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Selected Messages Book 1
Peril of Deceptive Representations
To some of the questions you have asked, I am not to answer Yes
or No. I must not make statements that can be misconstrued. I see and
feel the peril of those who, I have been instructed, are endangering their
souls at times by listening to deceptive representations regarding the
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messages that God has given me. Through many twistings and turnings
and false reasonings on what I have written, they try to vindicate their
personal unbelief. I am sorry for my brethren who have been walking
in the mist of suspicion and skepticism and false reasoning. I know
that some of them would be blessed by messages of counsel if the
clouds obscuring their spiritual vision could be driven back, and they
could see aright. But they do not see clearly. Therefore I dare not
communicate with them. When the Spirit of God clears away the
mysticism, there will be found just as complete comfort and faith and
hope in the messages that I have been instructed to give, as were found
in them in years past.
Truth will surely bear away the victory. The One who gave His
life to ransom man from the delusions of Satan, is not asleep, but
watching. When His sheep turn away from following the voice of a
stranger, whose sheep they are not, they will rejoice in the voice they
have loved to follow.
We can learn precious lessons from the study of the life of Christ.
The envious Pharisees misinterpreted the acts and words of Christ,
which, if properly received, would have been beneficial to their spiri-
tual understanding. Instead of admiring His goodness, they charged
Him, in the presence of His disciples, with impiety—“Why eateth
your Master with publicans and sinners?” (
Matthew 9:11
). Instead of
addressing our blessed Saviour Himself, whose answer would at once
have convicted them of their malice, they talked with the disciples,
and made their charges where, as a leaven of evil, they would do great
harm. If Christ had been an impious man, He would have lost His hold
upon the hearts of His believing followers. But because of their confi-
dence in Christ, the disciples would not give ear to the insinuations of
His wicked accusers.
Desiring to bring censure upon the disciples, these wicked accusers
went again and again to Christ with the question, Why do Thy disciples
that which is not lawful? And when they judged our Lord to have