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Christ never entered into it. "It is written" is the weapon
used by the world's Redeemer. Let us keep close to the
World. Let us allow the Lord Jesus and His messengers to
testify. We know that their testimony is true. p. 93,
Para. 1, [LS15].
Christ is over all the works of His creation. In the
pillar of fire, He guided the children of Israel, His eyes
seeing past, present, and future. He is to be recognized
and honored by all who love God. His commandments are to be
the controlling power in the lives of His people. p. 93,
Para. 2, [LS15].
The tempter comes with the supposition that Christ has
removed His seat of honor and power into some unknown
region, and that men need no longer be inconvenienced by
exalting His character and obeying His law. Human beings
are to be a law unto themselves, he declares. These
sophistries exalt self and make nothing of God. Restraint
and moral control in the human family are destroyed.
Restraint upon vice grows more and more feeble. The world
loves not, fears not, God. And those who do not love or
fear God soon lose all sense of obligation to one another.
They are without God and without hope in the world. p. 93,
Para. 3, [LS15].
Those teachers who do not daily bring the word of God into
their life work, are in great peril. They have not a saving
knowledge of God or of Christ. It is those who do not live
the truth who are most inclined to invent sophistries to
occupy the time and absorb the attention that ought to be
given to the study of God's word. It is a fearful mistake
for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate
theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the
words of Christ to fallacies of human production. p. 94,
Para. 1, [LS15].
We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of
God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His
word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal
His character and His power as Creator. They are His gift
to the race, to show His power, and to show that He is a
God of love. But no one is authorized to say that God
Himself in person is in flower or leaf or tree. These
things are God's handiwork, revealing His love for mankind.
p. 94, Para. 2, [LS15].