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Character of Christ’s Ambassadors, October 20
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did
beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to
God.
2 Corinthians 5:20
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Every true Christian will feel that he has something to do for the
salvation of souls.
When you approach the stranger, when you stand face to face with the
impenitent, the afflicted, the soul-needy, the Lord is by your side if you
have indeed given yourself to Him. He makes the impression on the heart.
But you may be the instrument for His gracious work....
The advocates of truth must hide in Jesus; He is their greatness, their
power and efficiency. They must love souls as He loved them, be obedient
as He was, be courteous, full of sympathy. They should war with all
their power against the least defect of character in themselves. They must
represent Jesus. In every act let Him appear.
He who can read the hearts of men ... knows the atmosphere surround-
ing every soul. He knows how many and fierce are the struggles of the
human soul to overcome the natural hereditary tendencies and the sins
which have become common through habit of repetition.... Thousands ...
are exposed to Satan’s masterly temptations, and are without a knowledge
of God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent into the world to save the
chiefest sinners. Oh, why do we not discern our part of the work in the
great plan of redemption? ...
In every truly converted soul there will be genuine, sanctified sympa-
thy with the suffering of Christ, endured by Him to save the sinful. They
will, if colaborers with Christ, overcome selfish ease, selfish gratifica-
tion, selfish indulgence, and will grow in spiritual sinew and muscle by
exercising the powers given them of God to win souls to Jesus Christ.
This heaven-appointed work is calculated to give breadth and depth and
stability to Christian experience and character, and to bring the laborers
together with God into a higher, purer atmosphere where their love for
Christ will be ever increasing and their love for their fellow men will
abound more and more.
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