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THE TESTING, PURIFYING, CHARACTER-PERFECTING PROCESS (Part 2)
“The purification of the people of God CANNOT be accomplished without their suffering. God permits the fires of affliction to consume the DROSS, to SEPARATE the worthless from the valuable, that the PURE metal may shine forth.
He passes us FROM ONE FIRE TO ANOTHER, testing our true worth. If we CANNOT bear these trials, what will we do in the [coming] TIME OF TROUBLE? If prosperity or adversity discovers FALSENESS, PRIDE, OR SELFISHNESS IN OUR HEARTS, what shall we do when God ‘tries every man’s work as by fire,’ and lays bare the SECRETS of all hearts?”
“TRUE GRACE is willing to be tried: if we are loath to be SEARCHED by God [See Ps. 139: 1. 23, 24, etc.] our CONDITION IS SERIOUS INDEED. God is the true Refiner and Purifier of souls; in the heat of the heat of the furnace the dross is separated FOREVER from the true and silver and gold of THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER. Jesus watches the test. He knows what is NEEDED that it may REFLECT the RADIANCE of His divine love.” Vol. 4 Testimonies, p. 86.
NOTE: The ROMAN (not “Christian”) Church and the Antichrist uses their “fires” of the absolutely unbiblical “Purgatory” to allegedly purify the “unsaved dead,” after they die, and you pay for the masses and prayers offered for this antichristian doctrine!
What Christ has and continue to do for repentant sinners in the plan of salvation is absolutely FREE of any fees or charges “yesterday, today, and forever!” Double whammy, double jeopardy indeed for Christ and His atoning sacrifice and intercessory work as High Priest are blatantly “made of none effect” and openly counterfeited. If this isn’t blasphemy of the first degree, nothing is!
(To be continued). Bless all, NMF.
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THE TESTING, PURIFYING, CHARACTER-PERFECTING PROCESS (Part 2)
