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Testimonies for the Church Volume 2
In the renewed heart there will be a fixed principle to obey the
will of God, because there is a love for what is just, and good,
and holy. There will be no hesitating, conferring with the taste,
or studying of convenience, or moving in a certain course because
others do so. Everyone should live for himself. The minds of all
who are renewed by grace will be an open medium, continually
receiving light, grace, and truth from above, and transmitting the
same to others. Their works are fruitful. Their fruit is unto holiness,
and the end everlasting life.
But very few have an experimental knowledge of the sanctifying
influence of the truths which they profess. Their obedience and
devotion have not been in accordance with their light and privileges.
They have no real sense of the obligation resting upon them to walk
as children of the light, and not as children of darkness. If the light
that has been given to these had been given Sodom and Gomorrah,
they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes, and would have
escaped the signal wrath of God. It will be more tolerable for Sodom
and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for those who have been
privileged with the clear light, and have had a vast amount of labor,
but have not profited by it. They have neglected the great salvation
which God in mercy was willing to bestow. They were so blinded
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by the devil that they verily thought themselves rich and in the favor
of God, when the True Witness declares them to be wretched, and
miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.
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