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Power-Full Remnant!

God Has a Church

Carried About With Winds

Apostate Leaders

Who do You Worship??

God's Light - Not Our Sparks

Prove all Things!

Trust Him Only!!

Rejecting Truth

As Thy Days...

The Word of God

Having a Bad Day??

Are You a Christian? Am I?

Cling to Your Bible

Riveted to the Rock

Spiritualism

Only Those Who....

Undermining the Faith!

Emancipation

Are You A Christian?

Am I?*

I saw a very large company professing the name of Christ,

  But God did not recognize them as His.

He had no pleasure in them.

 

Satan seemed to assume a religious character, and was very willing that the people  should think they were Christians.

 

He was even anxious that they should believe in Jesus, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

 

Satan and his angels, fully believe all this themselves,

And tremble.

   

But

 if this faith does not provoke to good works,

 and lead those who profess it to imitate the self denying life of Christ,

 Satan is not disturbed;

   for they ,merely assume the Christian name,

 while their hearts are still carnal,

 and he can use them in his service even better than if they made no profession.

 

Hiding their deformity under the name of Christian, they pass along with their unsanctified natures, and their evil passions unsubdued. 

 This gives occasion for the unbeliever to reproach Christ with their imperfections, and cause those who do possess pure and undefiled religion to be brought into disrepute.

 

 The ministers preach smooth things

To suit carnal professors.

 

They dare not preach Jesus and the cutting truths of the Bible; for if they should, these carnal professors would not remain in the church.

 But as many of them are wealthy, they must be retained, although they are no more fit to be there than Satan and his angels.

 This is just as Satan would have it.

 

The religion of Jesus is made to appear popular and honorable in the eyes of the world.  The people are told that those who profess religion will be more honored by the world. 

 

Such teachings differ very widely from the teaching of Christ.

His doctrine and the world could not be at peace..

 Those who followed Him had to renounce the world.

These smooth things originated with Satan and his angels.  They formed the plan, and nominal professors carried it out. Pleasing fables were taught, and readily received, and hypocrites and open sinners united with the church.

 

If the truth had been preached in its purity, it would soon have shut out this class. 

But there was no difference between the professed followers of Christ and the world.

 

I saw that if the false covering had been torn off from the members of the churches, there would have been revealed such iniquity, vileness, and corruption, that the most diffident child of God would have had no hesitancy in calling these professed Christians by their right name, children of their father, the devil; for his works they did.

 

Jesus and all the heavenly host

looked with disgust upon the scene;

yet God had a message for the church

that was sacred and important.

 

 If received,

 it would make a thorough reformation in the church,

 revive the living testimony

 that would purge out hypocrites and sinners,

 and bring the church again into favor with God.  

Early Writings Page 227-228 

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