SPECIAL MESSAGE TO WGM TEAM PARTNERS:
THE SIMULTANEOUS CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY IN HEAVEN & THE BODY TEMPLE ON EARTH
“Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all the filthiness of the flesh and the spirit, perfecting HOLINESS in the fear of God.” 2 Cor. 7: 1, KJV. Spiritual things are spiritually discerned. And the carnal mind is enmity against the law of righteousness. The “cleansing” of the flesh here does not refer to outward, physical cleanliness or sanitation, as important as they are, but to moral pollution, secret or public.
The following quotes are extracts from the chapter “Clean Hands and Pure Hearts,” a reprint from the tract, The Sin of Licentiousness, Testimonies to Ministers & Gospel Workers, pp. 427, 428 (all emphasis and words in brackets mine):
“There is much preaching of the truth, but few are sanctified through the truth [see John 17:17]. Piety and righteousness are NOT brought into the practical life, and the Lord is DISHONORED; and having no VITAL connection with God, poor, weak human nature has NO strength to resist temptation, and never will have TILL the converting power of God [in His grace imparted by the Holy Spirit] takes hold upon the soul [the living person].
“We are nearing the judgment, and those who bear the message of warning to the world MUST HAVE clean hands and pure hearts They must have a living [and vital, not superficial, mere form or professed]. Their THOUGHTS must be pure and holy for God ‘examines the reins of the mind, the thoughts and intents of the heart’], the soul untainted, the BODY, soul, and SPIRIT [the moral character and individual personality] be a pure, clean OFFERING to God [not the pecuniary ‘tithes and offerings’], or He will NOT accept it!
“Recent painful developments of EVIL are one of the greatest EVIDENCES that the end is NEAR. Satan, like a roaring lion, is going about [all around us], seeking whom he may devour, and IF men and women, under the BLAZING LIGHT [of the Present, testing truth] that now shines in these PERILOUS times, will be found FORNICATORS [both literal and spiritual], I [God’s last-day messenger] am afraid that God will SEPARATE them from the work forever!” – E. G. White.
Lest we forget or yield to the deadly peace-and-safety, once-saved-always saved, “we are already forgiven because of Christ’s sacrifice counterfeit gospel—the lives of all who “profess faith in Christ” have been passing in review during the ongoing pre-advent, Investigative Judgement session in the most holy of the heavenly sanctuary. It began with the cases of the dead, starting with Adam and Eve and soon will pass on to the cases of the living! Remember Peter’s solemn warning:
“For the time has come that Judgment must begin at the house of God [‘household of faith]: and if it first begin at US, what shall the end be of them that obey not the GOSPEL of God? And if the righteous SCARCELY be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?” 1 Pet. 4: 17, 18. Humbly ponder upon these solemn thoughts dear ministry partners! I will continue quoting from this particular resource. Bless all, NMF.