Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

with all your energy to free yourself and counteract the influence you exerted, youcame up out of all this excusing yourself and censuring those whom God sent to you,and ready to dictate, and even to suggest a plan whereby the Lord might have arrestedyou by His servants pursuing some different course from that which they did pursue.Your judgment was perverted by Satan’s power, and while enshrouded in darkness youwere an incompetent judge of the best course to be pursued toward you. If you knewjust what course the servants of God ought to pursue in order to help you, you knewenough to come out yourself. God gave you your choice, to be taught, to be instructedthrough His servants in His own appointed way, or to go on, maintain your willfulcourse, and fall into bewildering fanaticism.You chose to have your way. And now you have only yourself to blame. Youprofess to be a watchman on the walls of Zion, a shepherd to the flock, yet you sawthe poor sheep torn and scattered and gave no warning. “Son of man, I have madethee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at My mouth, andgive them warning from Me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; andthou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, tosave his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I requireat thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, norfrom his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.”“Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he dothnot sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.”Ezekiel 3:17-19, 21.The sin of those in Wisconsin who went into fanaticism rests more heavily uponyou, Brother G, than upon any other one. You were an unfaithful watchman. Youdiscerned not the evil, because you were unfaithful. God sent His faithful313