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        the Lord’s people sitting together in heavenly places in Christ. Will
      
      
        you not give in your lives an evidence of what the truth of God can do
      
      
        for those who love and serve Him? God knows what you can be. He
      
      
        knows what divine grace can do for you if you will be partakers of the
      
      
        divine nature
      
      
      
      
        “I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
      
      
        that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among
      
      
        you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in
      
      
        the same judgment.”
      
      
         1 Corinthians 1:10
      
      
        .
      
      
        Union is strength; division is weakness. When those who believe
      
      
        present truth are united, they exert a telling influence. Satan well
      
      
        understands this. Never was he more determined than now to make
      
      
        of none effect the truth of God by causing bitterness and dissension
      
      
        among the Lord’s people
      
      
      
      
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        537
      
      
         Testimonies for the Church 9:188
      
      
        538
      
      
         Testimonies for the Church 5:236