Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

has enjoined upon you to preserve your body holy.
"Know ye not that your body is the temple of the
Holy Ghost, . . . and ye are not your own? For ye
are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in
your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."
Will not God judge you for debasing to lust the
passions and affections when He claims the wealth
of your affections and your entire being to be
devoted to His service?
Again I warn you as one who must meet these
lines in that day when the case of everyone shall be
decided. Yield yourself to Christ without delay; He
alone, by the power of His grace, can redeem you
from ruin. He alone can bring your moral and
mental powers into a state of health. Your heart
may be warm with the love of God; your
understanding, clear and mature; your conscience,
illuminated, quick, and pure; your will, upright and
sanctified, subject to the control of the Spirit of
God. You can make yourself what you choose. If
you will now face rightabout, cease to do evil and
learn to do well, then you will be happy indeed;
you will be successful in the battles of life, and rise
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