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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
the beginning, God made man in His own likeness. Our first parents
listened to the voice of the tempter and yielded to the power of Satan.
But man was not abandoned to the results of the evil he had chosen.
The promise of a Deliverer was given. “I will put enmity between
thee and the woman,” God said to the serpent, “and between thy
seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
heel.”
Genesis 3:15
. Before they heard of the thorn and the thistle,
of the sorrow and toil that must be their portion, or of the dust to
which they must return, they listened to words that could not fail of
giving them hope. All that had been lost by yielding to Satan could
be regained through Christ.
The Son of God was given to redeem the race. At infinite suffer-
ing, the sinless for the sinful, the price was paid that was to redeem
the human family from the power of the destroyer and restore them
again to the image of God. Those who accept the salvation brought
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to them in Christ will humble themselves before God as His little
children.
God wants His children to ask for those things that will enable
Him to reveal His grace through them to the world. He wants them
to seek His counsel, to acknowledge His power. Christ lays loving
claims on all for whom He has given His life; they are to obey His
will if they would share the joys that He has prepared for all who
reflect His character here. It is well for us to feel our weakness, for
then we shall seek the strength and wisdom that the Father delights
to give to His children for their daily strife against the powers of
evil.
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While education, training, and the counsel of those of experience
are all essential, the workers are to be taught that they are not to
rely wholly upon any man’s judgment. As God’s free agents, all
should ask wisdom of Him. When the learner depends wholly upon
another’s thoughts, accepting his plans and going no further, he sees
only through that man’s eyes and is, so far, only an echo of another.
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