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The Conflict Is for Us, September 7
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even
as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Revelation 3:21
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These are the words of our substitute and surety. He who is the divine
Head of the church, the mightiest of conquerors, would point His followers
to His life, His toils, His self-denials, His struggles and sufferings, through
contempt, through rejection, ridicule, scorn, insult, mockery, falsehood,
up the path of Calvary to the scene of the crucifixion, that they might be
encouraged to press on toward the mark for the prize and reward of the
overcomer
The plan of salvation is not appreciated as it should be. It is not
discerned or comprehended. It is made altogether a cheap affair, whereas
to unite the human with the divine required an exertion of Omnipotence....
Christ, by clothing His divinity with humanity, elevates humanity in the
scale of moral value to an infinite worth. But what a condescension on the
part of God and on the part of His only begotten Son, who was equal with
the Father! ...
So great has been the spiritual blindness of men that they have sought
to make of none effect the Word of God. They have declared by their
traditions that the great plan of redemption was devised in order to abolish
and make of none effect the law of God, when Calvary is the mighty
argument that proves the immutability of the precepts of Jehovah.... The
state of the character must be compared with the great moral standard of
righteousness. There must be a searching out of the peculiar sins which
have been offensive to God, which have dishonored His name and quenched
the light of His Spirit and killed the first love from the soul....
Victory is assured through faith and obedience.... The work of overcom-
ing is not restricted to the age of the martyrs. The conflict is for us, in these
days of subtle temptation to worldliness, to self-security, to indulgence
of pride, covetousness, false doctrines, and immorality of life.... Shall we
stand before the proving of God
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7
The Review and Herald, July 24, 1888
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8
Ibid
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