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Walk firmly, decidedly, your feet shod with the preparation of the
gospel of peace. You may be sure that pure and undefiled religion is
not a sensational religion. God has not laid upon anyone the burden
of encouraging an appetite for speculative doctrines and theories. My
brethren, keep these things out of your teaching. Do not allow them
to enter into your experience. Let not your lifework be marred by
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The Need of a Revival of a Spiritual Life
I am instructed to say to our people: Let us follow Christ. Do not
forget that He is to be our pattern in all things. We may safely discard
those ideas that are not found in His teaching. I appeal to our ministers
to be sure that their feet are placed on the platform of eternal truth.
Beware how you follow impulse, calling it the Holy Spirit. Some are
in danger in this respect. I call upon them to be sound in the faith, able
to give to everyone who asks a reason of the hope that is in them.
The enemy is seeking to divert the minds of our brethren and sisters
from the work of preparing a people to stand in these last days. His
sophistries are designed to lead minds away from the perils and duties
of the hour. They estimate as nothing the light that Christ came from
heaven to give to John for His people. They teach that the scenes just
before us are not of sufficient importance to receive special attention.
They make of no effect the truth of heavenly origin and rob the people
of God of their past experience, giving them instead a false science.
“Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the
old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.”
Jeremiah 6:16
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The Lord calls for a renewal of the straight testimony borne in years
past. He calls for a renewal of spiritual life. The spiritual energies of
His people have long been torpid, but there is to be a resurrection from
apparent death.
By prayer and confession of sin we must clear the King’s highway.
As we do this, the power of the Spirit will come to us. We need the
Pentecostal energy. This will come, for the Lord has promised to send
His Spirit as the all-conquering power.
Perilous times are before us. Everyone who has a knowledge of
the truth should awake and place himself, body, soul, and spirit, under
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