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mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the
stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou
wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.... Thine heart was lifted
up because of thy beauty, thou has corrupted thy wisdom by reason
of thy brightness; I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before
kings, that they may behold thee.... I will bring thee to ashes upon the
earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee
among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror,
and never shalt thou be any more.”
With such a leader—an angel expelled from heaven—these sup-
posedly wise men of earth may fabricate bewitching theories with
which to infatuate the minds of men. Paul said to the Galatians, “Who
hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth?” Satan has a
masterly mind, and he has his chosen agents by which he works to
exalt men, and clothe them with honor above God. But God is clothed
with power; He is able to take those who are dead in trespasses and
sins, and by the operation of the Spirit which raised Jesus from the
dead, transform the human character, bringing back to the soul the lost
image of God. Those who believe in Jesus Christ are changed from
being rebels against the law of God into obedient servants and subjects
of His kingdom. They are born again, regenerated, sanctified through
the truth. This power of God the skeptic will not admit, and he refuses
all evidence until it is brought under the domain of his finite faculties.
He even dares to set aside the law of God, and prescribe the limit of
Jehovah’s power. But God has said, “I will destroy the wisdom of
the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this
world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For
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after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it
pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: but
we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto
the Greeks foolishness: but unto them which are called, both Jews
and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God,”—
The
Youth’s Instructor, February 7, 1895
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