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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
a marvel to the heavenly host, and it is their great joy. The gift of
His Holy Spirit, rich, full, and abundant, is to be to His church as
an encompassing wall of fire, which the powers of hell shall not
prevail against. In their untainted purity and spotless perfection,
Christ looks upon His people as the reward of all His suffering, His
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humiliation, and His love, and the supplement of His glory—Christ,
the great center from which radiates all glory. “Blessed are they
which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.”
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The Church the Property of God
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The Review and Herald, October 17, 1893
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] The church is the
property of God, and God constantly remembers her as she stands
in the world, subject to the temptations of Satan. Christ has never
forgotten the days of His humiliation. In passing from the scenes of
His humiliation, Jesus has lost none of His humanity. He has the
same tender, pitying love, and is ever touched with human woe. He
ever bears in mind that He was a Man of Sorrows and acquainted
with grief. He forgets not His representative people who are striving
to uphold His downtrodden law. He knows that the world that hated
Him, hates them. Although Jesus Christ has passed into the heavens,
there is still a living chain binding His believing ones to His own
heart of infinite love. The most lowly and weak are bound by a chain
of sympathy closely to His heart. He never forgets that He is our
representative, that He bears our nature.
Jesus sees His true church on the earth, whose greatest ambition
is to cooperate with Him in the grand work of saving souls. He hears
their prayers, presented in contrition and power, and Omnipotence
cannot resist their plea for the salvation of any tried, tempted member
of Christ’s body. “Seeing then that we have a great High Priest, that
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is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our
profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched
with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like
as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the
throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in
time of need.” Jesus ever liveth to make intercession for us. Through