The Divine Endowment

compiled from the writings of Ellen G. White by Frank Klin

“Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as My Father hath sent Me,
even so send I you. And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and saith unto
them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: - (John 20:21-22)

Jesus is waiting to breathe upon all His disciples, and give them the inspiration of His
sanctifying Spirit, and transfuse the Vital Influence from Himself to His people. He would have
them understand that henceforth they cannot serve two masters. Their lives cannot be divided.
Christ is to live in His human agents, and work through their faculties, and act through their
capabilities. Their will must be submitted to His will, they must act with His Spirit, that it may be no
more they that live, but Christ that liveth in them. Jesus is seeking to impress upon them the
thought that in giving His Holy Spirit He is giving to them the glory which the Father has given
Him, that He and His people may be one in God. Our way and will must be in submission to
God's will, knowing that it is holy, just, and good. [1]

And to those who have the light of truth in this time is the commission given, "Go work today in
My vineyard." All heaven is waiting for men to co-operate with heavenly intelligences by repeating
the lessons given by Christ to His disciples when He was with them in humanity. At all times and
in all places, we are to work for God. The call is to be given in the highways and hedges, "Come;
for all things are now ready." All who go forth as Christ has directed, with a sense of their
responsibility for the souls to be saved, will have an increasing solicitude to win souls to Christ;
and they will be blessed in their work. There are many who desire the truth. After hearing the
word from God's messengers, they receive it. Through diligent searching, they understand their
Bibles as never before. All heaven is full of joy when souls thus hunger and thirst after
righteousness, confessing their sins, and receiving remission from Christ. [2]

In Christ's strength, men may go forward in the great, grand work of imparting His life-giving
principles to those who are perishing in their sins. Those who are called and chosen will be co-
laborers with Christ. They have a part to act under the greatest Educator the world has ever
known. He who is consecrated to God, sanctified by the Breath of Christ, is one with Christ. He
can communicate to others the instruction he has received. He can tell them that the merits of a
crucified and risen Saviour are our hope and crown of rejoicing. [3]

Jesus is our surety. "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." Christ,
our Passover, has been sacrificed for us. Every drop of blood shed by the Jewish sacrifices
pointed to the Lamb of God. All the typical offerings were fulfilled in Him. Type met antitype when
He died on the cross. He came to make it possible, by the sacrifice of Himself, to put away sin.
He paid the ransom for our redemption. We are bought with a price; and Christ calls upon us to
let Him take our sins, and impute to us His righteousness. [4]

Christ seeks to engage the attention of repentant sinners, that they may read the expression
of love in His face, and receive Him as their Saviour. He would turn men's minds from every
sound that emanates from him who abode not in the truth. He has knowledge to impart,--the
absolute necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, who comes to the believing soul under the
great seal of solemn assurance. I speak to you, He said; I, who speak not merely as a man,--I,
who am the Truth,--I, who am acquainted with heaven, and all the characters that shall be there
admitted,--I, who hold the keys of the kingdom of Heaven,--I say, "Except a man be born again,
he can not see the kingdom of God." The realization of the absolute necessity of regeneration
through the Holy Spirit comes to all who, by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory,
honor, and immortality. [5]
 He who breathed into man the Breath of Life and made him a living soul, has breathed into the
Scriptures a vital, life-giving power. "The Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than
any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints
and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any
creature that is not manifest in His sight; but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of
Him with whom we have to do." [6]

Christ's Word is the Bread of Life and the Water of Salvation. Trust in its fulness comes to us
through constant communion with God. By it we gain spiritual strength. Christ supplies the life-
blood of the heart, and the Holy Spirit gives nerve power. Begotten again unto a lively hope,
imbued with the quickening power of a new nature, the soul is enabled to rise higher and still
higher. Paul's prayer for the Ephesians was "that He would grant you, according to the riches of
His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in
your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with
all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ,
which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." [7]

The Word of God should be our counselor in all difficulties, our guide in all the relations of life.
In the heart, the home, the place of business, the living oracles of God should reign supreme.
When alone, when no human eye sees, no human ear hears, the truth is to be our companion.
Ever the soul is to be subject to its control. Upon thought, word, and deed it is to stamp its divine
impress. To those who obey, the Word of God is the Tree of Life. It possesses the elements
necessary for the formation of a perfect character, and on the effect which its teaching produces
in us depends our destiny for eternity. [8]

Christ came to our world to restore the moral image of God in man. He takes human agents
into co-partnership with himself, giving them the Breath of His own Spirit, the Life of His own Life.
To all who would obtain a correct view of their duty in regard to their fellow men, Christ gives
power to obtain righteousness and to do their work successfully. These breathe the atmosphere
that surrounds Christ. They live the true life that He lived in our world. [9]

Those who receive Christ are meek and lowly. Christ opens within their hearts a fountain of
living water, which springs up unto eternal life, refreshing the souls of others. The lives of those
who eat the bread of life are purified by the Grace of God. They claim and receive all that the
giving of Christ's flesh and blood signifies. Vivified by the Holy Spirit, they are enabled to work the
works of Christ. [10]

As the Divine Endowment--the power of the Holy Spirit--was given to the disciples, so it will
today be given to all who seek aright. This power alone is able to make us wise unto salvation,
and to fit us for the courts above. Christ wants to give us a blessing that will make us holy. "These
things have I spoken unto you," He says, "that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy
might be full." Joy in the Holy Spirit is health-giving, life-giving. In giving us His Spirit, God gives
us Himself,--a fountain of divine influences, to give health and life to the world. [11]

1. Signs of the Times, October 3, 1892 par. 4

2. Advent Review & Sabbath Herald, July 19, 1898 par. 3
3. Ibid, par. 6
4. Ibid, par. 7
5. Ibid, par. 20
6. Signs of the Times, October 3, 1900 par. 2
7. Ibid, par. 7
8. Signs of the Times, October 3, 1900 par. 16
9. Advent Review & Sabbath Herald, July 19, 1898 par. 19
10. Signs of the Times, October 3, 1900 par. 15
11. Signs of the Times, March 15, 1910 par. 10