in this; there is not the least evidence that such a thing will be. Those who shall
heed this false message and try to leaven others will be deceived and prepared to
receive advanced delusions, and they will come to nought.
There is in some of the members of the church, pride, self-sufficiency, stubborn
unbelief, and a refusing to yield their ideas, although evidence may be piled upon
evidence which makes the message to the Laodicean church applicable. But that
will not blot out the church that it will not exist. Let both tares and wheat grow
together until the harvest. Then it is the angels that do the work of separation.
I warn the Seventh-day Adventist Church to be careful how you receive every
new notion and those who claim to have great light. The character of their work
seems to be to accuse and to tear down.
My brother, I would say to you, Be careful. Go not one step farther in the path
you have entered upon. Walk in the light “while ye have the light, lest darkness
come upon you” (John 12:35).
You complain of being treated coldly in Battle Creek. Did you go with a humble
spirit to those who are spiritual and say, “Will you examine the Scriptures with
me? Shall we pray over this matter? I have not the light, I want it; for error
will never sanctify the soul.” Can you be surprised that they would not give you
all that confidence you might think they should, after the experience they have
passed through? Should not the words of Christ have any weight? “Beware of false
prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening
wolves” (Matthew 7:15). “Lo here and lo there is Christ” will be multiplied. Let the
believers heed the voice of the angel who has said to the church, “Press together.”
In unity is your strength. Love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous. God hath a
church, and Christ hath declared, “The gates of hell shall not prevail against it”
(Matthew 16:18). The messengers the Lord sends bear the divine credentials. I
have tender feelings toward you, but come to the light, I beseech of you.—Letter
16, 1893.
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The Fruitage of an Underhanded Work
It is essential that all shall know what atmosphere surrounds their own
souls, whether they are in copartnership with the enemy of righteousness, and
unconsciously doing his work, or whether they are linked up with Christ, doing
His work, and seeking to establish souls more firmly in the truth.
Satan would be pleased to have anyone and everyone become his allies to
weaken the confidence of brother in brother, and to sow discord among those who
profess to believe the truth. Satan can accomplish his purposes most successfully
through professed friends of Christ who are not walking and working in Christ’s
lines. Those who in mind and heart are turning away from the Lord’s special work
for this time, those who do not cooperate with Him in establishing souls in the faith
by leading them to heed His words of warning, are doing the work of the enemy of
Christ.
It is a most serious matter to go from house to house, and under pretense
of doing missionary work, cast in the seed of mistrust and suspicion. Each one
speedily germinates, and there is created a distrust of God’s servants, who have His
message to bear to the people. When God speaks through His servants, the seed
[of mistrust and suspicion] sown has developed into a root of bitterness. The word
falls upon hearts that will not hear, on hearts that will not respond. No earthly or
heavenly power can find access to the soul.
Who is accountable for these souls? Who shall eradicate that poisonous root of
bitterness that has prevented them from receiving the word of the Lord? A good
sister or a brother planted the evil seed, but how can that one restore the soul thus
imperiled? The tongue that should have been used to the glory of God in speaking
words of hope and faith and confidence in God’s workmen has turned away a soul
from Jesus Christ. Those who themselves despised the words of Christ, and refused
to hear His voice and to be converted, have leavened other
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minds with the leaven of evil surmisings and evilspeaking.
This is the day of the Lord’s preparation. We have no time now to talk unbelief
and to gossip, no time now to do the devil’s work. Let everyone beware of unsettling
the faith of others by sowing seeds of envy, jealousy, disunion; for God hears
the words, and judges, not by assertions, which are yea and nay, but by the fruit
one’s course of action produces. “By their fruits ye shall know them” (Matthew
7:20). The seed sown will determine the character of the harvest.”—Manuscript
32a, 1896.
Convincing Evidence Accompanies the Message Inspired by God
When the Lord gives a man a message, He gives with it something whereby His
people may know that the message is from Him. God does not ask his people to
believe everyone who comes to them with a message.
The Lord sends warnings to His people, not to destroy them, but to correct their
errors
We are living in perilous times. From the light I have, I know that Satan is trying
to bring in that which will make people think they have a wonderful work to do.
But when God gives a man a message, that man, by his meekness and lowliness,
will give evidence that God is working through him. God lives and reigns, and He
desires us to walk before Him in humility. He does not wish this man N to force
himself before a congregation....
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We are not going to be interrupted in meeting after meeting by those who claim
they have a message to deliver. He who presses himself forward into a place where
he is not wanted is not doing the work of God. We are
