Sermons and Talks, Volume 1 - Ellen G. White

for the grand review, that you may have the white
robe of character in that day?” You cannot afford
to indulge in sin and iniquity; you cannot afford to
be found a transgressor of God's great moral rule of
righteousness.
If God had no law as a moral standard,
whereby every case must be judged, there could be
no judgment, and the cases of men and women
could not be tried. If we have not been found in
harmony with God's requirements in this life, we
will not be in harmony with His requirements in
the future life.
What excuses have we today that we are not in
harmony with the laws of God's government? And
what excuse can we render in the day of God for
the disobedience of His requirements? Will you say
“The whole world was in disobedience to the law
of God, and I thought I would not be singular”? In
that day, this excuse will not be accepted. You may
present excuses now, but you will not venture to
present them before the judge of all the earth, for
just as soon as the books are opened and the
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