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knows how to heal with the purchase of His own blood. What the soul
lacks, He can best supply. But men are so officious, they want to do so
much, that they overdo the matter, leaving Christ no room to work.
Whatever molding and fashioning needs to be wrought in the soul,
Christ can best do. The conviction may not be deep, but if the sinner
comes to Christ, viewing Him upon the cross, the just dying for the
unjust, the sight will break every barrier down. Christ has undertaken
the work of saving all who trust in Him for salvation. He sees the
wrongs that need to be righted, the evils that need to be repressed. He
came to seek and save that which was lost. “Him that cometh to me,”
He says, “I will in no wise cast out” (
John 6:37
).
Through the goodness and mercy of Christ the sinner is to be
restored to the divine favor. God in Christ is daily beseeching men to
be reconciled to God. With outstretched arms He is ready to receive
and welcome not only the sinner but the prodigal. His dying love,
manifested on Calvary, is the sinner’s assurance of acceptance, peace,
and love. Teach these things in the simplest form, that the sin-darkened
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soul may see the light shining from the cross of Calvary.
Satan is working in many ways, that the very men who ought to
preach the message may be occupied with fine-drawn theories which
he will cause to appear of such magnitude and importance as to fill the
whole mind; and while they think they are making wonderful strides
in experience, they are idolizing a few ideas, and their influence is
injured, and tells but little on the Lord’s side.
Let every minister make earnest efforts to ascertain what is the
mind of Christ. Unless your mind becomes better balanced in regard
to some things, your course will separate you from the work, and you
will not know at what you stumble. You will advance ideas which you
might better never have originated.
There are those who pick out from the Word of God, and also
from the Testimonies, detached paragraphs or sentences that may be
interpreted to suit their ideas, and they dwell upon these, and build
themselves up in their own positions, when God is not leading them.
Here is your danger.
You will take passages in the Testimonies that speak of the close
of probation, of the shaking among God’s people, and you will talk
of a coming out from this people of a purer, holier people that will
arise. Now all this pleases the enemy. We should not needlessly take a