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APPETITE: THE KILLER TEMPTATION (Part 3)
Temperance (or Biblical self-control and self-mastery in all that we eat, drink, think, imagine, say, and do to our whole body, which the Creator and Redeemer claims is His purchased possession and His “temple,” is the last but not of the list of nine “fruit(s) of the Spirit” listed in Gal. 5: 22-24.
This is a master check list to determine whether we are actually “walking after the Spirit” and doing “the righteous things of the Spirit” and not “after the flesh, doing the things of the flesh” (Rom. 8: 1-10; Gal. 5: 16-21).
Those who persist in indulging, excusing and justifying the latter with whatever twisted and perverted brainchild doctrines and popular reasonings have only themselves to blame when the day of reckoning, “time of visitation” and their turn “to stand before the judgment seat of Christ” “for all that has been done to their body” and on others they influenced and corrupted, starting with their biological and spiritual family members (Rom. 10: 12, 14) and all who they have “influenced.”4T 30.
“A continual transgression of NATURE’S LAWS [the other work of rebuilding and repairing the wall and breach] is a CONTINUAL TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW OF GOD. The present weight of anguish and suffering which we see everywhere [beginning in our very own “backyards”] the present deformity, decrepitude, disease, and imbecility now FLOODING the world [don’t blame-game the WHO and the nation’s public health authorities for “charity begins at home,” the basic unit of human society], make it, IN COMPARISON TO WHAT IT MIGHT BE AND WHAT GOD DESIGNED IT SHOULD BE [in the plan of redemption of the genuine, not counterfeit Gospel,] a LAZAR HOUSE; and the present generation [that’s why the need for ‘present truth’] are feeble in MENTAL, MORAL, AND PHYSiCAL POWER.
All this misery has accumulated from generation to generation [perpetrated via the institutions of culture, tradition, and false religion] because fallen man will BREAK THE LAW OF GOD. Sins of the GREATEST MAGNITUDE are committed through the INDULGENCE OF PERVERTED APPETITE.” – E. G. White, Vol. 4, Testimonies for the Church, p. 30.
These are the antitypical works to be “finished up” in the spiritual rebuilding and repairing the breach on the wall.” This is the “magnification” of the law of God. We are either builders or destroyers. “Choose ye this day.”
(To be continued). Bless all, NMF
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APPETITE: THE KILLER TEMPTATION (Part 3)
