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The cause of the trouble it is not difficult to determine. The work-
ers have been independent threads, when they should have regarded
themselves as threads that must be woven together to help form the
pattern.
These things grieve the Holy Spirit. God desires us to learn of one
another. Unsanctified independence places us where He cannot work
with us. With such a state of things Satan is well pleased.
Every worker will be tested as to whether he is laboring for the
advancement of the Lord’s institution, or to serve his own interests.
The sin that is most nearly hopeless and incurable is pride of
opinion, self-conceit. This stands in the way of all growth. When a
man has defects of character, yet fails of realizing this; when he is so
imbued with self-sufficiency that he cannot see his fault, how can he
be cleansed? “They that be whole need not a physician, but they that
are sick.”
Matthew 9:12
. How can one improve when he thinks his
ways perfect?
None but a wholehearted Christian can be a true gentleman
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