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Humble Hero
and saw how men and women had become victims of satanic cruelty.
Bewildered and deceived, they were moving on in a gloomy march
toward death in which there is no hope of life, toward night after
which comes no morning.
The bodies of human beings had become the habitat of demons.
Supernatural beings worked people’s senses, nerves, passions, and
organs in indulging the most shameful lust. The stamp of demons
was imprinted on human faces. What a spectacle for the world’s
Redeemer to behold!
Sin had become a science, and vice a part of religion. Rebellion
and hostility were violent against heaven. The unfallen worlds had
expected to see God sweep away the inhabitants of earth. And if
He had done this, Satan was ready to carry out his plan to gain the
allegiance of heavenly beings. He had claimed that the principles of
God’s government make forgiveness impossible. If the world had
been destroyed, he would have blamed God and spread his rebellion
to the worlds above.
But instead of destroying the world, God sent His Son to save it.
He provided a way for its recovery. “When the fullness of the time”
had come, God poured on the world a flood of healing grace that
would never be obstructed or withdrawn till the plan of salvation
would be fulfilled. Jesus came to restore in us the image of our
Maker, to expel the demons that had controlled the will, to lift us up
from the dust, and to reshape the marred character into the likeness
of His divine character.
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