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Choices Being Made Between Two Sides, June 16
You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his dispute. Keep yourself
far from a false matter; do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not
justify the wicked.
Exodus 23:6, 7
, NKJV.
Christ pronounces a woe upon all who transgress the law of God. He pronounced
a woe upon the lawyers in His day because they exercised their power to afflict
those who looked to them for justice and judgment. All the terrible consequences
of sin will come to those who, even though they may be nominal church members,
regard it as a light matter to set aside the law of Jehovah, and to make no distinction
between good and evil.
In the representations the Lord has given me, I have seen those who follow
their own desires misrepresenting the truth, oppressing their brethren, and placing
difficulties before them. Characters are now being developed, and many are taking
sides, some on the side of the Lord Jesus Christ, some on the side of Satan and his
angels. The Lord calls for all who will be true and obedient to His law to come out
of and away from all connection with those who have placed themselves on the
side of the enemy. Against their names is written, “TEKEL; Thou art weighed in
the balances, and art found wanting” (
Daniel 5:27
)....
There are many men and women, apparently moral, but who are not Christians.
They are deceived in their estimate of what constitutes true Christians. They possess
an alloy of character that destroys the value of the gold, and they cannot be stamped
with the impress of divine approval. They must be rejected as impure, worthless
metal.
We cannot, of ourselves, perfect a true moral character, but we can accept of
Christ’s righteousness. We can be partakers of the divine nature, and escape the
corruptions that are in the world through lust. Christ has left before us a perfect
pattern of what we are to be as sons and daughters of God.—
This Day With God,
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