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The Truth Makes Us Free, April 10
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and
be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Galatians 5:1
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I am afraid for our churches. I tremble before God on their account. We
have light on the Scriptures, and we shall be held accountable for all the light not
cherished....
The power of the Holy Spirit is needed to chase away our unbelief and unchrist-
like attributes. We must see our need of a physician. We are sick, and do not know
it. May the Lord convert the hearts of His workmen! When there is a converted
ministry, then look for results. But we cannot convert our own hearts. This work
can be done only by the power of the Holy Spirit. In every stage of the work let
this be remembered: “Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord
of hosts.” ...
Christ has promised to send us the Comforter, whose work is to establish the
kingdom of God in the soul. When such abundant provisions of mercy, grace, and
peace have been made, why do human beings act as if they regarded the truth as a
yoke of bondage? It is because the heart has never tasted and seen that the Lord
is good. The truth of the Word of God is thought by some to be a fetter. But it is
the truth that makes men free. If the truth therefore shall make you free, ye shall
be free indeed. The truth separates man from his sins, from his hereditary and
cultivated tendencies to wrongdoing. The soul that cherishes the love of Christ
is full of freedom, light, and joy. In such a soul there are no divided thoughts.
The whole man yearns after God. He does not go to men to know his duty, but to
Christ, the source of all wisdom. He searches the Word of God, that he may find
out what standard he must reach.
Can we ever find a surer guide than Jesus? True religion consists in being
under the guidance of the Holy One in thought, word, and deed. He, who is the
Way, the Truth, and the Life, takes the humble, earnest, wholehearted seeker, and
says, Follow Me. He leads him in the narrow way to holiness and heaven. Christ
has opened this path for us at great cost to Himself, and we are not left to stumble
our way along in the darkness. Jesus is at our right hand, proclaiming, I am the
way; and all who decide to follow the Lord will be led in the royal path cast up for
the ransomed of the Lord to walk in....
What kind of vessels are meet for the Master’s use? Empty vessels. When
we empty the soul of every defilement, we are ready for use.... When mind and
heart are worked by the Spirit, when self is dead, the truth is capable of constant
expansion and new development.—
The Review and Herald, February 28, 1899
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