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Not All Healing Comes From the Spirit, July 12
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in
thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done
many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never
knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Matthew 7:22, 23
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We need to be anchored in Christ, rooted and grounded in the faith. Satan
works through agents. He selects those who have not been drinking of the
living waters, whose souls are athirst for something new and strange, and who
are ever ready to drink at any fountain that may present itself. Voices will be
heard, saying, “Lo, here is Christ,” or “Lo, ... there”; but we must believe
them not” (
Matthew 24:23
). We have unmistakable evidence of the voice of
the True Shepherd, and He is calling upon us to follow Him. He says, “I have
kept my Father’s commandments” (
John 15:10
). He leads His sheep in the
path of humble obedience to the law of God, but He never encourages them
in the transgression of that law.
“The voice of a stranger” is the voice of one who neither respects nor
obeys God’s holy, just, and good law. Many make great pretensions to
holiness, and boast of the wonders they perform in healing the sick, when
they do not regard this great standard of righteousness. But through whose
power are these cures wrought?
If those through whom cures are performed are disposed, on account of
these manifestations, to excuse their neglect of the law of God, and continue
in disobedience, though they have power to any and every extent, it does
not follow that they have the great power of God. On the contrary, it is the
miracle-working power of the great deceiver. He is a transgressor of the
moral law, and employs every device that he can master to blind men to its
true character. We are warned that in the last days he will work with signs
and lying wonders. And he will continue these wonders until the close of
probation, that he may point to them as evidence that he is an angel of light
and not of darkness.—
The Review and Herald, November 17, 1885
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