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‘Following His Steps Closely’The Watchtower—1970 | April 1
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Seeing that I was so gripped by what I read, my brother-in-law offered me this book and two others by the same author. How delighted I was with their treasures of Bible knowledge! I studied them all carefully, beginning with The Divine Plan of the Ages. Not having been indoctrinated with any of Christendom’s false teachings, my mind was open to facts and Bible reasoning.
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‘Following His Steps Closely’The Watchtower—1970 | April 1
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Time and again these words from The Divine Plan of the Ages would keep recurring to my mind:
“To obtain this knowledge and this strength, which God thus proposes to supply to each runner for the heavenly prize, will surely test the sincerity of your [dedication]. You have [dedicated] all your time, all your talents, to the Lord; now the question is, How much of it are you giving? . . . But think not that the giving will end with the giving of the needful time and energy to this study: it will not. The sincerity of your sacrifice of self will be tested in full . . . If you give diligence to the Word of God, and receive its truths into a good, honest, [dedicated] heart, it will beget in you such a love for God . . . and such a desire to tell the good tidings, to preach the gospel, that it will become the all-absorbing theme of life thereafter.”
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