The Third Angel's Message (1893) - Alonzo T. Jones

do myself and if you want any more than this that I
say, go and ask them. They will tell you. How
many of them are there? [Congregation: "Ten."] is
their word worth anything? Do they tell the truth?
Ah, they are truth itself. They are the truth. Psalm
119:142. Well then it is impossible for them to
testify otherwise in bearing witness than that.
When they say that that demand is satisfied, "This
life is well pleasing to me," that is enough for
anybody in the universe, is it not? [Congregation:
"Yes."]
So then the man who claims to believe in Jesus
and claims the righteousness of God which comes
to the believer in Jesus, is his claiming it enough
for this world? [Congregation: "No."] Or is our
word in regard to it enough? [Congregation: "No."]
Well, they will say and there are lots of them that
will say it, "Why yes, we believe in the Saviour. I
have a right to claim, too, the righteousness that He
has, the perfect holiness and perfect sanctification
and that I have not sinned for ten years and am
above all temptation, even, and I know it." Well,
how do you know it? "Why, I feel it in my heart. I
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