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God’s Word is True, December 4
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that
shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage
of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.
Isaiah 54:17
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The great apostasy, which is developing and increasing and waxing stronger,
... will continue to do so until the Lord shall descend from heaven with a shout.
We are to hold fast the first principles of our denominated faith, and go forward
from strength to increased faith. Ever we are to keep the faith that has been
substantiated by the Holy Spirit of God from the earlier events of our experience
until the present time. We need now larger breadth, and deeper, more earnest,
unwavering faith in the leadings of the Holy Spirit. If we needed the manifest
proof of the Holy Spirit’s power to confirm truth in the beginning, after the passing
of the time, we need today all the evidence in the confirmation of the truth, when
souls are departing from the faith and giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines
of devils. There must not be any languishing of soul now.
If ever there was a period of time when we needed the Holy Spirit’s power
in our discourses, in our prayers, in every action proposed, it is now. We are not
to stop at the first experience, but while we bear the same message to the people,
this message is to be strengthened and enlarged. We are to see and realize the
importance of the message made certain by its divine origin. We are to follow
on to know the Lord, that we may know that His going forth is prepared as the
morning. Our souls need the quickening from the Source of all power. We may be
strengthened and confirmed in the past experience that holds us to the essential
points of truth which have made us what we are—Seventh-day Adventists.
The past fifty years have not dimmed one jot or principle of our faith as we
received the great and wonderful evidences that were made certain to us in 1844,
after the passing of the time. The languishing souls are to be confirmed and
quickened according to His Word.... Not a word is changed or denied. That
which the Holy Spirit testified to as truth after the passing of the time, in our
great disappointment, is the solid foundation of truth. [The] pillars of truth were
revealed, and we accepted the foundation principles that have made us what we
are—Seventh-day Adventists, keeping the commandments of God and having the
faith of Jesus.
Have not the hearts of Christ’s disciples burned within them as He has talked
with us by the way and opened to us the Scriptures? Has not the Lord Jesus opened
to us the Scriptures, and presented to us things kept secret from the foundation of
the world?—
Letter 326, December 4, 1905
, to W. C. White.
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