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 Jesus Wants Us Christians to Be Awake and Impart the Light to the World ㅡ

 “And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.”

 (Luke 21:34)

 Christ declares to His followers: “Ye are the light of the world.” (Matthew 5:14).

 But very few of those who have received the light are doing the work entrusted to their hands.

 There are a few men of unswerving fidelity who do not study ease, convenience, or life itself, who push their way wherever they can find an opening to press the light of truth and vindicate the holy law of God.

 But the sins that control the world have come into the churches, and into the hearts of those who claim to be God’s peculiar people.

 Many who have received the light exert an influence to quiet the fears of worldlings and formal professors.

 There are lovers of the world even among those who profess to be waiting for the Lord. There is ambition for riches and honor.

 Christ describes this class when He declares that the day of God is to come as a snare upon all that dwell upon the earth.

 This world is their home. They make it their business to secure earthly treasures.

 They erect costly dwellings and furnish them with every good thing; they find pleasure in dress and the indulgence of appetite. The things of the world are their idols.

 These interpose between the soul and Christ, and the solemn and awful realities that are crowding upon us are but dimly seen and faintly realized.

 The same disobedience and failure which were seen in the Jewish church have characterized in a greater degree the people who have had this great light from heaven in the last messages of warning.

 Shall we, like them, squander our opportunities and privileges until God shall permit oppression and persecution to come upon us?

 Will the work which might be performed in peace and comparative prosperity be left undone until it must be performed in days of darkness, under the pressure of trial and persecution?

 (Testimonies for the Church Volume 5 455, 456)

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