I was shown that some children professing to believe the truth would, in an indirect manner, influence the father to keep his means for his children instead of appropriating it to the cause of God while he lives. Those who have influenced their father to shift his stewardship upon them little know what they are doing. They are gathering upon themselves double responsibility, that of balancing the father’s mind so that he did not fulfill the purpose of God in the disposition of the means lent him of God to be used to His glory, and the additional responsibility of becoming stewards of means that should have been put out to the exchangers by the father, that the Master could have received His own with usury. {3T 122.1}


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Jeg fik vist at nogle børn der bekender sig til at tro sandheden, på en indirekte måde ville påvirke faderen til at give sine midler til sine børn i stedet for at give dem til Guds sag medens han lever. Dem som har påvirket deres fader til at forandre sin forvaltning til dem ved kun lidt om hvad de gør. De påtager sig det dobbelte ansvar, at afstemme faderen så at han ikke fuldbyrder Guds hensigt i forvaltningen af midler lånt ham af Gud til brug for hans ære og der ud over at være forvalter af midler der af faderen skulle lægges ud til vekselerere, så Mesteren kunne modtage sit med renter.

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