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Into All the World, November 12
Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve
him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, ...even them
will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of
prayer.
Isaiah 56:6, 7
.
The glad tidings of salvation are to be taken to those who have not yet
heard them. Satan is determined to place God’s people in a false light before
the world. He is pleased when their lives reveal defects, when they cherish
objectionable traits of character. These traits of character he uses in his
service. He tries to keep God’s people in a continual state of uncertainty by
bringing in false theories and false science. He seeks to deceive them as he
deceived Adam and Eve. He would lead them to depart from God, their true
Counselor, and accept his spiritualistic sophistries. With these sophistries
clothed in the garments of light, he seeks to deceive if possible the very elect.
Many yield to his temptations, and the time and influence of God’s ser-
vants, which should be used in making known to unbelievers the truth for this
time, is used in efforts to recover professing believers from Satan’s snares.
Thus the way of the advancement of the truth is blocked. It is no easy matter
to clear the King’s highway while men trust in themselves, and make flesh
their arm....
To all who will do justice and judgment, keeping their hand from doing
any evil, the promise is, “Even unto them will I give in mine house and within
my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give
them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off” (
Isaiah 56:5
).
Among the people of God there is to be no colonizing. The word of the
Lord to them is, “Thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left”
(
chap. 54:3
). They are to make plants in all places. Everywhere the truth for
this time is to be proclaimed. Those into whose hearts the light has shone
are to remember that they are God’s workmen, His witnesses. To serve and
honor Him is to be their science. They are to call upon others to keep His
commandments, and live. Obedience to the law of God is the question that is
to test the world....
To all peoples and nations and kindreds and tongues the truth is to be
proclaimed. The time has come for much aggressive work to be done in the
cities and in all neglected, unworked fields.—
Letter 263, November 12, 1903
,
to physicians and nurses.
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