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Builders, Not Destroyers, March 26
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt
raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The
repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Isaiah 58:12
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Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not
the church triumphant. We are sorry that there are defective members....While the
Lord brings into the church those who are truly converted, Satan at the same time
brings persons who are not converted into its fellowship. While Christ is sowing
the good seed, Satan is sowing the tares. There are two opposing influences
continually exerted on the members of the church. One influence is working for
the purification of the church, and the other for the corrupting of the people of
God....
Although there are evils existing in the church, and will be until the end of the
world, the church in these last days is to be the light of the world that is polluted
and demoralized by sin....
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There is but one church in the world who are at the present time standing in
the breach, and making up the hedge, building up the old waste places; and for any
man to call the attention of the world and other churches to this church, denouncing
her as Babylon, is to do a work in harmony with him who is the accuser of the
brethren....The whole world is filled with hatred of those who proclaim the binding
claims of the law of God, and the church who are loyal to Jehovah must engage in
no ordinary conflict... Those who have any realization of what this warfare means,
will not turn their weapons against the church militant, but with all their powers
will wrestle with the people of God against the confederacy of evil.
Those who start up to proclaim a message on their own individual responsi-
bility, who, while claiming to be taught and led of God, still make it their special
work to tear down that which God has been for years building up, are not doing
the will of God. Be it known that these men are on the side of the great deceiver.
Believe them not.
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