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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 7, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 32.

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LIFE

By Mary C. Wilson

MARY C. WILSON.

(St. Helena, Cal.)

God is the very embodiment of life. John 5 : 26.

1. His is a living throne. Ezekiel 1.

2. A river of life flows from the throne. Rev. 22 : 1.

3. On its banks grows the tree of life. Rev. 22 : 2.

4. God's words are life. John 6 : 63; Genesis 1.

5. Thus, he is the fountain of life, filling with life everything connected with himself. Ps. 36 : 9.

6. In order to have life, we must connect with him. 1 John 5 : 12.

7. In his natural condition, man is alienated from the life of God. Eph. 4 : 18.

8. His iniquities are what thus separates him from God. Isa. 59 : 2.

9. Sin separates because (Hab. 1 : 13) God can not sanction sin in the least degree.

10. Since sin separates from him who is life, him who is the only source of life, it surely must bring death. James 1 : 15.

11. The Jews in Christ's day refused to forsake their sins, come to Christ, and obtain life. John 5 : 40.

12. It is not because God is angry and destroys the sinner, that death comes to him; but his own sins keep him separated from the only life there is, so only death can follow. Eze. 18 : 30-32.

13. God declares that he has no pleasure in the death of the wicked; and he pleads with the sinner to turn and not die. Eze. 33 : 11.

14. How much sin will it require to separate from God?—“No one will ever receive the seal of God as long as there is one sin upon his character.” See Hab. 1 : 13.