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been standing in the right position. It is time you were co-workers
with Christ and the heavenly angels. Will you awake? There are souls
among you who need your help. Have you felt a burden to bring them
to the cross? Bear in mind that just the degree of love you have for
God you will reveal for your brethren, and for souls who are lost and
undone, out of Christ.—
The Review and Herald, January 9, 1900
.
Perfect Love in the Church, the Aim of Christ—Jesus could
have flashed bright beams of light on the darkest mysteries of science,
but He would not spare a moment from teaching the knowledge of the
science of salvation. His time, His knowledge, His faculties, His life
itself, were appreciated only as the means of working out the salvation
of the souls of men. O what love, what matchless love!
Contrast our tame, lifeless, half-paralyzed efforts with the work
of the Lord Jesus. Listen to His words, to His prayer to the Father,
“I have declared unto them Thy name, and will declare it: that the
love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them”
(
John 17:26
). What language is this! How deep, how broad, how full!
The Lord Jesus desires to shed abroad His love through every member
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of the body, His church, that the vitality of that love may circulate
through every part of the body and dwell in us as it dwells in Him.
The Lord then can love fallen man as He does His own Son; and He
declares that He will be satisfied with nothing less than this in our
behalf.—
Manuscript 11, 1892.
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