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The Acts of the Apostles
Those who today teach unpopular truths need not be discouraged if
at times they meet with no more favorable reception, even from those
who claim to be Christians, than did Paul and his fellow workers from
the people among whom they labored. The messengers of the cross
must arm themselves with watchfulness and prayer, and move forward
with faith and courage, working always in the name of Jesus. They
must exalt Christ as man’s mediator in the heavenly sanctuary, the One
in whom all the sacrifices of the Old Testament dispensation centered,
and through whose atoning sacrifice the transgressors of God’s law
may find peace and pardon.
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