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Warnings and Reproofs
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profess to believe all the truth. Yet she must not look at the failures
and wrongs of those who profess better things, but earnestly inquire:
What is truth? She can exert an influence for good in connection
with her companion. These souls, sanctified through the truth, can
in the strength of God be pillars in the church and have a saving
influence upon others. These dear souls are accountable to God for
the influence they exert. They either gather with Christ or scatter
abroad. God requires the weight of their influence in His cause on
the side of truth. Jesus has bought them by His own blood. They
are not their own, for they have been bought with a price. Therefore
the work is before them to glorify God in their bodies and spirits,
which are His. We are doing work for eternity. It is of the highest
importance that every hour be employed in the service of God, and
thus to secure a treasure in heaven.
I was shown your case, Brother V, in connection with the church
at-----, two years ago. The vision related to the past, present, and
future. As we travel and I stand before the people in different places,
the Spirit of the Lord brings before me clearly the cases I have been
shown, reviving the matter previously given me. I was shown you
as receiving the Sabbath, while you stood opposed to important
truths connected with the Sabbath. You were not fortified with all
the truth. I then saw your mind directed in the channel of unbelief,
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of doubt and distrust, and seeking to obtain those things which were
calculated to strengthen unbelief and darkness. Instead of searching
for evidence to strengthen faith, you took the opposite course, and
Satan directed your mind in a course to suit his own purposes. You
love to combat, and when you enter the field of battle you know not
when to lay down your arms. You love to argue, and have indulged
in this until it has led you from the light, led you from the truth and
from God, to where you have been enshrouded in darkness, and
unbelief has taken possession of your mind. You have been blinded
by Satan.
Like faithless Thomas, you have considered it a virtue to doubt
unless you could have unmistakable evidence, removing from your
mind all cause for doubt. Did Jesus commend the unbelieving
Thomas while granting him the evidence which he declared he
would have before he believed? Jesus said unto him: “Be not faith-
less, but believing.” Thomas answered: “My Lord and my God.”