Testimonies for the Church Vol 1 - Lansing SDA Church

404 Testimonies for the Church Volume 1[433]this is actually necessary. He should follow up his public labors byprivate efforts, laboring personally for souls whenever an opportunitypresents, conversing around the fireside, beseeching and entreatingsouls in Christ’s stead to be reconciled to God. Our work here is soonto close, “and every man shall receive his own reward according to hisown labor.”I was shown the saints’ reward, the immortal inheritance. Then Iwas shown how much God’s people had endured for the truth’s sake,and that they would count heaven cheap enough. They reckoned thatthe sufferings of this present time were not worthy to be comparedwith the glory which should be revealed in them. The people of Godin these last days will be tried. But soon their last trial will come, andthen they will receive the gift of eternal life.Brother Hull, you have suffered reproach for the truth’s sake. Youhave felt the power of the truth and of an endless life. You have hadGod’s Spirit witness with yours that you were owned and acceptedof Him. I saw that if you gird on the armor anew, and stand at yourpost, resisting the devil and fighting manfully the battles of the Lord,you will be victorious, and will soon lay off your armor and wear aconqueror’s crown. Oh, is not the inheritance rich enough? Did it notcost a dear price, the agony and blood of the Son of God? I call uponyou in the name of the Lord to awake. Break away from the awfuldeception which Satan has thrown over you. Lay hold on everlastinglife. Resist the devil. Evil angels are around you, whispering in yourears, visiting you with lying dreams, and you listen to them and arepleased. Oh, for the sake of Christ, for your own soul’s sake, tear awayfrom this dreadful influence before you grieve God’s Spirit entirelyfrom you.* * * * *Sabbath, June 6, 1863, I was shown some things in regard to thework of God and the spread of the truth. Preachers and people havetoo little faith, too little devotion and true godliness. The peopleimitate the preacher, and thus he has a very great influence upon them.Brother Hull, God wants you to come nearer to Him, where you cantake hold of His strength, and by living faith claim His salvation, andbe a strong man. If you were a devotional, godly man, in the pulpit