SPECIAL MESSAGE TO WHM TEAM PARTNERS:
March 8, 2024
Straight Testimony to the Laodiceans- Part 22
THIS SPIRITUAL DISEASE IS NOT HOPELESS (No. 4)
It become terminal unless the warnings mercifully given are ignored, made light of, or rejected. Now note the dates of each particular testimony below and consider ourselves warned by the Lord:
“Self-exaltation is a dangerous element. It TARNISHES everything it touches. It is the OFFSPRING of pride, and it works so ingeniously that, unless guarded against, it will take possession of the THOUGHTS and control the ACTIONS.
“The Laodicean message must be PROCLAIMED WITH POWER [by the Holy Spirit]. Now [year 1900] more than ever before, are seen pride, worldly ambition, self-exaltation, double-dealing, hypocrisy, and deception. MANY are speaking ‘great, swelling words of vanity,’ saying, ‘I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing.’” Yet they are miserable, poor, blind, and naked.’” Review & Herald, Sept. 25, 1900.
“Those whom Christ WARNS have some excellent qualifications, but they are NEUTRALIZED by all who have a DISEASED self-love, self-deception, self-justification for gross neglect [for what?] TO HELP BRETHREN IN THE SERVICE OF GOD by encouraging words and deeds. [Jesus warned, “Inasmuch as ye have done it to the least of My BRETHREN, ye have done it to Me.’]. There is a DEAD FLY in the ointment. They are BEING WEIGHED by One who never makes a mistake. He tells the result of ACTIONS which demonstrate that the LOVE OF CHRIST IS NOT an abiding principle in the soul. [Indeed, ‘By their fruits ye shall know them.’].
“God calls upon you ALL to learn from Christ His meekness. Put away your faculty for seeing the MISTAKES OF OTHERS. TURN YOUR ATTENTION TO YOUR OWN DEFECTS. Your self-righteousness is NAUSEATING to the Lord Jesus Christ [Rev. 3:15-18 quoted]. These words apply to the CHURCHES and many of those in POSITIONS of trust in the work of God.” EGW Manuscript 108, 1899. Yes, as far back as 1899 this Laodicean testimony was already sounding. But have they been heeded?
“Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your heart” for tomorrow is not assured to anyone. To be continued, God willing. Bless all, NMF.