Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

“Souls around us must be aroused and saved, or they perish. Not a moment havewe to lose. We all have an influence that tells for the truth or against it. I desireto carry with me unmistakable evidences that I am one of Christ’s disciples. Wewant something besides Sabbath religion. We need the living principle, and to dailyfeel individual responsibility. This is shunned by many, and the fruit is carelessness,indifference, a lack of watchfulness and spirituality. Where is the spirituality of thechurch? Where are men and women full of faith and the Holy Spirit? My prayer is:Purify Thy church, O God. For months I have enjoyed freedom, and I am determinedto order my conversation and all my ways aright before the Lord.“Our enemies may triumph. They may speak bitter words, and their tongue frameslander, deceit, and falsehood, yet will we not be moved. We know in whom we havebelieved. We have not run in vain, neither labored in vain. A reckoning day is coming,when all will be judged according to the deeds done in the body. It is true the world isdark. Opposition may wax strong. The trifler and the scorner may grow bold in theiriniquity. Yet for all this we will not be moved, but lean upon the arm of the MightyOne for strength.“God is sifting His people. He will have a clean and holy church. We cannotread the heart of man. But the Lord has provided means to keep the church pure. Acorrupt people has arisen who could not live with the people of God. They despisedreproof, and would not be corrected. They had an opportunity to know that theirs wasan unrighteous warfare. They had time to repent of their wrongs; but self was too dearto die. They nourished it, and it grew strong, and they separated from the trustingpeople of God, whom He is purifying unto Himself. We all have reason to thank Godthat a way has been opened to save the church; for the wrath of God must have comeupon us if these corrupt pretenders had remained with us.99