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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
our fellow beings. Let us awake to our duties, and while we have
tongue or pen, devote them to the service of the Most High, not in
our own strength, but with strong faith and firm confidence.’”
We have increased light. We have a solemn, weighty message
to bear to the world, and God designs that His chosen disciples
shall have a deep experience, and be endowed with the power of the
Holy Spirit. “The Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on
the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.” This
was a lesson that David never forgot, and in his dying testimony to
Solomon he said, “And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God
of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a willing
mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the
imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek Him, He will be found of
thee; but if thou forsake Him, He will cast thee off forever.”
We are living in an important period of this earth’s history; and
with the light of truth shining upon us, we cannot now be excused
for a moment in meeting a low standard. As co-workers with Christ,
we are privileged to share with Christ in His suffering. We are to
look at His life, study His character, and copy the pattern. What
Christ was in His perfect humanity, we must be; for we must form
characters for eternity.
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The Power of the Holy Spirit Awaits Our Demand and
Reception
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The articles in this section are from
Special Testimonies, Series
A 2:23-25 (1892)
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Melbourne, Australia,
December 28, 1891
Just prior to His leaving His disciples for the heavenly courts,
Jesus encouraged them with the promise of the Holy Spirit. This
promise belongs as much to us as it did to them, and yet how rarely
it is presented before the people, and its reception spoken of in the
church. In consequence of this silence upon this most important
theme, what promise do we know less about by its practical fulfill-
ment than this rich promise of the gift of the Holy Spirit, whereby
efficiency is to be given to all our spiritual labor? The promise of the
Holy Spirit is casually brought into our discourses, is incidentally