Grace on Trial - Robert J. Wieland

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Chapter 1 When Heaven Caught "Us" By Surprise Seventh-day Adventists worldwide have cherished a favorite conviction: that the second coming of Christ is near. But they also realize that two immense events must happen before He can return: (1) The heavenly gift of the "latter rain" must be sent from God and then be accepted by the church in order to prepare a people for the next event: (2) The "loud cry" of the final message must "lighten the earth with glory." On God's agenda, this alone can catalyze humanity into two groups— those who receive the final "seal of God" and those who receive "the mark of the beast." Because the Father still loves the world for 4
whom He gave His only begotten Son, a message of much more abounding grace must be the "voice from heaven" that the apostle John heard will sound everywhere.1 God knows it wouldn't be fair for Jesus to come before everyone could hear the message of grace clearly proclaimed. The confusion of Babylon must be resolved in people's minds. That final message must therefore be a clearer understanding of true righteousness by faith. A growing number of Seventh-day Adventists worldwide are coming to see how both of these grand events coalesced in a little known event that happened over a century ago: God sent us what is known as "the 1888 message."Our fascination with it now spans three centuries of Seventh-day Adventist existence. Why Does the Interest Persist? A gravitational pull lures us to this momentous event, rivaling 1844 in our corporate memory. Even a Centennial Celebration in 1988 could not 5
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Page 3: century ago needs to be widely unde
Page 7 and 8: few who had attended the 1888 sessi
Page 9 and 10: new era," "a new depiction of Chris
Page 11 and 12: Ellen White, "1888" marked the "beg
Page 13 and 14: general were being alerted to hear
Page 15 and 16: capture the full devotion of every
Page 17 and 18: cure-all. The reason Ellen White wa
Page 19 and 20: priest's palace. No one would offer
Page 21 and 22: unprecedented since apostolic times
Page 23 and 24: the story of Israel repeated. The L
Page 25 and 26: 1. Revelation 18:1-4. 2. William H.
Page 27 and 28: 14. Cf. MS 9,1888; Olson op.cit, pp
Page 29 and 30: hard to cope with the demands of hi
Page 31 and 32: youth slip out the back door of the
Page 33 and 34: surveys say have lost their way sin
Page 35 and 36: "A ritual-type thing. Emotional ups
Page 37 and 38: Why is it that the closer we come t
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Page 41 and 42: our denominational identity. It is
Page 43 and 44: ideas held in common by the Evangel
Page 45 and 46: Youth of a century ago who had the
Page 47 and 48: Chapter 3 Christ's Coming: How Soon
Page 49 and 50: Christians of many different church
Page 51 and 52: that exists only in the true Christ
Page 53 and 54: His presence.6 The thought of "the
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In seeking to defend her credibilit
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of light that came from heaven, ste
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scatter seed on the ground, and sho
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people are sealed and prepared for
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second coming. A people must now be
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here we come to the mysterious part
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inventions of radio, TV, jet travel
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Daniel and Revelation, few if any a
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16. Testimonies for the Church, Vol
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and powerful communication that the
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with freshness and power;""Christ's
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present message ... bears the divin
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Surely our heavenly Father wants us
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only one kind—that which is by fa
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without. The hindrances to strength
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whoever calls on the name of the Lo
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Report of the General Conference ad
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Chapter 5 If It Isn't Good News, Ca
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Greek word for believe and to have
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the Father lent Him as a missionary
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eality solves a problem that psychi
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The Bible speaks of two different k
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impressed that not one sees this in
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When I was made in secret, And skil
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invent the doctrine of the natural
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followers soon reverted to the paga
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every man." (2) As "all have sinned
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seize the initiative. That is true,
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was so degraded in the time of the
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in the laundromat is provisional, b
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Than We Have Thought According to t
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ole is that of Husband; His people
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win. Look at Isaiah 55:6:"Seek the
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After birth the unwanted child can
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20:14. 9. 1 John 2:2. 10. The Desir
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125
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gone "like fire in the stubble" and
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The Basic Difference Is Motivation
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concern always remains self, that t
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clearly differentiated between bein
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living degenerates to a search for
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with God," and since "whosoever hat
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saying, “The love of Christ const
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There is no element of weakness in
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with God."23 "Though He died for al
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(5) The Catholic view encourages do
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the atonement," or reconciliation,
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unrighteousness."39 Says the 1888 i
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commandments of God, and the faith
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a successful resolving of the "grea
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29. Ephesians4:7. 30. John 12:32, K
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Chapter 7 Can the Good News Be Made
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that this news is too good to be tr
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The ministry of the great High Prie
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Speaking of power, there are also i
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Ellen White declared that the 1888
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human hearts, and released latent a
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"The present message—justificatio
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If He "sent" it through "His specia
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finally able to communicate that "a
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message of grace so that we can fee
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and fill your lungs with fresh air;
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eality volitional. The problem is t
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(6) The Savior does a good job when
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11. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11. 12. Roman
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Protestantism generally accepted. T
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touched, and many souls were fed on
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You and I would give a great deal t
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divine judgment which has hung over
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alienation can be resolved in “si
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depths. Evil passions, hatreds, and
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This is the world we live in. Multi
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emarkably similar in both groups."1
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Inasmuch then as the children have
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upon His sinless nature our sinful
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sympathizes with us, but even that
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failure is His problem to solve. Yo
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Christ was sinless, but He took our
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profound loneliness. How has Christ
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Christ power against that temptatio
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so many youth seek illicit physical
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My richest gain I count but loss, A
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Jesus stands before the ark, making
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Chapter 9 The New Covenant Breaks T
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I went to Sabbath school and church
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has been so opposed—fear of the G
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Abraham's true descendants are thos
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ut certain, if like Abraham we will
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How the World's Best People Invente
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Obsessed with legalism, unbelief bl
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were completely unnecessary for Abr
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land of Egypt, out of the house of
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or an alcoholic to promise never to
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Rome claims to be the Vicar of Chri
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It can never be repeated too often,
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espond to the new covenant gospel.
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message associated with that work i
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20. Waggoner, op. at, p. 74. 21. Ex
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message and forget its story? The a
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establishes confidence in the ultim
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majority of the delegates reacted n
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passions was let loose."16 A speake
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time the Spirit of God was insulted
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many to reject the message and both
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A little later she added, “Many .
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presidents are behaving like mediev
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(16) She finally returned to her ho
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The safest way to answer is to let
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a century later to suspect their me
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prophecy is the persecution against
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The story is most clearly seen as u
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proclaim the loud cry message, they
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claims in our denominational histor
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12. C.C.McReynolds,D. File 189, Ell
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3,1889 [516,517]. 45. MS 13,1889 [5
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withdrawing support from the denomi
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made with Abraham long ago: "Get ou
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people God remembered mercy and loy
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In 34 A. D. the physical nation of
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The Holy Spirit said, "Now separate
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Vaudois churches, in their purity a
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We should no longer be children, to
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apostles down to the end of the wor
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does not fall. It remains, while th
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He is so nauseated with their lukew
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may appear to be a vast graveyard o
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they have a wonderful work to do. B
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Seventh-day Adventist in all the wo
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for the body of the church. In orde
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with that heavenly High Priest! Let
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18. Revelation 2:18-20. 19. Vss. 12
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Appendix Ellen G. White Endorsement
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