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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
Truth in the Heart Sanctifies
The truth, when received into the heart, sanctifies the receiver;
kept apart from the life and practice, it is dead and useless to the
receiver. How can you, oh, how can you grieve your Redeemer?
How can you dishonor Him before His angels and before men? How
can you grieve the Holy Spirit of God? How can you crucify the
Lord of glory afresh, and put Him to open shame? How can you
give occasion for Satan and his angels to exult and triumph over
those who claim to be loyal subjects of Jesus Christ?
All fornicators will be outside the City of God. Already God’s
angels are at work in judgment, and the Spirit of God is gradually
leaving the world. The triumph of the church is very near, the reward
to be bestowed is almost within our reach, and yet iniquity is found
among those who claim to have the full blaze of heaven’s light.
He who presides over His church and the destinies of nations is
carrying forward the last work to be accomplished for this world.
To His angels He gives the commission to execute His judgments.
Let the ministers awake, let them take in the situation. The work
of judgment begins at the sanctuary. “And, behold, six men came
from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and
every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among
them was clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side: and
they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.” Read
Ezekiel 9:2-7
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The command is, “Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little
children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the
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mark; and begin at My sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient
men which were before the house.” Saith God, “I will recompense
their way upon their head.”
The words will soon be spoken, “Go your ways, and pour out the
vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.” One of the ministers of
vengeance declares. “And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou
art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because
Thou hast judged thus.” These heavenly beings, in executing the
mandate of God, ask no questions, but do as they are bid. Jehovah
of hosts, the Lord God Almighty, the just, the true, and the holy,
has given them their work to do. With unswerving fidelity they go
forth panoplied in pure white linen, having their breasts girded with