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Church of Christ
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let everyone be exceedingly careful not to unsettle minds in regard
to those things that God has ordained for our prosperity and success
in advancing His cause.
Angels work harmoniously. Perfect order characterizes all their
movements. The more closely we imitate the harmony and order
of the angelic host, the more successful will be the efforts of these
heavenly agents in our behalf. If we see no necessity for harmonious
action, and are disorderly, undisciplined, and disorganized in our
course of action, angels, who are thoroughly organized and move
in perfect order, cannot work for us successfully. They turn away
in grief, for they are not authorized to bless confusion, distraction,
and disorganization. All who desire the cooperation of the heavenly
messengers must work in unison with them. Those who have the
unction from on high will in all their efforts encourage order, disci-
pline, and union of action, and then the angels of God can cooperate
with them. But never, never will these heavenly messengers place
their endorsement upon irregularity, disorganization, and disorder.
All these evils are the result of Satan’s efforts to weaken our forces,
to destroy our courage, and prevent successful action.
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Satan well knows that success can only attend order and harmo-
nious action. He well knows that everything connected with heaven
is in perfect order, that subjection and perfect discipline mark the
movements of the angelic host. It is his studied effort to lead pro-
fessed Christians just as far from heaven’s arrangement as he can;
therefore he deceives even the professed people of God and makes
them believe that order and discipline are enemies to spirituality,
that the only safety for them is to let each pursue his own course,
and to remain especially distinct from bodies of Christians who are
united and are laboring to establish discipline and harmony of action.
All the efforts made to establish order are considered dangerous, a
restriction of rightful liberty, and hence are feared as popery. These
devoted souls consider it a virtue to boast of their freedom to think
and act independently. They will not take any man’s say-so. They
are amenable to no man. I was shown that it is Satan’s special
work to lead men to feel that it is God’s order for them to strike out
for themselves and choose their own course independent of their
brethren.