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Now Is the Time to Work for Christ, September 8
I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge
the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word!
Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all
longsuffering and teaching.
2 Timothy 4:1, 2
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What use have you made of the gift of God? He has supplied you with the
motive force of action, that with patience and hope and untiring vigilance you might
set forth Christ and Him crucified, calling the lost to repent of their sins, sounding
the note of warning that Christ is soon to come with power and great glory.
If the members of the ... church do not arouse now and go to work in missionary
fields, they will fall back into deathlike slumber. How did the Holy Spirit work
upon your hearts? ... Were you not inspired to exercise the talents God has given
you, that every man and woman and youth should employ them to set forth the
truth for this time, making personal efforts, going into the cities where the truth has
never been proclaimed, and lifting up the standard?
Have not your energies been quickened by the blessing that God has bestowed
upon you? Has not the truth been more deeply impressed upon your soul? Can
you not see more clearly its relative importance to those who are perishing out
of Christ? Since the manifest revealing of God’s blessing, are you witnessing for
Christ more distinctly and decidedly than ever before?
The Holy Spirit has brought decidedly to your minds the important, vital truths
for this time. Is this knowledge to be bound up in a napkin and hidden in the
earth? No, no. It is to be put out to the exchangers. As a person uses his or her
talents, however small, with faithfulness, the Holy Spirit takes the things of God,
and presents them anew to the mind. Through His Spirit God makes His Word a
vivifying power. It is quick and powerful, exerting a strong influence upon minds,
not because of the learning or intelligence of the human agent, but because divine
power is working with the human power. And it is to the divine power that all praise
is to be given.—
Testimonies for the Church 8:54, 55
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