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| 54 Phrases related to Spiritual |
| Spiritual conditions |
| + spiritual apathy ( 9 ) |
| + Spiritual condition ( 156 ) ► true spiritual condition ( 19 ) ► true spiritual condition of the church ( 4 ) |
| + Spiritual Blindness ( 98 ) ► great spiritual blindness ( ) ► condition of spiritual blindness ( ) > Favorite Text below also Spiritually blind |
| + Spiritual Death ( 54 ) ► spiritually dead ( 22 ) |
| + Spiritual Darkness ► Great Spiritual Darkness ( 8 ) |
| + Spiritual Drunkenness ( 8 ) > |
| + Spiritual Health ( ) |
| + Spiritual lethargy ( 26 ) > spiritual lethargy is death |
| + Spiritual Slothfulness |
| + Spiritual Strength + increase of Spiritual Strength |
| + Spiritual weakness ( ) |
| Is Christ divided? Is a trifling difference of opinion of sufficient consequence to part asunder very friends, so that they cannot unite in doing a good work? Are individual opinions to be regarded as being so infallible as not to admit of any change? This is certainly spiritual weakness. Let each worker humble his heart before God. As no one's opinion is always without a flaw, do not act as if you could not talk the matter over together and concede to one another. {13MR 38.2} |
| spiritual things |
| + Spiritual comprehension ( ) |
| + Spiritual knowledge ( 128 ) > Advance in spiritual knowledge ( ) |
| + spiritual matters ( 33 ) > temporal and spiritual matters ( ) |
| + Spiritual things ( 732 ) > Spritual things are spiritually discerned > Discerning spiritual things ( 12 ) > Spiritual and eternal things ( ) |
| + Spiritual understanding (125) > Deep spiritual understanding |
| > all wisdom and spiritual understanding |
| Our people are making very dangerous mistakes. We cannot praise and flatter any man without doing him a great wrong; those who do this will meet with serious disappointment. They trust too fully to finite man and not enough to God, who never errs. The eager desire to urge men into public notice is an evidence of backsliding from God and of friendship with the world. It is the spirit which characterizes the present day. It shows that men have not the mind of Jesus; spiritual blindness and poverty of soul have come upon them. Often persons of inferior minds look away from Jesus to a merely human standard, by which they are not made conscious of their own littleness, and hence have an undue estimate of their own capabilities and endowments. There is among us as a people an idolatry of human instrumentalities and mere human talent, and these even of a superficial character. We must die to self and cherish humble, childlike faith. God's people have departed from their simplicity. They have not made God their strength, and they are weak and faint, spiritually. {5T 75.2} |
| Wycliffe began to write and publish tracts against the friars, not, however, seeking so much to enter into dispute with them as to call the minds of the people to the teachings of the Bible and its Author. He declared that the power of pardon or of excommunication is possessed by the pope in no greater degree than by common priests, and that no man can be truly excommunicated unless he has first brought upon himself the condemnation of God. In no more effectual way could he have undertaken the overthrow of that mammoth fabric of spiritual and temporal dominion which the pope had erected and in which the souls and bodies of millions were held captive. Great Controversy, page 84.2 Read entire chapter 5 |
| Here it was demonstrated that a worse blindness than that of physical blindness closed the understanding of the Jewish people. By his infinite power Jesus could heal those who were physically blind, but those who werespiritually blind could not discern their need of enlightenment; for they thought themselves righteous. The treatment that Jesus received from those of his own nation is symbolic of the treatment he was to receive from the whole world. He lived in the world, and he had a deep, earnest love for the world, and especially for the Jewish nation. The question was brought to an issue that had been the point of controversy since the fall, concerning the character of God. Satan had charged God with exercising arbitrary power, and of alienating the human race from himself. Satan sowed seeds of enmity, and kept them well watered, in order that he might be successful in deluding souls, and thus triumph over Christ, making the gulf more deep and impassable between earth and heaven. He presented his falsehoods as truth, and became bold in transgression, seeking to wear out the goodness, mercy, and forbearance of God, to extinguish from his heart all love for man, and thus so exasperate divine justice that God would leave the world under Satanic jurisdiction. "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." Instead of being softened by the long patience of God, they encourage themselves in continual resistance. {ST, December 4, 1893 par. 2} |
| As the disciples had seen the success of their labors, they were in danger of taking credit to themselves, in danger of cherishing spiritual pride, and thus falling under Satan’s temptations. A great work was before them, and first of all they must learn that their strength was not in self, but in God. Like Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, like David among the hills of Judea, or Elijah by the brook Cherith, the disciples needed to come apart from the scenes of their busy activity, to commune with Christ, with nature, and with their own hearts. { DA 360.3} |
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