BEWARE! OF HYPNOTISM AND PSYCHOLOGY!Part 1 - THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY ON THE DANGERS OF HYPNOTISM IN THESE LAST DAYS
Part 2- BEWARE OF PSYCHOLOGY AND HYPNOTISM
This is a companion tract to a ten-part tract set in our Waymarks Series, A
New Crisis Confronts Us: Hypnotism Enters the Adventist Church - on our
companion web, which documents the astounding invasion of training courses
in hypnotism, which are being given to our workers and church members all
across North America. How thankful we are that our heavenly Father in these last days gave us a prophet! The writings of the Spirit of Prophecy were designed to encourage and comfort, show us areas in doctrine and standards where additional reforms were needed, but also to sound warnings of terrible dangers that would come upon our people before the end of time.
The following is composed of Spirit of Prophecy statements, along with
several from the Bible. Here you will find counsel regarding the extreme
dangers of having anything to do with hypnosis or hypnotists. In reading
these warnings, it is clear that hypnotism is but a variant form of
spiritism.
Spiritism (spiritualism) uses mediums (men and women who have sold their
souls to Satan) to enable inquirers to more easily communicate with
"departed spirits, " but actually with evil angels.
Hypnotism uses mediums to gain control over other human minds through
various forms of hypnosis. In the earlier Spirit of Prophecy writings it is
called mesmerism, after its primary European advocate, the Frenchman F.A.
Mesmer, (1734-1815). Mesmer called his hypnotic power "magnetic healing,"
and his followers for a time called it "mind-cure." Hence the use of these
two synonyms of mesmerism in the Spirit of Prophecy. In the late 19th
century it acquired the name hypnotism, and today bears the "scientific"
name, hypnosis.
Information on how to recognize and avoid hypnotism is given in Hypnotism
Enters the Adventist Church.
"One night a scene was clearly presented before me. A vessel was upon the
waters in a heavy tog. Suddenly the lookout cried 'Iceberg just ahead,'
There, towering high above the ship, was a gigantic iceberg. An
authoritative voice cried out, 'Meet it!' There was not a moment's
hesitation. It was a time for instant action. Well I knew the meaning of
this representation. I had my orders. I had heard the words, like a voice
from our Captain, 'Meet it!' I knew what my duty was, and that there was not
a moment to lose. The time for decided action had come. I must without delay
obey the command, 'Meet it!' "-1 Selected Messages, 205-206.
"At the beginning of my work I had the mind cure science to contend with. I
was sent from place to place to declare the falseness of this science, into
which many were entering. The mind cure was entered upon very innocently —to
relieve the tensions upon the minds of nervous invalids. But, oh, how sad
were the results! God sent me from place to place to rebuke everything
pertaining to this science. "-2 Mind, Character, and Personality, 714.
"The time is at hand when a fearful confederacy will be formed, a
brotherhood inaugurated by Satan. Unholy human agencies will combine with
demon forces, and the whole will be imbued with satanic
impulses."-Manuscript 154, 1899.
"The apostle Paul warns us, 'Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed
to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.' Our greatest trials will
come because of that class who have once advocated the truth, but who turn
from it to the world, and trample it under their feet in hate and derision.
"God has a work for His faithful servants to do. The attacks of the enemy
must be met with the truth of His word. Falsehood must be unmasked, its true
character must be revealed, and the light of the law of Jehovah must shine
forth into the moral darkness of the world. We are to Present the claims of
His Word. We shall not be held guiltless if we neglect this solemn duty . .
"We must cherish carefully the words of our God, lest we be
contaminated by the deceptive workings of those who have left the faith. We
are to resist their spirit and influence with the same weapons our Master
used when assailed by the prince of darkness: 'It is written.' We should
learn to use the Word of God skillfully. The exhortation is, 'Study to show
thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth. . There must be diligent work and
earnest prayer and faith to meet the winding error of false teachers and
seducers; for 'in the last days perilous times shall come.' "-Evangelism,
624-625.
"The mind cure [hypnotism] is the most awful science which has ever been
advocated. Every wicked being can use it in carrying out his own evil
designs. We have no business with any such science. We should be afraid of
it."-Manuscript 105, 1901.
"In these last days when skepticism and infidelity so often appear in a
scientific garb, we need to be guarded on every hand. Through these means
our great adversary is deceiving thousands, and leading them captive
according to his will. The advantage he takes of the sciences, sciences
which pertain to the human mind, is tremendous. Here, serpent-like, he
imperceptibly creeps in to corrupt the work of God. This entering in of
Satan through the sciences is well devised. Through the channel of
phrenology, psychology, and mesmerism, he comes more directly to the people
of this generation, and works with that power which is to characterize his
efforts near the dose of Probation."-2 Selected Messages, p. 351.
"There are those who greatly desire power, and who will use inventions that
Satan places in their hands to gain power. The evil [one] has acquired
wonderful power, and this power will be manifested as apparently a most
wonderful blessing to the race."-Manuscript 78, 1905.
"We are to be on guard against Satan's deceptive arts. He will take
possession of human bodies, and make men and women sick. Then he will
suddenly cease to exercise his evil power, and it will be proclaimed that
a miracle has been wrought. We need now to have a true understanding of the
power of Jesus Christ to save to the uttermost all who come unto Him.
"Men and women are not to study the science of how to take captive the minds
of those who associate with them. This is the science that Satan teaches. We
are to resist everything of the kind. We are not to tamper with mesmerism
and hypnotism, the sciences of the one who lost his first estate, and was
cast out of the heavenly courts."-Medical Ministry, 110-11I.
"The world is to be flooded with specious fallacies. One human mind,
accepting these fallacies, will work upon other human minds who have been
turning the precious evidence of God's truth into a lie.
"These men will be deceived by fallen angels, when they should have stood as
faithful guardians, watching for souls as they that must give account. They
have laid down the weapons of warfare, and have given heed to seducing
spirits. They make of no effect the counsel of God, and set aside His
warnings and reproofs, and are positively on Satan's side, giving heed to
seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. "Letter 311 (October 30), 1905.
"I asked the meaning of the shaking I had seen and was shown that it would
be caused by the straight testimony called forth by the counsel of the True
Wetness to the laodiceans. This will have its effect upon the heart of the
receiver, and will lead him to exalt the standard and pour forth the
straight truth. Some will not bear this straight testimony. They will rise
against it, and this is what will cause a shaking among God's people."-Early
Writings, 270.
"I was shown that by the rappings and mesmerism, these modern magicians
would yet account for all the miracles wrought by our Lord Jesus Christ, and
that many would believe that all the mighty works of the Son of God when on
earth were accomplished by this same power."-Early Writings. 59.
"We must use great caution, to closely investigate his [Satan's] devices,
lest we be deceived."-Manuscript 34, 1897.
"Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his
devices."-2 Corinthians 2:11.
"So long as we are ignorant of their [the evil angels'] wiles, they have
almost inconceivable advantage; many give heed to their suggestions while
they suppose themselves to be following the dictates of their own wisdom .
. It is his [Satan's] policy to conceal himself and his manner of working.
"There is nothing that the great deceiver fears so much as that we shall
become acquainted with his devices. . Satan can most readily control the
minds of those who are unconscious of his influence." -Great Controversy,
516-517.
"God's Spirit has illuminated every page of Holy Writ, but there are those
upon whom it makes little impression, because it is imperfectly understood.
When the shaking comes, by the introduction of false theories, these surface
readers, anchored nowhere, are like shifting sand." Testimonies to
Ministers, 112.
"Neither one of you should study the science in which you have been
interested. To study this science [hypnosis] is to pluck the fruit from the
tree of knowledge of good and evil. God forbid you or any other mortal to
learn to learn or to teach such a science. The fact that you have had
anything to do with this science ought alone to be sufficient to show you .
. the inconsistency of your being the leading physician in the sanitarium .
. Cut away from yourselves everything that savors of hypnotism, the science
by which satanic agencies work.."-2 Mind, Character, and Personality, 716.
"All will be shaken out who are not willing to take a bold and unyielding
stand for the truth and to sacrifice for God and His cause."-Early Writings,
50.
"The true principles of psychology are found in the Holy Scriptures. Man
knows not his own value. He acts according to his unconverted temperament of
character, because he does not look to Jesus, the Author and Finisher of
his faith. He who comes to Jesus, he who believes on Him and makes Him his
Example, realizes the meaning of the words, 'To them gave He power to become
the sons of God.' "-My Life Today, 176.
"Satan's chief work is at the headquarters of our faith. He spares no pains
to corrupt men in responsible positions and to persuade them to be
unfaithful to their several trusts . . These men who have been trusted to
keep the fort have well-nigh betrayed it into the hands of the enemy. They
have opened the gates to a wily foe, who has sought to destroy them.
"Men of experience have seen stealthy hands slipping the bolts that Satan
might enter; yet they have held their peace with apparent indifference as to
the results. "4 Testimonies, 210-211.
"The light given me has been very forcible that many would go out from us,
giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. The Lord desires
that every soul who claims to believe the truth shall have an intelligent
knowledge of what is truth. False prophets will arise and will deceive many.
Everything is to be shaken that can be shaken. Then does it not become
everyone to understand the reasons for our faith? In place of having so many
sermons, there should be a more close searching of the word of God, opening
the Scriptures text by text, and searching for the strong evidences that
sustain the fundamental doctrines that have brought us where we now are,
upon the platform of eternal truth.
"My soul is made very sad to see how quickly some who have had light and
truth will accept the deceptions of Satan, and be charmed with a spurious
holiness. When men turn away from the landmarks the lord has established
that we may understand our position as marked out in prophecy, they are
going they know not whither.
"Spurious doctrines, spurious piety, spurious faith, much that is fair in
appearance, abound all around us. Teachers will come clothed as angels of
light; and if possible, they will deceive the very elect. The youth need to
learn all they can of the truth if they would not be deceived by the tissue
of falsehood that Satan will invent." Evangelism, 363-364.
"Satan's forces are preparing their seductive temptations to deceive, if
possible, the very elect. Satan will work through those who have disregarded
the warnings of God to the church. They will be exceedingly zealous under
the working of a deceptive influence, and most strange manifestations will
appear."-Letter 364, 1908.
"Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar
spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to
him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor. And Saul
disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with
him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine
unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto
thee."-1 Samuel 28:7-8.
"And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in
Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go
inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this
disease. But the angel of the lord said unto Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go
up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it
not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of
Baalzebub the god of Ekron?"-2 Kings 1:1-3.
"Satan can present a counterfeit so closely resembling the truth that it
deceives those who are willing to be deceived, who desire to shun the
self-denial and sacrifice demanded by the truth; but it is impossible for
him to hold under his power one soul who honestly desires, at whatever cost,
to know the truth. "-Great Controversy, 528.
"There are doctors and ministers who have been influenced by the hypnotism
exercised by the father of lies. Notwithstanding the warnings given,
Satan's sophistries are being accepted now just as they were accepted in the
heavenly courts. The science by which our first parents were deceived is
deceiving men today. Ministers and physicians are being drawn into the
snare." -2 Mind, Character, and Personality, 719.
"To dispute the supremacy of the Son of God, thus impeaching the wisdom and
love of the Creator, had become the purpose of this prince of angels. To
this object he was about to bend the energies of that master-mind, which,
next to Christ's, was first among the hosts of God." Patriarchs and
Prophets, 36.
"Spiritualism, which numbers its converts by hundreds of thousands, yea, by
millions, which has made its way into scientific circles, which has invaded
churches, and has found favor in legislative bodies, and even in the courts
of kings,—this mammoth deception is but a revival, in a new disguise, of the
witchcraft condemned and prohibited of oId." -Great Controversy, 556.
"Again and again we shall be called to meet the influence of men who are
studying sciences of satanic origin, through which Satan is working to make
a nonentity of God and of Christ. The truth that God has given for His
people in these last days should keep them firm when there come into the
church those who present false theories."-Manuscript 23, 1908.
"How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning! How art
thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations! For thou hast
said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above
the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the
sides of the north, I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be
like the most High."-Isaiah 14:12-14.
"The mind must be free from all human enchantment. It must not grovel to
humanity but soar aloft to the spiritual, taking hold of the
eternal."-Medical Ministry, 110.
"The things you have described as taking place in Indiana, the Lord has
shown me would take place just before the dose of probation. Every uncouth
thing will be demonstrated. There will be shouting, with drums, music, and
dancing. The senses of rational beings will become so confused that they
cannot be trusted to make right decisions. And this is called the moving of
the Holy Spirit.
"The Holy Spirit never reveals itself in such methods, in such a bedlam of
noise. This is an invention of Satan to cover up his ingenious methods for
making of none effect the pure, sincere, elevating, ennobling, sanctifying
truth for this time.
"Satan works amid the din and confusion of such music, which, property
conducted, would be a praise and glory to God. He makes its effect like the
poison sting of the serpent.
"Those things which have been in the past will be in the future. Satan will
make music a snare by the way in which it is conducted. God calls upon His
people, who have the light before them in the Word and in the Testimonies,
to read and consider, and to take heed. Clear and definite instruction has
been given in order that all may understand. But the itching desire to
originate something new results in strange doctrines, and largely destroys
the influence of those who would be a power for good if they held firm the
beginning of their confidence in the truth the Lord has given them."-2
Selected Messages, 36-38.
"It is not God's purpose that any human being should yield his mind and will
to the control of another, becoming a passive instrument in his hands." -2
Mind, Character, and Personality, 720.
"After the passing of the time in 1844, we had fanaticism of every kind 10
moot. Testimonies of reproof were given me to bear 10 some holding
spiritualistic theories.
"There were those who were active in disseminating false ideas In
regard to God. Light was given me that these men were making the truth of no
effect by their false teachings. Their false teaching was working great
harm to themselves and to others. They were gaining a spiritualistic power
over those who could not see the evil of these beautifully clothed theories.
.
"The experience of the past will be repeated. In the future, Satan's
superstitions will assume new forms. Errors will be Presented in a Pleasing
and flattering manner. False theories, clothed with garments of light, will
be Presented to God's people. Thus Satan will try to deceive, if possible,
the very elect. Most seducing influences will be exerted; minds will be
hypnotized. "Corruptions of every type, similar to those among the
antediluvians, will be brought in to take minds captive. The exaltation of
nature as God, the unrestrained license of the human will, the counsel of
the ungodly, these Satan uses as agencies to bring about certain ends. He
will employ the power of mind over mind to carry out his designs."-8
Testimonies, 292-294.
"The physician should educate the people to look from the human to the
divine. Instead of teaching the sick to depend upon human beings for the
cure of soul and body, he should direct them to the One who can save to the
uttermost all who come unto Him. He who made man's mind knows what the mind
needs . .
"This is the life we are to present to the sick, telling them that if they
have faith in Christ as the restorer, if they cooperate with Him, obeying
the laws of health, and striving to perfect holiness in His fear, He will
impart to them His life. When we Present Christ to them in this way, we are
imparting a power, a strength, that is of value; for it comes from above.
This is the true science of healing for body and soul." Ministry of
Healing, 243-244.
"To study this science [hypnosis] is to pluck the fruit from the tree of
knowledge of good and evil. God forbids you or any other mortal to learn or
to teach such a science. The fact that you have had anything to do with
this science, ought alone to be sufficient to show you, Brother N, the
inconsistency of your being the leading physician in the sanitarium. .
"Cut away from yourselves everything that savors of hypnotism, the science
by which satanic agencies work." -2 Selected Messages, 350.
"Satan has not been stupid and careless these many years, since his fall,
but has been learning. He has grown more artful. His plans are laid deeper,
and are more covered with a religious garment to hide their deformity. The
power of Satan now to tempt and deceive is ten-fold greater than it was in
the days of the apostles. His power has increased, and it will increase,
until it is taken away. His wrath and hate grow stronger as his time to work
draws near its close .
"God knows how Satan is working, and sends His angels to watch over His
children, to protect them from the devil’s power. And the battle is
constantly going on between the angels of God, and the devil’s angels. The
angels of God are clothed with a complete armor, the panoply of heaven, and
although surrounded with deadly foes, fear nothing, for they are doing the
will of their loved Commander. They enter the darkest places to rescue the
children of God from the snares of Satan, and their presence causes evil
angels to fall back..
"I saw that the angels of God ace not to force or bend the will of the
individual they watch over. They are to gently chide, warn and guard. Satan
can never force back these holy angels from their charge. None can do this
but the individuals that they are watching over. If these individuals
continue to grieve these tender, holy angels; if they go astray from their
counsel and warnings, and choose an independent course of their own, they
will drive these angels from them. [But) If the will is submitted to them,
they will bend it in the heavenly channel, and they will ever be on the
watch for their interests, leading them from a thousand dangers, preventing
their lives being taken by Satan, and, if they are inclined to go [into] a
wrong course, stand in the path before them to prevent their ruin.
"But if individuals continue to retain their own will, choose their own
course, and have their own way, the angels leave them in sadness. Then Satan
comes in to control the will, and bend the mind, and smiles in hellish
triumph at his success. "-2 Spiritual Gifts. 277-278.
"All the people of God are now to stand on the platform of truth as it has
been given in the third angel’s message. All the pleasant pictures, all the
miracles wrought will be presented in order that, if possible, the very
elect shall be deceived. The only hope for anyone is to hold fast the
evidences that have confirmed the truth in righteousness. Let these be
proclaimed over and over again until the dose of earth's history."
Manuscript 61, 1900.
"The science of a pure, wholesome, consistent Christian life is obtained by
studying the word of the Lord. This is the highest education that any
earthly being can obtain..
. . For thousands of years Satan has been experimenting upon the Properties
of the human mind, and he has learned to know it well. By his subtle
workings in these last days, he is linking the human mind with his own,
imbuing it with his thoughts; and he is doing this work in so deceptive a
manner that those who accept his guidance know not that they are being led
by him at his will. The great deceiver hopes so to confuse the minds of men
and women that none but his voice will be heard." -Medical Ministry, 111.
"’For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in
among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise,
speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch
and remember. .'
"He who holds the truth in unrighteousness, who declares his belief in it,
and yet wounds it every day by his inconsistent life, is surrendering
himself to the service of Satan and leading souls to ruin. This class hold
intercourse with fallen angels and are aided by them in gaining the control
of minds.
"When Satan's bewitching power controls a person, God is forgotten, and man
who is filled with corrupt purposes is extolled. Secret licentiousness is
practiced by these deceived souls as a virtue. This is a species of
witchcraft.
"The question of the apostle to the Galatians may well be asked: 'Who hath
bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus
Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?'
"There is always a bewitching power in heresies and in licentiousness. The
mind is so deluded that it cannot reason intelligently, and an illusion is
continually leading it from purity. The spiritual eyesight becomes blurred,
and persons of hitherto untainted morals become confused under the delusive
sophistry of those agents of Satan who profess to be messengers of light. It
is this delusion which gives these agents power. Should they come out boldly
and make their advances [whether of heresies or licentiousness] openly they
would be repulsed without a moment's hesitation; but they work first to gain
sympathy and secure confidence in themselves as holy, self-sacrificing men
of God. As His [pretending to be God's] special messengers they then begin
their artful work of drawing away souls from the path of rectitude by
attempting to make void the law of God. "-5 Testimonies, 142-143.
"Organizations, institutions, unless kept by the power of God, will work
under Satan's dictation to bring men under the control of men; and fraud and
guile will bear the semblance of zeal for truth and for the advancement of
the kingdom of God. Whatever in our practice is not as open as day, belongs
to the methods of the prince of darkness. His methods are practiced even
among Seventh-day Adventists, who claim to have advanced truth.
"If men resist the warnings the Lord sends them, they become even leaders in
evil practice; such men assume to exercise the prerogatives of God – [in
fact] they presume to do that which God Himself will not do in seeking to
control the minds of men. They introduce their own methods and plans, and
through their misconceptions of God they weaken the faith of other’s in
the truth, and bring in false principles that will work like leaven to taint
and corrupt our institutions and churches. Any thing that lowers man's
conception of righteousness and equity and impartial judgment, any device or
precept that brings God's human agents under the control of human minds,
impairs their faith in God; it separates the soul from God; for it leads
away from the path of strict integrity and righteousness." - Testimonies To
Ministers, 366.
"No man is a proper judge of another man's duty. Man is responsible to God;
and as finite, erring men take into their hands the jurisdiction of their
fellow men, as if the Lord commissioned them to lift up and cast down, all
heaven is filled with indignation. There are strange principles being
established in regard to the control of minds and works of men by human
judges, as though these finite men were gods . .
"Unless men are daily in communion with God, instead of seeking Him with all
their heart for a fitness for the work, they will assume the power of
dictation over the conscience of others. A sense of the divine presence
would awe and subdue the soul, but this they have not . .
"Is the working of the cause of God to be entrusted to such hands? Are souls
for whom Christ has died, to be manipulated at the will of men who have
refused the light given them of heaven? We should be afraid of man-made
laws, and of plans and methods that are not in accordance with the
principles of the word of God concerning man's relation to his fellow. 'All
ye are brethren.' "-Testimonies to Ministers, 348, 349.
"I am instructed that you [J.H. Kellogg] are entertaining ideas with which
God has forbidden you to deal. I will name these as a species of mind cure.
You suppose that you can use this mind cure in your professional work as a
physician. In tones of earnest warning the words were spoken: Beware,
beware where your feet are placed and your mind is carried. God has not
appointed you this work. The theory of mind controlling mind is originated
by Satan to introduce himself as the chief worker, to put human philosophy
where divine philosophy should be.
"No man or woman should exercise his or her will to control the senses or
reason of another, so that the mind of the person is rendered passively
subject to the will of the one who is exercising the control. This science
may appear to be something beautiful, but it is a science which you are in
no case to handle . .
"I lift the danger signal. The only safe and true mind cure covers much. The
physician must educate the people '" look from the human to the divine. .
"This science may appear of you to be very valuable; but to you and to
others it is a fallacy prepared by Satan. It is the charm of the serpent,
which stings to spiritual death. It covers much that seems wonderful, but it
is foreign to the nature and Spirit of Christ This science does not lead to
Him who is life and salvation."-Medical Ministry, 111-112
"[In heaven] The insinuations of Satan took effect, and they . .[the angels]
really came to believe that the Father and the Son were their enemies and
that Satan was their benefactor. Satan has the same power and the same
control over minds now, only it has increased a hundredfold by exercise and
experience. Men and women today are deceived, blinded by his insinuations
and devices, and know it not..
"They rise up with bitter feelings against the ones who dare to speak of
their errors and reprove their sins. Those who have in the fear of God
ventured out to faithfully meet error and sin, calling sin by its right
name, have discharged a disagreeable duty."-3 Testimonies, 328.
"With strong arms and brave hearts go forth into the conflict [that] all
must enter, a conflict that will grow more and more severe as we approach
the closing struggle. "-Manuscript 18a., 1901.
"The time has come when even in the church and in our institutions, some
will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines
of devils. But God will keep that which is committed to Him. Let us draw
near to Him, that He may draw near to us. Let us bear a plain, clear
testimony right to the point, that hypnotism is being used by those who
have departed from the faith, and that we are not to link up with them.
Through those who depart from the faith, the power of the enemy will be
exercised to lead others astray. .. -3 Selected Messages, 411-412
"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the
traditions of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
"-Colossians 2:8.
"For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to
the pulling down of strongholds; Casting down imaginations, and every high
thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into
captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. "-2 Corinthians 10:4.
"Sanctify the Lord of hosts Himself; and let Him be your fear, and let Him
be your dread."-Isaiah 8:13.
"0 Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and
vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called. Which some
professing have erred concerning the faith." -1 Timothy 6:20-21.
"In Thee, 0 Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to
confusion."-Psalm 71:1.
"Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in Thy Word."-Psalm 119:14. |