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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
How pitiable and sad to see men who have known something
of the Spirit of God fall so completely into the arms of the world
as to be swayed and influenced by its voice, and depend upon its
favors for strength and success! How manifestly such are alienated
from Christ, how full of self-confidence, how full of vaunting, of
vanity, and how shortsighted in regard to spirituality! How little true
discernment have they to distinguish between him who is a child of
God, an heir of the kingdom, and him who is a child of the wicked
one, who is a child of disobedience, and an enemy of God!
The Two Classes
There are only two classes in our world: those who are obedient
to Jesus Christ, who seek the Master to do His will, and work for
the attainment of the salvation of their own souls and the soul of
everyone who is associated with them who names the name of Christ;
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and the children of disobedience. There are but two classes in our
world. Then listen to the words of One who knows: “Ye are of God,
little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is
in you, than he that is in the world. They are of the world: therefore
speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.”
1 John 4:4,
5
. Souls are being deluded. The fear and love of God have not a
controlling power. The world is their master, and they chase after its
delusive, flattering mirage. Listen to One who gave His life for the
world, “that whosoever
believeth
in Him should not perish, but have
everlasting life.” He spake as never man spake. The whole of
John
15
contains a most important lesson. Read it; obey it. Again, hear
the voice of God, “Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
Mingling of Believers with Unbelievers
Let not God’s people in any of our institutions sign a truce with
the enemy of God and man. The duty of the church to the world
is not to come down to their ideas and accept their opinions, their
suggestions, but to heed the words of Christ through His servant
Paul, “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for
what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what
communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ
with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?” This