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Your Case Coming Up!, March 26
Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is
come.
Revelation 14:7
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In 1844 our great High Priest entered the most holy place of the heavenly
sanctuary, to begin the work of the investigative judgment.
As the books of record are opened in the judgment, the lives of all who
have believed on Jesus come in review before God. Beginning with those
who first lived upon the earth, our Advocate presents the cases of each
successive generation, and closes with the living. Every name is mentioned,
every case closely investigated. Names are accepted, names rejected. When
any have sins remaining upon the books of record, unrepented of and
unforgiven, their names will be blotted out of the book of life....
We are now living in the great day of atonement. In the typical service,
while the high priest was making the atonement for Israel, all were required
to afflict their souls by repentance of sin and humiliation before the Lord,
lest they be cut off from among the people. In like manner, all who would
have their names retained in the book of life, should now, in the few re-
maining days of their probation, afflict their souls before God by sorrow for
sin and true repentance. There must be deep, faithful searching of heart....
There is earnest warfare before all who would subdue the evil tendencies
that strive for the mastery. The work of preparation is an individual work.
We are not saved in groups. The purity and devotion of one will not offset
the want of these qualities in another.... Every one must be tested, and found
without spot or wrinkle or any such thing.
All who have truly repented of sin, and by faith claimed the blood of
Christ as their atoning sacrifice, have had pardon entered against their names
in the books of heaven; as they have become partakers of the righteousness
of Christ, and their characters are found to be in harmony with the law of
God, their sins will be blotted out, and they themselves will be accounted
worthy of eternal life. The Lord declares, ... “I, even I, am he that blotteth
out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.”
Isaiah 43:25
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