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YOUTHFUL LINKS IN THE TESTIMONY

W. Dickson

Exodus 2: 1–8; 2 Samuel 17: 15–18 (to “told Absalom”); Acts

12: 12–17 (to “out of prison”); 23: 16–22

We have been engaged with very precious things these few

days and also very profound things, and the Spirit of God has

laid it upon my heart to

appeal to our younger ones here tonight to give themselves to

these great matters we have been conversing about. Could I

say simply, dear young people, the Lord wants you and needs

you. Would that the Spirit of God would write that upon your

heart at this time. So I have drawn upon these scriptures to

indicate how, at very critical times in the testimony, the

preserving link that the Lord used was a young person, and to

encourage you to involve yourself in the testimony of our Lord

God.

Two of these persons are referred to as maids. They would be

teenagers, possibly. The one in Acts 23 was a youth. One was

a sister of Moses, and she could not have been very old at this

time, yet God was graciously pleased to use that young

person as a preservative link in the testimony and in His

operations that were eventually to work out in a dwelling-place

for Himself. Nothing could be more elevating than a thought of

that character. The people had now come to the end of the

four hundred years of affliction (Genesis 15: 13) and God was

going to raise up a great deliverer. You can understand how

Satan would, in his counsels—we speak much, beloved

brethren, about God’s counsels, but it is a sobering thought

that Satan has a counsel chamber; Hades’ gates seek to

anticipate and to counteract every divine movement.

Revelation tells us that when the woman brought forth the

man-child, immediately Satan, as if he had knowledge of it,

sought to swallow up the man-child (Revelation 12: 4).