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To Brethren in Responsible Positions
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Divine Unity Necessary
There is great necessity for unity in the work and cause of God;
but for a long time influences have been at work seeking to create
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disaffection, and the men who feel that they have the power in
their hands care little. They say within themselves: When this
consolidation is perfected, we will show them who is master. We
will then bring things into line. But they will never have that work
to do.
As individuals and as members of the church of God, we need to
realize the special work which has been committed to us. Paul writes
to Timothy, “Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue
in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that
hear thee.” We have a very important work before us. “Unto me,
who am less than the least of all saints,” writes Paul, “is this grace
given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable
riches of Christ; and to make all men see what is the fellowship of
the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid
in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: to the intent that
now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be
known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, according to the
eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
“So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the
house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at My mouth,
and warn them from Me. When I say unto the wicked, O wicked
man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked
from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood
will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked
of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall
die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.” “When I shall
say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own
righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not
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be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall
die for it. Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die;
if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; if the
wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in
the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live,
he shall not die. None of his sins that he hath committed shall be