Chapter 20—A Long-Standing Adventist and His
Mistress
To One Far Gone in Disobedience—My poor, deceived, sinful
brother, I will now address a few words to you for whom I have had so
great a burden and interest for many years. Ira K, for years your course
has been a sinful course. I have written to you but have received no
response, and the reproof given has had no effect upon your course of
action....
You have a work to do for your own soul. Make haste, or it will
be forever too late. God will now forgive the scarlet sin if you will do
those things you ought to do to make your wrongs right. I do not say
your case is hopeless, but you have certainly almost sinned away your
day of grace; and yet Jesus is in the sanctuary. Jesus pleads in your
behalf. Your brethren and your sisters have labored much for you; so
much interest have they manifested for you that you have regarded
crime and sins as a light matter. But Jesus loves you, and I present or
lift up Jesus before you.
Satan tells you that it is not best for you to cease sinning; you have
gone so far in disobedience and transgression that it is no use for you
to try to come back to God. While I feel that full disgrace of your sins
is upon you, while I would have you see sin as it is, I would all the
time present Jesus as a sin-pardoning Saviour.
Eleventh-hour Pardon—The sands of your life are nearly run
out, and now if you will come to God just as you are, without one
plea but that He has died to save the chiefest of sinners, you will find
pardon even in this the eleventh hour. Man must cooperate with God.
Christ did not die to have the power to cover transgression unrepented
of and unconfessed. Not all sins are to be confessed publicly, but some
are to be confessed alone to God and the parties that have been injured.
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Christ’s Imputed Righteousness—Righteousness of Christ im-
puted to men means holiness, uprightness, purity. Unless Christ’s
righteousness was imputed to us we could not have acceptable re-
pentance. The righteousness dwelling in us by faith consists of love,
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