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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
The furnace fires would consume you, because you are worthless,
counterfeit gold.
There must be thorough conversions among those who claim to
believe the truth, or they will fall in the day of trial. God’s people
must reach a high standard. They must be a holy nation, a peculiar
people, a chosen generation—zealous of good works.
Set the Heart Zionward
Christ has not died for you that you may possess the passions,
tastes, and habits of men of the world. It is difficult to distinguish
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between those who serve God and those who serve Him not, because
there is so little difference in character between believers and unbe-
lievers. Ye cannot serve God and Belial. The sons of God belong to
a different nation—the empire of purity and holiness. They are the
nobility of heaven. The stamp of God is upon them. So evident and
perceptible is this that the enmity of the world is aroused against
them by the contrast. I call upon everyone who claims to be a son of
God never to forget this great truth, that we need the Spirit of God
within us in order to reach heaven, and the work of Christ without
us in order to give us a title to the immortal inheritance.
Those who can have such an overpowering, gushing love for
human objects, men or women, have an idol which they worship,
devoting their heart’s affection to it. One of the convincing charac-
teristics of the sons of God is, their conversation, their sympathies,
their outflowing love and affection are all in heaven. What is the
predominating tone of your feelings, your tastes, your inclinations?
Where is the main current of your sympathies, your affections, your
conversation, your desires?
No man enters the portals of glory but he who sets his heart
thitherward. Then let the questions come home, Do you mind earthly
things? Are your thoughts pure? Are you breathing the atmosphere
of heaven? Do you carry with you the miasma of pollution? Is your
heart loving and worshiping a woman whom you have no right to
love? Where is your heart? Where is your treasure? Where is your
god? Have you been washing your robes of character, and making
them white in the blood of the Lamb; or are you defiling your robes
of character with moral pollution? Let the ministers of the gospel
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