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spoke through Enoch; that Spirit is manifested, not alone in utterances
of love, compassion, and entreaty; it is not smooth things only that
are spoken by holy men. God puts into the heart and lips of His
messengers truths to utter that are keen and cutting as a two-edged
sword.—
Patriarchs and Prophets, 86
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Fruitage of His Message—After proclaiming his message, he
always took back with him to his place of retirement some who had
received the warning. Some of these became overcomers, and died
before the Flood came. But some had lived so long in the corrupting
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influence of sin that they could not endure righteousness.—
The S.D.A.
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Jochebed
Teacher of Moses—Jochebed was a woman and a slave. Her lot in
life was humble, her burden heavy. But through no other woman, save
Mary of Nazareth, has the world received greater blessing. Knowing
that her child must soon pass beyond her care, to the guardianship of
those who knew not God, she the more earnestly endeavored to link his
soul with heaven. She sought to implant in his heart love and loyalty to
God. And faithfully was the work accomplished. Those principles of
truth that were the burden of his mother’s teaching and the lesson of her
life, no after influence could induce Moses to renounce.—
Education,
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Educator for God—God had heard the mother’s prayers; her faith
had been rewarded. It was with deep gratitude that she entered upon
her now safe and happy task. She faithfully improved her opportunity
to educate her child for God. She felt confident that he had been
preserved for some great work, and she knew that he must soon be
given up to his royal mother, to be surrounded with influences that
would tend to lead him away from God. All this rendered her more
diligent and careful in his instruction than in that of her other children.
She endeavored to imbue his mind with the fear of God and the love
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of truth and justice, and earnestly prayed that he might be preserved
from every corrupting influence. She showed him the folly and sin of
idolatry, and early taught him to bow down and pray to the living God,
who alone could hear him and help him in every emergency.