Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

Number Four Testimony for theChurchChapter 27 - Young SabbathkeepersAugust 22, 1857, at the house of prayer in Monterey, Michigan, I was shown thatmany have not yet heard the voice of Jesus, and the saving message has not taken holdof the soul and worked a reformation in the life. Many of the young have not the spiritof Jesus. The love of God is not in their hearts, therefore all the natural besetmentshold the victory instead of the Spirit of God and salvation.Those who really possess the religion of Jesus will not be ashamed nor afraid tobear the cross before those who have more experience than they. They will, if theyearnestly long to be right, desire all the help they can get from older Christians. Gladlywill they be helped by them; hearts that are warmed by love to God will not be hinderedby trifles in the Christian course. They will talk out what the Spirit of God works in.They will sing it out, pray it out. It is the lack of religion, lack of holy living, thatmakes the young backward. Their life condemns them. They know they do not liveas Christians should, therefore they have not confidence toward God, or before thechurch.Why the young feel more liberty when the older ones are absent is: They are withthose of their kind. Each thinks he is as good as the other. All fail of the mark, butmeasure themselves by themselves, and compare themselves among154