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Healthful Living
Christ in Man
14. Christ is to live in his human agents, and work through their
faculties, and act through their capabilities.—
Thoughts from the Mount
of Blessing, 128
.
15. When human agents choose the will of God, and are con-
formed to the character of Christ, Jesus acts through their organs and
faculties.—
Special Testimonies to Ministers and Workers 3:49
.
16. The Spirit of Christ is to take possession of the organs of
speech, of the mental powers, of the physical and moral powers.—
Special Testimonies for Ministers and Workers 6:53
.
Service
17. Our very bodies are not our own, to treat as we please, to
cripple by habits that lead to decay, making it impossible to render
to God perfect service. Our lives and all our faculties belong to him.
He is caring for us every moment; he keeps the living machinery in
action; if we were left to run it for one moment, we should die. We are
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absolutely dependent upon God.—
Unpublished Testimonies, October
12, 1896
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18. It was a wonderful thing for God to create man, to make mind.
He created him that every faculty might be the faculty of the divine
mind. The glory of God is to be revealed in the creating of man in
God’s image, and in his redemption. One soul is of more value than
a world. The Lord Jesus is the author of our being, and he is also the
author of our redemption; and every one who will enter the kingdom
of God must develop a character that is the counterpart of the character
of God. None can dwell with God in a holy heaven but those who bear
his likeness. Those who are redeemed will be overcomers; they will
be elevated, pure, one with Christ.—
The Signs of the Times, May 31,
1896
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