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Lord God of heaven, and the church is only half awake to the situation.
There needs to be much more prayer, much more of earnest effort,
among professed believers.—
The Review and Herald, August 5, 1909
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Danger in Ignorance of Our Past History—All genuine expe-
rience in religious doctrines will bear the impress of Jehovah. All
should see the necessity of understanding the truth for themselves
individually. We must understand the doctrines that have been studied
out carefully and prayerfully. It has been revealed to me that there is
among our people a great lack of knowledge in regard to the rise and
progress of the third angel’s message. There is great need to search
the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation, and learn the texts
thoroughly, that we may know what is written.
The light given me has been very forcible that many would go
out from us, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.
The Lord desires that every soul who claims to believe the truth shall
have an intelligent knowledge of what is truth. False prophets will
arise and will deceive many. Everything is to be shaken that can be
shaken. Then does it not become everyone to understand the reasons
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for our faith? In place of having so many sermons, there should be
a more close searching of the Word of God, opening the Scriptures
text by text, and searching for the strong evidences that sustain the
fundamental doctrines that have brought us where we now are, upon
the platform of eternal truth.
My soul is made very sad to see how quickly some who have had
light and truth will accept the deceptions of Satan, and be charmed
with a spurious holiness. When men turn away from the landmarks the
Lord has established that we may understand our position as marked
out in prophecy, they are going they know not whither.—
Undated
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Errors Attractively Taught—Spurious doctrines, spurious piety,
spurious faith, much that is fair in appearance, abound all around us.
Teachers will come clothed as angels of light; and if possible, they will
deceive the very elect. The youth need to learn all they can of the truth
if they would not be deceived by the tissue of falsehood that Satan
will invent. They need to live in the sunlight of Christ’s righteousness.
They need to be rooted and grounded in the truth, that they may impart
to others the light they receive.—
The Youth’s Instructor, April 22,
1897
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