Satan, our common enemy, has many favorite tools he uses to rob us of our divine potential to accomplish our mission in the Lord’s kingdom. “These binding chains of addiction can have many forms, like pornography, alcohol, sex, drugs, tobacco, gambling, food, work, the Internet, or virtual reality. Negative habits have the potential to become consuming addictions. Addictions are thin threads of repeated action that weave themselves into thick bonds of habit. Topics: Apostasy, Apostle, Being Spiritual & Spirituality, Death, Leadership, Prophets Lee | Conference Report, October 1947, p.
I have watched over the years, and I have read of the history of many of those who fell away from this Church, and I want to bear testimony that no apostate who ever left this Church ever prospered as an influence in his community thereafter. I want to bear my testimony as well that those who in public seek by their criticism to belittle our leaders or bring them into disrepute, will bring upon themselves more hurt than upon those whom they seek thus to malign. I want to bear you my testimony that the experience I have had has taught me that those who criticize the leaders of this Church are showing signs of a spiritual sickness which, unless curbed, will bring about eventually spiritual death. Only the “pure in heart” see the “God” or the divine in man and accept our leaders and accept them as prophets of the Living God. Mark well those who speak evil of the Lord’s anointed, for they speak from impure hearts.
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