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Testimonies for the Church Volume 2
deceive yourself. Oh, remember that God is not mocked! Those who
possess everlasting life will have all they can do to set their houses
in order. They must commence at their own hearts and follow up
the work until victories, earnest victories, are gained. Self must die,
and Christ must live in you and be in you a well of water springing
up into everlasting life. You now have precious hours of probation
granted you to form a right character even at your advanced age.
You now have a period allotted you in which to redeem the time.
You cannot in your own strength put away your errors and wrongs;
they have been increasing upon you for years, because you have not
seen them in their hideousness and in the strength of God resolutely
put them away. By living faith you must lay hold on an arm that
is mighty to save. Humble your poor, proud, self-righteous heart
before God; get low, very low, all broken in your sinfulness at His
feet. Devote yourself to the work of preparation. Rest not until you
can truly say: My Redeemer liveth, and, because He lives, I shall
live also.
If you lose heaven, you lose everything; if you gain heaven, you
gain everything. Do not make a mistake in this matter, I implore
you. Eternal interests are here involved. Be thorough. May the God
of all grace so enlighten your understanding that you may discern
eternal things, that by the light of truth your own errors, which are
many, may be discovered to you just as they are, that you may make
the necessary effort to put them away, and in the place of this evil,
bitter fruit may bring forth fruit which is precious unto eternal life.
“By their fruits ye shall know them.” Every tree is known by its fruit.
What kind of fruit shall henceforth be found upon this tree? The
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fruit you bear will determine whether you are a good tree, or one of
which Christ shall say to his angel: “Cut it down; why cumbereth it
the ground?”
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