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nothingness when the impression is removed.’ I am commissioned to
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say that all who see their need can be helped. Let every step taken be
a step of advancement toward genuine conversion, toward unreserved
consecration of heart, mind, soul, and strength to the service of the
Lord. Let all that is done tend to genuine reformation in thought, in
word, in deed, in character-building. Let the true be discerned from
the false. Do not allow the enemy to lead you to weave wrong figures
into the pattern. Keep the love of Christ prominent before the children
and youth. Repeat to them often His simple lessons.”—Lt 111, 1904.
Obedience to Parents and to God—Teach the youth that sin in
any line is defined in the Scriptures as “transgression of the law.”
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John 3:4
.... Teach them in simple language that they must be obedient
to their parents and give their hearts to God.—
Counsels to Parents,
Teachers, and Students, 169
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Spiritual Malaria—Unruly, debasing tendencies and passions
cannot reign in the heart controlled by the Spirit of Christ. There are
many who have never submitted their will and way fully without any
reserve to Jesus Christ.
There need to be far more lessons in the ministry of the Word of
true conversion than of the arguments of the doctrines. For it is far
easier and more natural for the heart that is not under the control of the
Spirit of Christ to choose doctrinal subjects rather than the practical.
There are many Christless discourses given no more acceptable to God
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than was the offering of Cain. They are not in harmony with God.
The Lord calls upon you, my brother, to step down from the work,
leave the walls of Zion, or be a converted man. When your own heart
is sanctified through the truth there will be in it no moral defilement. It
will now require a most desperate resistance upon your part to unholy
suggestions because your soul is tainted with spiritual malaria. You
have breathed a satanic atmosphere. You have not been a man in the
sight of God. When your mind should have been growing, your ideas
elevated, and your plans and labors broadened, you have been growing
less and less efficient as a worker because God is not blessing your
efforts.—Lt 5, 1886.
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