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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
you have this man Christ Jesus to rule over you, or will you have
Barabbas? The death of Christ brings to the rejecter of His mercy
the wrath and judgments of God, unmixed with mercy. This is the
wrath of the Lamb. But the death of Christ is hope and eternal life
to all who receive Him and believe in Him.
God will most assuredly call the world to judgment to avenge
the death of His only-begotten Son, the One who stood at the bar of
Pilate and Herod. That One is now in the heavenly courts making
intercession for the people who refused Him. Shall we choose the
stamp of the world, or shall we choose to be God’s separate, peculiar
people? Shall we receive a “Thus saith the Lord,” for the “Thus
saith” of man? The papal power, the man of sin, decides that the
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Roman Catholic Church has changed the law of God. In the place
of the seventh day they have baptized and presented to the world a
child of the papacy, the first day of the week, to be observed as a
holy day of rest. The Protestant world has received this child of the
papacy, has cradled it, and given to it the honor that God has placed
on the seventh day.
“Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the
Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land
whither ye go to possess it. Keep therefore and do them; for this
is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations,
which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation
is a wise and understanding people. For what nation is there so
great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in
all things that we call upon Him for? And what nation is there so
great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law,
which I set before you this day? Only take heed to thyself, and keep
thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have
seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but
teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons; specially the day that thou
stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto
me, Gather Me the people together, and I will make them hear My
words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they shall
live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.... And
He declared unto you His covenant, which He commanded you to
perform, even Ten Commandments; and He wrote them upon two
tables of stone.”