“Of which salvation the
prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that
should come unto you: searching what, or what manner of time the
Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand
the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.” (1Pet. 1:10,11).
“For the prophecy came not in
old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by
the Holy Ghost.” (2Pet. 1:21).
According to Peter, the
Spirit of Christ is the Holy Ghost, or Holy Spirit. Revelation makes this clear
in its introduction.
“The Revelation of Jesus
Christ, which God gave unto Him, to shew unto His servants things which must
shortly come to pass; and He sent and signified it by His angel unto His
servant John.” (Rev. 1:1).
The light of heaven
originated from God, to His Son, to Gabriel, to John. Paul agreed. He defined
the Spirit as the union of Father and Son, Their infinitely united Spirit.
“But ye are not in the flesh, but in the
Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not
the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.” (Rom. 8:9).
According to Paul, the Spirit
is the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ. It is Christ’s Spirit that must
dwell in us, or we are none of the Father’s.
“And if Christ be in you, the
body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus
from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also
quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you.” (Rom. 8:10,11).
The Spirit of God is not
another person beside the Father and Son, but it seems like it to the one that Christ is inhabiting. Here the
Spirit is described as the power of God to resurrect Jesus. The Spirit of God
is God’s Spirit, as Romans 8:11 calls it, “His Spirit”, God’s Spirit.
But, the Spirit comes through
Christ from the Father. Hence, it is called “The Spirit of His Son” who enters “into
your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.” (Gal. 4:6).
The Spirit is Christ Himself,
as the Father empowered His Son. Paul was very bold to explain the Spirit as
something like we have since we are made in God’s image.
“Eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath
prepared for them that love Him.
But God hath revealed them
unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep
things of God.
For what man knoweth the
things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of
God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
Now we have received, not the
spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the
things that are freely given to us of God.” (1Cor. 2:9-12).
1 Corinthians 2:10 says that
we have our own spirit just like God has His own Spirit. As I sit here, no one
knows what I’m going to write next, except me. Paul wrote that no one can know
what I think except me, and no one can know what God thinks except Himself. But
He will reveal His thoughts and plans to His Son and His Son only; and His Son
searches His Father’s face and His Spirit to know what is in His Father’s
Spirit.
“At that time Jesus answered
and said, I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because Thou hast
hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
Even so, Father: for so it
seemed good in Thy sight.
All things are delivered unto
Me of My Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth
any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him.
Come unto Me, all ye that labour
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” (Matt. 11:25-27).
Because the Son seeks to know
all His Father’s heart, He finds Him out. And then Jesus reveals His Father’s
Spirit to all who need a Saviour from sin, and search for Him and His truth as
for hidden treasure.
“Who is among you that
feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of His servant, that walketh in
darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay
upon his God.” (Isa. 50:10).
The Spirit is “the spirit
which is of God” (1Co 2:12), and also “His Spirit” (1Co 2:10). It’s not a third
person, any more than my spirit is an independence person from myself. My spirit does not leavesmy body after death and travels around the land. The
immortal soul came from paganism and the darkest errors of Satan’s
spiritualism, which must have resulted in the pre-Christianity God having a
separate Spirit, and thus gave rise to Christianity’s Godhead having the third
person of a Trinity.
The Spirit is God, God who “is a Spirit” (John 4:24),
and is also Christ, who is the fullness of His Father bodily. Jesus is our only
way to God and our only intercessor. Jesus searches our hearts and sees how
Their Spirit has power upon our spirit, and then the Son of God makes
intercession for us that is in tune with what God should hear in our prayers.
“Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our
infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the
Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
And He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit,
because He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” (Rom.
8:26,27).
God’s Spirit comes from God to
Christ to us. It also translates to the power of possession by the heavenly
agencies to all who desire victory over sin and Satan. They come to Christ and
receive power to do His work.
“Therefore thus saith the
LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before
Me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as My
mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.” (Jer. 15:19).
“And he that overcometh, and
keepeth My works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: and
he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be
broken to shivers: even as I received of My Father. And I will give him the
morning star.” (Rev. 2:26-28).
Every human has a spirit; and
all who have surrendered to God have a new spirit that is re-empowered to
restore in them the spirit that Adam originally had—one fully under the control of God’s Spirit.
“And so it is written, The
first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening
spirit.” (1Cor. 15:45).
Adam was made a living soul. “And
the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” (Gen. 2:7). Adam
was a living soul, and therefore Adam had a living soul.
“As the hart panteth after the water brooks,
so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
My soul thirsteth for God,
for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
My tears have been my meat
day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?” (Ps. 42:1-3).
But, even the many who have
not surrendered are still in the image of God to a degree, unless they have
committed the unpardonable sin, living off the sparks receiving the mark of the
Beast and seek to destroy God’s redeemed children. Short of the unpardonable
sin, they still have a spirit that can choose to adopt the divine Spirit of
their Creator. The Spirit of His Son is the only path back to the Spirit of God
through repentance and renunciation of living independently of the Son and His
Spirit. Then the glory of God’s Spirit will replace the sputtering sparks of
our own spirit.
“Behold, all ye that kindle a
fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your
fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of Mine hand;
ye shall lie down in sorrow.” (Isa. 50:11).
Ellen White was not a
Trinitarian. The subject of the Spirit was a touchy one and one that needed
gentle and careful explanation.
“For a certain man named Demetrius,
a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto
the craftsmen;
Whom he called together with
the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we
have our wealth.
Moreover ye see and hear,
that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath
persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are
made with hands:
So that not only this our
craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great
goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed,
whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.” (Act 19:24-27).
The whole world worships the third
person of the Trinity, which is Diana of the ancient world. I know a woman from India whose maiden name was
Arumagum, “the god with five heads.” Many paintings of the Christian Trinity were
no different from the Trinities of the pagans—the heads of Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit look identical, like identical triplets on one body. It all came
from paganism. But, such a deeply rooted paradigm will not be easily removed.
Only those who need a Saviour in the Father and Son, and see the
self-sacrificing love that was revealed from both of Them, will realize that
the Father and Son are the only Saviours. The “Holy Spirit” third person of a trinity never
suffered the chastisement of our peace. It is no other than Azazel, the
scapegoat who never knew the pains of death, but was presented alive before the Lord.
“And Aaron shall cast lots
upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat [H5799
‘āzâ’zêl].
And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the
LORD’S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering. But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.” (Lev. 16:8-10).
Azazel comes from two Hebrew
words, H5795 ‘êz or H5810 ‘âzaz (a strong, hardened, stout, proud,
female goat) and H235 ‘âzal (to
disappear and wander to and fro)
All of God’s creatures,
including the god of this world, Jesus says, “have made a covenant with Me by
sacrifice.” (Ps. 50:5).
Self-sacrifice is the very
foundation of God’s eternal kingdom of love. He and His Son have buttressed
their kingdom with self-sacrifice because of the great controversy.
Self-sacrifice will remain forever the eternal quays that keep sin from every
rising again. And self-sacrifice had nothing to do with Azazel, therefore the
scapegoat, which escaped the sacrifice, represented Satan who, for a
millennium, would wander among the carcasses that he hoped in. Because the
third person never suffered with the Father and Son for the redemption of our
transgression, Azazel, who never suffered for the redemption of the children of
Israel, also represented the third person of the pagan trinities: Mary in a
trinity with God and Jesus (or Satan in a trinity with Jesus and Mary?); Set in a
trinity with Osiris, Isis; Tammuz in a trinity with Baal, Ashtoreth. The
trinities had two gods that were polar opposites in nature—brutal, domineering,
and sexually abusive Baal/Osiris/Bel; and pretentious to revere her husband
god, supportive, and sexually seductive Ashtoreth/Isis/Astarte—and the third
god who was a threat and kept the worshippers filled with sympathy toward the
first two gods. Prayers went up from all over the earth to discourage the third
god from hurting the dysfunctional husband/wife favorites.
But the early Church fathers
having assumed all the trappings of pagan religion, now the Christian Trinity
gets first billing in every creed, beginning with the Nicene. And 1500 years of
repeating the creed had dug into Christendom too deeply to be removed, even for
the Reformers. The human tradition continued during the Reformation and the
Puritanical denominations to this day. A century ago, as the time of the end
neared and the investigative judgment was in full swing, the need arose to
bring all the truth out from the rubbish of the Dark Ages. The world needed to
know all the truth of God, the great controversy, and the science of salvation.
But, the move away from the rubbish of error needed to be gradual but
systematic.
However, Satan was able to
get into the last movement of God on Earth—the Advent movement. “The beast that
ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall
overcome them, and kill them.” (Rev. 11:7). Among other doctrines affected,
such as righteousness by faith and keeping the commandments of the Spirit of
Prophecy, was the trinity doctrine. The Adventist forefathers were unanimously
anti-Trinitarian, and the next generation was also. But Satan had changed the
heart of Adventism from a self-sacrificing leadership and body to a combative/
debating leadership and a Laodicean body. We were under attack by the beast
from the bottomless pit, and we were being overcome, according to the prophecy.
Today we are killed. We are not at all what we were at the beginning.
Self-sacrifice is rare and found only among a few Adventist Enochs. We are
repeating the history of Israel.
We could not present the
truth of the Father and His only begotten Son in distinction from the Trinity
with its co-equal triplets, and have Their Spirit for power to give the Latter
Rain gospel preaching for a witness to “they of the people and kindreds and
tongues and nations” (Rev. 11:9). even if we had a shell of the truth
concerning the Father and Son Godhead, we were greatly deficient in the
experience of Their Spirit. Despite Ellen White’s constant plea to be spiritual,
we were losing ground. We were returning to the world, and Jesus had to let us
go, along with the truth of the Godhead. We would be taken captive to the
spirit of the world, filled with worldliness, unbelief, serve the gods of
commercialism and soul corruption. And we would serve the gods of the Trinity
and the Mass. Spiritual Formation is but an extension of the Mass. Together
with the corrupted relationship with Jesus that comes out of the Trinity dogma,
and the excitement of coming into God’s presence without being humbled by the
Law of the Spirit of Prophecy, as Spiritual Formation allows, we are joining
the Catholic church in a grand Mass. Such a Mass is so large and spread out
that we don’t recognize it as the Mass, but the Trinity and Spiritual Formation
do the same to the Protestant world that the Mass does to the Catholic world.
But, we would not be given
over to the world without rebuke and warning.
“I am filled with sadness
when I think of our condition as a people. The Lord has not closed heaven to
us, but our own course of continual backsliding has separated us from God.
Pride, covetousness, and love of the world have lived in the heart without fear
of banishment or condemnation. Grievous and presumptuous sins have dwelt among
us. And yet the general opinion is that the church is flourishing and that
peace and spiritual prosperity are in all her borders.
The church has turned back from following Christ her
Leader and is steadily retreating toward Egypt. Yet few are alarmed or
astonished at their want of spiritual power. Doubt, and even disbelief of the
testimonies of the Spirit of God, is leavening our churches everywhere. Satan
would have it thus. Ministers who preach self instead of Christ would have it
thus. The testimonies are unread and unappreciated. God has spoken to you.
Light has been shining from His word and from the testimonies, and both have been slighted and
disregarded. The result is apparent in the lack of purity and devotion and
earnest faith among us.” Testimonies for the church, vol.
5, p. 217.
Just as salvation was only of
the Jews, it is still found only in Adventism. Yet, that Adventism is a
sleeping, snoring movement today. As we all have heard, “While the bridegroom
tarried, they all slumbered and slept.” (Matt. 25:5). The character of having
an ear to hear the Commander and a readiness to preach only what He wants seems
beyond all possibility. We lay in the streets of the great city, according to
Revelation 11:8. But, a revival will come according to verse 11 and the Lord
will bring us up out of our miry pit and put a new song in our mouths, which no
man can sing except the 144,000. Our new song will be as different from today’s
song as a butterfly is different from its larva caterpillar.
Jesus would not let us go
without first leaving hints, hidden in Mrs. White’s writings, that would bring
the earnest seekers back to the truth of God and His only Begotten when they
were ready to come under the true Spirit experience and take the responsibility
that goes with having It. Therefore, the truth of the Spirit remains in the
writings of Ellen White, but presented in a way that would not prejudice the
people who would read her books.
Being sensitive to the
difficulty of our Protestant brethren and of the non-Protestant world with
regard to their reception of the truth of anti-Trinitarianism, the Lord through
Ellen White drafted the subject of the Spirit so that the presentation of it
could sound like Adventism did accept the trinity. But, the reality is that
later, as the truth of the Spirit of Prophecy would become known, it would be
clear that the Spirit is of the Father and Son.
It is all that we can receive of Them. Writing the truth in such a
veiled way is not being dishonest, but gentle and wise. Just as the apostolic
church boiled down the requirements of God to four essentials, so did the Lord’s
messenger present the Godhead truth without being too pointed and sharply
contrary to Protestant understanding.
For example:
“Before offering Himself as
the sacrificial victim, Christ sought for the most essential and complete gift
to bestow upon His followers, a gift that would bring within their reach the
boundless resources of grace. ‘I will pray the Father,’ He said, ‘and He shall
give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; even the Spirit
of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither
knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I
will not leave you orphans: I will come to you.’ John 14:16-18, margin. {DA 668.5}
Before this the Spirit had
been in the world; from the very beginning of the work of redemption He had
been moving upon men’s hearts. But while Christ was on earth, the disciples had
desired no other helper. Not until they were deprived of His presence would
they feel their need of the Spirit, and then He would come. {DA 669.1}
The Holy Spirit is Christ’s
representative, but divested of the personality of humanity, and independent
thereof. Cumbered with humanity, Christ could not be in every place personally.
Therefore it was for their interest that He should go to the Father, and send
the Spirit to be His successor on earth. No one could then have any advantage
because of his location or his personal contact with Christ. By the Spirit the
Saviour would be accessible to all. In this sense He would be nearer to them
than if He had not ascended on high.” Desire
of Ages, p. 669.
This quotation, written for
a large audience, sounds Trinitarian; but it actually is not. The biggest need
from the five conflict series books was instruction with regard to the high standard in the areas of
character-building and spirituality. The issue against the Trinity was
certainly important, but not the priority at that time. So, the truth that Christ was the Spirit
remained veiled. Yet it was the truth, as we read below.
“The Pharisees were horrified
at this declaration of Christ’s, ‘Before Abraham was, I AM.’ They were beside
themselves with rage that [He] should express such awful blasphemy, claiming to
be the I AM. They would have stoned Him then and there, but the ‘I am’ blinded
their eyes that they should not see Him, although He went out of the temple,
passing through their very midst. As Jesus passed through the multitude, He saw
a man who had been blind from his youth, and healed him. {14MR 22.5}
When
Jesus came to our world, He proclaimed Himself, ‘I am the way, the truth, and
the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me’ [John 14:6]. ‘Hereafter ye
shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the
Son of man’ [John 1:51]. {14MR
23.1}
Although our Lord ascended from earth to
heaven, the Holy Spirit was appointed as His representative among men. ‘If ye
love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give
you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of
truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth
Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not
leave you comfortless’ [John 14:15-18].
{14MR 23.2}
Cumbered with humanity, Christ could not
be in every place personally; therefore it was altogether for their advantage
that He should leave them, go to His father, and send the Holy Spirit to be His
successor on earth. The Holy Spirit is Himself divested
of the personality of humanity and independent thereof. He would represent
Himself as present in all places by His Holy Spirit, as the Omnipresent.
‘But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My
name, He shall (although unseen by you), [THIS PHRASE WAS ADDED BY ELLEN
WHITE.] teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said unto you’ [John 14:26]. ‘Nevertheless I tell you the
truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the
Comforter will come not unto you; but if I depart, I will send Him unto you’
[John 16:7]. {14MR 23.3}
It is not in the order of God that any
man, or any class of men, should assume that God has made them conscience for
their brethren, or put forth the finite hand in a patronizing manner to control
the Lord’s delegated workers, thus endangering the safety of the Lord’s
heritage as well as their own, and retarding the work of God. God does not
confine Himself to one man, or to a set of men, through whom to accomplish His
work, but says of all, Ye ‘are laborers together with God.’ This means that
every believing soul should have a part to act in His sacred work, and every
individual believer in Jesus Christ is to manifest to the world a symbol of
Christ’s sufficiency, to represent to His church the higher laws of the future
immortal world, and an obedience to the mandate of Heaven that is without a
parallel. They should reveal a depth of knowledge independent of human
inventions. {14MR 24.1}
The Lord must be believed and served as
the great ‘I AM,’ and we must trust implicitly in Him. Let not men prescribe
laws to take the place of God’s law. Never educate men to look to men, to trust
in men; for man’s wisdom is not sufficient to decide as to their right to
engage in the Lord’s work. When God lays a work upon individuals, men are not
to reject His sanction. God must not be impeded in the working out of His plans
by man’s interference, but this has been done again and again. {14MR 24.2}
If the church on earth is to resemble a
temple, let it be built according to the pattern shown in heaven, and not
according to man’s genius. The invention of man often counteracts the working
out of God’s plans. The golden measuring rod has not been placed in the hands
of any finite man or any class of men, whatever their position or calling, but
is in the hand of the heavenly Architect. If men will not meddle with God’s
plan, and will let Him work upon minds and characters, building them up
according to His plan, a work will be accomplished that will stand through the
severest of trials.--Letter 119, 1895.
Ellen G. White Estate
Washington, D. C. August 16, 1984.” Manuscript
Releases, vol. 14 p. 23, 24.
While Sr. White agrees with
the metaphical usages of Christ concerning pronouns that He used to explain the
Spirit, she also divides pronouns referring to the Spirit between personal and impersonal. She continues to
use “what” instead of “who” the Spirit is, and “it” instead of “Him”. Although
she speaks against the effort to intellectually figure out the Holy Spirit, she was not
against allaying errors that paganism brought into the Godhead truth, and
teaching the world about the Spirit’s work on the heart and the life, and especially in the soon expected Latter Rain.
“It is not essential for us
to be able to define just what the Holy Spirit is. Christ tells us that the
Spirit is the Comforter, “the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the
Father.” It is plainly declared regarding the Holy Spirit that, in His work of
guiding men into all truth, “He shall not speak of himself” (John 15:26;
16:13). {YRP 11.2}
The nature of the Holy Spirit is a
mystery. Men cannot explain it, because the Lord has not revealed it to them.
Men having fanciful views may bring together passages of Scripture and put a
human construction on them, but the acceptance of these views will not
strengthen the church. Regarding such mysteries, which are too deep for human
understanding, silence is golden. {YRP 11.3}
The office of the Holy Spirit is
distinctly specified in the words of Christ: “When he is come, he will reprove
the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment” (John 16:8). It is the
Holy Spirit that convicts of sin. If the sinner responds to the quickening
influence of the Spirit, he will be brought to repentance and aroused to the
importance of obeying the divine requirements. {YRP 11.4}
To the repentant sinner, hungering and
thirsting for righteousness, the Holy Spirit reveals the Lamb of God that
taketh away the sin of the world. “He shall receive of mine, and shall shew it
unto you,” Christ said. “He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to
your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you” (John 16:14; 14:26). {YRP
11.5}
The Spirit is given as a regenerating
agency, to make effectual the salvation wrought by the death of our Redeemer.
The Spirit is constantly seeking to draw the attention of men to the great
offering that was made on the cross of Calvary, to unfold to the world the love
of God, and to open to the convicted soul the precious things of the
Scriptures.--The Acts of the Apostles, pp. 51, 52.” Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 11.
Below are examples of her use of It for the Spirit. The Bible writers and Ellen White never referred to the Father and Son, who are definite persons, as an It.
“Would that every one whose
name is written in the church books could from the heart utter these words. The
church-members need to know from experience what the Holy Spirit will do for
them. It will bless the receiver, and
make him a blessing. It is sad that every soul is not praying for the vital
breathe of the Spirit; for we are ready to die if it
breath not on us. {PH154 4.1}
We are to pray for the impartation of the
Spirit as the remedy for sin-sick souls. The church needs to be converted, and
why should we not prostrate ourselves at the throne of grace, as
representatives of the church, and from a broken heart and contrite spirit make
earnest supplication that the Holy Spirit shall be poured out upon us from on
high? Let us pray that when it
shall be graciously bestowed, our cold hearts may be revived, and we may have
discernment to understand that it is
from God, and receive it
with joy. Some have treated the Spirit as an unwelcome guest, refusing to
receive the rich gift, refusing to acknowledge it,
turning from it, and condemning it as fanaticism. When the Holy Spirit works
the human agent, it does not ask us in what way it shall operate. Often it
moves in unexpected ways. Christ did not come as the Jews expected. He did not
come in a manner to glorify them as a nation. His forerunner came to prepare
the way for him, by calling upon the people to repent of their sins, and be
converted, and be baptized. Christ’s message was, “The kingdom of God is at
hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.” The Jews refused to receive Christ,
because he did not come in accordance with their expectations. The ideas of
finite men were held as infallible, because hoary with age. This is the danger
to which the church is now exposed,--that the inventions of finite men shall
mark out the precise way for the Holy Spirit to come. Though they would not
care to acknowledge it, some have already done this. And because the Spirit is
to come, not to praise men or to build up their erroneous theories, but to
reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment, many turn away
from it. They are not willing to be deprived of the
garments of their own self-righteousness. They are not willing to exchange
their own righteousness, which is unrighteousness, for the righteousness of
Christ, which is pure, unadulterated truth. The Holy Spirit flatters no man,
neither does it work according to the
devising of any man. Finite, sinful men are not to work the Holy Spirit. When it shall come as a reprover, through any human
agent whom God shall choose, it is man’s place to hear and obey its voice.” Special Testimony to Battle Creek, vol. 154, p. 4,5 (1896).
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