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No Time to Do the Devil’s Work, February 24
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of
persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking
for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God.
2 Peter 3:11, 12
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It is essential that all shall know what atmosphere surrounds their own
souls, whether they are in co-partnership with the enemy of righteousness,
and unconsciously doing his work, or whether they are yoked up with Christ,
doing His work....
Satan would be pleased to have anyone and everyone become his allies
in the work of weakening the confidence of brother in brother, and sowing
discord among those who profess to believe the truth. Satan can accomplish
his purpose most successfully through professed friends of Christ who are
not walking and working in Christ’s lines....
This is the day of the Lord’s preparation. We have no time now to talk
unbelief or ... to do the devil’s work. Let everyone beware of unsettling the
faith of others by sowing seeds of envy, jealousy, disunion; for God hears
the words, and He judges, not by assertions which are yea and nay, but by
the fruit of one’s course of action....
As yet the four winds are held until the servants of God shall be sealed
in their foreheads. Then the powers of earth will marshal their forces for
the last great battle. How carefully we should improve the little remaining
period of our probation! How earnestly we should examine ourselves! ...
It is discipline of spirit, cleanness of heart and thought that is needed.
This is of more value than brilliant talent, tact, or knowledge. An ordinary
mind, trained to obey a “Thus saith the Lord,” is better qualified for God’s
work than are those who have capabilities, but do not employ them rightly....
Men may take pride of their knowledge of worldly things; but if they have
not a knowledge of the true God, of Christ, the Way, the Truth, and the Life,
they are deplorably ignorant, and their knowledge will perish with them.
Secular knowledge is power; but the knowledge of the Word, which has a
transforming influence upon the human mind, is imperishable.
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