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Christian Experience and Teachings of Ellen G. White
and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the
law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My
servants the prophets.”
2 Kings 17:13
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In this our day, when there is manifest a widespread tendency
to throw away the restraint of God’s law, Mrs. White has firmly
and fearlessly endeavored to bring to the consciences of men the
sacredness of the divine requirements. The immutability of that law,
and the vital necessity of obedience, through the power of Christ, to
its every requirement, including the fourth commandment, has been
constantly urged in her public work. Of the relation of the law to the
gospel she has written:
“In the life of Christ the principles of the law are made plain; and
as the Holy Spirit of God touches the heart; as the light of Christ
reveals to men their need of his cleansing blood and his justifying
righteousness, the law is still an agent in bringing us to Christ, that we
may be justified by faith. ‘The law of the Lord is perfect, converting
the soul.’
“‘Till heaven and earth pass,’ said Jesus, ‘one jot or one tittle shall
in nowise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.’ The sun shining in the
heavens, the solid earth upon which you dwell, are God’s witnesses
that his law is changeless and eternal. Though they may pass away,
the divine precepts shall endure. ‘It is easier for heaven and earth
to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.’ The system of types that
pointed to Jesus as the Lamb of God was to be abolished at His death;
but the precepts of the decalogue are as immutable as the throne of
God.”—
The Desire of Ages, 308
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The Scriptures Honored
The writings of Mrs. White point constantly to the Bible as the
great source of all spiritual truth. They abound in scriptural quotations,
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to which she gives no fanciful interpretation. Her writings are not
regarded by Seventh-day Adventists as an addition to the Bible, nor is
their study to take the place of Bible study. She herself has written:
“The word of God is sufficient to enlighten the most beclouded
mind, and may be understood by those who desire to understand it.
But, notwithstanding all this, some who profess to make the word of
God their study are found living in direct opposition to its plainest