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Never Dishonor God by Violating Righteous Principles, June 29
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; it takes away the life of
its owners.
Proverbs 1:19
, NKJV.
To every person is given his or her work. Each has a place in the eternal plan of
heaven. It is the duty of fathers and mothers to overcome their own lawlessness,
their untidy habits. Truth is clean and pure and of great value and needs to be
brought into the character building. Those who have the truth, the love of the truth
in their hearts, will make any and every sacrifice that this truth may have the first
place in everything....
There are those in our churches who have much to say in regard to Christianity,
but in whose presence we should always be guarded, for they dismiss the Word
of God from their business transactions. When there is buying and selling to be
done, God is not by their side. The enemy is on the ground, and he takes possession
of them. Christian brotherhood and love is laid a sacrifice on the altar of greed.
God, heaven, the precepts of Jehovah, His oft-repeated injunctions, are obliterated
from the soul. They know not what it means to practice the principles laid down
in the Word of God. They sell their souls for unlawful gain. So thick is the veil
which blinds their eyes that they can see only the fraudulent gain. So hard is the
incrustation that envelops the heart that it feels not the love and tenderness and pity
of Christ for their fellow beings. The holiness and truth of God are shut out from
their souls.
Will the people of God frown down all this corrupting influence? Will they
give their hearts to God? Will they deal mercifully with their fellow mortals?
Will Seventh-day Adventists bear in mind that they cannot swerve from truth in
their dealings with their fellow beings, that they cannot violate justice or let go
their integrity without forsaking God? Anything that dishonors Him will never
benefit you. People who expect to prosper by violating the eternal principles of
righteousness are laying up for themselves a harvest they will not care to reap. They
place themselves in the enemy’s ranks and bring degradation upon themselves.
Although for a time they may seem to prosper, they can never help to compose the
family of God.—
Sermons and Talks 2:133, 134
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