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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
are studying the words of Christ? How many are deceiving their
own souls and cheating themselves out of the blessings that others
might secure if they would believe and obey? Probation still lingers,
and it is our privilege to lay hold of the hope set before us in the
gospel. Let us repent and be converted and forsake our sins, that
they may be blotted out. “Heaven and earth shall pass away: but My
words shall not pass away. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any
time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness,
and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For
as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the
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whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be
accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass,
and to stand before the Son of man.”
Luke 21:33-36
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Shall the warnings given by Christ be passed by unheeded?
Shall we not make diligent work for repentance now, while Mercy’s
gracious voice is still heard?
“Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth
come. But know this, that if the good man of the house had known
in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and
would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be
ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man
cometh. Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his Lord hath
made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
Blessed is that servant, whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so
doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all
his goods. But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My Lord
delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his fellow servants,
and to eat and drink with the drunken; the Lord of that servant shall
come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is
not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion
with the hypocrites there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 24:42-51
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