Rebellion - The Eternal Gospel Church

REBELLION
labors God has signified that He would accept if they were fully
consecrated have been the ones to be deceived, to fail in their duties,
and to prove a terrible burden and discouragement, instead of
the help and blessing that they should have been. These men who
have been trusted to keep the fort have well-nigh betrayed it into
the hands of the enemy. They have opened the gates to a wily foe,
who has sought to destroy them.
Men of experience have seen stealthy hands slipping the
bolts that Satan might enter; yet they have held their peace with
apparent indifference as to the results. . . . These persons do not
realize that God holds them responsible for every advantage
gained by the foe who is admitted to the fort. The desolation and
ruin following lie at the door of the unfaithful sentinels, who, by
their neglect, become agents in the hands of the adversary to
win souls to destruction. Men in responsible positions should
seek wisdom and guidance of God, and not trust to their own
judgment and knowledge. Testimonies, vol. 4, 211.
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Gospel Commission Unfulfilled
Worldliness and backsliding is why the church is so enfeebled and
powerless to finish the gospel’s commission. Because we have not fully
entered into the experience of the First Angel’s message of right doing
by God’s grace, many of our ministers and leaders are not willing to
preach clearly the second and third angel’s messages. The question we
must ask, if those in the churches in 1843, 1844 went out in darkness
because of their worldliness and rejection of the first angel’s message,
Can the same not happen to us
Righteousness is Full Obedience by Faith
If you would stand through the time of trouble, you must
know Christ, and appropriate the gift of His righteousness, which
He imputes to the repentant sinner. The Review and Herald,
November 22, 1892.
Christ’s imputed and imparted righteousness brings us into full obedience
to His will:
Now, I want to say to you before closing, that we have a
wonderful friend in Jesus, who came to save His people from the
transgression of the law. What is sin The only definition of sin is
that it is the transgression of the law. Then here is Jesus Christ, who
comes right in and imparts His righteousness to us; we cannot