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Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in Him, which is the head of all
principality and power.”
Colossians 2:2-10
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I am instructed to say to our people: Let us follow Christ. Do not
forget that He is to be our pattern in all things. We may safely discard
those ideas that are not found in His teaching. I appeal to our ministers
to be sure that their feet are placed on the platform of eternal truth.
Beware how you follow impulse, calling it the Holy Spirit. Some are
in danger in this respect. I call upon them to be sound in the faith, able
to give to everyone who asks a reason of the hope that is in them.
Diverting Minds from Present Duty
The enemy is seeking to divert the minds of our brethren and sisters
from the work of preparing a people to stand in these last days. His
sophistries are designed to lead minds away from the perils and duties
of the hour. They estimate as nothing the light that Christ came from
heaven to give to John for His people. They teach that the scenes just
before us are not of sufficient importance to receive special attention.
They make of no effect the truth of heavenly origin and rob the people
of God of their past experience, giving them instead a false science.
“Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the
old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.”
Jeremiah 6:16
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Let none seek to tear away the foundations of our faith—the foun-
dations that were laid at the beginning of our work by prayerful study
of the word and by revelation. Upon these foundations we have been
building for the last fifty years. Men may suppose that they have found
a new way and that they can lay a stronger foundation than that which
has been laid. But this is a great deception. Other foundation can no
man lay than that which has been laid.
In the past many have undertaken the building of a new faith, the
establishment of new principles. But how long did their building stand?
It soon fell, for it was not founded upon the Rock.
Did not the first disciples have to meet the sayings of men? Did
they not have to listen to false theories, and then, having done all,
to stand firm, saying: “Other foundation can no man lay than that is
laid”?
1 Corinthians 3:11
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So we are to hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto
the end. Words of power have been sent by God and by Christ to this