Confrontation - Ellen G. White

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use. Satan’s temptations succeed with the professed followers of Christ on the point of indulgence of pleasure and appetite. Clothed as an angel of light he will quote Scripture to justify the temptations he places before men to indulge the appetite and in worldly pleasures which suit the carnal heart. The professed followers of Christ are weak in moral power and are fascinated with the bribe which Satan has presented before them, and he gains the victory. How does God look upon churches that are sustained by such means? Christ cannot accept these offerings, because they were not given through their love and devotion to Him, but through their idolatry of self. But what many would not do for the love of Christ, they will do for the love of delicate luxuries to gratify the appetite, and for love of worldly amusements to please the carnal heart. The conflict of Christ with Satan in the wilderness will be regarded with sacred interest by every true follower of Christ. We should have 118
feelings of the deepest gratitude to our Redeemer for teaching us by His own example how to resist and overcome Satan. Jesus did not visit scenes of gaiety and feasting to attain the victory so essential to our salvation; but He went into a desolate wilderness. Many do not even contemplate this scene of Christ in conflict with the fallen chief. They do not enter into sympathy with their Redeemer. Some even doubt whether Christ really felt the pangs of hunger in His abstinence from food during the period of forty days and forty nights. He who suffered death for us on Calvary’s cross, just as surely suffered the keenest pangs of hunger as that He died for us. And no sooner did this suffering commence than Satan was at hand with his temptations. We have a foe no less vigilant to contend with. Satan adapts his temptations to our circumstances. In every temptation he will present some bribe, some apparent good to be gained. But in the name of Christ we may have complete victory in resisting his devices. 119
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Number two of the Redemption series
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ecame envious of Christ, and repres
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them with fruits, vegetables, and g
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merely to contemplate His glorious
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garden thou mayest freely eat: but
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and ye shall be as gods, knowing go
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that it was pleasant to the eyes, a
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Satan was determined to succeed in
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Chapter 5 Plan of Redemption A coun
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With the sins of the world laid upo
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addressed to him when he was summon
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Adam’s failure and fall. Through
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power that could impress them so de
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Satan watched every event in regard
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come. That which made Cain’s offe
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Chapter 7 Appetite and Passion The
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at the head of the armies of Israel
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Christ resurrected Moses, and took
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The song of the heavenly messengers
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who came in the spirit and power of
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should leave heaven, and come to th
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It is impossible for man to know th
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thousand years after Adam turned hi
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“And being made perfect, he becam
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not the pangs of hunger. He was not
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in so great a degree destroyed that
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Chapter 12 The First Temptation of
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Chapter 13 Significance of the Test
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His human nature, and God to man th
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through indulgence of appetite, had
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with the plan of salvation. The man
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Chapter 15 He Parleyed not with Tem
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