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Section 5—Warning Against Spiritistic Sophistry
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Let us put on every piece of the Christian armor, and steadfastly
resist the enemy. We shall have to meet fallen angels and the prince
of the powers of darkness. Satan is by no means asleep; he is wide-
awake, and is playing the game of life for the souls of the people of
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God. He will come to them with flattery of all kinds, in the hope
of leading them to swerve from their allegiance. He desires to call
their attention from the real issues to false theories.
A Call to Awake
Ministers and physicians, sound an alarm. Call upon the people
of God to be true and faithful. Be on your guard. Remember that as
you cooperate with God you have as your helpers angels that excel
in strength. Accept not the theories advanced by those who are not
standing on the true foundation, those who are charmed with that of
which they do not know the true meaning.
Wake up, my brethren, wake up, and lift the danger signal. Sound
the warning. Let no man persuade you to accept theories that are
opposed to the truths of God’s word. The servants of God have
a solemn message to bear to this fallen, sin-cursed world. They
are to hold aloft the banner on which is inscribed the words, “The
commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”—
Manuscript 132,
1903.
God Revealed in His Word and His Works
Let no one teach things that the Redeemer, He who owns man,
body, soul, and spirit, has not taught. We need not any fanciful
teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to
know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful
things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator. They
are His gift to the race, to show His power and to show that He is
a God of love. But no one is authorized to say that God Himself in
person is in flower or leaf or tree. These things are God’s handiwork,
revealing His love for mankind.
But to take the works of God, and represent them as being God,
is a fearful misrepresentation of Him. This representation I was
called upon to meet at the beginning of my work, when in my youth