Sin of Licentiousness
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The Day of God’s Revealings—The last great day is right upon
us. Let all consider that Satan is now striving for the mastery over
souls. He is playing the game of life for your souls. Will there be
sins committed by you on the very borders of the heavenly Canaan?
Oh, what revealings! The husband will know for the first time the
deception and falsehood that have been practiced by the wife whom
he thought innocent and pure. The wife for the first time will know the
case of her husband, and the relatives and friends will see how error
and falsehood and corruption have been clustering about them; for
the secrets of all hearts will stand revealed. The hour of judgment is
almost here—long delayed by the goodness and mercy of God. But
the trump of God will sound, to the consternation of the unprepared
who are living, and awaken the pale nations of the dead. The great
white throne will appear, and all the righteous dead will come forth to
immortality.
Whatever have been the little sins indulged [they] will ruin the
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soul, unless they are overcome. The small sins will swell into the
greater sins. Impure thoughts, private, impure actions, unrefined, low,
and sensual thoughts and actions in the marriage life, the giving of
loose reins to the baser passions under the marriage vow, will lead to
every other sin, the transgression of all the commandments of God.
Tyrannical Growth of Human Weakness—Men that God has
entrusted with noble talents will be, unless closely connected with
God, guilty of great weakness, and, not having the grace of Christ in
the soul, will become connected with greater crimes. This is because
they do not make the truth of God a part of them. Their discipline
has been defective; the soul culture has not been carried forward from
one advance to another; inborn tendencies have not been restrained,
but have degraded the soul. For all the natural weaknesses Jesus has
made ample provision, that they may be overcome through His grace.
If not overcome, the weakness will become a tyrant, a conqueror, to
overcome them, and the heavenly light will become beclouded and
extinguished.
Intellectual Greatness Insufficient—I feel compelled to write
most earnestly on this point because I feel the peril that is upon us. We
have in past history the example of most painful characters showing
the danger of men in high places being corrupted. Men of masterly
minds, who possessed large talents of influence, yet did not put their