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Gifted with a Higher Nature, March 24
For our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for the
Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may
be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby
he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Philippians 3:20, 21
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There will soon be a new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.
The Lord has instructed me that our physical and mental and moral powers will,
under the Holy Spirit’s guidance, be trained to carry on the work in all purity,
in all goodness, without one thread of Satan’s science brought in to spoil the
pattern Christ has given us. The powers and faculties that have been sanctified in
righteousness will be employed, strengthened, and prepared to do the works of
Heaven’s appointment.
He that used the two talents entrusted in this life, will, in the future life, show
that his talents have not been corrupted. They will be used on a wider and nobler
plan in the future life. There is appointed to every man his certain work. Those
who are partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruptions which are
in the world through lust, will reveal a purified life in this time of preparation for
the higher life. The commence to live the life of the heavenly order here below,
and carry the divine nature with them into every line of work. No swindlers have a
place in the heavenly courts. No falsifiers, no liars, no adulterers, no cruel-minded
persons will be there. They will never see His face.
When Christ comes, He takes those who have purified their souls by obeying
the truth. Some will go into the grave who are now in active life, and some will be
alive and be changed when Christ shall come. This mortal shall put on immortality
and these corruptible bodies, subject to disease, will be changed from mortal to
immortal. We shall then be gifted with a higher nature. The bodies of all who
purify their souls by obeying the truth shall be glorified....
Heaven is full of the glory of God. What can I say that will awaken the almost
spiritually paralyzed sensibilities of many young and those of mature age that will
break the spell of the artful deceiver which is upon them—that they may see what
losses they are sustaining in not employing all the powers of their mind, soul,
and strength to do the commandments of God in sincerely using all the gifts they
may attain in sanctified spiritual action—that they may be prepared to become
members of the royal family, perfecting their Christian character for the noble use
above.—
Manuscript 36, March 24, 1906
, “A Solemn Warning.”
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