert E. Donaldson
Preface
Time can be extraordinarily kind, or manifestly impactive. It is not for man to dictate the conditions. It is for him to respond.
You can never regret not taking an opportunity that is not there. You may regret indeed not discerning it, or seeking it out, or being too pre-occupied with things of minimal importance, to look up and on, and find your place. You may have a career for which you live, but ignore the career you have beyond this or beyond that series of works which you perform. You may be pre-occupied with what you do and ignore what you are, except in the interests of pride or satisfaction.
As in other works, and ways, it is not entirely in your own hands. You have principles which you may adopt, ways of accounting, methods of hiring personnel or regarding potential employers. These give a certain quality to your work, and type to your actions. When however the question is not how you relate to what you do, but how you relate as a being before God, where motive, method, mind, the imaginations of your heart and the character of your spirit ARE the whole topic, then it is unwise to ignore this.
That would be like being pre-occupied with tyre-pressure and state, in a car, and ignoring the steering relative to the environment. The final environment of man is God, just as the first creation of man is from God and the final destiny is with or without Him, as friend, Father and Shepherd.
Opportunities are not found in the Classified section of newspapers. That is for time. What however of eternity ? Here they are found in the word of God, not of man, in the work of God, not of man, in the wisdom of God, not of man. There is the perpetual opportunity, till the due date arrives for judgment. As to that, the time is coming; as to deliverance from blindness and wilful ignorance on that topic, the opportunity is going.
In this volume, this is the theme, and its impacts and results, causes and conditions are in view.
CONTENTS
Chapter One
There is a Kingdom
and
If Australia will follow
THE UNJUST STEWARD PARABLE IN LUKE 16:1-13
Timely Action BEFORE TIMELESS CONSEQUENCES
LIES, LONGING AND THE LORD
WHAT'S WRONG WITH BABYLON ?
THE POWER, THE PRECISION AND THE PENETRATION
PARABLE OF THE SHEPHERDLESS SHEEP
I Kings 22:17-28
Part I Initial Survey
THE POWER, THE PRECISION AND THE PENETRATION
THE WILFULLY INSEPARABLE FROM MAN
AND THE DIVINE MANAGEMENT OF THIS VAGARY
Separate from evil, and avoid the evil.
You may have to endure its impacts,
but do not need to embrace its ways.
Part II Separation Theme
THE POWER, THE PRECISION AND THE PENETRATION
Problems to the 3rd and 4th generation,
without repentance
Part III Continuation Theme
Dialogue for Seekers
The Salubrious Synthesis
and Saved Sinners
The Depth of Sin
is a Measure
of the Urgency of Salvation
The Blessed Assemblage of I Peter 1:2.
It is a one, two treasure.