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Jesus Said the Truth Would Be Opposed ㅡ

 “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.” (Matthew 10:34)

The gospel is a message of peace.

Christianity is a system which, received and obeyed, would spread peace, harmony, and happiness throughout the earth.

The religion of Christ will unite in close brotherhood all who accept its teachings.

It was the mission of Jesus to reconcile men to God, and thus to one another.

But the world at large are under the control of Satan, Christ’s bitterest foe.

The gospel presents to them principles of life which are wholly at variance with their habits and desires, and they rise in rebellion against it.

They hate the purity which reveals and condemns their sins, and they persecute and destroy those who would urge upon them its just and holy claims.

It is in this sense—because the exalted truths it brings occasion hatred and strife—that the gospel is called a sword.

 (The Great Controversy 46)

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