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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
My Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that ye
may know that I am the Lord your God.”
Ezekiel 20:10-20
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The Sabbath is the Lord’s test, and no man, be he king, priest, or
ruler, is authorized to come between God and man. Those who seek
to be conscience for their fellow men, place themselves above God.
Those who are under the influence of a false religion, who observe a
spurious rest day, will set aside the most positive evidence in regard
to the true Sabbath. They will try to compel men to obey the laws of
their own creation, laws that are directly opposed to the law of God.
Upon those who continue in this course, the wrath of God will fall.
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Unless they change, they cannot escape the penalty.
The law for the observance of the first day of the week is the
production of an apostate Christendom. Sunday is a child of the
papacy, exalted by the Christian world above the sacred day of God’s
rest. In no case are God’s people to pay it homage. But I wish them to
understand that they are not doing God’s will by braving opposition
when He wishes them to avoid it. Thus they create prejudice so
bitter that it is impossible for the truth to be proclaimed. Make no
demonstration on Sunday in defiance of law. If this is done in one
place, and you are humiliated, the same thing will be done in another
place. We can use Sunday as a day on which to carry forward work
that will tell on the side of Christ. We are to do our best, working
with all meekness and lowliness.
Christ warned His disciples in regard to what they would meet
in their work as evangelists. He knew what their sufferings would
be, what trials and hardships they would be called upon to bear. He
would not hide from them the knowledge of what they would have
to encounter, lest trouble, coming unexpectedly, should shake their
faith. “I have told you before it come to pass,” He said, “that, when
it is come to pass, ye might believe.”
John 14:29
. Their faith was to
be strengthened, rather than weakened, by the coming of trial. They
would say to one another: “He told us that this would come, and
what we must do to meet it.”
“Behold,” Christ said, “I send you forth as sheep in the midst of
wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.” “Ye
shall be hated of all men for My name’s sake: but he that endureth
to the end shall be saved.”
Matthew 10:16, 22
. They hated Christ
without a cause. Is it any marvel that they hate those who bear His
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