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Testimonies for the Church, Volume 9 - Ellen G. White

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Chapter 132<br />

“Followers of God, as Dear<br />

Children”<br />

Every truly converted soul can say: "I am but a<br />

little child; but I am God's child." It was at infinite<br />

cost that provision was made whereby <strong>the</strong> human<br />

family might be restored to sonship with God. In<br />

<strong>the</strong> beginning, God made man in His own likeness.<br />

Our first parents listened to <strong>the</strong> voice of <strong>the</strong> tempter<br />

and yielded to <strong>the</strong> power of Satan. But man was not<br />

abandoned to <strong>the</strong> results of <strong>the</strong> evil he had chosen.<br />

The promise of a Deliverer was given. "I will put<br />

enmity between <strong>the</strong>e and <strong>the</strong> woman," God said to<br />

<strong>the</strong> serpent, "and between thy seed and her seed; it<br />

shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his<br />

heel." (Genesis 3:15) Be<strong>for</strong>e <strong>the</strong>y heard of <strong>the</strong><br />

thorn and <strong>the</strong> thistle, of <strong>the</strong> sorrow and toil that<br />

must be <strong>the</strong>ir portion, or of <strong>the</strong> dust to which <strong>the</strong>y<br />

must return, <strong>the</strong>y listened to words that could not<br />

fail of giving <strong>the</strong>m hope. All that had been lost by<br />

yielding to Satan could be regained through Christ.<br />

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