Confrontation - Ellen G. White

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of their mental powers, are fitted to decide important questions in reference to the execution of the law of our land. This was the mind of God by decrees to the Hebrews that wine should not be used by those who ministered in holy office. Here we have the most plain directions of God, and His reasons for prohibiting the use of wine; that their power of discrimination and discernment might be clear, and in no way confused; that their judgment might be correct, and they be ever able to discern between the clean and unclean. Another reason of weighty importance why they should abstain from anything which would intoxicate is also given. It would require the full use of unclouded reason to present to the children of Israel all the statutes which God had spoken to them. Anything in eating and drinking which disqualifies the mental powers for healthful and active exercise is an aggravating sin in the sight of God. Especially is this the case with those who minister in holy things, who should at all times be 140
examples to the people and be in a condition to properly instruct them. Notwithstanding they have this striking example before them, some professed Christians will desecrate the house of God with breaths polluted with the fumes of liquor and tobacco. And the spittoons are sometimes filled with the ejected spittle and quids of tobacco. The effluvia is constantly arising from these receptacles, polluting the atmosphere. Men professing to be Christians bow to worship God, and dare to pray to Him, with their lips stained by tobacco, while their halfparalyzed nerves tremble from the exhausting use of this powerful narcotic. And this is the devotion they offer to a holy and sin-hating God. Ministers in the sacred desk, with mouth and lips defiled, dare to take the sacred word of God in their polluted lips. They think God does not notice their sinful indulgence. “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” God will no more receive a sacrifice from the hands of those who thus pollute themselves, and 141
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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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station. His unwillingness to ascri
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God their first consideration, and
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The Saviour of the world had no con
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draws Himself near to man by standi
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Eden. They had been separating from
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was unsuccessful in this. He next t
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His integrity, and showed that He h
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Chapter 19 Christ our Hope and Exam
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would be man’s idol and would lea
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of sorrow, hardship, and conflict.
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This insult to the Creator moved th
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Page 93 and 94: His being the promised One, he migh
Page 95 and 96: mind has very much to do with our u
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Page 157 and 158: In the Epistle of Paul to Timothy,
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