Unspoken Sermons · Chapter
Endnotes explained
The endnotes reflect on the nature of miracles, the hastening of divine processes, the relationship between faith and understanding, and the deeper truths behind God's ways with humanity.
What happens
The endnotes reflect on the nature of miracles, the hastening of divine processes, the relationship between faith and understanding, and the deeper truths behind God's ways with humanity.
Themes in this chapter
Faith and Obedience
The humble spirit receives testimony and looks for a word from the Father, but cannot know it until received in the heart.
Inner Transformation and Perfection
A man may be saved by the burning of his work, and doing work that can stand the fire leads to salvation.
Characters to notice
- God the Father
Discussed in relation to the hastening of processes and the ordinary ways of God.
Key passages
“There was in these miracles, and I think in all, only a hastening of appearances; the doing of that in a day, which may ordinarily take a thousand years, for with God time is not what it is with us.”
Miracles are simply God doing in a moment what usually takes ages, because time is not a constraint for Him.
Reflection on the nature of miracles as accelerated natural processes.
“Nothing saves a man more than the burning of his work, except the doing of work that can stand the fire.”
A person is saved more by having their flawed work destroyed than by anything else, unless they produce work that endures testing.
Comment on purification and the value of enduring work.