Heaven’s Part in Life’s Conflict
Battle Creek, Michigan
February 1, 1890, NAME_1.
This manuscript is published in entirety in 2SAT 57-70.
NAME_2 6:10-17. Now do we do it? Do we obey the very last verse that I have read? Do we take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God? {Ms1-1890.}
I wish to call your attention this afternoon to the importance of everyone understanding that we cannot keep ourselves; that God has angels. These angels from heaven communicate with the children of men, and not one of us by anything we may do can uphold or keep ourselves. We are where we are, kept every moment by the power of God. I have thought that we do not make of that [the] importance that we should—the ministration of heavenly angels. We do not take in this matter and present it in the church; we do not present it in our families; we do not talk [of] it as we ought, and thus keep in remembrance that every soul with whom we are connected has the guardianship of heavenly angels, sent forth to minister unto those who shall be heirs of salvation (NAME_3 1:14). I want you to consider this point, What should we do without them? I want you to consider what kind of a position we should be left in if we had not the ministry of holy angels. {Ms1-1890.}
From my text we see that “we wrestle not against flesh and blood.” [NAME_2 6:12.] We meet the opposition of men, but there is someone behind that opposition. It is the prince of the powers of darkness with his evil angels that are constan Respond with at most 300 words.
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