Let us consider what the Bible teaches further concerning the ungodly and unrepentant, whom the Universalist places in heaven as holy, happy angels.GC 540.1 “I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.” Revelation 21:6. This promise is only to those that thirst. None but those who feelContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The First Great Deception—Chapter 33, Part 3”
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The Great Controversy: The First Great Deception—Chapter 33, Part 2
Satan is seeking to overcome men today, as he overcame our first parents, by shaking their confidence in their Creator and leading them to doubt the wisdom of His government and the justice of His laws. Satan and his emissaries represent God as even worse than themselves, in order to justify their own malignity andContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The First Great Deception—Chapter 33, Part 2”
The Great Controversy: Enmity Between Man and Satan—Chapter 30, Part 2
Satan summons all his forces and throws his whole power into the combat. Why is it that he meets with no greater resistance? Why are the soldiers of Christ so sleepy and indifferent? Because they have so little real connection with Christ; because they are so destitute of His Spirit. Sin is not to themContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Enmity Between Man and Satan—Chapter 30, Part 2”
The Great Controversy: Enmity Between Man and Satan—Chapter 30, Part 1
It is the grace that Christ implants in the soul which creates in man enmity against Satan. Without this converting grace and renewing power, man would continue the captive of Satan, a servant ever ready to do his bidding. But the new principle in the soul creates conflict where hitherto had been peace. The power which Christ imparts enables man to resist the tyrant and usurper. Whoever is seen to abhor sin instead of loving it, whoever resists and conquers those passions that have held sway within, displays the operation of a principle wholly from above. GC 506.2
The Great Controversy: The Origin of Evil—Chapter 29, Part 3
In the banishment of Satan from heaven, God declared His justice and maintained the honor of His throne. But when man had sinned through yielding to the deceptions of this apostate spirit, God gave an evidence of His love by yielding up His only-begotten Son to die for the fallen race. In the atonement the characterContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The Origin of Evil—Chapter 29, Part 3”
The Great Controversy: The Origin of Evil—Chapter 29, Part 2
God in His great mercy bore long with Lucifer. He was not immediately degraded from his exalted station when he first indulged the spirit of discontent, nor even when he began to present his false claims before the loyal angels. Long was he retained in heaven. Again and again he was offered pardon on condition ofContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The Origin of Evil—Chapter 29, Part 2”
The Great Controversy: The Origin of Evil—Chapter 29, Part 1
To many minds the origin of sin and the reason for its existence are a source of great perplexity. They see the work of evil, with its terrible results of woe and desolation, and they question how all this can exist under the sovereignty of One who is infinite in wisdom, in power, and inContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The Origin of Evil—Chapter 29, Part 1”