@Scott Downey
In public labor bring your evidences, clear and plain, from the Word of God.
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Thus saith the Lord is the strongest testimony you can possibly present to the people.
LET NONE BE EDUCATED TO LOOK TO Sister White, but to the mighty God, who gives instruction to Sister White.—
Lay Sister White right to one side: lay her to one side.
Don’t you never quote my words again as long as you live, until you can obey the Bible.
When you take the Bible and make that your food, and your meat, and your drink, and make that the elements of your character, when you can do that you will know better how to receive some counsel from God.
But here is the Word, the precious Word, exalted before you today. And don’t you give a rap any more what “Sister White said”—“Sister White said this,” and “Sister White said that,” and “Sister White said the other thing.”
But say, “Thus saith the Lord God of Israel,” and then you do just what the Lord God of Israel does, and what he says. SpM 167.2.
Look to Jesus
In the vision given me June 12, 1868, I was shown the danger of the people of God in looking to Brother and Sister White and thinking that they must come to them with their burdens and seek counsel of them.
This ought not so to be.
They are invited by their compassionate, loving Saviour to come unto Him, when weary and heavy-laden, and He will relieve them. In Him they will find rest. In taking their perplexities and trials to Jesus, they will find the promise in regard to them fulfilled. When in their distress they feel the relief which is found alone in Jesus they obtain an experience which is of the highest value to them.
Brother and Sister White are striving for purity of life, striving to bring forth fruit unto holiness; yet they are only erring mortals.
Many come to us with the inquiry: Shall I do this? Shall I engage in that enterprise? Or, in regard to dress, Shall I wear this or that article?
I answer them: You profess to be disciples of Christ. Study your Bibles. Read carefully and prayerfully the life of our dear Saviour when He dwelt among men upon the earth. Imitate His life, and you will not be found straying from the narrow path.
We UTTERLY REFUSE to be conscience for you.
If we tell you just what to do, YOU WILL LOOK TO US to guide you, instead of going directly to Jesus for yourselves. Your experience will be founded IN US. You must have an experience for yourselves, which shall be founded in God. Then can you stand amid the perils of the last days and be purified and not consumed by the fire of affliction through which all the saints must pass in order to have the impurities removed from their character preparatory to receiving the finishing touch of immortality. 2T 118.3
"The word of God is the great detector of error; to it we believe EVERYTHING MUST BE BROUGHT.
The Bible must be our standard for EVERY DOCTRINE and PREACHING. We must study it reverentially.
"We are to receive no one’s opinion without comparing it with the Scriptures.
"Here is divine authority which is SUPREME in matters of faith.
"It is the word of the living God that is to DECIDE ALL CONTROVERSIES."
The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials. 1987; 2002 (44). Ellen G. White Estate
Christ has not a casual interest in us but an interest stronger than a mother for her child. . . . Our Saviour has purchased us by human suffering and sorrow, by insult, reproach, abuse, mockery, rejection and death. He is watching over you, trembling child of God. He will make you secure under His protection. . . . Our weakness in human nature will not bar our access to the heavenly Father, for He [Christ] died to make intercession for us.”—Ellen G. White, Sons and Daughters of God, p. 77.
“What is justification by faith? It is the work of God in laying the glory of man in the dust, and doing for man that which it is not in his power to do for himself. When men see their own nothingness, they are prepared to be clothed with the righteousness of Christ.”—The Faith I Live By, p. 109.
The proud heart strives to earn salvation; but both our title to heaven and our fitness for it are found in the righteousness of Christ. The Lord can do nothing toward the recovery of man until, convinced of his own weakness, and stripped of all self-sufficiency, he yields himself to the control of God. Then he can receive the gift that God is waiting to bestow. From the soul that feels his need, nothing is withheld. He has unrestricted access to Him in whom all fullness dwells. “For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.” Isaiah 57:
15.—The Desire of Ages, p. 300.
What a satanic cult these Adventists belong to, their prophet demanding that they come to Jesus to be relieved of their burdens.
@Scott Downey , I don't know if you are deliberately lying, so I will give you the benefit of doubt. I will do however you are woefully ignorant, and are in great danger of being held accountable for deceiving many away from truth and light. Remember Jesus's lesson concerning millstones and necks? Why do you place your trust in the writings of our enemies? If you want to know what we really teach, then go to the source. But don't feel too bad. There are others here who think add ignorantly as you, and there have been many before you who were far more skilled and dexterous in their calumny and lies than your clumsy attempts above. And scripture informs us that shortly there will be government sanction for the genocidal destruction of all Sabbath keepers, so be patient. Your time will come.
