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Said the angel, as he pointed to L: “What hast thou to do to declare
My statutes, or that thou shouldest take My covenant in thy mouth?
seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest My words behind thee.
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast
been partaker with adulterers. Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy
tongue frameth deceit.” God will scatter and shake off these dividing
influences, and will free His people, if those professing the whole truth
will come up to the help of the Lord.
There is no Bible sanctification for those who cast a part of the
truth behind them. There is light enough given in the word of God,
so that none need err. The truth is so elevated as to be admired by the
greatest minds, and yet it is so simple that the humblest, feeblest child
of God can comprehend it, and be instructed by it. Those who see not
the beauty that there is in the truth, who attach no importance to the
third angel’s message, will be without excuse; for the truth is plain.
2 Corinthians 4:3, 4
: “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them
that are lost: in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of
them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ,
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who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”
John 17:17, 19
: “Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is
truth.” “And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be
sanctified through the truth.”
1 Peter 1:22
: “Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the
truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that
ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.”
2 Corinthians 7:1
: “Having therefore these promises, dearly
beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and
spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”
Philippians 2:12-15
: “Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always
obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence,
work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God
which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be
blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst
of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in
the world.”
John 15:3
: “Now ye are clean through the word which I have
spoken unto you.”