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Apples of Gold Apples of Gold “`A word fitly spoken,' says the wise man, `is like apples of gold in pictures of silver;' i.e., they are beautiful and precious. A high qualification, therefore do they possess who are able to speak right words; and there is abundant evidence that it is incumbent upon all who are labouring to win souls `from vanity to serve the living and true God,' not only to contend earnestly for the things which form the `faith once delivered unto the saints,' but also `to give attendance to reading'” Brother Robert Roberts, 1878 If you would like to receive quotes like these, one per day, please send an email requesting the Apples of Gold quotations to: A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Prov 25:11 Compiled by Sister Karen Pillion Tyler-Longview Ecclesia, Texas, USA 2 Table of Contents God..................................................................................................... 4 Christ ................................................................................................ 10 Be Ready Always ............................................................................. 33 Daughters of Sarah .......................................................................... 35 Doctrine ............................................................................................ 71 Ecclesial Harmony............................................................................ 85 Encouragement ................................................................................ 93 Exhortation ..................................................................................... 116 Faith ............................................................................................... 171 Fear ................................................................................................ 180 Flesh............................................................................................... 181 God Manifestation .......................................................................... 190 In Defense of the Faith ................................................................... 209 Instructing the Children................................................................... 238 Judgment........................................................................................ 243 Kindred Company........................................................................... 250 The Kingdom Age........................................................................... 260 Marriage ......................................................................................... 264 Our Duty ......................................................................................... 269 Our Walk ........................................................................................ 280 Patience ......................................................................................... 294 Praise and Poetry........................................................................... 296 Prayer............................................................................................. 332 Reading .......................................................................................... 342 Self-Examination ............................................................................ 353 Sojourners ...................................................................................... 362 Trials of Faith.................................................................................. 367 We Have This Treasure.................................................................. 384 The Word........................................................................................ 397 3 God The fear of God, that will warm and purify the inner man, as the result of giving heed to the testimony, is founded on the recognition of the fact, that the presence of God, by the Spirit, pervades the universe; and He is not far from every one of us; that all things are naked and open to Him; and that He discerns even the secret thoughts and intents of the heart. The fact is unintelligible only to the lowest forms of intelligence. A child thinks God cannot see it through the wall of the house; ...and there are many grown children - Brother Robert Roberts ~ What confidence and deliberation will the environing power of Omnipotence impart to the friends of God, whether Israel after the flesh or after the spirit, when the moment arrives for them to release themselves from the hands of the oppressor in all countries, and set forth in triumphant march to the Tabernacle of the King in Zion. Well may it be said, as it is in this chapter, “My people shall know My name; they shall know in that day that I am He that doth speak.” Then beautiful indeed upon the mountains will be the feet of him that brings such tidings of good. Israel's watchmen of every age will then lift up the voice- “With the voice together shall they sing, for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord shall bring again Zion.” Brother Robert Roberts 1895 ~ God's goodness is seen in nothing more than in this- insistence on His own glory and supremacy as the first condition of human fellowship with him: for how stands the fact? 4 That man seeking his own glory fails by the very constitution of things to attain any good at all. Man living for himself cannot rise to even what possibilities of good lie latent in his organization as a creature formed in the image of the Elohim. He necessarily sinks into all kinds of earth gravitating ignoblenesses: languishes in sluggishness and ennui [boredom]; spends his fire and his interest, and sinks in a quagmire of vanity and vexation of spirit. For a man to see God and love and worship and serve Him is, on the contrary, to rise to beauties and joys of life even now that are outside the highest experiences or conceptions of the most dashing child of disobedience . How good for God to insist that without His exaltation in the way He has appointed there can be no fellowship or well-being or life. Brother Robert Roberts ~ “The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect towards Him.” 2 Chron. 16:9 . This is true now; for there is no change with God; but “we walk by faith and not by sight.” | That is, God works not visibly in His present dispensation toward the sons of men. If He did, there would be no scope for the faith which He is seeking to develop. He works invisibly. He has all things in His hands, and can by very slight diversions, and with no apparent interference with the will of men, turn the current of events around us into any channel He pleases, causing all things to work together for the good of those who are the called, according to His purpose.-( Rom. 8:28 .) On this great truth, the prayer of faith is founded; and because of faith, the righteous prayer is heard, even to the supply of “the things we have need of.” Rejoice, then, all ye righteous, “for the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly. 5 O Lord of Hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in Thee.” Psalm 84:2 : 12 Brother Robert Roberts The Christadelphian 1870 ~ Let us not trouble ourselves about the apparent hardness and arbitrariness of the divine conditions of salvation. God is all-wise, and therefore knows what is best. No amount of dissatisfaction on our part will cause God to alter the conditions; neither will our tampering with them change them. In dealing with this matter, we must be sensible and honest. God would have all men to be saved, but all men will not be saved, because, for a variety of known and unknown reasons, they will not fall in with this simple and reasonable condition. God's method will sift the sons of men as in a sieve. Brother A. T. Jannaway The Christadelphian 1890 ~ Mercy is the tranquility of God's omnipotence, and the sweetness of His omnipresence: the fruit of His eternity, and the compassion of His immensity; the chief satisfaction of His justice; the triumph of His wisdom, and the patient perseverance of His love. Wherever we go - there is mercy; the peaceful, active, broad, deep, endless mercy of our Heavenly Father. If we work by day, we work in mercy's light, and we sleep at night in the lap of our Father's mercy. The Christadelphian 1888 ~ War, famine, pestilence, 6 flood, earthquake,disease, and death, are the terrible evils which God inflicts upon mankind for their transgressions. Nations cannot go to war when they please, any more than they can shake the earth at their will and pleasure; neither can they preserve peace, when He proclaims war. Evil is the artillery with which He combats the enemies of His law, and of His saints; consequently, there will be neither peace nor blessedness for the nations, until sin is put down, His people avenged, and truth and righteousness be established in the earth." Brother John Thomas Elpis Israel ~ God is truth, love, wisdom, and all might. We are, as it were blind. By degrees He opens our eyes and enables us by dint of sore trial - to know him little by little. Every time the flesh is foiled by the spirit, so often is a rent made in the veil, and we know more of God. Every time the reverse takes place, so often does the veil fall again and God disappears from our view. The doctrines of men thicken this veil, and the first thing for the acceptance of truth is to unlearn human doctrines and become as a little child. Hence a Publican
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