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4661 The Present Truth, vol. 13 October 7, 1897, page 626 paragraph 1

… are not to contend with men, but wicked spirits, evil angels; not with weapons of carnality, but with those which are “mighty through God to the pulling down of …

4662 The Present Truth, vol. 13 November 25, 1897, page 741 paragraph 8

… is not so. Do they not see manifestations, and can they not believe the evidence of their eyes and senses? The manifestations are here right enough, but if they …

4663 The Present Truth, vol. 14 January 27, 1898, page 51 paragraph 4

… an evil spirit, which he was in duty bound to suppress. So the prickings of the Spirit of God had for a time only led him to redouble his zeal against the Christians …

4664 The Present Truth, vol. 14 January 27, 1898, page 52 paragraph 3

… for evil, if they had yielded to the influence of the Spirit? Not every one can be a Paul; but the thought that each one, according to the ability that God has given …

4665 The Present Truth, vol. 14 January 27, 1898, page 54 paragraph 7

… ; yet not I,” said Paul, “but Christ liveth in me.” “Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own …

4666 The Present Truth, vol. 14 February 3, 1898, page 80 paragraph 5

… God’s Spirit is leaving the world more and more a prey to the spirit of unrest and evil. But for another change we thank God. We can see it everywhere. During the …

4667 The Present Truth, vol. 14 February 24, 1898, page 115 paragraph 3

… of evil spirits. All idolatry is devil-worship. “The things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils.” 1 Cor. x.20. There is no middle ground. Christ …

4668 The Present Truth, vol. 14 May 26, 1898, page 323 paragraph 10

… the Spirit of God writes the law in the heart. See Rom. viii. 25-29; Heb. viii. 10. The man who had the circumcision in the flesh merely, but did not keep the law, was reckoned …

4669 The Present Truth, vol. 14 May 26, 1898, page 325 paragraph 9

… every evil work.” All this shows the working of selfishness, for “love envieth not.”

4670 The Present Truth, vol. 14 May 26, 1898, page 330 paragraph 1

Not long after Samuel’s visit to Bethlehem another messenger arrived for David, this time from the King. Saul was in distress and needed help. An evil spirit from the Lord was troubling him.

4671 The Present Truth, vol. 14 May 26, 1898, page 330 paragraph 3

… did not leave them entirely alone, for that would involved him in immediate ruin, but sent a spirit of evil, or sadness, upon him. Remorse and terror filled his …

4672 The Present Truth, vol. 14 August 4, 1898, page 490 paragraph 7

… Holy Spirit, that no evil thing may find an entrance there.

4673 The Present Truth, vol. 14 September 29, 1898, page 615 paragraph 1

… My Spirit unto you, I will make known My words unto you.” “Whoso hearkeneth unto Me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.” But those who despise …

4674 The Present Truth, vol. 14 November 10, 1898, page 708 paragraph 5

… familiar spirit, and with wizards. The evils for which the Amorites had been cast out were reproduced in Manasseh; “moreover he shed innocent blood very much …

4675 The Present Truth, vol. 14 November 10, 1898, page 708 paragraph 6

… the Spirit of God. Men do not recognise this fact, and attribute all signs of good to themselves, but the Spirit strives with them, and though it is seldom allowed …

4676 The Present Truth, vol. 14 November 17, 1898, page 722 paragraph 1

… in spirit with the beings there and in harmony with the surroundings, we may dwell in the house of the Lord without fear all the days of our life, to enquire in …

4677 The Present Truth, vol. 14 December 1, 1898, page 755 paragraph 2

… that spirit of independence of God which will most surely render them subject to his own evil influence, he has led men to set their own ideas above the Word …

4679 The Present Truth, vol. 15 January 5, 1899, page 4 paragraph 4

… same Spirit that inspired the words in the first place, also inspired the quotation, so that both expressions must mean the same thing. Therefore we learn …

4680 The Present Truth, vol. 15 January 12, 1899, page 21 paragraph 3

… the evil nature that is in him, even if it has not manifested itself in any way that is noticeable by men. We have the evil in us, and always with us, and again and …