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temporal rewards; nothing more. Then we have the contrast. God in Christ deals with the mind; Caesar with the body. God with the thoughts; Caesar with the actions. God with sin; Caesar with crime. God with morals; Caesar with civil things. God exercises forgiveness, Caesar imposes the penalty. God uses love, Caesar, force. God deals with eternal things; Caesar with temporal things. These are sharply defined distinctions. The powers that be But is it not true that the powers that be are ordained of God?--Certainly. "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers [notice carefully how it reads; for every word has a meaning. If it is only higher power, there is something beyond that.]; for there is no power but of God, and the powers that be are ordained of God." It is in God’s order that there should be civil governments on the earth. And we are to yield obedience to those governments. Then, you say, what is the trouble?--There is no trouble if we put the other right with it. "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s." The very idea of civil government is of God, and He has ordained civil rulers over this realm; but not to rule over His realm. He has drawn the line of distinction between the two, and has ordained the powers that be to rule over things civil, and leave Him to rule over things moral. When Caesar confines his actions to his own sphere, every Christian is enjoined by God to be obedient; that is a part of his Christianity. There should be no one more loyal to civil government, when it is in the sphere to which God ordained it, than the Christian. He should be the model citizen; but when Caesar tries to put himself in the place of God, he makes bad work. He cannot take the place of God. God says, "Stay where I put you, and I command every one of My followers to obey you; but do not come over into My realm; for you cannot carry on My government. Stay in your sphere, and you will have every one of My subjects to be your subjects; 103
ut if you get into My realm, You will spoil your subjects and Mine too." God has made this very plain. Let us go to the Scripture for instruction. The three hebrews and the fiery furnace Nebuchadnezzar the king built a great image all of gold, and set it up on the plain of Dura. He made a proclamation, calling the princes, captains, governors, and subjects of his realm to the dedication of the image. At the sound of the music everyone was to bow down and worship this image, which was really to worship Nebuchadnezzar, because he had had a vision of an image whose head was of gold, representing himself, and from this he made an image all of gold, and set it up to represent himself. In the company were three men, Jewish captives, who had been placed in office by Nebuchadnezzar. When the sound of music was heard, and the whole company prostrated themselves, those three men stood up, and certain ones went and told the king. He was furious with rage, and commanded them to bring the three men before him, and he said unto them, "Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do ye not serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?" "I tell you that whosoever does not fall down and worship this image will be cast into the burning fiery furnace." "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said unto the King Nebuchadnezzar, We are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up." At this answer Nebuchadnezzar was all the more enraged, and commanded that the furnace should be heated seven times hotter than it was wont to be, and that the three men should be cast in. Why, he said, I am Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon; God Himself has ordained me. What right have these men to disobey my commands? And we have the prophecy 104
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manifestly taught and exalted.” -
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heard," he went on, the preacher’
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The new strategy of having secretar
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he reported to W. C. White afterwar
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W. C. White wrote several letters t
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Chapter 2 Ellen White descriptions
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cold and dry; we are starving for t
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Armadale. We all need the words tha
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studies followed the same lines as
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The meetings have been well attende
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Chapter 3 Abiding in Christ and wal
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with life from God. Just the moment
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waves: for the wind was contrary."
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abes and sucklings Thou hast perfec
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keeping the commandments, but Chris
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a terrible plight, but "He healed t
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parents. His walk as a young man is
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companion by the way, the power for
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The stone in the hand of Israel’s
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"Ye also as lively stones, are buil
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God will develop in each one just t
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The law of the spirit of life He is
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e seen was stone; and you know that
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out of Egypt, and set it anew, and
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Chapter 5 The kingdom of God; or th
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circumstances that bring the sure r
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Said my guide, "There is much light
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F. Feb. 27, 1891 (Diary, "Christ Ou
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e educated to expect help from man.
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Appendix B Statements on the Comman
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commandments of God and leave the o
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dependence. [p. 460] E. Dec. 1889 (
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H. March 24, 1891 (Sermon, "Our Pre
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aloft; for it is truth. [p. 1486] J
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sweet, melting love and tender comp
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Creator," and "I have made Christ,
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Thirty years after Washburn’s dea
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