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Testimonies for the Church Volume 2
lived a life of holiness. He was unsullied with the prevailing sins of
the age in which he lived. So may we remain pure and uncorrupted.
He was a representative of the saints who live amid the perils and
corruptions of the last days. For his faithful obedience to God he
was translated. So, also, the faithful, who are alive and remain, will
be translated. They will be removed from a sinful and corrupt world
to the pure joys of heaven.
The course of God’s people should be upward and onward to
victory. A greater than Joshua is leading on the armies of Israel.
One is in our midst, even the Captain of our salvation, who has said
for our encouragement: “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end
of the world.” “Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” He
will lead us on to certain victory. What God promises, He is able at
any time to perform. And the work He gives His people to do, He is
able to accomplish by them. If we live a life of perfect obedience,
His promises will be fulfilled toward us.
God requires His people to shine as lights in the world. It is not
merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple
of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly. And while they
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enjoy communion with God they will wish to have intercourse with
their fellow men in order to express by their words and acts the love
of God which animates their hearts. In this way they will be lights in
the world, and the light transmitted through them will not go out or
be taken away. It will indeed become darkness to those who will not
walk in it, but it will shine with increasing brightness on the path of
those who will obey and walk in the light.
The spirit, wisdom, and goodness of God, revealed in His word,
are to be exemplified by the disciples of Christ, and are thus to
condemn the world. God requires of His people according to the
grace and truth given them. All His righteous demands must be fully
met. Accountable beings must walk in the light that shines upon
them. If they fail to do this, their light becomes darkness, and their
darkness is great in the same degree as their light was abundant.
Accumulated light has shone upon God’s people; but many have
neglected to follow the light, and for this reason they are in a state
of great spiritual weakness.
It is not for lack of knowledge that God’s people are now perish-
ing. They will not be condemned because they do not know the way,