What to Preach and Not to Preach
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A Device of the Enemy
We are to pray for divine enlightenment, but at the same time we
should be careful how we receive everything termed new light. We
must beware lest, under cover of searching for new truth, Satan shall
divert our minds from Christ and the special truths for this time. I
have been shown that it is the device of the enemy to lead minds to
dwell upon some obscure or unimportant point, something that is not
fully revealed or is not essential to our salvation. This is made the
absorbing theme, the “present truth,” when all their investigations and
suppositions only serve to make matters more obscure than before,
and to confuse the minds of some who ought to be seeking for oneness
through sanctification of the truth.—
Letter 7, 1891
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Human Suppositions and Conjectures
Let no one present beautiful, scientific sophistries to lull the people
of God to sleep. Clothe not the solemn, sacred truth for this time in
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any fantastic dress of man’s wisdom. Let those who have been doing
this stop and cry unto God to save their souls from deceiving fables.
It is the living energy of the Holy Spirit that will move hearts, not
pleasing, deceptive theories. Fanciful representations are not the bread
of life; they cannot save the soul from sin.
Christ was sent from heaven to redeem humanity. He taught the
doctrines that God gave Him to teach. The truths that He proclaimed,
as found in the Old Testament and the New, we today are to proclaim
as the word of the living God.
Let those who want the bread of life go to the Scriptures, not to
the teaching of finite, erring man. Give the people the bread of life
that Christ came from heaven to bring to us. Do not mix with your
teaching human suppositions and conjectures. Would that all knew
how much they need to eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of
God—to make His words a part of their very lives.—
Manuscript 44,
1904
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Our Faith Founded on Truth
I long daily to be able to do double duty. I have been pleading
with the Lord for strength and wisdom to reproduce the writings of
the witnesses who were confirmed in the faith and in the early history