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Ready to Answer, February 6
Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an
answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in
you with meekness and fear.
1 Peter 3:15
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I have been shown that many who profess to have a knowledge of
present truth know not what they believe. They do not understand the
evidences of their faith. They have no just appreciation of the work for
the present time. When the time of trial shall come, there are men now
preaching to others who will find, upon examining the positions they hold,
that there are many things for which they can give no satisfactory reason.
Until thus tested they know not their great ignorance. And there are many
in the church who take it for granted that they understand what they believe;
but, until controversy arises, they do not know their own weakness. When
separated from those of like faith and compelled to stand singly and alone
to explain their belief, they will be surprised to see how confused are their
ideas of what they had accepted as truth....
God will arouse His people; if other means fail, heresies will come in
among them, which will sift them, separating the chaff from the wheat. The
Lord calls upon all who believe His word to awake out of sleep. Precious
light has come, appropriate for this time.... Believers are not to rest in
suppositions and ill-defined ideas of what constitutes truth. Their faith must
be firmly founded upon the word of God so that when the testing time shall
come and they are brought before councils to answer for their faith they
may be able to give a reason for the hope that is in them, with meekness
and fear.
The servants of Christ are to prepare no set speech to present when
brought to trial for their faith. Their preparation is to be made day by
day, in treasuring up in their hearts the precious truths of God’s word,
in feeding upon the teaching of Christ, and through prayer strengthening
their faith; then, when brought into trial, the Holy Spirit will bring to their
remembrance the very truths that will reach the hearts of those who shall
come to hear.
God will flash the knowledge obtained by diligent searching of the
Scriptures, into their memory at the very time when it is needed.
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