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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
children of God? Let us act as Christians, true as steel to God and
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His holy work; quick to discern the devices of Satan in his hidden,
deceptive workings through the children of disobedience.
Our Words
“Your words have been stout against Me, saith the Lord. Yet
ye say, What have we spoken so much against Thee? Ye have said,
It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept His
ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord
of hosts? And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work
wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.”
These are the words of the unconsecrated who are separating from
God, blinded by the enemy. They cannot discern the ways and
works of God. Now is represented the opposite class: “Then they
that feared the Lord spake often one to another.” These words were
not speaking evil of brethren, or making complaints of God, but
were words spoken from sincere hearts, words in which were no
deceit, no underhanded working, no guile. “And the Lord hearkened,
and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for
them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His name. And they
shall be Mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up
My jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that
serveth him. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous
and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth
Him not.”
Our Strength in Union with Christ
May the Lord bless His people with spiritual eyesight, to see
that the children of God and the world can never be in copartnership.
Whosoever will be the friend of the world is the enemy of God.
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While every individual should work with Christ to transform the
children of darkness by showing them the Lamb of God that taketh
away the sins of the world, they cannot have overflowing sympathy
with worldlings in such a degree that they lend them their influence
to carry out their suggestions to weaken and do injustice to God’s
chosen ones. God does not work in this way. In perfect and complete
unity there is strength. Not in numbers, but in the perfect trust