In Christ’s day Conservatives and Liberals did unite but only to fight a common enemy, Christ. What does this mean for us in these last days? If history is to be repeated we can expect Conservatives and Liberals in the church today to unite in order to fight a common enemy: men and women of God’s own choosing whom God will fill with the Holy Spirit in latter rain power.

What specifics may be found in the merits of Christ?

Are those words merely beautiful words that give us each a sense of harmony and a good feeling? Or, is there a built in principle that may be applied in most every situation in life?

When I look up the word Christ in Strong’s Greek Dictionary I find a reference to the Hebrew word Messiah. So I look up the meaning of the Hebrew word Messiah in Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary. Once there a find a reference to another Hebrew word from which the first word is derived, plus the meaning ‘anointed.’ Looking up the last reference I find the meaning “rubbed in.”

When a king is being anointed, what part of his body is being anointed?

Does that tell you anything? It did me!

BTW, wasn’t it olive oil that was commonly being used in the biblical oil lamps for lighting the houses of the people?

So how many kinds of olive oil do we use for rubbing our heads, our minds…

Is it true that our minds are being rubbed in with the oil we need for keeping our lamps burning while we are waiting and working upon each our own salvation, and the solution to the problems and questions we are each facing from moment to moment in our lives?

Are we accepting the merits of Christ being constantly offered to each of us and towards the resolution of each our problem and question in life?

Or are we rejecting those merits by stating that those issues are “not a matter of salvation?”

Could it be that when being offered real salvation in the here and now we are sometimes rejecting it while waiting for something else, something fuzzy, something indefinite, something spiritual[ized] in an indefinite future?

What does Ellen White say about ’spiritualizing’ things? Did you ever look it up on the EGW CD-ROM?

Maybe you and I can both find some more “merits of Christ” in the “read books?”