Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

“I am the way, the truth, and the life.” All true
believers center in Christ, their character is
irradiated by Christ; all meet in Christ, and
circulate about Christ. Truth comes from Heaven to
purify and cleanse the human agent from every
moral defilement. It leads to benevolent action, to
kind, tender, thoughtful love toward the needy, the
distressed, the suffering. This is practical
obedience to the words of Christ.—Manuscript 34,
1894.
Satan Claimed to Be Sanctified—1894.—
Satan claimed to be sanctified, and exalted himself
above God even in the courts of heaven. So great
was his deceptive power that he corrupted a large
number of angels, and enlisted their sympathy in
his selfish interest. When he tempted Christ in the
wilderness he claimed that he was sanctified, that
he was a pure angel from the heavenly courts; but
Jesus was not deceived by his pretensions and
neither will those be deceived who live by every
word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
God will not accept a willful, imperfect
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