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While the Sanctuary is Being Cleansed, November 26
Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen:
that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me
there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Isaiah 43:10
.
Satan is constantly alluring away from faithfulness and thoroughness in the
essential works of preparedness for the great event that will try every man’s soul.
The work in the heavenly sanctuary is going forward. Jesus is cleansing the
sanctuary. The work on earth corresponds with the work in heaven. The heavenly
angels are at work constantly to draw man, the living agent, to look to Jesus to
contemplate and meditate upon Jesus that he may, in viewing the perfection of
Christ, be impressed with the imperfections of His own character. The promised
Comforter, Christ... declared, “shall testify of me.” This is the burden of the
message for this time....
Talk as Christ talked. Work as Christ worked. We must look to Christ and live.
Catching sight of His loveliness, we long to practice the virtues and righteousness
of Christ. It is by beholding Christ that we become changed into His image, and
by renouncing self, giving our hearts up wholly to Jesus for His Spirit to refine,
ennoble, and elevate, we will be in close connection with the future world, bathed
in the bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness. We rejoice with joy unspeakable
and full of glory. Then we are commanded to go into other cities and towns and
tell them the good news with hearts all aglow with divine love, even to them that
are afar off, even as many as the Lord your God shall call.
Tell to others the blessed truths of His Word, and in obeying the words of
Christ, continue in His love. How He urges us by the love We bear to Him to
keep His commandments. He does this, not to urge us to do impossible things, but
because He knows what it means to keep His Father’s commandments. He wants
every soul that heareth His invitation to say the same to others, and to receive His
richest gifts, for He knows that in keeping the commandments of God, we are
not brought into servile bondage, but are made free through the blood of Jesus
Christ. “And in keeping of them [His commandments] there is great reward”
(
Psalm 19:11
).
Tell it to others with pen and voice, with piety, with humility, with love,
representing the character of Christ. “And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And
let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever
will, let him take the water of life freely” (
Revelation 22:17
).—
Manuscript 48,
November 26, 1890
, “Reflections on Labors in Brooklyn.”
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