October 15, 2020
FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
DEEP EXPERIENCE AND THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE OF ‘IT IS WRITTEN’ OUR SAFEGUARD IN THESE LAST HOURS OF PROBATION
“How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?” Heb. 2:3.
“So long as the people of God preserve their fidelity in Him, so long as they cling by living faith to Jesus, they are under the protection of angels, and Satan will not be permitted to exercise his hellish arts upon them to their destruction. But those who SEPARATE themselves from Christ by SIN are in great peril.
“Satan is now earnestly engaged in playing the game of life for souls than at ANY previous time; and unless we are CONSTANTLY on our guard, he will establish in OUR HEARTS, pride, love of self, love of the world, and many other evil traits.
“He will also use every possible device to UNSETTLE in God and in the truths of His Word.
“If we had not a deep things with the deep things of God, if we had not a thorough knowledge of His Word, we shall be BEGUILED to our ruin by the errors and sophistries of the enemy. FALSE doctrines will sap the foundation of MANY, because they have not learned to DISCERN truth from error.
“Our only safeguard against the wiles of Satan is to STUDY THE SCRIPTURES DILIGENTLY, to have an INTElLIGENT understanding of the reasons of our faith, and faithfully perform EVERY known duty. The INDULGENCE of one known sin will cause weakness and darkness, and subject us to fierce temptation.
“The work of OVERCOMING is a great work. Shall we take hold of it with energy and perseverance? Unless we do, our ‘filthy garments’ will not be taken from us. We need NEVER EXPECT that this [filthy garment sin-defiled moral character] will be torn from us violently; we must FIRST show a desire to RID ourselves of them.
“We must seek to SEPARATE sin from us, RELYING on the merits of the blood of Christ; and then in the day of affliction, when the enemy presses us, we shall walk among the angels!” – E.G. White, Review & Herald, Nov. 19, 1908.
Need I say more. God bless all, NMF.