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Two Spirits in the World, September 28
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than
his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they
have kept my saying, they will keep your’s also.
John 15:20
.
If He who was pure, holy, and undefiled, who did good and only good in our
world, was treated as a base criminal, and condemned to death without a vestige of
evidence against Him, what can His disciples expect but similar treatment, however
faultless may be their life and blameless their character? Human enactments, laws
manufactured by satanic agencies under a plea of goodness and restriction of
evil, will be exalted, while God’s holy enactments are despised and trampled
underfoot....
It is the apostasy from truth that worketh in the children of disobedience to
silence the voice of those who are calling them to obedience, and provoke the
loyal to become disloyal as Cain tried to provoke Abel. A demoniacal spirit
takes possession of men in our world.... Demon intelligence ... will rend and
destroy man formed in the divine similitude because ... [man] cannot control the
conscience of his brother and make him disloyal to God’s holy law, because he
himself is unrighteous like Cain, who was disobedient....
The world is represented in the apostate churches who are trampling upon the
Word of God, transgressing His holy law. They know not what spirit they are of,
nor the end of the dark tunnel through which they are passing. They are hastening
forward, deceived, deluded, blind, to the first and second death. The vast tide of
human will and human passion is leading to things they did not dream of when
they discarded the law of Jehovah for the inventions of man.... They have exalted
phantoms, and eternal realities are naught to them.
But He who came to our world to seek and to save that which was lost has
pledged His own life that men might have a second probation. He has pity, and
compassion, and love that are without a parallel; and He has made every provision
in behalf of men that none need perish. The divine Son of God came into our
world, its Light and Life, to encompass the whole world and to attract and unite to
Himself every human being who is under Satan’s discipline and rule. He invites
them, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart:
and ye shall find rest unto your souls” (
Matthew 11:28, 29
). Thus He unites with
Himself by a new inspiration of grace all who will come unto Him. He puts upon
them His seal, His sign of obedience and loyalty to His holy Sabbath.—
Manuscript
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, “Condemned by the Jews.”
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