Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

scattered and confused, and yet deceive themselves so much as to think that God isespecially with them. Some of these profess to have the gifts among them; but are ledby the influence and teachings of these gifts to hold in doubt those upon whom Godhas laid the special burden of His work, and to lead off a class from the body. Thepeople, who, in accordance with God’s word, are putting forth every effort to be one,who are established in the message of the third angel, are looked upon with suspicionfor the reason that they are extending their labor and are gathering souls into the truth.They are considered worldly because they have an influence in the world, and their actstestify that they expect God yet to do a special and great work upon the earth, to bringout a people and fit them for Christ’s appearing.This class do not know what they really believe, or the reasons for their belief. Theyare ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. One man ariseswith wild, erroneous views, and claims that God has sent him with new and gloriouslight, and all must believe what he brings. Some who have no established faith, whoare not subject to the body, but are drifting about without an anchor to hold them,receive that wind of doctrine. His light shines in such a manner as to cause the worldto turn from him in disgust and to hate him. Then he blasphemously places himselfby the side of Christ and claims that the world hate him for the same reason that theyhated Christ. Another rises, claiming to be led of God, and advocates the heresy ofthe nonresurrection of the wicked, which is one of Satan’s great masterpieces of error.Another cherishes erroneous views in regard to the future age. Another zealously urgesthe American costume. They all want full religious liberty, and each acts independentof the others, and yet they claim that God is especially at work among them.Some rejoice and exult that they have the gifts, which418