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E NTERING INTO G OD ’ S S ABBATH R EST

consecration to learn and to follow God’s ways, no matter what the personal cost might be. The one thing above all others which has marred the histo ry of God’s church is its members’ insistence on establishing their ways in the place of Jehovah’s, while still clinging to membership in His visible church. This is the way in which Babylon is built. In this way the papacy is established. Thus the work of God is retarded and denied its glorious consumma tion. This is the reason for the church’s failure to finish God’s work on the earth. For almost six thousand years this sad situation has contin ued. Who will respond to God’s longing appeals by shaking off this blind, stubborn determination to mix into the Lord’s body the miserable devisings of human planning? When God is able to develop a people who will at last recognize that being mem bers of His body involves living by His procedures and principles alone, “He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness.” Romans 9:28 (NKJV). Let us be that people!