When the Master of glory left his station of high command to become a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, accepting ignominy and death in order to deliver man from the consequence of his disobedience, he did not consult his own convenience or pleasure. Yahushua died, not to save man in his sins, but from his sins. He is to leave the error of his ways, to follow the example of Yahushua, take up his cross and follow him, denying self, and obeying Yahuwah at any cost.
Said Yahushua,"No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve Yahuwah and mammon." Matthew 6:24.
 If we are true servants of Yahuwah there should be no question in our minds as to whether we should obey his commandments or seek our own temporal interests.
If the believers in the truth are not sustained by their faith in these comparatively peaceful days, what will uphold them when the grand test comes, and the decree goes forth against all those who will not worship the image of the beast, and receive his mark in their foreheads or in their hands? This solemn period is not far off. Instead of becoming weak and irresolute, the people of Yahuwah should be gathering strength and courage for the time of trouble.
 Yahushua , our great example, in his life and death, taught the strictest obedience. He died, the just for the unjust, the innocent for the guilty, that the honor of Yahuwah's law might be preserved and yet man not utterly perish. Sin is the transgression of the law. If the sin of Adam brought such inexpressible wretchedness, requiring the sacrifice of Yahuwah's dear Son, what will be the punishment of those who, seeing the light of truth, set at naught the fourth commandment of the Master?
Circumstances will not justify any one in working upon the Sabbath for the sake of worldly profit. If Yahuwah excuses one man, he may excuse all. But, says one, why may not a man who is poor work upon the Sabbath to earn means for a livelihood when he might by so doing be better able to support his family? Why may not other brethren, or all of us, keep the Sabbath only when it is convenient to do so? The voice from Sinai makes answer: "Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Master thy Yahuwah." Exodus 20:8.
Listen to these solemn words of promise addressed to all: "If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Master, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; then shalt thou delight thyself in the Master; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the Master hath spoken it." Isaiah 58:13-14.
 Yahuwah will visit with judgments those who profess to serve him, yet really serve mammon. They who disregard the Master's express injunction in order to advantage themselves, are heaping future woe upon themselves. The people of Yahuwah should inquire closely if they have not, like the Jews, made the temple of Yahuwah a place of merchandise. Yahushua said, My Father's house shall be called a house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Are not many of our people falling into the sin of sacrificing their religion for the sake of worldly gain; preserving a form of piety, yet giving all the mind to temporal pursuits? Yahuwah's law must be considered first of all, and obeyed in spirit and in letter. If Yahuwah's word, spoken in awful solemnity from the holy mountain, is lightly regarded, how will the testimonies of his Spirit be received? Minds that are so darkened as not to recognize the authority of the Master's commandments given directly to man, can receive little good from a feeble instrument whom he has chosen to instruct his people.
Age does not excuse any from obeying the divine commands. Abraham was sorely tested in his old age. The words of the Master seemed terrible and uncalled-for to the stricken old man; yet he never questioned their justice or hesitated in his obedience. He might have pleaded that he was old and feeble, and could not sacrifice the son who was the joy of his life. He might have reminded the Master that this command conflicted with the promises that had been given in regard to this son. But the obedience of Abraham was without a murmur or reproach. His trust in Yahuwah was implicit.
 The faith of Abraham should be our example; yet how few will patiently endure a simple test of reproof of the sins which imperil their eternal welfare. How few receive reproof with humility, and profit by it. Yahuwah's claim upon our faith, our services, our affections, should meet with a cheerful response. We are infinite debtors to the Master, and should unhesitatingly comply with the least of his requirements. To be a commandment-breaker it is not necessary that we should trample upon the whole moral code. If one precept is disregarded, we are transgressors of the sacred law. And if we would be true commandment-keepers, we should strictly observe every requirement that Yahuwah has enjoined upon us.
 Yahuwah allowed his own Son to be put to death in order to answer the penalty of the transgression of the law; then how will he deal with those who, in the face of all this evidence, dare venture upon the path of disobedience, having received the light of truth? Man has no right to question his convenience or wants in this matter. Yahuwah will provide; he who fed Elijah by the brook, making a raven his messenger, will not suffer his faithful ones to want for food.
The Saviour asked his disciples who were pressed with poverty, why they were anxious and troubled in regard to what they should eat or how they should be clothed. Said he,  "Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?" He pointed to the lovely flowers, formed and tinted by a divine hand, saying, "And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if Yahuwah so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?" Matthew 6:26-30.
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