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

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things are called to be pure in heart and holy in life.<br />

"Be ye clean, that bear <strong>the</strong> vessels of <strong>the</strong> Lord." If<br />

God pronounces a woe upon those who are called<br />

to preach <strong>the</strong> truth and refuse to obey, a heavier<br />

woe rests upon those who take upon <strong>the</strong>m this<br />

sacred work without clean hands and pure hearts.<br />

As <strong>the</strong>re are woes <strong>for</strong> those who preach <strong>the</strong> truth<br />

while <strong>the</strong>y are unsanctified in heart and life, so<br />

<strong>the</strong>re are woes <strong>for</strong> those who receive and maintain<br />

<strong>the</strong> unsanctified in <strong>the</strong> position which <strong>the</strong>y cannot<br />

fill. If <strong>the</strong> Spirit of God has not sanctified and made<br />

pure and clean <strong>the</strong> hands and heart of those who<br />

minister in sacred things, <strong>the</strong>y will speak according<br />

to <strong>the</strong>ir own imperfect, deficient experience, and<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir counsels will lead astray from God those who<br />

look to <strong>the</strong>m and trust in <strong>the</strong>ir judgment and<br />

experience. May God help ministers to heed <strong>the</strong><br />

exhortation of Paul to <strong>the</strong> Corinthians: "Examine<br />

yourselves, whe<strong>the</strong>r ye be in <strong>the</strong> faith; prove your<br />

own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how<br />

that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be<br />

reprobates?" There is a work <strong>for</strong> you to do, my<br />

bro<strong>the</strong>r, if you gain eternal life. May God help you<br />

to do this work thoroughly, that you may be perfect<br />

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