Chapter 17—Unity and Devotion
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The Lord has appointed His work to go forward in missionary lines
in such a way as to extend the knowledge of the truth for these last
days. A deception has certainly been on those who ought to have been
wide awake to see the great, grand work to be done by the people who
bear God’s sign as represented in
Exodus 31:12-18
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The Lord desires faithful stewards to measure the fields to be
worked, and then use wisely His means in advancing the work in these
fields. God has a people, and a ministry, who are to cooperate with
Him....
The Lord will work for His people if they will submit to be worked
by the Holy Spirit, not thinking that they must work the Spirit. “And
now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the
Lord thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve
the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, to keep the
commandments of the Lord, and His statutes, which I command thee
this day for thy good?” (
Deuteronomy 10:12, 13
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God’s ministers have a most solemn, sacred work to do in our
world. The end is near. The message of truth must go. As faithful
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shepherds of the flock, God’s servants are to bear a clear, sharp tes-
timony. There is to be no perverting of the truth. Divine grace never
leads away from mercy and the love of God. It is the power of Satan
that does this. When Christ preached, His message was like a sharp,
two-edged sword, piercing the consciences of men and revealing their
inmost thoughts. The work that Christ did His faithful messengers
will have to do. In simplicity, purity, and the strictest integrity they
are to preach the Word. Those who labor in word or doctrine are to
be faithful to their charge. They are to watch for souls as they that
must give an account. Never are they to clothe a “Thus saith the Lord”
with enticing words of man’s wisdom. Thus they destroy its living
energy, making it weak and powerless, so that it fails to convict of sin.
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