In the Spirit's Power - William W. Prescott

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Sin and Crime God in Jesus Christ deals with sin; Caesar deals with crime. The Scripture says, “The thought of foolishness is sin;” but it is not crime. Therefore as Jesus Christ dwells in the mind, ruling the thoughts, anything contrary to His thought is sin, and He deals with sin. Sin is defined in the Scripture to be the “transgression of the law,” and Jesus Christ in His kingdom deals with sin. Caesar has nothing to do with sin; it is crime that he deals with. Sin is the transgression of God’s law in the thought of the heart. Sin is a lapse from holiness, and holiness dwells in the inmost heart. Anything different to that is sin; but Caesar cannot inquire about that. He waits till the thought becomes an overt act contrary to his law; because while God has a law to rule the heart, Caesar has a law to rule the action. When one transgresses Caesar’s law he may or may not have sinned against God, but it is crime. There should be a very careful distinction drawn between sin and crime. Crime is transgression of human law; sin is transgression of God’s law as interpreted by Jesus Christ. Sin may 176
or may not be crime. A man may be a murderer of the blackest type before God, and not be guilty of a crime. I may be an idolater, breaking God’s law every day, and not have committed a single crime. I may be dark and deep-stained with sin, and not commit any crime. Morality and Civility God’s government is moral; Caesar’s government is civil. Christ deals with morality. But we must understand what morality is. There is an accommodated sense of the word, in which we say, “He is not a Christian, but he is a moral man.” When we come to the strict sense of the word, it means “One that is in harmony with God’s law.” The word “civil” has to do with the relations between man and man; the word “moral” has to do with the relations between man and God. The truly moral man will be civil, you may be sure of that, and the only purpose of civil government is to make those men civil who would not be otherwise, who are not governed by the higher law of morality, the law of God in the heart. 177
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IN THE SPIRIT'S POWER William W. Pr
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• Exalting Jesus higher and yet h
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Historical Background W. W. Prescot
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Herald [Dec. 23, 1890] was read, an
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Gilbert M. Valentine in his biograp
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confidence in them. ... She declare
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Holy Spirit is welcomed as a dear G
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Notes: 1. RH2/12/1889, in 3Bio420.
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higher. We are doing our best to le
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forth from his lips, vitalized by t
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November 17, 1895 (Letter 113, 1895
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Brother Prescott has spoken many ti
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go to them now. The time will come
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listened to truth tonight.” A Bib
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efore. Sunday morning, Elder Wilson
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large numbers have come from the di
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expressly to attend some of the mee
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W. W. Prescott Addresses from The B
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anches. But in the Scripture Christ
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flow into the branch again. And we
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Christ, bring forth the same fruit
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waves; for the wind was contrary. A
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in God’s word, “Come unto Me.
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of the mouth of babes and sucklings
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and the Pharisees was how to keep t
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y the head. What we learn about the
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in him who abides in Christ, and th
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He healed them; cannot He heal us?
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his feet, being a cripple from his
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was looking for Messiah; but it was
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“I am the way.” (John 14:6) I a
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Chapter 2 Sermons in Stone October
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The Stone in the Hand of Israel’s
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took thence a stone, and slang it,
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precious; and he that believeth on
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when the temple is fitted together,
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gives us the character of Christ, a
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Stone, Christ, and presented to the
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the Rock in order to see the glory
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into the very bread of life. His wo
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the building stands. Suppose you ta
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So built we the wall; and all the w
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speaking thine own words: then shal
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The fact that God’s will reigns s
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salvation and strength, and the kin
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had been converted, and of what the
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destroy thee, O covering cherub, fr
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Adam and His Dominion Adam was in a
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sympathising in this government of
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The Case of Job The case of Job is
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him. Unfair. He is in my dominion.
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nostrils; my lips shall not speak w
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of Satan, but are faithful unto dea
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the very point of the controversy.
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The Cross Sealed Satan’s Fate “
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every devise to hold them in the bo
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e a sign between Me and you that ye
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Chapter 4 The Word Became Flesh Oct
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ondage. For verily He took not on H
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sons and daughters, but he begat th
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“Unto us a child is born, Unto Us
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But since the first Adam took his p
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Page 139 and 140: Chapter 5 The Faith of Jesus, The C
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death of self; bearing the cross me
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esurrection life that we must have;
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opinion; which cares not for the wo
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to have faith in them, and treat Hi
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time, or whether they conferred any
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The next degree that Paul took was-
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the word of God, and then expect Go
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co-operation. God has honoured man
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esurrection of Christ, who “was m
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While it is true that “He delight
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well worth our while to consider th
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that the righteousness defined by t
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In His life among men Christ became
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is of the law, but that which is th
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for the maintenance of certain outw
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into our hearts, then love, the fru
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conviction that all which is expres
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taught that “for this purpose the
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Sin Transient; the Law Eternal In d
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the side of the “god of this worl
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which a mirror is used. A man may l
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kingdom, the pledge that “afflict
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of us, and says we shall. We do not
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is revealed in it is the righteousn
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Appendix A Statements on the Law an
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“The law was our schoolmaster to
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the sure result is ruin and death.
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world; let us pray as did David,
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will be looked upon as the rule of
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the other. ... The law and the gosp
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glory of the rainbow of promise abo
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more abound. It is true that the la
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This is the testimony that must go
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Elder E. J. Waggoner had the privil
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“The faith of Jesus.” It is tal
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Lord has a work for every one of Hi
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time without God. We are not to hav
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in the pathway of the transgressors
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it, dark chapters will open that ar
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I. January 16, 1896 (Letter 6, 1896
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efore God, will follow on in the pa
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Appendix C Comment on J. S. Washbur
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