Below is a retyped sermon from a copy of the original
written to the Saints at Elizabeth, New York, Feb. 10, 1925
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Family History - Robert Chambers 
SEE GRAY'S REBUTTAL BELOW
Robert Chambers - Standing LEFT - Click picture to enlarge
Jesus came to this world, not as an authority upon astrology, astronomy, or literature, but upon what kind of a life was worth living. And the thing He was most anxious about was, and is, that as God was manifested through Him, He would also be manifested through others. The beatitudes unfold the blessings of 'being' and not accomplishing. Poverty of spirit is the first virtue He mentions. It is the first a child of God possesses, and usually the first that some lose. The Laodiceans had parted with this virtue and were rich and increased with goods and had need of nothing, and while the Lord did not disown them, He stood outside the door waiting for them to repent. The Laodiceans made a wrong choice, owing to the fact they needed their eyes anointed. Revelation 3:18. Hence their wrongness was heart wrongness. They were not accused of any wrongdoing. 'It is not always the things you do, friends, it's the things you leave undone, that give you a bit of heart ache at the setting of the sun.' (a)
No person that ever made the wrong choice prospered until they first repented of the wrong choice, and there are some wrong choices that cannot be repented of. Abraham went down to Egypt; he could repent of that wrong choice. Esau sold his birthright; he could not repent of that choice. Every wrong choice is freighted with momentous present consequences, as well as eternal ones. You can picture Moses stealing away from Pharaoh's court in Egypt and going over to his mother's humble home and talking with her and Aaron and Miriam, as the kind of a life that is worth living. God used this in helping him to make his choice to suffer affliction with God's people. Later when tempted of Satan at the back of the desert, he may question the wisdom of his own choice and may for a moment, an hour, or a day wish he could enjoy Egypt's gayety again.
But the man who dies to such, kept on reckoning himself to be dead. Romans (b) 6:11.
What he became was only the outward conformity to an inward choice. "Moses esteemed" "Esau despised."
God will make manifest by the issues of life the ponderings of our hearts. Our heaven or our hell is in the making, and we shudder at the thought of the fulfillment of Jesus' prophecy, 'the love of many shall wax cold.' When some were facing the lion's dens, the fiery furnaces and were made torches to light Nero's court, others were falling victims to worldliness as Demas fell.
Living in a blood stained home, is what the Lord advocated to save the children of Israel from worldliness. You can't express a God of love in a home, or church, where love is lacking. The little children John wrote to knew their sins were forgiven, and knew the Father. The Fathers knew Him who is from the beginning. When we were children, we knew our mother as the being that controlled the pantry and that dried our tears, but we didn't know all her likes and dislikes, her joys and sorrows, her pleasures and heartaches. In our first days we could have stood at her graveside and not realized that our dearest friend on earth was gone. But in later years with broken hearts and bowed head we viewed it, Oh so different-why the difference? Because we knew her better.
When little children in Christ get to where the young men and fathers are, they will be better acquainted with the Lord. This is what "going on" means. It is not copying headlines and getting worse in the attempt. That is failure. Getting better in your attempt is victory, even if you should never do it exactly, like the headlines. What God did on creation morning, is wonderful, but it is what God has done in you, enables you to call Him Father. The story of Christ revealing Himself to the world is very wonderful, but it is Christ revealed in you that makes you a child of God. "The life was manifested and we have seen it," could not be said of Adam. But John could say it of Christ, and the thing that causes us the greatest anxiety is, who is ruling in these earthly tabernacles of ours? Adam or Christ?
When "the word made flesh" has a birthday and birth place in us, we naturally grow up (Eph. 4:15) to bear the marks of Christ. No outward condition is an excuse for this not taking place. The life of Christ flourished in Zebedee's boat and Martha's house, in the corn fields of Palestine at Nero's court and in the prison at Rome. The Lord was made to feel so uncomfortable in the tabernacle that He prepared for Himself in Demas, that He could not stay there with Demas any longer. God cannot dwell with those who do not love the lowly way. Those who walk with the Man that is meek and lowly in heart will become like Him, meek and lowly. Our meekness is made manifest when we do not grab at something that could be lawfully ours. Lot was not a meek man and his choice of the well watered plains showed it, and it blighted his testimony and cursed his posterity.
Those who are lowly in heart will want to see the lowly way kept lowly.
Should God prosper you, a lowly home is more in keeping with the lowly way, than an extravagant home, and a small car is more likely to commend the lowly way, than a big one. The spirit of the teaching of Jesus condemns man's costly automobiles as much as the scriptures condemn women's costly array.
That word "world" does not sound any better to me than the word, "devil". Should the Lord prosper you, your prosperity is safe prosperity if you give it back to God as Hannah gave back Samuel. Despite falling tears, she turned her face to Shiloh and paid her vow to the full. She had more in Shiloh and less at home, when others would have chosen to have more at home and less in Shiloh. Eli misunderstood the prayer of the woman with a sorrowful spirit, because he failed to truly pray. But God raised up a man who did not misunderstand her. When she no longer came to Shiloh and her little Mount Ephraim home was empty, Samuel keenly felt her loss. But he was glad for the woman who prayed him into the world, and into the service of God, and taught him what kind of life was worth living.
When Paul was mindful of Timothy's tears, some were living in their pleasures. When some were laying down their lives, others were feeding their ungodly lusts. The earth is being strewn with the tears of the Lord's servants as they go to many lands. Some of them never return, and a grave beneath a tropical sun or an ice bound landscape holds their tabernacles of clay until the day when the Lord shall command the earth and the sea to give up their dead. To some this does not mean anything, while others are praying their boys and girls into the Lord's work, and to other lands.
"Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near."
Keep a steadfast eye on realities and the pleasures that are at His right hand shall be yours.
REBUTTAL by Gray:
(a) Jesus Christ did not come to show the way as this Worker suggests. Jesus said, “I am the way…” Jesus came to fulfill the Scriptures, to be the PERFECT sacrifice for all the sins of mankind because human beings are incapable of saving themselves – i.e., once a sin is committed (Adam and Eve did that for us all) the sinner is guilty and the penalty of his sin is eternal separation from God (death) unless the penalty is paid by one worthy of paying it, and ONLY Jesus Christ was worthy to pay that penalty in full. Jesus came to become the Lamb of God, the gift of salvation to all human beings who will trust His provision for forgiveness of THEIR sins. Nothing could be made more clear in Scripture, but the gift of God does not meet the 2x2 idea that they must make themselves “righteous” – completely ignoring their past present and future failures at the perfect righteousness demanded by God. The Worker therefore, MUST twist Scripture that he refers to into something that the Worker thinks appropriate to them making themselves righteous, again, ignoring the fact that without God’s provision for forgiveness of just their past sins since birth, they are lost. And they are great ones to prove that they cannot be righteous perfectly in the present or the future either. So, rejecting the gift of God in favor of working their own way to ‘heaven,’ in ignorance of Scripture they gather sin after sin that is NOT forgiven unless they trust God’s provision for that forgiveness. And that is far from any guidance of the Holy Spirit. It is in almost total ignorance of Scripture.
(b) For a ‘teacher of Scripture’ this 2x2 Worker makes a rather bold misstatement right off – i.e., “No person that ever made the wrong choice prospered until they first repented of the wrong choice, and there are some wrong choices that cannot be repented of.” First Scripture states that there is ONLY ONE unforgivable sin. Secondly, the word “prospered” does not mean “was saved” and all around us the worst of sinners who are UNREPENTANT “prosper” rather well on this planet. Thirdly, the thief on the cross beside Jesus simply moments before his own death recognized Jesus as innocent of wrong doing, as the King that was about to enter His Kingdom as soon as He died, and asked that King to remember him when He entered His Kingdom. Any human being is capable of doing the same – but 2x2s try all the way into common depression to correct their own sins – and they call that “repentance.” Repentance is quite simply turning 180 degrees away from sin already committed and trusting Jesus’ provision for all the sins of every human being. The 2x2 Workers’ historical and non-Biblical concept of ‘salvation’ (passed down and adopted from the teachings of William Irvine) was portrayed very well in Mark Twain’s old story of Tom Sawyer, who made work LOOK so inviting that all his ‘friends’ fought with each other to do all Tom’s work for him while Tom stood aside with folded hands ‘watching over them’ and making himself into a non-working ‘VIP’ in their eyes.
