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February 19, 2024

Straight Testimony to the Laodiceans – Part 16

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE
LAODICEAN MESSAGE THRU
THE YEARS (Sixth Part)

 1903 - “To the church of the PRESENT DAY this message is sent. I call upon our church members to READ THE WHOLE of the third chapter of Revelation, and make an APPLICATION of it. The message to the church of the Laodiceans APPLIES SPECIALLY to the people of God today [note the year given]. It is a message to PROFESSING Christians who have become SO MUCH LIKE THE WORLD THAT NO DIFFERENCE CAN BE SEEN. [verses 14-18 quoted].” Ibid, RH Nov. 20, 1903/ 7 BC 959. 

Note: This is but one of the dozens of incisive, “two-edged sword,” straight-talk, plain-truth Testimonies of the Spirit of Prophecy that “pierced even to the dividing asunder of my soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow” (cf Heb. 4: 12, 13, KJV) when I first read it way back in 1994 or late 1993. It still does, by the power of the Holy Spirit working on the conscience of my mind.

Such messages remind me to be constantly vigilant lest my faith in Jesus, love for God and His law, and relationship with the Holy Spirit (all Three Persons of the Godhead being invisible to the physical, naked eye)—be merely a profession, performative, transactional, situational and conditional subject to compromise, depending on convenience, not conviction.

True indeed that “Man looks on the outward appearance but God looks upon the heart.” And yet it is also true that our lives “may be the only book that our neighbor may ever read.” It is called “the word of our testimony.” And what kind of “spectacle” are we to the gaze “of the world, men, and angels (both good and evil)?”

And thus, a truly convicted and genuinely converted and “born again” Christian, especially the professed member of the “remnant church” of prophecy, particularly during these silent closing hours of probation, will also be clearly distinguishable from the vast majority of the Christian mainstream, let alone the world itself. The apostle echoes and repeats what Moses declared centuries earlier:

 “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should show forth the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness [of sin, ignorance, worldliness] unto His marvelous light [of truth, righteousness, holiness, godliness].” 1 Pet. 2:9, KJV. cf. Deut. 14:2. 

So ask yourselves this question. Are we also “so much like the world” that “no difference can be seen” in what we think, talk about, do with our time and talents, etc. (except for physically going to church on the seventh day and performing Sabbath duties and functions? The Jewish nation excelled in these in the time of Christ.

The real difference can only happen when “the carnal mind” of the “old man” is “transformed by the spiritual “renewal of the mind” into the “new man” or “new creature in Christ Jesus.”

If this radical change inside-out is not effected thru the work of sanctification by the daily fiery baptism of the Holy Spirit, which is the thorough work of character-preparation for eternity requires, then the professed believer becomes fearfully content in self-deception as to his true spiritual condition, brought on by the soul-destroying Laodicean disease.

Remember this: God loves the sinner with perfect love and hates sin with perfect hatred. And He remains “the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

Bless all, NMF.

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February 16, 2024

The Straight Testimony to the Laodiceans – Part 15

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE LAODICEAN MESSAGE THROUGH THE YEARS (Fifth Part)

 1901 - “The Laodicean message is applicable to the church AT THIS TIME. Do you believe in this message? Have you hearts that FEEL? Or are you constantly saying, ‘we are rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing’? . . . God has a CHOSEN PEOPLE and made them REPOSITORIES of truth weighty with ETERNAL RESULTS. To them has been given light that must illuminate the world. HAS GOD MADE A MISTAKE? Are we the men and women who are to bear to the world the messages of Revelation 14, to proclaim the message to those standing in the BRINK of ruin? DO WE ACT AS WE WERE?” -ibid, Man. 51, 1901/ 7BC 961. 

 1902 “The message to the Laodicean church is applicable to all who have had GREAT LIGHT and MANY OPPORTUNITIES, and yet, have NOT APPRECIATED THEM.” Ibid, RH Mar. 11, 1902/ 7BC 961. 

NOTE: If, in any way, shape, or form we feel contented, secure, and confident that we have already “made our calling and election sure” such that we are just patiently “waiting” for Jesus to finally come in blazing glory “to take us home” to the “mansions” He has been taking too long “to prepare” for us, then the Laodicean message specially applies to us. We have unfinished work to complete and so little left to “redeem lost time in these “evil days.”

Until we fully realize that our MORAL CHARACTERS have to be first INDIVIDUALLY “transformed by the renewing of the carnal “mind” of the “old man” into the spiritual mind of “the new man in Christ Jesus,” thus enabling us to “present our “bodies as a living sacrifice” to God and the Holy Spirit to be their appointed TEMPLE, “which is but our “reasonable service,” we will fail to please God in Christ, and prevent Him from placing His SEAL of approval IN our foreheads indicating that we were indeed FITTED-UP for eternity (not merely the one-time event of the Second advent) by the lifetime work of daily sanctification until our brief life is ended—we don’t know when, where, or how, only that it is a certainty. One of the most important goals of the whole gospel is to restore the lost image of God in fallen, sinful man.

And Christ, by His mysterious incarnation, followed by victorious death, then His all-powerful intercession has made that possible to all “who love and keep and obey His commandments. The finishing touch of immortality of eternal life is rewarded only to those “who died in Christ,” not to those who “perished in their sins” because of fatal self-confidence. “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth (made new).”

To be continued, God willing. Bless all, NMF.

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February 15, 2024

Straight Testimony to the Laodiceans – Part 14

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE LAODICEAN MESSAGE THRU THE YEARS (Fourth Part)

  1900 - “Self-exaltation is a dangerous element. It TARNISHES everything it touches. It is the OFFSPRING of pride, and it works SO INGENIOUSLY that, unless guarded against, it will take possession of the THOUGHTS and control the ACTIONS. The Laodicean message must be proclaimed with POWER; for NOW MORE THAN EVER before, are seen PRIDE, WORLDLY AMBITION, HYPOCRISY, and DECEPTION.” - Ibid, RH Sept. 5, 1900/7 E. G. W BC 963.

Like begets like and reproduces itself after its own kind. Thus Self-exaltation is an offspring of pride, and “pride goeth before a destruction; a haughty spirit before a fall. It “tarnishes,” corrodes, erodes everything it touches of our heart, mind, character, and personality—the so-called “spirit” of man. Indeed, now more than ever before, spiritual and carnal pride, worldly ambition, “the love of the world and things of the world, the lust of the eye and the flesh”, hypocrisy, dishonesty, deception, and “living a lie” are not only found in a doomed world hastening on to its destruction just like the antediluvian world, but as fearfully prophesied, in the churches and Christian mainstream. God’s supposed people are hardly that “chosen generation, royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people” for they have become so much like the world in their practices and lives. No wonder the straight testimony to the Laodiceans must be “proclaimed with power,” i. e., under the unction of the Holy Spirit.

Much earlier, in 1887, God’s humble messenger already warned the remnant church members:
“We have far more to fear FROM WITHIN THAN WITHOUT. The hindrances to strength are far greater FROM THE CHURCH ITSELF than from the world! . . . What is our condition in this fearful and solemn time? Alas, what PRIDE is prevailing in the church, what HYPOCRISY, what DECEPTION, what love of DRESS, FRIVOLITY, and AMUSEMENTS, what desire for SUPREMACY!” – Ibid, RH Mar. 22, 1887/ 1 SM 122, 125.

It is with a deepening sense of urgency that I am sharing with any who are still interested, what—by prayer, due diligence, patience, and painstaking research and studies through the years up to this very moment—truly opened my eyes, and mind to unalloyed, unvarnished, incisive truths that cut to the heart, convicted my conscience but also revealed “the way of escape,” “the divine standard that God will raise “when the enemy shall come in like a flood” that threatens to overwhelm and drown me! No, it is isn’t and never will be a “peace-and-safety,” “once-saved-always saved,” “once in grace-always in grace” message but “to the law and the testimony,” verily, “the straight testimony to the Laodiceans.”

To be continued, God willing. Bless all, NMF.

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February 12, 2024

Straight Testimony to the Laodiceans – Part 13

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE LAODICEAN MESSAGE THRU THE YEARS (Third Part)

1899 – “The Laodicean message applies to all who PROFESS to keep the law, and yet are NOT DOERS of it. We are not to be SELFISH in anything. Every PHASE of the Christian life is to be a REPRESENTATION of the life of Christ. If it is not, we shall hear the terrrible words “I KNOW YOU NOT.’ Ibid, Oct. 17, 1899.

Note the following:
1) A mere “profession” of any thing is not the same as its actual “possession.” It may only be a performative “form of godliness but denies in substance “its power thereof.” Jesus made the difference plain between “saying” and “doing” in His parable of the two sons.
2) The Ten Commandments is an unbreakable unit, thus, “to break one is to break all.” The Jewish nation in Christ’s time zealously preserved, observed, and enforced by their religious authorities and own laws the inviolable sanctity of the seventh-day Sabbath—to the point that they even condemned Jesus, the Lord of the Sabbath himself, of breaking the Sabbath by healing the sick. In fact, it was on the very Sabbath day that they plotted to kill Him! They honored and worshipped the seventh DAY Sabbath over the LORD of the Sabbath of creation.
3) Christ’s purpose and earthly mission as the promised “seed” and Messiah through His “great mystery of godliness” incarnation and “once and for all” sacrifice by crucifixion was in fact “to magnify THE LAW and make it honorable” by His own LIVING EXAMPLE. Only thus could He enable, empower, and expect the INDIVIDUAL, who considers and obeys Jesus as his PERSONAL Savior, to “overcome even as He overcame. “By their fruits ye shall know them.” The old covenant was made with Israel as a nation. But the new covenant is made with the individual. Thus, “work out your OWN salvation with fear and trembling for it is God that worketh IN YOU, both to WILL [i., e., to exercise one’s power of choice as a free moral agent] and to DO [willingly and lovingly obey] His good pleasure.” The “hope of glory” is “Christ IN you.” Col. 1: 26, 27.
4) This is one of the passages that helped me better understand Matt. 7: 1-29, particularly verses 21-23, and know, intelligently and spiritually as to what Jesus meant, to who it applies,and why. Indeed, “to the law and testimony” is the way the truth is to be established, not by “selfish,” that is, self-justifying, self-serving, self-pleasing interpretations perpetrated by cultural tradition and corporate institutional mentality, instead of the precious “individuality of man where true religion is concerned.

To be continued. Bless all, NMF.

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February 10, 2024

The Straight Testimony to the Laodiceans – Part 12

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE LAODICEAN MESSAGE THROUGH THE YEARS
(Second Part)

1898 – “The message to the Laodicean church comes home to those who do not apply it to themselves.” Ibid, Letter 60, 1898/Counsels to Writers & Editors, p. 99.

Note this: If, for whatever self-justifying reason or lame excuse, we do not humbly accept the divine Physician’s solemn, yet truthfully incisive diagnosis of this soul-destroying malignancy of self-deceived spiritual ignorance (“knowest not that thou art. . . .?”), then it is the very evidence that it applies to us, and are suffering this spiritual malady.

When I first read this Testimony many years ago in my search for the details of present truth, I could hardly believe my eyes! I had to prayerfully read and analyze it over and over again, “comparing it line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little there a little” with the wealth of directly and indirectly related Bible and SOP references in the broader context of the already-revealed end-time, deadly deceptions and unnumbered schemes of Satan for the churches. It surely opened my blurred and even blind spiritual eyes of discernment! But I did not reject it, as humiliating and painful as it stung my pride and ignorance of God’s infinite wisdom and perfect ways.

But the complete antidote and perfect cure for this malignant spiritual disease of the seventh church, accompanies the diagnosis is at by the very same Physician of physicians! There is absolutely no other cure or solution to any and all of the soul-corrupting and conscience-defiling spiritual diseases, maladies, and illnesses of the church in all its seven stages to be found anywhere and with anyone outside of the Father in Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit as revealed only “to the law and the testimony” (Isa. 8:20), the Bible and the “Spirit of Prophecy which is the Testimony of Jesus” for these closing hours of earth’s probation.

Indeed, the Word admonishes us: “Examine yourselves; prove your own selves whether you are really in the faith [of Jesus].” Because “the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.”

To be continued, God willing. Bless all, NMF.