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True Knowledge of God
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living soul. Through Christ the Word, a personal God created man
and endowed him with intelligence and power.
Our substance was not hid from Him when we were made in
secret; His eyes saw our substance, yet being imperfect, and in His
book all our members were written when as yet there were none of
them.
Above all lower orders of being, God designed that man, the
crowning work of His creation, should express His thought and
reveal His glory. But man is not to exalt himself as God.
“Make a joyful noise unto the Lord....
Serve the Lord with gladness:
Come before His presence with singing.
Know ye that the Lord He is God:
It is He that hath made us, and His we are;
We are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts with praise:
Be thankful unto Him, and bless His name.”
“Exalt the Lord our God,
And worship at His holy hill;
For the Lord our God is holy.”
Psalm 100:1-4, margin;
99:9.
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God is constantly employed in upholding and using as His ser-
vants the things that He has made. He works through the laws of
nature, using them as His instruments. They are not self-acting.
Nature in her work testifies of the intelligent presence and active
agency of a Being who moves in all things according to His will.
“Forever, O Lord,
Thy word is settled in heaven.
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations:
Thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
They continue this day according to Thine ordinances:
For all are Thy servants.”
“Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did He