THERE ARE ONLY TWO SIDES

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

THERE ARE ONLY TWO SIDES

After long years of prayerfully, diligently, persistently and consistently studying God’s word, for no other purpose than to personally know and understand (1) who the invisible GOD is and how He has revealed His character, will, and purposes to fallen mankind since the fall (2) what really and how efficacious is His Gospel and its plan of redemption/salvation to save me FIRST, a wretched soul enslaved by ignorance, selfishness, inherited sinful propensities and weaknesses, a culturally-acquired and environmentally-enhanced “love of the world and the things of the world and the pride of life”—-with the whole range of experiences that come with this rugged yet fulfilling Christian quest and journey—-I have come to certain conclusions, all based on the above, and that is:

God’s Word reveals that in the beginning and at the end of all things, there are only TWO (general) CLASSES, or KINDS, or SIDES or TYPES in the great controversy between Christ and Satan, the light of truth and righteousness vs the darkness of sin, error and ignorance and in the plan of salvation, which I have summarized alphabetically as follows:
Adams, Actions/Activities, Affections, Angels, Animals, Apostles, Armies, Awakenings; Brothers: Captains, Characters, Choices, Christs, Christians, Churches, Citizens, Consciences; Dead, Disciples, Duties; Examples; Faiths, Families, Fathers, Followers, Friends. Generals, Glories, Gods, Gospels, Governments, Grace; Harvests, Hearts, Homes; Images; Jerusalems; Kings, Kingdoms. Knowledges: Laws, Leaders, Living (alive), Loves; Marks, Masters, Messengers, Movements; Numbers; Obedience, Opportunities; Peoples, Prayers, Priests, Prophets; Rains, Refuges, Repentance, Rewards; Sanctuaries, Servants, Sexes, Sheep, Shepherds, Sins, Sinners, Slaves, Sons, Souls, Spirits, Stars, Sufferings; Temples; Understandings, Unions/Unity; Victories, Virgins, Visions; Wars, Ways, Weddings, Wisdoms, Witnesses, Women, Worshippers, Workers; Zeal.

“CHOOSE ye this day WHOM ye will serve, WHETHER the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell, BUT as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24: 15, KJV.

“And Elijah came unto ALL the people, and said, How long will you HALT BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS? If the Lord be GOD, follow Him: but if BAAL (sun god), then follow him. And the people ANSWERED HIM NOT A WORD.” 1 Kings 18:21.

“There are ONLY TWO CLASSES. Each party is distinctly STAMPED [sealed/marked], EITHER with the SEAL of the living God or the MARK of the beast, or his IMAGE. Each son or daughter of Adam CHOOSES Christ OR Satan as his General.

All who places themselves with the DISLOYAL are under Satan’s black banner and charged with rejecting and ‘despitefully USING Jesus Christ. They are charged with DELIBERATELY ‘crucifying the Lord of glory’!” E. G. White, Manuscript 40, 1897.

There are no “fence-sitters” or mere “neutral spectators” in the battle for souls and for eternal life. We are either on the Lord’s side or else we are for Satan. Bless all, NMF