August 23 – 29, 2020 – Some would be content with the thorough education of a few of the most promising of our youth; but they all need an education that they may be fitted for usefulness in this life,…
“The work of gaining salvation is one of co-partnership, a joint operation. There is to be co-operation between God and the repentant sinner.” Acts of the Apostles, 482. “Your only hope and salvation is in overcoming as Christ overcame.” Testimonies, vol. 3, 457.
The early Adventists thought that the midnight cry was at the end of the path to the city of God, but the Lord revealed to Ellen White that the midnight cry was at the beginning of the path and was of vital importance to the purification of the church.
Question: How does the work of purification begin in the church? “Let the churches who claim to believe the truth, who are advocating the law of God, keep that law and depart from all iniquity.
One of the tapes that we listened to from Elder Frazee was entitled “The Road to Persecution.” Back in those days, many things that were written in the Spirit of Prophecy, we understood as only applying to the churches in “Babylon.”
What is the objective of the purification of the church? The objectives are: that the church reach perfection here (that each church member becomes faultless in character with every impurity destroyed),…
A church is not just bricks and mortar or corporations or theology. It is people who, as a result of being filled with the Holy Spirit, are spoken of in the Bible as living stones that emit light all around.