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Evangelism
These words of Holy Writ were presented to me: “Of your own selves
shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after
them.” This will surely be seen among the people of God, and there
will be those who are unable to perceive the most wonderful and im-
portant truths for this time, truths which are essential for their own
safety and salvation, while matters that are in comparison as the merest
atoms, matters in which there is scarcely a grain of truth, are dwelt
upon and are magnified by the power of Satan so that they appear of
the utmost importance.
The moral sight of these men is diseased; they do not feel their
need of the heavenly anointing that they may discern spiritual things.
They think themselves too wise to err. Men who have not a daily
experience in the things of God will not move wisely in dealing with
sacred responsibilities; they will mistake light for error, and specious
error they will pronounce light, mistaking phantoms for realities, and
realities for phantoms, calling a world an atom, and an atom a world.
They will fall into deceptions and delusions that Satan has prepared as
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concealed nets to entangle the feet of those who think they can walk in
their human wisdom without the special grace of Christ. Jesus wants
man to see not men as trees walking but all things clearly. There is
only one remedy for the sinful soul, and unless it is received, men will
accept one delusion after another until their senses are perverted.—
Manuscript 16, 1890
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