Chapter 96—Life Insurance
I was shown that Sabbathkeeping Adventists should not engage
in life insurance. This is a commerce with the world which God does
not approve. Those who engage in this enterprise are uniting with
the world, while God calls His people to come out from among them
and to be separate. Said the angel: “Christ has purchased you by the
sacrifice of His life. ‘What? know ye not that your body is the temple
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of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are
not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God
in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.’ ‘For ye are dead,
and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life,
shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.’” Here is the
only life insurance which heaven sanctions.
Life insurance is a worldly policy which leads our brethren who
engage in it to depart from the simplicity and purity of the gospel.
Every such departure weakens our faith and lessens our spirituality.
Said the angel: “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an
holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of
Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”
As a people we are in a special sense the Lord’s. Christ has bought us.
Angels that excel in strength surround us. Not a sparrow falls to the
ground without the notice of our heavenly Father. Even the hairs of our
head are numbered. God has made provision for His people. He has a
special care for them, and they should not distrust His providence by
engaging in a policy with the world.
God designs that we should preserve in simplicity and holiness
our peculiarity as a people. Those who engage in this worldly policy
invest means which belong to God, which He has entrusted to them
to use in His cause, to advance His work. But few will realize any
returns from life insurance, and without God’s blessing even these will
prove an injury instead of a benefit. Those whom God has made His
stewards have no right to place in the enemy’s ranks the means which
He has entrusted to them to use in His cause.
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