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

Chapter 12
Warnings and Reproofs
Dear Brother O: I was shown that you were
enshrouded in darkness, which was not relieved by
rays of light from Jesus. You did not seem sensible
of your danger, but were in a state of listless
indifference, unfeeling and unconcerned. I inquired
the cause of this much-to-be-dreaded condition,
and was pointed back for years, and shown that
you had not, since you embraced the truth, been
sanctified through it. You have gratified your
appetite and your lustful passions to the destruction
of your own spirituality. I was shown that God had
given light through the gifts placed in the church,
which would instruct, counsel, guide, reprove, and
warn. These testimonies which you have professed
to believe were from God, you have not regarded
to live them out. To disregard light is to reject it.
The rejection of light leaves men captives bound
about by chains of darkness and unbelief.
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