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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
Every Yoke to be Broken
I write thus fully, because I have been shown that ministers and
people are tempted more and more to trust in finite man for wisdom,
and to make flesh their arm. To conference presidents, and men
in responsible places, I bear this message: Break the bands and
fetters that have been placed upon God’s people. To you the word is
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spoken, “Break every yoke.” Unless you cease the work of making
man amenable to man, unless you become humble in heart, and
yourselves learn the way of the Lord as little children, the Lord will
divorce you from His work. We are to treat one another as brethren,
as fellow laborers, as men and women who are, with us, seeking for
light and understanding of the way of the Lord, and who are jealous
for His glory.
God declares, “I will be glorified in My people;” but the self-
confident management of men has resulted in putting God aside, and
accepting the devisings of men. If you allow this to continue, your
faith will soon become extinct. God is in every place, beholding the
conduct of the people who profess to represent the principles of His
word. He asks that a change be made. He wants His people to be
molded and fashioned, not after man’s ideas, but after the similitude
of God. I entreat of you to search the Scriptures as you have never
yet searched them that you may know the way and will of God. Oh,
that every soul might be impressed with this message, and put away
the wrong!
Paul’s Experience
We would do well to study carefully the first and second chapters
of 1 Corinthians. “We preach Christ crucified,” the apostle declared,
“unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the
power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of
God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than
men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men
after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but God
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hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise;
and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the
things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things