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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
“Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth. As Thou
hast sent Me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the
world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be
sanctified through the truth.
“Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on Me through their word; that they all may be one; as Thou,
Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us:
that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me.”
John 17:17-21
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It should be understood that perfect unity among the laborers
is necessary to the successful accomplishment of the work of God.
In order to preserve peace, all must seek wisdom from the Great
Teacher. Let all be careful how they introduce ambitious propositions
that will create dissension.
We are to be subject one to another. No man, in himself, is a
complete whole. Through submission of the mind and will to the
Holy Spirit we are ever to be learners of the Great Teacher.
Study the second chapter of Acts. In the early church the Spirit
of God wrought mightily through those who were harmoniously
united. On the Day of Pentecost they were all with one accord in
one place.
We are to demonstrate to the world that men of every nationality
are one in Christ Jesus. Then let us remove every barrier and come
into unity in the service of the Master.
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In the erection of national barriers you present to the world a
plan of human invention that God can never endorse. To those who
would do this, the apostle Paul says: “Ye are yet carnal: for whereas
there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not
carnal? ... Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers
by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have
planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither
is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that
giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that watereth are
one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his
own labor. For we are laborers together with God: ye are God’s
husbandry, ye are God’s building.”
1 Corinthians 3:3-9
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