"Resisting the Holy Ghost," The Gospel Messenger (1893)
AUTHOR: | Mitchell, William M. |
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THE CHARACTERS MENTIONED in our text were destitute
of spiritual life, and therefore they had neither the love of
God or of his truth within them. And while such characters
may and do resist, withstand and oppose the servants of God
who proclaim the truth of God and testify to the coming of
Christ and even carry their opposition so far as to slay the
prophet and murder our Lord Jesus—yet, it is not to be understood
that God’s eternal purpose has been frustrated or defeated
in any particular, but rather in all their resistance and murderous
rage they have, with wicked hands, unconsciously and
undesignedly done what “God’s hand and counsel determined
before to be done.” (Acts iv. 28.) |
