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agency and understands how the varied agencies should be related one
to another.
“None of us liveth to himself.”
Romans 14:7
. This is a law of God
in heaven and on earth. God is the great center. From Him all life
proceeds. To Him all service, homage, and allegiance belong. For
all created beings there is the one great principle of life—dependence
upon and co-operation with God. The relationship existing in the
pure family of God in heaven was to exist in the family of God on
earth. Under God, Adam was to stand at the head of the earthly family
to maintain the principles of the heavenly family. This would have
brought peace and happiness. But the law that none “liveth to himself”
Satan was determined to oppose. He desired to live for self. He sought
to make himself a center of influence. It was this that incited rebellion
in heaven, and it was man’s acceptance of this principle that brought
sin on earth. When Adam sinned, man broke away from the heaven-
ordained center. A demon became the central power in the world.
Where God’s throne should have been, Satan had placed his throne.
The world laid its homage, as a willing offering, at the feet of the
enemy.
Who could bring in the principles ordained by God in His rule and
government to counterwork the plans of Satan and bring the world
back to its loyalty? God said: I will send My Son. “God so loved the
world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth
in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16
. This is
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the remedy for sin. Christ says: “Where Satan has set his throne, there
shall stand My cross. Satan shall be cast out, and I will be lifted up
to draw all men unto Me. I will become the center of the redeemed
world. The Lord God shall be exalted. Those who are now controlled
by human ambition, human passions, shall become workers for Me.
Evil influences have conspired to counterwork all good. They have
confederated to make men think it righteous to oppose the law of
Jehovah. But My army shall meet in conflict with the satanic force.
My Spirit shall combine with every heavenly agency to oppose them.
I will engage every sanctified human agency in the universe. None
of My agencies are to be absent. I have work for all who love Me,
employment for every soul who will work under My direction. The
activity of Satan’s army, the danger that surrounds the human soul,
calls for the energies of every worker. But no compulsion shall be