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A High Standard, February 2
And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have
severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
Leviticus 20:26
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I also saw many do not realize what they must be in order to live in the
sight of the Lord without a high priest in the sanctuary through the time of
trouble. Those who receive the seal of the living God and are protected in
the time of trouble must reflect the image of Jesus fully.
I saw that many were neglecting the preparation so needful and were
looking to the time of “refreshing” and the “latter rain” to fit them to stand in
the day of the Lord and to live in His sight. Oh, how many I saw in the time
of trouble without a shelter! They had neglected the needful preparation;
therefore they could not receive the refreshing that all must have to fit them
to live in the sight of a holy God. Those who ... fail to purify their souls
in obeying the whole truth ... will come up to the time of the falling of
the plagues, and then see that they needed to be hewed and squared for the
building. But there will be ... no Mediator to plead their cause before the
Father. Before this time the awfully solemn declaration has gone forth, “He
that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy
still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy,
let him be holy still.”
I saw that none could share the “refreshing” unless they obtain the
victory over every besetment, over pride, selfishness, love of the world,
and over every wrong word and action. We should, therefore, be drawing
nearer and nearer to the Lord and be earnestly seeking that preparation
necessary to enable us to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord. Let all
remember that God is holy and that none but holy beings can ever dwell in
His presence.
We are today to watch that we offend not in word or deed.... We must
today seek God and be determined that we will not rest satisfied without
His presence. We should watch and work and pray as though this were the
last day that would be granted us. How intensely earnest, then, would be
our life. How closely would we follow Jesus in all our words and deeds.
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