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ferent ways and through different agencies, to unsettle the confidence
of God’s remnant people in the true testimony....
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There will be a hatred kindled against the testimonies which is
satanic. The workings of Satan will be to unsettle the faith of the
churches in them, for this reason: Satan cannot have so clear a track
to bring in his deceptions and bind up souls in his delusions if the
warnings and reproofs and counsels of the Spirit of God are heeded.—
Selected Messages 1:48
. (See
Testimonies for the Church 5:675, 676
.)
There are some who think they are able to measure the character
and to estimate the importance of the work the Lord has given me to
do. Their own mind and judgment is the standard by which they would
weigh the testimonies.
My Instructor said to me, Tell these men that God has not com-
mitted to them the work of measuring, classifying, and defining the
character of the testimonies. Those who attempt this are sure to err in
their conclusions. The Lord would have men adhere to their appointed
work. If they will keep the way of the Lord, they will be able to discern
clearly that the work which He has appointed me to do is not a work
of human devising.
Those who carefully read the testimonies as they have appeared
from the early days, need not be perplexed as to their origin. The many
books, written by the help of the Spirit of God, bear a living witness
to the character of the testimonies.—
Selected Messages 1:49, 50
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