Dig Deeper: May 2018

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Puritan Corner - Faint Not

"For a close, remember this, that your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not."
by Thomas Brooks (1608-1680)
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
James 2:19

Darkness of Night in this Great Controversy

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven;

a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet,

and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

Revelation 12:1

As the Moon Reflects the Sun's Light out into the Dark Night....so too the people of God are expected to shine His Light out into this darkness of Night in this Great Controversy between God & His Opponent.

Creation Moment 5/31/2018 - Entropy Undermines Evolution

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

Romans 8:22

".....entropy—the Second Law of Thermodynamics—which is the universal tendency in the real world toward a decrease in order and complexity. Entropy won’t go away, no matter how desperately evolutionary imaginations wish it to!

Our universe is always governed by entropy, and the biochemical compounds needed for life, such as DNA, RNA, amino acids, lipoproteins, glycoproteins, etc., are no exception. Thermodynamically speaking, all of the basic biochemical building blocks needed to construct body parts for humans and animals are inherently and inescapably unstable. Thus, any accidental (random, lucky, undesigned) assembly of biochemicals in a so-called “primordial soup” would be statistically likely to disintegrate with every passing moment.

That means any accidental bio-assemblage would be ephemeral at best. Entropy ensures that infinite time is the destroyer of accidental biomolecules, not a “savior” that preserves and then builds them from simple to complex." ICR

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Grieving

WE Grieve when our feelings are hurt.....

--BUT--

WE should be Grieving over OUR SINS......

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:..

..Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:

yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Isaiah 53:3,4

grieve

synonyms:

sadden, upset, distress, pain, hurt, wound, break someone's heart, make someone's heart bleed

ARCHAEOLOGY: Mark

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; Mark 1:1

"An ancient and much-debated fragment of the Gospel of Mark has been dated to the late second to early third century A.D., making it the oldest fragment of Mark ever found.

The Egypt Exploration Society made the announcement about the fragment – known as P.Oxy LXXXIII 5345 – on its website May 24.
“After rigorous comparison with other objectively dated texts, the hand of this papyrus is now assigned to the late second to early third century AD,” the society said.
The society added that “the two sides of the papyrus each preserve brief traces of a passage” from Mark. It was found around 1903 along with many other ancient documents, the society said.
It is the same fragment that helped set off a debate in 2012 when news leaked that the fragment could date to the first century, which would have made it the oldest fragment of the New Testament ever found and would have placed it within the lifetime of some of the biblical characters.
Still, its dating to the late 100s or early 200s is significant, experts say.
“Much talked about old fragment of the Gospel of Mark has finally been published as P.Oxy. 5345 by @TheEES, which dates it to late second or early third century. If so, then it’s the oldest manuscript of Mark thus far identified and published,” professor Craig Evans wrote on Twitter.
The earliest-known fragment of the New Testament dates to about 125 A.D. and is from John’s Gospel, Baptist Press reported." BCH

Creation Moment 5/30/2018 - DinoBird Dandruff

DinoBird Dandruff
"The press release from University College of Cork, Ireland, set off a contest among reporters to see

which one could create the best punny headline. But perhaps the university’s own was hard to beat: “Dino-bird dandruff research head and shoulders above rest.” [Head and Shoulders, for non-Americans, is a brand of dandruff shampoo.]

The mere fact is this: using advanced imaging techniques, scientists at the college found dandruff between the feathers of fossil birds. If you don’t buy the Darwinian tale that birds evolved from dinosaurs, you will have no problem with the data, because you don’t believe the scenario about tens of millions of Darwin Years separating the fossils and modern birds. But if you do believe the Darwin tale, you do have some explaining to do:

“The fossil cells are preserved with incredible detail – right down to the level of nanoscale keratin fibrils. What’s remarkable is that the fossil dandruff is almost identical to that in modern birds – even the spiral twisting of individual fibres is still visible,” said Dr Maria McNamara.

The only difference is that the fossil corneocytes (dandruff structures containing melanin) were packed a little more tightly with melanin than the modern ones. That might indicate, however, that these particular fossil species didn’t need to fly long distances, they say. Reptile scales, by contrast, don’t shed in small flakes, but tend to come off in sheets or large pieces. And so the actual data shows that these creatures were much closer to birds than to dinosaurs, and the fact that their dandruff looks modern suggests that not a lot of time passed between their time and today. Otherwise, what was Darwin doing with dandruff evolution for 100 million years? No evolution is evident."
CEH
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise;
1 Corinthians 1:27

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

IN the NEWS - Lesson from Ireland

Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man,
and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Jeremiah 17:5

"Every single political party in the Republic of Ireland campaigned for abortion on demand.

Right across the country, signs with the faces of politicians and an enormous “YES” hung on sign-posts.
--Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, who ran on a pro-life platform with a long history of very pro-life statements, released an emotive video just before the vote urging people to check the box for “Yes.” --And Health Minister Simon Harris (who also campaigned for office as a pro-lifer) plugged for abortion like his life depended on it.

As Melanie McDonough noted in The Spectator, it is almost surprising that the pro-life side managed

to secure more than a third of the population considering that they had no political representation whatsoever.

And so the question is why? Why did politicians who campaigned on pro-life platforms—and in the case of Leo Varadkar, gone on the record in the past as a medical professional explaining how lethal and damaging abortion is—all simultaneously flip and become abortion activists? And why did they become so passionate about “modernizing” Ireland and bringing feticide to the Emerald Isle so suddenly? Was it their plan all along? Were they paid off by those in the international abortion industry who stand to profit enormously from the “Yes” vote on Friday? All of these have an element of truth to them." Lifesite
LESSON:
Politicians of ALL Parties will find common ground when the Mark of the Beast is implemented.
My view is that when it starts here on our side of the pond-in America- the chorus will likely be led by Christians, because of natural disasters, that we need to turn back to God. (Just look at the moral decay in Ireland on their gay marriage referendum and now the abortion one. And gay marriage sweeping the planet, celebrating transgenderism in the public arena, gender neutral bathrooms, the courts in Canada legalizing "partial" bestiality, a judge in Italy legalizing public masturbation except in front of kids, the bullying of the boy scouts, loss of religious freedom due to LGBTmania, etc.).
Then the others will join in to set aside a day of rest to reduce our so-called carbon footprint....so they will find common ground around what Pope Francis calls our Common Home (planet earth).

Beauty in the Lesson of Psalm 83

Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young, even thine altars,
O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
Psalm 84:3

"You will notice the heading to this Psalm, the words “To the chief Musician. A Psalm for the sons of Korah.”

“To the chief Musician,” the One who said as He came forth from resurrection, “In the midst of the congregation will I sing praise unto Thee” (Hebrews 2:12; also Psalm 22:22).
---He is the chief Musician, the One who leads the praises of His people, Jesus Himself, the great Leader of the choir of the redeemed."
HarryIronside

P.S.- " “To the chief Musician.” There is a critical question as to where these headings properly belong in the original Hebrew, at the beginning of the Psalm that follows them or whether they should follow the previous Psalm. There is nothing to indicate either way; in the Hebrew, the one Psalm is so closely linked with the other. The late Dr. Thirtle has suggested that there seems to be good reason to believe these titles really belong to the preceding Psalm. If that is the case, it does not interfere with something I want to point out here. The heading of the next Psalm is practically the same, so we can transfer it to this Psalm if we give that of Psalm 84 to Psalm 83."
HarryIronside

Psalm 83 Chiasm

Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

Psalm 83:1

Ps83:1-19

A(83:2-4)

83:2 God, do not be silent

B(83:5)

83:5 They say, "Come, let us wipe out their nation; let Israel's name be mentioned no more!" (83:5)

C(83:6-9)

The people against God

C'(83:10-12)

The people who were destroyed by God

B'(83:13)

83:13 Who made a plan together, "Let us seize the pastures of God." (83:13)

A'(83:14-19)

83:14 My God, turn them into withered grass

A: Prayer for salvation.
B: Words of enemies.
C: The people against God.

DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes SERIES PAGE

God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son. John 3:16

*Christ was treated as we deserve, that we might be treated as He deserves.
*Himself the priest, Himself the victim.
*His life testifies that it is possible for us also to obey the law of God.
*Heaven viewed with grief and amazement Christ hanging upon the cross, blood flowing from His wounded temples, and sweat tinged with blood standing upon His brow. From His hands and feet the blood fell, drop by drop, upon the rock drilled for the foot of the cross.......The voice of God is heard proclaiming that justice is satisfied. Satan is vanquished.
Before the heavenly angels and the representatives of unfallen worlds, they are declared justified. Where He is, there His church shall be.
The Father's arms encircle His Son, and the word is given, Let all the angels of God worship Him. Hebrews 1:6

Craetion Moment 5/29/2018 - The Physician Knows

They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick:

I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Mark 2:17

"What’s that about the human body and “poor design”? On a new episode of ID the Future, physician Howard Glicksman explains

the hugely complex blood flow systems required to keep us clear-headed and alive even while doing everything from gymnastics to simply getting up in the morning. There are various methods the heart and blood vessels use to keep the body properly supplied. It’s also about hormones and nervous-system signaling.

Does Darwinism provide a satisfactory explanation for such an intricately coordinated system? Dr. Glicksman argues that it does not, and that a far better explanation is intelligent design. It takes a physician to fully appreciate the marvel of maintaining life. to fully appreciate the marvel of maintaining life.to fully appreciate the marvel of maintaining life." EN&V

Monday, May 28, 2018

MEMORIAL DAY 2018

Joab scolds David for disrespecting his military men

And Joab came into the house to the king, and said,

Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants,
which this day have saved thy life,
and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters,
and the lives of thy wives,

In that thou lovest thine enemies,

and hatest thy friends.

For thou hast declared this day,

that thou regardest neither princes nor servants:

for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived,

and all we had died this day,

then it had pleased thee well.

Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants:

for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night:

and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.

Then the king arose, and sat in the gate.

And they told unto all the people, saying,

Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king:

2 Samuel 19:5-8

DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 87

To My Father, and Your Father

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/SMGtlONyHkk

Christ had sojourned in the world for thirty-three years; He had endured its scorn, insult, and

mockery; He had been rejected and crucified. Christ had ascended to heaven in the form of humanity.
While the disciples were still gazing upward, voices addressed them which sounded like richest music. They turned, and saw two angels in the form of men, who spoke to them, saying, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven. Acts 1:11
The voice of God is heard proclaiming that justice is satisfied. Satan is vanquished.
Before the heavenly angels and the representatives of unfallen worlds, they are declared justified. Where He is, there His church shall be.
The Father's arms encircle His Son, and the word is given, Let all the angels of God worship Him. Hebrews 1:6

Spelling out the Love of God

"He loves and cares for a lost world of human intelligences. "God so loved the world
[a race of rebel sinners], that he gave his only begotten Son [the object of his affections], that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3: 16."

*For scarcely for a righteous man will one die...But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Rom. 5:7,8.

*Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends; but Jesus died for his enemies, to rescue them from eternal destruction.

*Not for a part merely; he tasted death for every man. Heb. 2:9."

SDA Pioneer Stephen Pierce (1804-1883)

IN the NEWS - Pence vs. Warren

Who is right on what Pastors should be engaged in Preaching?

PENCE

"In a last-second surprise appearance before a pastors conference in

Washington DC, Vice President Mike Pence implored them to continue to, "share the good news of Jesus Christ.”
“Keep preaching the good news. Keep preaching in season and out of season as the Bible says. Always be prepared to give a reason for the hope that you have," he continued." CP

WARREN

"Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren spoke Tuesday (May 22) at the Festival of Homiletics, a conference, founded in 1992, that

gathers clergy from primarily white, mainline Protestant traditions to discuss and engage in the art of preaching.
When she pulled out a King James Bible to read from Matthew 25, good-natured groans went up from an audience that typically uses Bible translations that are approximately 300 years more recent.
“I’m old-school,” joked Warren, who was raised Methodist....she said. “I fight to uplift and protect the divine in every single person.”
Warren called the surge of activism after President Trump’s election — citing the Women’s March, protests against the travel ban on primarily Muslim countries and the championing of undocumented immigrants and gun control — “righteous fights.”
That led to a fiery chant, joined by the enthusiastic crowd: “Our fight is a righteous fight!” BCN

One says to preach the Gospel (Good News) of Christ...
The other says they should be politicizing the Pulpit for the so-called women's march (militant feminism) the so-called "travel ban" (which actually was just a temporary hold on 6 nations that don't help us with the vetting process at their end of who enters our country from theirs--so we can have time to enhance our vetting process) "undocumented Immigrants" (shouldn't they follow Scripture and urge these people to obey "Caesar", the government, thereby obeying our immigration laws?) and gun control (which is nowhere discussed in Scripture).
---so what we have here is a Vice President telling Pastors to Preach the Gospel and then we have a Senator & Presidential aspirant telling clergy to use the pulpit for Leftwing, non-Biblical action.

WHO WOULD PAUL SIDE WITH?

Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care.

Turn away from godless chatter...

1 Timothy 6:20 NIV

Creation Moment 5/28/2018 - Fiat

Let them praise the name of the LORD:
for he commanded, and they were created.
Psalm 148:5

"The concept of “fiat creation” is opposed by evolutionists and all who believe in the so-called geologic ages. Nevertheless, this is clearly the teaching of the Word of God, ...Psalm 148 exhorts as soon as God spoke, they “were created.”

Similarly, “by the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. . . . For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast” (Psalm 33:6, 9).

It is worth noting that whenever the verbs “create” and “make” are used in reference to God’s work of creation, they are never in the present tense. God is not now creating or making stars or animals or people as theistic evolution requires; at the end of the six-day creation period, in fact, God “rested from all his work which God created and made” (Genesis 2:3).

This is the teaching of the New Testament also. “The worlds [that is, the space/time cosmos, the ‘aeons’] were framed [not ‘are being framed’] by the word of God [not ‘by processes of stellar evolution’], so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear [not ‘out of pre-existing materials,’ as required by theories of chemical and cosmic evolution]” (Hebrews 11:3).

The Lord Jesus Christ Himself confirmed the doctrine of recent creation. “From the beginning of the creation [not, that is, four billion years after the solar system evolved] God made them [Adam and Eve] male and female” (Mark 10:6).

Thus, those who believe in the geologic ages are rejecting both the biblical record and the authority of Jesus Christ in order to attain ephemeral acceptance by the ungodly. This is a poor exchange!" HMM

Saturday, May 26, 2018

DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 86

Go Teach All Nations

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/y425Xtw6Igo

In Christ is the tenderness of the shepherd, the affection of the parent, and the matchless grace of the compassionate Savior.
The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. Revelation 22:17
Everyone who hears is to repeat the invitation. Whatever one's calling in life, his first interest should be to win souls for Christ. He may not be able to speak to congregations, but he can work for individuals.

Proper Perspective on "Self"

That men may know that thou,

whose name alone is JEHOVAH,

art the most high over all the earth.

Psalm 83:18

"Cease sympathizing with yourself, and remember the world's Redeemer.

*Consider the infinite sacrifice He has made in behalf of man,
*and think of His disappointment that after He has made such a sacrifice in man's behalf,
----man should choose to ally himself with those who hate Christ and righteousness
----and should become one with them in the indulgence of perverted appetite, thus bringing eternal ruin to his soul."
Testimonies for the Church vol.5,p.508 E.G.W.

SDA Issues - Who is it Misusing our Youth?

The night is far spent, the day is at hand....
Romans 13:12

Who is it - Misusing our Youth?....for political props of Fluff....Not one person planning on doing a violent act with a knife or gun will think twice because of a march beating drums...that time wasted making zero difference by our Pathfinders in uniform could have been spent doing something of substance...like passing out food to the needy or literature on the streets....but instead the leaders use them for an ecumenical prop that accomplishes nothing.....who is replacing the Biblical Gospel with the Social Gospel?

"Two Adventist congregations in London (U.K.) have joined recent demonstrations against gun and

knife violence. On May 7 the Pathfinder Club drum corps of the Hackney church led the march in the community in the west of metro London which included the mayor and town council members as well as religious leaders from the Church of England, Methodist church, United Reformed Church, Stamford Hill mosque and the Adventist denomination.
A week earlier, on Sunday 29 April members of the Croydon Adventist church had gathered with hundreds of Christians in a march for peace in their borough in the south of metro London. Equipped with flags, songs and prayers, hundreds of believers marched through Croydon’s busy town center. Shoppers looked startled to see a crowd of people, united in a common peaceful purpose." AT

IN the NEWS - Beachy Amish Pastor

What's happened to America?.....This woman (Janet) was not even the girls blood relative. Lisa had left that lifestyle behind....why did Janet not just leave her and her daughter alone.....and why did a judge mandate visitation rights to a non blood relative?...Because the judge wanted to make a point of sticking to Lisa and her Christian views.....what's happened to our judiciary?...

"Kenneth Miller from 2013, prior to beginning his prison term for helping Lisa and Isabella Miller
A Mennonite pastor who helped a girl and her birth mother escape the United States to evade her

court-imposed lesbian “mother” has been freed after serving almost 24 months in a U.S. federal prison.
Kenneth Miller, a pastor with the Beachy Amish Mennonites of Virginia, was convicted in 2013 of having helped Lisa Miller and her daughter Isabella (both unrelated to Kenneth Miller) to flee the United States. They left the country in late 2009 to evade court-imposed visits to Lisa’s former civil union partner, Janet Jenkins.
According to a website created by Kenneth Miller’s supporters, the pastor was released from prison on March 6, and “was given a grand welcome at our church by flashing lights, sirens, and a shower, courtesy of the Amish Auxiliary of the Stuarts Draft Volunteer Fire Dept.” LHT
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor:
Psalm 10:2

What We BELIEVE

* And now abideth faith, hope, LOVE, these three; but the greatest of these is LOVE. 1 Corinthians 13:13

* Genesis 1-11 is actual HISTORY

* The 10 Commandments WAS - IS - & WILL BE the LAW of GOD

* REVELATION is written in symbols for actual end time events

* The SANCTUARY lays out the Plan of Salvation (Justification / Outer Court + Sanctification / Inner Court = preparation for your Judgment / Most Holy Place)

* The solemnity of the 7th day SABBATH (Saturday) was NEVER transferred to the 1st day of the week (Sunday) by God

* The modern charismatic movement is a counterfeit Latter Rain

* The Mark-of-the-beast will involve some sort of counterfeit Sabbath

* "Soul Sleep" for the State of the Dead (dead until the resurrection)

* The Godhead (Trinity) are 3 separate beings who work together in unity

* The GODHEAD's Existence is ETERNAL (in other words-The arrow of time stretching for Infinity in both directions)

* The GREEN RELIGION (modern environmental movement) is a cleverly cloaked spiritualism for the "sophisticated" modern world

* The Little Horn of Daniel & the Beast of Revelation (a.k.a. the anti-christ to some) is one & the same institution - the same institution the Reformers declared it to be during the Reformation

* Marriage is between ONE man & ONE woman

* The Emerging Church movement -- & spiritual formation are modern day GNOSTICISM & have NO place within Christendom

* Women Ordination is an ASSAULT on the foundation of the Godhead (as God is the head of Christ in an ecclesiastical setting - so too was the man placed as the head of the woman in an ecclesiastical setting -- outside this setting they are equal as Christ is with the Father)

* Baptism is by Immersion at an age of consent

* Justification + Sanctification = TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH....(Justification) Neither do I condemn thee: (Sanctification) go, and sin no more. John 8:11

* God is NOT homophobic -- rather He is sexual immorality phobic (HE places adultery, fornication, rape, bestiality, cross dressing AND homosexuality ALL in the same category)

* "HELL" is NOT an eternally burning place -- rather it is the Lake of Fire where the wicked will be destroyed together once & for all when this Great Controversy between God & His opponent comes to an end....God does NOT torment people for eternity

* The "Great Controversy" theme is the prism to make sense of this universal conflict between God & His opponent, of which we play a part on this space fabric of time as a "spectacle" (as Paul calls it) before all watching

* Biblical "speaking in tongues" was a GIFT of known foreign languages for Evangelization (not the gibberish "tongues" uttered in churches today)

* Historicism is the way to interpret eschatology from the view of the prophetic porch (NOT preterism, futurism or idealisim)

* The 3 Angel's Message (of Rev.14) is the central Mission of the SDA Church & the Sanctuary Doctrine (& it's sub-doctrine of the Investigative Judgment) is the Cornerstone Doctrine of the Denomination

* The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is a SYMBOLIC Remembrance

* The 2nd Advent of Christ will be a literal, visible, physical return where EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM & that is when the dead will rise & the living be caught up-- Not at some sort of a "secret rapture" before His return...

* On the Nature of Christ - He was born with our sinful fallen nature / propensities--yet did NOT sin - hence His ability to be the spotless Lamb of God - the Lamb without blemish to cover ours

* 7th Day Adventism did not rise up at the end of the time-frame of Daniel 8:14 to be just another denomination to hang upon the wall of Christendom...

* The Dispensations around the Cross are 1) Before the Cross the Plan of Redemption laid out in the earthly Sanctuary in Types & Symbols patterned after the Heavenly Sanctuary {from the Altar of Sacrifice to the Mercy Seat} 2) After the Cross shifts to the REALITY of the Heavenly Sanctuary {from the Cross to the Judgment Seat}. ---- We REJECT the Dispensationalism that says "before the cross we were saved by the Law & after the Cross by Grace" ---- (the reason is because on BOTH SIDES OF THE CROSS we were never saved by the Law and always saved by Grace)

* We REJECT the DISGUSTING "Prosperity Gospel" as many see TV (so-called) Evangelists preach today

* Justification & Sanctification Simplified - God draws the BOUNDARIES with His LAW. When we step outside of them it's called SIN. (He offers JUSTIFICATION to remedy it). But afterwards He expects us to step back within those Boundaries (called SANCTIFICATION ).

* EndTime "BABYLON" - Confederacy of the Counterfeit Trinity of the "Dragon", "Beast" & "False Prophet" of Rev.16:13. (Also a term of Reference for the Fallen Condition of Christendom)

*The OLD TESTAMENT is simply the NEW TESTAMENT in Types & Symbols- therefore both are valid for Study & Doctrine.

* "A Minister's words are only of Value as long as his word's are an Echo of the Word's of God." {Dwayne Lemon}

* We REJECT the Church being involved with the ECUMENICAL movement....where do you see in Scripture God's people ever being told to be Ecumenical with neighboring religions?.. Nowhere....

*We believe in "Replacement Theology", that "Israel" in prophetic terms and spiritually is God's people...NOT Literal, Modern Day Israel in the Middle East.

* Tithing is Biblical: MONEY (1/10 to God) TIME (1/7 to God- the 7th day of the week, called the SABBATH)

* Soteriology: We believe in total FREE WILL as a component. - Therefore we Reject Sacramentalism, Predestination, Once-Saved-Always-Saved, Universalism & Pluralism.

* The HEALTH MESSAGE-Live it as best you can. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest....be in health... 3 John 1:2

* And always remember - "If you feel yourself to be the greatest sinner, Christ is just what you need, the greatest Savior. Lift up your head and look away from yourself, away from your sin, to the uplifted Savior; away from the poisonous, venomous bite of the serpent to the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world." Ellen White {JUSTIFICATION}

* "God has given us His commandments, not only to be believed in, but to be obeyed." Ellen White {SANCTIFICATION}

* SUMMARY: "Every chapter and every verse of the Bible is a communication from God to men." Ellen White

* WARNING: "...by beholding we become changed. The mind gradually adapts itself to the subjects upon which it is allowed to dwell. It becomes assimilated to that which it is accustomed to love and reverence." Ellen White

Are Ashes Upon Your Lips?

The love of God still yearns over the one who has chosen to separate from Him, and He sets in operation influences to bring him back to the Father's house.
--Have you, reader, chosen your own way?
--Have you wandered far from God?
--Have you sought to feast upon the fruits of transgression, only to find them turn to ashes upon your lips?
Now that voice which has long been speaking to your heart but to which you would not listen comes to you distinct and clear, Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest; because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. Micah 2:10. Return to your Father's house. He invites you, saying, Return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee. Isa. 44:22.
E.G.W.

And the Spirit & the bride say, come.... Reveaaltion 22:17

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