“我就常与你们同在,直到世界的末了”(太 28:20)。{FH.84.1}
几个月来我心里一直烦恼,因为看见上帝在祂圣工上所用的一些弟兄为科学神学而困惑。这种神学已经进来,要引人离开对上帝的真信心。一周前的安息日夜间,我正在虔心祷告思虑这些事情时,就见了异象。异象中我是在一大群人面前讲话。有人提出有关我工作和著作的许多问题。{FH.84.2}
一位来自天庭的使者指示我,不要去计较和回答撒但放在许多人心中的话语与疑惑。他吩咐我“无论在何处,都要站立作上帝的使者,为我所要赐给你的作见证。要无拘无束。要照主的吩咐作出督责劝戒的见证,从事鼓励和救拔生灵的工作;‘凡我所吩咐你的,都教训他们遵守,我就常与你同在,直到世界的末了。’”{FH.84.3}
我出离异象之后,极其热切诚恳地大声祷告。我的心灵得到了加强,因为有话对我说:“当刚强啊,当刚强。不要让传道人或医生所说误导人的话使你的心思受到困扰。当告诉他们接受书刊中所发出的亮光。真理总会取得胜利。要勇敢地出去工作。{FH.84.4}
“如果圣灵遭到了拒绝,我所说的一切话就无助于消除现已传播的错误理论。而且撒但随时准备发明更多的理论。如果已经赐下的证据遭到了拒绝,其它一切证据都必无用,除非上帝在人心运行改变的能力。如果过去圣灵所留下使人信服的印象,不被接受为可靠的证据,那么以后也必没有什么能使他们觉悟过来,因为撒但迷惑的诡诈已败坏了他们的辨别力。”……{FH.84.5}
上帝现在呼吁所有选择侍奉祂的人,坚定地站在永恒真理的立场上。那些制造分裂导致目前混乱状态的人,务要三思而后行。“你们今日就可以选择所要事奉的。”“若耶和华是上帝,就当顺从耶和华;若巴力是上帝,就当顺从巴力”(书24:15; 王上18:21)。——《评论与通讯》,1906年8月9日。{FH.84.6}
Choose You This Day, March 13
Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.?Matthew 28:20.?{FH 84.1}[1]
For many months I have been troubled as I have seen that some of our brethren whom God has used in His cause are now perplexed over the scientific theology which has come in to lead men away from a true faith in God. Sabbath night, a week ago, after I had been prayerfully studying over these things, I had a vision in which I was speaking before a large company where many questions were asked concerning my work and writings.?{FH 84.2}[2]
I was directed by a messenger from heaven not to take the burden of picking up and answering all the sayings and doubts that are being put into many minds. “Stand as the messenger of God anywhere, in any place,” I was bidden, “and bear the testimony I shall give you. Be free. Bear the testimony that the Lord has for you to bear in reproof, in rebuke, in the work of encouraging and lifting up the soul; ‘teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.’”?{FH 84.3}[3]
After the vision I prayed aloud with great fervor and earnestness. My soul was strengthened, for the words had been spoken: “Be strong, yea, be strong. Let none of the misleading words of ministers or physicians distress your mind. Tell them to take the light given them in publications. Truth will always bear away the victory. Go straight forward with your work.?{FH 84.4}[4]
“If the Holy Spirit is rejected, all My words will not help to remove, even for the time being, the false representations that have been made, and Satan stands ready to invent more. If the evidence already given is rejected, all other evidence will be useless until there is seen the converting power of God upon minds. If the convincing impressions of the Holy Spirit made in the past will not be accepted as trustworthy evidence, nothing that can be presented hereafter will reach them, because the bewitching guile of Satan has perverted their discernment.” ...?{FH 84.5}[5]
God now calls for all who choose to serve Him to stand firmly on the platform of eternal truth. Let those who have brought about the present state of confusion by making the division that exists, stop to consider seriously before going any further. “Choose you this day whom ye will serve.” “If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.”—The Review and Herald, August 9, 1906.?{FH 84.6}[6]