9. How can we see the mercy of God in not showing us everything at one time? Consider the hard experiences of the prophet Daniel to whom much was revealed. Daniel 8:26-27; Daniel 9:22; Daniel 10:1-3; and the final words of divine comfort for him in Daniel 12:13.
NOTE: ‘You have seen by the first rays of the early dawn of His glory. As you follow on to know the Lord, you will know that His going forth is prepared as the morning. “The path of the righteous is as the light of dawn, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” Having repented of our sins, confessed them, and found pardon, we are to continue to learn of Christ, until we come into the full noontide of a perfect gospel faith.’ Christian Service, page 238.
10. How did the Holy Spirit lead and guide the new Christians in Antioch who were learning to understand and to live out the new light of the unfolding Gospel? Acts 15:28.
NOTE: At Jerusalem the delegates from Antioch met the brethren of the various churches, who had gathered for a general meeting, and to them they related the success that had attended their ministry among the Gentiles. They then gave a clear outline of the confusion that had resulted because certain converted Pharisees had gone to Antioch declaring that, in order to be saved, the Gentile converts must be circumcised and keep the law of Moses. This question was warmly discussed in the assembly. The Holy Spirit saw good not to impose the ceremonial law on the Gentile converts, and the mind of the apostles regarding this matter was as the mind of the Spirit of God. James presided at the council, and his final decision was, “Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God.” Acts of the Apostles, page 246.