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14241 From Eternity Past, p. 520.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… from God, he will arouse the unholy desires of man’s carnal nature. The work of the enemy is not, at the outset, sudden and startling. It begins in apparently small …
14242 From Eternity Past, p. 520.4 (Ellen Gould White)
… by God to execute His law, himself trampled upon its precepts. He who should have been a terror to evildoers, by his own act strengthened their hands.
14243 From Eternity Past, p. 521.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God pronounced the adulterer guilty of death, and the proud-spirited soldier, so shamefully wronged, might avenge himself by taking the life of the king …
14244 From Eternity Past, p. 521.4 (Ellen Gould White)
… to God, transgressed God’s law because the king commanded it.
14245 From Eternity Past, p. 522.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… to God’s law, it became sin to obey. “The powers that be are ordained of God” ( Romans 13:1 ), but we are not to obey them contrary to God’s law. The apostle Paul sets forth …
14246 From Eternity Past, p. 522.5 (Ellen Gould White)
Happy they who, having ventured in this way, learn how bitter are the fruits of sin, and turn from it. God in His mercy did not leave David to be lured to utter ruin by the deceitful rewards of sin.
14247 From Eternity Past, p. 522 (Ellen Gould White)
How God Intervened
14248 From Eternity Past, p. 522.6 (Ellen Gould White)
… for God to interpose. David’s sin toward Bathsheba became known, and suspicion was excited that he had planned the death of Uriah. The Lord was dishonored …
14249 From Eternity Past, p. 524.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… against God.
14250 From Eternity Past, p. 524.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God. But the message was sent him by the prophet, “The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.” Yet justice must be maintained. The sentence of death …
14251 From Eternity Past, p. 524.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God. The first stroke had fallen of that retribution which he himself had declared just.
14252 From Eternity Past, p. 524.4 (Ellen Gould White)
… after God’s own heart!” Thus God and His word have been blasphemed, and many, under a cloak of piety, have become bold in sin.
14253 From Eternity Past, p. 524.5 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God that he was called a man after God’s own heart. When he sinned, this ceased to be true of him until by repentance he had returned to the Lord. “The thing that …
14254 From Eternity Past, p. 525.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… , and God would not interpose to prevent the result. Thus David was severely chastised. Retribution which no repentance could avert, agony, and shame would …
14255 From Eternity Past, p. 525.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… in God alone was their strength and safety, they have feared to take the first step on Satan’s ground.
14256 From Eternity Past, p. 526.1 (Ellen Gould White)
And the fifty-first psalm is an expression of David’s repentance, when the message of reproof came to him from God:
14257 From Eternity Past, p. 526.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… , O God; And renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from Thy presence; And take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.... Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, Thou God …
14258 From Eternity Past, p. 526.3 (Ellen Gould White)
Thus the king of Israel recounted his sin, his repentance, and his hope of pardon through the mercy of God. He desired that others might be instructed by the sad history of his fall.
14259 From Eternity Past, p. 526.4 (Ellen Gould White)
… God to repentant sinners, he saw the evidence of his pardon and acceptance: “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou …
14260 From Eternity Past, p. 526.6 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God’s commandments.