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Partakers of the Divine Nature, August 1
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for
light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for
bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in
their own sight!
Isaiah 5:20, 21
.
The Lord requires every man to be at his post of duty doing the very
work the Lord has appointed to be done. Let every movement be preceded by
humble, earnest prayer. The truth is to go forth as a lamp that burneth. Those
who are guardians of the truth are to act as men who are wide awake....
Christ pronounces a woe upon all who transgress the law of God. He
pronounced a woe upon the lawyers in His day because they exercised their
power to afflict those who looked to them for justice and judgment. All the
terrible consequences of sin will come to those who, even though they may
be nominal church members, regard it as a light matter to set aside the law of
Jehovah, and to make no distinction between good and evil.
In the representations the Lord has given me, I have seen those who follow
their own desires, misrepresenting the truth, oppressing their brethren, and
placing difficulties before them. Characters are now being developed, and
men are taking sides, some on the side of the Lord Jesus Christ, some on
the side of Satan and his angels. The Lord calls for all who will be true and
obedient to His law to come out of and away from all connection with those
who have placed themselves on the side of the enemy. Against their names is
written, “TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting”
(
Daniel 5:27
)....
There are many men, apparently moral, but who are not Christians. They
are deceived in their estimate of what constitutes true Christians. They possess
an alloy of character that destroys the value of the gold, and they cannot be
stamped with the impress of divine approval. They must be rejected as impure,
worthless metal.
We cannot, of ourselves, perfect a true moral character, but we can accept
of Christ’s righteousness. We can be partakers of the divine nature, and escape
the corruptions that are in the world through lust. Christ has left before us a
perfect pattern of what we are to be as sons and daughters of God.—
Letter
256, August 1, 1906
, to “My Ministering Brethren in Australia.”
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