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Seek to Save the Lost

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye
should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain. John
15:16.

This commission rests upon everyone who claim to believe in Jesus Christ. We
are to seek to save those that are lost. . . .

The true worker for God wrestles with God in prayer, and puts intense
earnestness into the work of saving lost souls. He does not seek to exalt
self by word or deed, but simply seeks to win souls. God pronounces the
purest, the meekest, the most childlike Christian, the best worker for Him,
the mightiest in labor for souls. Heavenly intelligences can work with the
man or woman who will not absorb the glory to himself, but who will be
willing that all the glory shall redound to the honor of God. It is the man
who most feels his need of divine wisdom, the man who pleads for heavenly
power, that will go forth from communion with Christ, to hold converse with
souls perishing in their sins; and because he is anointed with the Spirit of
the Lord, he will be successful where the learned minister may have failed.
God has given lessons that are all-important in regard to the duty of every
disciple. Not one need be in darkness; for it is evident that every
Christian is to be a living epistle, known and read of all men.

Everyone who believes in Christ as a personal Saviour is under bonds to God
to be pure and holy, to be a spiritual worker, seeking to save the lost,
whether they are great or small, rich or poor, bond or free. The greatest
work on earth is to seek and to save those who are lost, for whom Christ has
paid the infinite price of His own blood. Everyone is to do active service.
. . . The sheep unsought is not brought back to the fold.

God depends upon you, the human agent, to fulfill your duty to the best of
your ability, and He Himself will give the increase. If human agents would
but cooperate with the divine intelligences, thousands of souls would be
rescued. The Holy Spirit would give devoted workers glimpses of Jesus that
would brace them for every conflict, that would elevate and strengthen them,
and make them more than conquerors. . . . The Lord has promised that where
two or three are met together in His name, there will He be in the midst.
Those who meet together for prayer will receive an unction from the Holy
One. There is great need of secret prayer, but there is also need that
several Christians meet together, and unite with earnestness their petitions
to God. In these small companies Jesus is present, the love of souls is
deepened in the heart, and the Spirit puts forth its mighty energies, that
human agents may be exercised in regard to saving those who are lost. Jesus
ever . . . strove to impress upon His disciples that the Holy Spirit must
enlighten, renew, and sanctify the soul (Review and Herald, June 30, 1896).

>From Lift Him Up - Page 358

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