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Page 11 of 19John 3:3
@@@^“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. . . . ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.” Isa. 55:7, 9, 12.
John 3:7
@@@^Like Nebuchadnezzar during his wildlife experience, we, too, are living in a world that is unnatural to sinless beings. Consequently, if our hearts and thus our natures were changed now, while we are yet living among the sinful nations, we could no more endure the trial than could Nebuchadnezzar with his human heart have endured the winter exposure, or have enjoyed the company of the beasts, or yet relished grass and straw. Indeed, the fellowship of sinners, in the environment of sin, would be utterly desolating to a saint with a spiritual heart, upon which is written the law of God.
John 4:3
@@@^“Conversion is a work that most do not appreciate. It is not a small matter to transform an earthly, sin-loving mind, and bring it to understand the unspeakable love of Christ, the charms of his grace, and the excellency of God, so that the soul shall be imbued with divine love, and captivated with the heavenly mysteries. When he understands these things, his former life appears disgusting and hateful. He hates sin, and, breaking his heart before God, he embraces Christ as the life and joy of the soul. He renounces his former pleasures. He has a new mind, new affections, new interest, new will; his sorrows, and desires, and love are all new. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, which have heretofore been preferred before Christ, are now turned from, and Christ is the charm of his life, the crown of his rejoicing. Heaven, which once possessed no charms, is now viewed in its riches and glory; and he contemplates it as his future home, where he shall see, love, and praise the One who hath redeemed him by His precious blood.
John 5:5
@@@^“I want to give my personal experience and confess my shortcomings. I can never forget the joy this message brought me in 1930 when we received Vol. 1 of the @9SRod@7. I could hardly wait for the other volume, tracts, and Codes. I was very much awake for awhile, but sorry to say that at times, since, I have found myself almost going back to sleep.
John 6:4
@@@^“Still dissatisfied, though, I was looking for more true light, when I received a little tract from the publishers of this Present Truth message. (Elder W. L. B. had sent them my name.) When I read the tract, my heart began to flow with joy, that The Light I was seeking for, had come.—And O! how I am rejoicing in it! I want more light each day I live, until I reach perfection in the ‘Loud Cry.’ I did not really understand Sister White’s writings until I believed the SRod.” @3Etta J. Amos@3Miami, Florida
John 6:5
@@@^“I can say that there is joy deeply in my heart, that I am, and hope to continue to be, one of those striving to be among the 144,000, who soon shall go walking through the gates of Jerusalem, into The Kingdom. I ask your prayers that I may be strong in the work of the Lord.” @3Clara Edens@3Hialeah, Florida
John 9:1
@@@^“As Mothers’ Society leader, I often, in the study of the ‘Testimonies,’ called on Sister R———— for references, and from her excellent alphabetical files, she gave me whole studies, which I taught to our group, to their enjoyment. This convinced me that she, a SRod believer, had light and knowledge that I found nowhere else. She seemed constantly studying the ‘Testimonies,’ while we, as Adventists who did not know the SRod message, took only a few minutes a day in the study of the Sabbath-School lesson. Later, after two studies with the W.———’s, my husband, too, accepted the light, and after hearing a public discussion between Brother W.——— (affirmative) and Elder D. —— (negative), he became doubly convinced that the SRod has the message and is the truth for this time.” @3Mrs. Nellie B. Coffey@3Los Angeles, California
John 9:3
@@@^“About ten years ago the Spirit of God revealed this glorious Present Truth message to me, and I realized then, as also now, that I must obey ‘The Still Small Voice’ which speaks to my heart, and points the way. Although the enemy has cast his shadow across my path many times in the past years, God has brought me safely through, and my heart is filled with joy in the Message. Pray for me that I may be faithful, and be found worthy to ‘stand on Mt. Zion with the Lamb.’ ” @3Mrs. E. Crawford@3Glendale, California
John 10:9
@@@^“Three years ago we studied and accepted the Present Truth—the promised Elijah message (Mal. 4:5). It has convicted us that we must thoroughly search our lives and, by God’s help, lay aside all our sins. We feel that the SRod message has brought us great comfort in our trials, and inexpressible joy in the hope of a soon established kingdom of peace.” @3Frank and Golda Grimm@3Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
Acts 28:2
@@@^A full realization of the glorious reward that awaits mankind will even now compel men to shout for joy! And a like realization of the dreadful penalty that awaits all who fail to make God their refuge, will cause them even now to weep and gnash their teeth. That all might realistically see these alternative prospects, and be impelled thereby to repentance, the Lord has been at supreme pains not only to record a graphic description of the evil which, through the instrumentality of the beast Satan has determined upon the whole world, but also aforehand to make of a similar evil, a perfect
Acts 71:3
@@@^“He found a pretext for invading the kingdom of Lombardy, in the hostilities of DESIDERIUS against the pope. Charlemagne crossed the great St. Bernard from Geneva, and successively took @9Pavia@7 and @9Verona.@7 @9Lombardy@7 was soon reduced to submission, and the king made captive. Charlemagne next visited Rome, where he was received by pope Adrian 1., with every demonstration of joy, and hailed as the deliverer of the church. He caused himself to be crowned king of Lombardy.” — @9Id.@7, p. 201.
Romans 11:6
@@@^Now that you have heard a cross-section representation of expressions both for and against the message, may you rightly weigh each side and choose the right one, and may those who are fighting see the folly of their blind hostility and, as did Paul, turn from it, and seek zealously to advance the message lest He spue them out of His mouth. And may those who are standing in its defense now be more deeply than ever rooted and grounded in the Truth. And finally may all who read me avoid the pitfalls of the former, the “lukewarm,” and share in the blessings and holy joys of the latter—those who have anointed their eyes with heavenly “eyesalve,” filled their vessels with “extra oil,” and taken their stand on the side of Truth and Right in accord with the following Voice of counsel:
Romans 14:10
@@@^Although I am not a member of the S. D. A. church, yet since I have the light on Ezekiel 9 and the 144,000, will I fall under the slaughter if I do not fully accept and live up to the light? And, conversely, will I be subject to enjoy the privileges of the 144,000 and be one of them if I obey all the light of this message?
1 Corinthians 31:1
@@@^“Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at His word; @9Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for My name’s sake,@7 said, Let the Lord be glorified: but He shall appear to your joy, and @9they shall be ashamed@7.” Isa. 66:5. These heaven-condemned, because self-appointed, judges entered not in themselves, and them that were entering in, they hindered (Luke 11:52). To repeat: the Millerite, or “First Advent Movement,” being the only one that never cast out any of its brethren, is consequently the only church which can be represented by the white chariot, and the only one worthy of the name “Philadelphia” — “brotherly love.”
2 Corinthians 3:4
@@@^There is a divine law that converts every honest effort into joy, a personal experience with God, and eternal life. So awake, my friend, and take note, not of what you think you are or will be, but of what the Lord says you are and must be. Begin your investigation with the ensuing
2 Corinthians 4:4
@@@^Deceived and about to lose their lives, though as ignorant of their peril as a mouse before the trap snaps shut, they are satisfied (lukewarm) in the devil’s trap, as they make toward its delectable bait—a false hope of enjoying the feast in Paradise!
2 Corinthians 7:11
@@@^Next, to draw them there, He brought thereabouts the seven years of plenty, followed by the seven years of famine. Whereupon He sent word to Jacob that Joseph was yet alive. At the joyous news, there sprang up in the father an irresistible desire to see his son. This and the life-taking hunger upon Joseph’s brethren, compelled them to remove into Pharaoh’s land of plenty, where they lived like kings.
2 Corinthians 11:4
@@@^Moses, in his meekness (humbleness) and in his determination “rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season” (Heb. 11:25), rose to be the greatest general, leader, and deliverer of all times, and even to stand on the mount of transfiguration.
2 Corinthians 20:17
@@@^The law spoken of in Galatians 3:13 is the ten-commandment law (Ex. 20). But deliverance from the curse of the law, does not mean deliverance from keeping the law. The Bible teaches that obedience to it brings the manifold blessings of maintaining one’s fidelity to God and of safeguarding his religion (verses 3-7) if it be the true one; of ever reminding him that God created the heaven and the earth in six working days (verses 8-10); of securing for him the joyous privilege to worship God by resting on His holy day—the seventh (verse 11); of teaching the children to honor their parents (verse 12); of preventing one from murdering (verse 13); of preserving one’s chastity (verse 14); of instilling in one honesty (verse 15); of keeping him from falsehood (verse 16); and of saving him from covetousness (verse 17).
2 Corinthians 22:3
@@@^Nevertheless, when the further unrolling of the scroll revealed that the Kingdom was not to be set up at that time, then the honest truth-seeking ones did not accuse either John or Christ, but joyously watched the scroll unfold, and jubilantly marched on with the Truth. Not so, though, with the vast majority of the Jews. Their pride of opinion forbidding them to forgo their errors and to embrace advancing Truth, they went deeper into error, rather than rising higher in truth!