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deal. Their fruits are not good. Their words and acts are wrong, and
yet they seem to be blinded to their destitute, wretched condition.
I was shown that the following scripture is applicable to those who
are under such a deception: “Not everyone that saith unto Me, Lord,
Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will
of My Father which is in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day,
Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in Thy name? and in Thy name
have cast out devils? and in Thy name done many wonderful works?
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And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from Me,
ye that work iniquity.”
Here is the greatest deception that can affect the human mind; these
persons believe that they are right when they are wrong. They think
that they are doing a great work in their religious life, but Jesus finally
tears off their self-righteous covering and vividly presents before them
the true picture of themselves in all their wrongs and deformity of
religious character. They are found wanting when it is forever too late
to have their wants supplied. God has provided means to correct the
erring: yet if those who err, choose to follow their own judgment, and
despise the means which He has ordained to correct them and unite
them upon the truth, they will be brought into the position described
by the words of our Lord quoted above.
God is bringing out a people and preparing them to stand as one,
united, to speak the same things, and thus carry out the prayer of Christ
for His disciples. “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also
which shall believe on Me through their word; that they all may be
one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be
one in Us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me.”
There are little companies continually rising who believe that God
is only with the very few, the very scattered, and their influence is to
tear down and scatter that which God’s servants build up. Restless
minds who want to be seeing and believing something new continually
are constantly rising, some in one place and some in another, all doing
a special work for the enemy, yet claiming to have the truth. They stand
separate from the people whom God is leading out and prospering,
and through whom He is to do His great work. They are continually
expressing their fears that the body of Sabbathkeepers are becoming
like the world, but there are scarcely two of these whose views are in
harmony. They are scattered and confused, and yet deceive themselves
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