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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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overwhelming power.* Alternately, <strong>the</strong> temptation<br />

to despair, presumption, or <strong>the</strong> cutting short <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

contest in some decisive manner, must have<br />

> It was this which woald make <strong>the</strong> mental assetmu<br />

—without impljing any<br />

*a8saalt' a *|^mptation * by vividly set inward<br />

eansensus to <strong>the</strong> manner ip which<br />

t^ 'Mffipe <strong>the</strong> mind <strong>the</strong> reality <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Enemy<br />

prop<strong>of</strong>led to hare <strong>the</strong>m Mt<br />

nUionali^ <strong>of</strong> tJbyiaie ooniidenitioD*-*-* aside.<br />

BOOK presented itself to His mind, or rtt<strong>the</strong>r have<br />

been presented to it by in <strong>the</strong> Tempter. '—^""^^<br />

And this was, indeed, <strong>the</strong> essence <strong>of</strong> His last three<br />

great temptations ; which, as <strong>the</strong> whole contest,<br />

resolved <strong>the</strong>mselves into <strong>the</strong> one question <strong>of</strong><br />

absolate submission to <strong>the</strong> Will <strong>of</strong> God,' which is<br />

<strong>the</strong> sum <strong>and</strong> sabstanoe <strong>of</strong> all obedience. If He<br />

submitted to it, it mnst be suffering, <strong>and</strong> only

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