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Healthful Living
and suffering in our world, which is charged back upon God. The
man who serves himself, and makes a god of his stomach, will reap
that which is the sure result of the violation of nature’s laws. He who
abuses any organ of the body to gratify lustful appetites and debased
passions will bear testimony to the same in his countenance. He has
sown to fleshly lusts, and he will just as surely realize the consequence.
He is like a hunted being; he is a slave to passion, the chains of
which he is unwilling to break. And at last he is left of God, without
conviction, without mercy, without hope, to destroy himself. He is
left to the natural processes of corrupting practises which degrade him
beneath the brute creation. His sinfulness has ruined the mechanism
of the living machinery, and nature’s laws, transgressed, become his
tormentors.—
Unpublished Testimonies, May 19, 1897
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Control of Will
79. Satan knows that he cannot overcome man unless he can con-
trol his will. He can do this by deceiving men so they will co-operate
with him in transgressing the laws of nature, which is transgression of
the law of God.—
Unpublished Testimonies, January 11, 1897
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Satan Taunting God
80. The results which Satan has, through his specious temptations,
brought about, he uses to taunt God with. He presents before God
the appearance of the human being whom Christ has purchased as
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his property. And what an unsightly representation of his Maker!
God is dishonored, because man has corrupted his ways before the
Lord.—
Unpublished Testimonies, January 11, 1897
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81. One human being becomes Satan’s copartner to tempt, allure,
and deceive his fellow men to vicious practises; and the sure result
is diseased bodies, because of the violation of moral law. “Because
iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” It is Satan’s
determined purpose to deceive the human family so that he can bring
them as a mass on his side, to work with him in making void the law of
God. Thus he finds agencies which multiply his efficiency. And as they
do this, he rules them with a rod of iron. And not only the human race,
but the brute creation also are made to suffer through Satan’s attributes