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the words of God and speaking them to His people. We have trembled
at the responsibility, which we have accepted with much prayer and
meditation. We have stood as God’s ambassadors, in Christ’s stead
beseeching souls to be reconciled to God. We have warned of danger
as God has presented before us the perils of His people. Our work has
been given us of God. What, then, will be the condition of those who
refuse to hear the words which God has sent them, because they cross
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their track or reprove their wrongs? If you are thoroughly convinced
that God has not spoken by us, why not act in accordance with your
faith and have no more to do with a people who are under so great a
deception as this people are? If you have been moving according to
the dictates of the Spirit of God you are right and we are wrong. God is
either teaching His church, reproving their wrongs and strengthening
their faith, or He is not. This work is of God, or it is not. God does
nothing in partnership with Satan. My work for the past thirty years
bears the stamp of God or the stamp of the enemy. There is no halfway
work in the matter. The Testimonies are of the Spirit of God, or of the
devil. In arraying yourself against the servants of God you are doing
a work either for God or for the devil. “By their fruits ye shall know
them.” What stamp does your work bear? It will pay to look critically
at the result of your course.
It is not a new thing for a man to be deluded by the arch-deceiver
and array himself against God. Consider your course critically before
you venture to go any further in the path you are traveling. The Jews
were self-deceived. They rejected the teachings of Christ because He
exposed the secrets of their hearts and reproved their sins. They would
not come to the light, fearing that their deeds would be reproved. They
chose darkness rather than light. “This is the condemnation,” said
Christ, “that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness
rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” The Jews pursued
their course of rejecting Christ until, in their self-deceived, deluded
state, they thought that in crucifying Him they were doing God service.
This was the result of their refusing light. You are in danger of similar
deception. It will be profitable for your soul, Brother G, to consider
where the path which you are now traveling will end. God can do
without you, but you cannot afford to do without God. He does not
compel any man to believe. He sets light before men, and Satan
presents his darkness. While the deceiver is constantly crying, “Light