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Testimonies for the Church Volume 2
a promise is this! But we are not to lose sight of the fact that it is
based upon obedience to the command. God calls you to separate
from the world. You are not to follow their practices, nor conform to
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them in your course of action in any respect. “But be ye transformed
by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good,
and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
God calls for separation from the world. Will you obey? Will
you come out from among them, and remain separate and distinct
from them? “For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrigh-
teousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?” You
cannot mingle with worldlings, and partake of their spirit, and follow
their example, and be at the same time a child of God. The Creator
of the universe addresses you as an affectionate Father. If you sep-
arate from the world in your affections, and remain free from its
contamination, escaping the corruption that is in the world through
lust, God will be your Father, He will adopt you into His family, and
you will be His heir. In place of the world, He will give you, for a
life of obedience, the kingdom under the whole heavens. He will
give you an eternal weight of glory and a life that is as enduring as
eternity.
Your heavenly Father proposes to make you a member of the
royal family, that through His exceeding great and precious promises
you may be a partaker of the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption that is in the world through lust. The more you partake of
the character of the pure, sinless angels, and of Christ your Redeemer,
the more vividly will you bear the impress of the divine, and the
more faint will be the resemblance to the world. The world and
Christ are at variance, because the world will not be in union with
Christ. The world will also be at variance with Christ’s followers. In
the prayer of our Saviour to His Father, He says: “I have given them
Thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of
the world, even as I am not of the world.”
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Your calling is a high, an elevated one, to glorify God in your
body and spirit, which are His. You are not to measure yourself by
others. The word of God has presented you an unerring pattern, a
faultless example. You have dreaded the cross. It is an inconvenient
instrument to lift, and because it is covered with reproach and shame,
you have shunned it. You need to carry out the health reform in