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Christ is saying to His servants today, as He said to His disciples:
“If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up
his cross daily, and follow Me.” But men are as slow now to learn
the lesson as in Christ’s day. God has given His people warning after
warning; but the customs, habits, and practices of the world have had
so great power on the minds of His professed people that His warnings
have been disregarded.
Those who act a part in God’s great cause are not to follow the
example of worldlings. The voice of God is to be heeded. He who
depends on men for strength and influence leans on a broken reed.
Depending on men has been the great weakness of the church.
Men have dishonored God by failing to appreciate His sufficiency, by
coveting the influence of men. Thus Israel became weak. The people
wanted to be like the other nations of the world, and they asked for a
king. They desired to be guided by human power which they could see,
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rather than by the divine, invisible power that till that time had led and
guided them, and had given them victory in battle. They made their
own choice, and the result was seen in the destruction of Jerusalem
and the dispersion of the nation.
We cannot put confidence in any man, however learned, however
elevated he may be, unless he holds the beginning of his confidence in
God firm unto the end. What must have been the power of the enemy
upon Solomon, a man whom Inspiration has thrice called the beloved
of God, and to whom was committed the great work of building the
temple! In that very work Solomon made an alliance with idolatrous
nations, and through his marriages he bound himself up with heathen
women through whose influence he in his later years forsook the
temple of God to worship in the groves he had prepared for their idols.
So now, men set God aside as not sufficient for them. They resort
to worldly men for recognition and think that by means of the influence
gained from the world they can do some great thing. But they mistake.
By leaning on the arm of the world instead of the arm of God, they turn
aside the work which God desires to accomplish through His chosen
people.
When brought in contact with the higher classes of society, let not
the physician feel that he must conceal the peculiar characteristics
which sanctification through the truth gives him. The physicians who
unite with the work of God are to co-operate with God as His appointed