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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
an experience that will strengthen your faith in God and fit you for
truest service.
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The Example of Christ
A deeper and wider experience in religious things is to come
to God’s people. Christ is our example. If through living faith and
sanctified obedience to God’s word we reveal the love and grace of
Christ, if we show that we have a true conception of God’s guiding
providences in the work, we shall carry to the world a convincing
power. A high position does not give us value in the sight of God.
Man is measured by his consecration and faithfulness in working
out the will of God. If the remnant people of God will walk before
Him in humility and faith, He will carry out through them His
eternal purpose, enabling them to work harmoniously in giving to
the world the truth as it is in Jesus. He will use all—men, women,
and children—in making the light shine forth to the world and calling
out a people that will be true to His commandments. Through the
faith that His people exercise in Him, God will make known to the
world that He is the true God, the God of Israel.
“Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ,”
the apostle Paul exhorts, “that whether I come and see you, or else
be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit,
with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel; and in
nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident
token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God. For unto
you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on Him,
but also to suffer for His sake.”
“If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort
of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being
of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through strife or
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vain-glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than
themselves.
“Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on
the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in
Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery
to be equal with God: but made Himself of no reputation, and took