Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

holiness, then work in that line in all humbleness
and devotedness. The church needs freshness and
the inspiration of men who breathe in the very
atmosphere of heaven, to vitalize the church,
notwithstanding the tares are among the wheat....
I would caution all believers to learn to
maintain a godly jealousy over yourselves, lest
Satan shall steal your heart away from God and
you slip unconsciously into work in Satan’s lines,
without perceiving that you have changed leaders,
and be found in the treacherous power of a tyrant.
We are as a church to be wide awake, and to
work for the erring among us as laborers together
with God. We are furnished with spiritual weapons,
mighty to the pulling down of the fortress of the
enemy. We are not to hurl the thunderbolts against
the church of Christ militant, for Satan is doing all
he possibly can in this line, and you who claim to
be the remnant of the people of God had better not
be found helping him, denouncing, accusing, and
condemning. Seek to restore, not to tear down,
discourage, and destroy.—Manuscript 21, 1893.
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