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March 25 The Gift of Truth
On to Battle, Armed With Truth
“O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring
me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles” (Psalm 43:3).
Those who are truly the followers of Christ love as brethren, and
are the salt of the earth, the light of the world. Every true believer
catches the beams from the Morning Star, and transmits the light to
those who sit in darkness. Not only do they shine amid the darkness
in their own neighborhoods, but as a church they go forth to regions
beyond. The Lord expects every man to do his duty. Everyone who
unites with the church is to be one with Christ, diffusing the beams
of the Morning Star, and becoming the light of the world. Christ and
His people are to be copartners in the great work of saving the
world.
The churches have not been educated altogether as they should
have been educated. They have been educated to depend upon the
ministers to pray and to open the Scriptures to the people who
assemble to worship God. God would have the people hear the
voice of God, and go to work for the Master. Thousands might be at
work who are not ordained to preach the gospel. If the love of God
was a living, abiding element in the soul, there would be love
among the brethren, and many who have been indifferent to the
great Teacher's commandment, who now bite and devour one
another, would be convinced of their mistake, and [would be]
draw[n] into fellowship. God has made every provision for better
things. God's people have close, severe battles to fight; but these battles
are not to be against their brethren. All desire to hurt and weaken
and destroy the influence of even the weakest of God's workers
is registered in the books of heaven as desire to weaken the influence
of Jesus Christ. The warfare we are to undertake is to be waged
against the confederacy of evil, which is arrayed against the people
of God. But woe unto those who shall turn their implements of warfare
against their own brethren. God reminds us that we are to fight
in unison with the angels of heaven, and that more than angels are
engaged in the warfare. 64
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