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become self-exalted and who knows not that he is partaking of the
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science of Satan. In his self-confidence he walks right into the enemy’s
trap and is ensnared. He did not heed the warnings given and was
taken as Satan’s prey. If he had walked humbly with God, he would
have run into the trysting place God had provided for him. Thus in
times of danger he would have been safe, for God would have lifted
for him a standard against the enemy.—Lt 126, 1906.
Leading to Suicide—The world, who act as though there were
no God, absorbed in selfish pursuits, will soon experience sudden
destruction, and shall not escape. Many continue in the careless grati-
fication of self until they become so disgusted with life that they kill
themselves.
Dancing and carousing, drinking and smoking, indulging their
animal passions, they go as an ox to the slaughter. Satan is working
with all his art and enchantments to keep men marching blindly onward
until the Lord arises out of His place to punish the inhabitants of earth
for their iniquities, when the earth shall disclose her blood and no
more cover her slain. The whole world appears to be in the march to
death.—MS 139, 1903. (
Evangelism, 26
.)
Self Alive at Every Touch—What a victory you will gain when
you learn to follow the opening providences of God with a grateful
heart and a determination to live with an eye single to His glory, in
sickness or health, in abundance or want. Self is alive and quivering at
every touch. Self must be crucified before you can overcome in the
name of Jesus and receive the reward of the faithful.—
Testimonies for
the Church 4:221
(1876).
The Most Incurable Sin—God cannot connect with those who
live to please themselves, to make themselves first. Those who do
this will in the end be last of all. The sin that is most nearly hopeless
and incurable is pride of opinion, self-conceit. This stands in the
way of all growth. When a man has defects of character, yet fails
of realizing this; when he is so imbued with self-sufficiency that he
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cannot see his fault, how can he be cleansed? “They that be whole
need not a physician, but they that are sick” (
Matthew 9:12
). How can
one improve when he thinks his ways perfect?—
Testimonies for the
Church 7:199, 200
(1902).
Humiliation of Self Important—Those who think that they can
receive the blessing of God at this meeting [a council meeting in