Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

e one in Us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me.” John 17:20, 21.Jesus designed that the faith of His people should be one. If one goes forth preachingone thing, and another differing with him preaches something else, how can those whobelieve through their word be one? There will be difference of sentiments.I saw that if God’s people in Wisconsin would prosper, they must take a decidedposition in regard to these things, and thereby cut off the influence of those who arecausing distraction and division by teaching sentiments contrary to the body. Such arewandering stars. They seem to emit a little light; they profess and carry along a littletruth, and thus deceive the inexperienced. Satan endows them with his spirit, but God isnot with them; His Spirit does not dwell in them. Jesus prayed that His disciples mightbe one, as He is one with the Father, “that the world may believe that Thou hast sentMe.” The oneness and unity of God’s truth-believing remnant people carries powerfulconviction to the world that they have the truth, and are the peculiar, chosen people ofGod. This oneness and unity disconcerts the enemy, and he is determined that it shallnot exist. The present truth, believed in the heart and exemplified in the life, makesGod’s people one, and gives them a powerful influence.Had professed Sabbathkeepers in Wisconsin earnestly sought and labored to be inunion with the prayer of Christ, to be one as He is one with the Father, Satan’s workwould have been defeated. If all had sought to be in union with the body, the fanaticismwhich has brought so deep a stain upon the cause of present truth in northern Wisconsinwould not have arisen; for it is the result of drawing off from the body, and seeking tohave an original, independent faith, regardless of the faith of the body.In the last vision given at Battle Creek I was shown that327