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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
and as He spoke, the little group that listened to Him swelled to a
great company. Present-day evangelists are to be workers together
with Christ. These, just as verily as the first disciples, have the
assurance: “All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth. Go
ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to
observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am
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with you alway, even unto the end of the world.”
Matthew 28:18-20
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The work to be carried on by the people of God is declared in
the words of Inspiration: “Behold, I send My messenger before Thy
face, which shall prepare Thy way before Thee. The voice of one
crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His
paths straight.”
Mark 1:2, 3
. “Behold My servant, whom I uphold;
Mine elect, in whom My soul delighteth; I have put My Spirit upon
Him. He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.... He shall not
fail nor be discouraged, till He have set judgment in the earth: and
the isles shall wait for His law.”
Isaiah 42:1-4
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God invites all men to the fullest investigation of the claims of
His law. His word is sacred and infinite. The cause of truth is to
go forth as a lamp that burneth. Earnest study of the word of God
will reveal the truth. Sin and wrong will not be sustained, but the
law of God will be vindicated. “Thus saith God the Lord, He that
created the heavens, and stretched them out; He that spread forth the
earth, and that which cometh out of it; He that giveth breath unto the
people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: I the Lord have
called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep
thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the
Gentiles; to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the
prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.”
Verse
5-7
. Christians are to seek their light from the word of God and then
in faith go forth to give that light to those who sit in darkness.
Sanitarium, California,
May 24, 1908
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