Our Greatest Need Ron Spear - The Eternal Gospel Church

Chapter Two19CHRIST SPEAKS TO HIS END TIME CHURCHAS WAS POINTED OUT, perfect obedience to all of God’srevealed will has always been the condition for retaining orreceiving God’s approval and eternal life. The condition forsalvation, since the Fall, has remained constant throughout all generations.Also, since the Fall, the only way of meeting those conditions hasbeen through the pardoning, enabling, and transforming grace of JesusChrist. The only variable in the equation of salvation is the volume ofGod’s will, the amount of light, given to any generation.Seventh-day Adventists are God’s remnant people. We are livingin the end of this fallen world’s existence. Through the Bible, we havethe accumulated light of God’s six-thousand years of dealing with sinfulman. Each of the ancient prophets spoke more for our day than fortheirs, and the history of God’s people down through the ages hasbeen recorded for our admonition, for our benefit.Each of the ancient prophets spoke less for their owntime than for ours, so that their prophesying is in force for us.“Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples:and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the endsof the world are come” 1 Corinthians 10:11. “Not unto themselves,but unto us they did minister the things, which arenow reported unto you by them that have preached the gospelunto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven;which things the angels desire to look into” 1 Peter 1:12.Selected Messages, book, 3, 338.The glorious beams of continually-increasing light are allconcentrated in our time. Signs of the Times, January 13,1898.19