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Here's the question that we have tonight.

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James actually puts this in.

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Subject line, A.P.T.

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The church is Seventh-day Adventist.

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James says, for what it's worth,
I've had different emails on this topic in

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the last months, as in it is becoming more
of a common question right now.

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This question comes from Vicki Howe,
or Hugh.

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And she says, hello Pastor Tim,
I recently decided to join the church I

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grew up in.

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The church is Seventh-day Adventist
church.

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From my personal experience, the church
teached me a lot about the Gospel.

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But I know that the church is considered a
cult in Christian society.

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I also know sometimes the doctrines set up
by the founders of the church,

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out of the love of Christ, were sometimes
misinterpreted by some members today.

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Should I join anyway?

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Or should I leave it and find a new
church?

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So the question is about the Seventh-day
Adventist church.

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I received a book in the mail.

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Maybe you guys did too.

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What was it?

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Four months ago maybe, I received a book
in the mail.

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It has every appearance of being Christian
of some sort.

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And Joshua and I were going somewhere,
and so I threw it over to Joshua.

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I said, Joshua, start reading that book.

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I said, we'll determine whether it's good
or bad.

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Let's just start reading and we'll compare
it to Scripture and see.

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Well, that came from the Seventh-day
Adventist church.

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And they don't put Seventh-day Adventist
right on big letters on the front.

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They really don't want you to know.

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Let me tell you this, Seventh-day
Adventist church is definitely trying to

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sell themselves as mainstream
Christianity.

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They want you to believe that.

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She said that she knows that the
Seventh-day Adventist church is considered

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a cult.

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Let me tell you something about the cults.

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Do I consider it a cult?

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Yes, I do.

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Now, I don't want to just say that.

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I want to prove that to you.

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But the thing about cults, they are hungry
for souls.

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Cults, we read in Scripture about demon
doctrine.

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Demons are behind false doctrine,
false churches, false Christ, false

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teachers, false prophets.

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Demons are behind it.

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They are messengers of Satan.

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They come as angels of light.

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And they are hungry for souls.

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Because Satan is hungry for souls.

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Hungry to deceive.

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The thing is, we want to be careful.

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Be careful about, a lot of times we get
these, we hear something.

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We hear some Christians say, Oh,
Seventh-day Adventists, they are a cult

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because they say this and they do this.

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Well, be careful.

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Be careful that you don't too easily set
up a straw man.

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And what do I mean by that?

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A straw man is when you project somebody
else in a light that is kind of true,

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but not exactly true.

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And what you've done is you've actually
built it up in a way that that man is just

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easy.

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He's easy to argue.

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He's easy to refute.

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He's easy just to blow away.

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And so, you come along and you say,
Oh yeah, Seventh-day Adventists,

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they're a cult.

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Why?

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Well, they teach works and they teach that
you have to keep the Sabbath.

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And they say that the Sabbath is the mark
of the beast.

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And some of these things are true.

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But the thing is, it's not like you're
going to go to their writings,

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and they're going to say, You're not saved
by grace, you're saved by works.

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Satan is far more subtle than that.

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Typically, what Satan does is he likes to
use the exact terminology of the Bible,

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only give different meaning to the words.

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That is one of his...

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Yes, I know, I know.

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I know you can always find the cult that's
out there that's, you know, off the wall,

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fanatical.

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But listen, the ones that are most
dangerous are typically the ones that say

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things in a way that it sounds right.

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It sounds almost right.

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And it's hard to discern.

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And if you're not discerning, you can
easily be washed away with it.

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And typically, the cults, typically the
cults, false religions, are going to tell

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you that they believe the Bible.

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I know there's the ones that will tell
you.

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They don't believe the Bible.

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I recognize that, but I'm talking about
the dangerous ones.

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I'm talking about the mainstream cults.

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And I would put Catholicism in there as
well.

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Dangerous and deadly to the soul.

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Catholicism, Mormonism, the Jehovah's
Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists.

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You can keep going down the line.

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They want to tell you that they adhere to
Scripture.

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Now, there's a lot of things we could look
at.

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There's a lot of things we could say about
Seventh-day Adventists.

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I don't think you're being faithful unless
and until you go and look at what the

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founders of a religion actually believe.

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What they taught.

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I don't think you're being...

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And what you want to do is you want to
hear...

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You want to hear what Catholics believe
from Catholics.

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Not from somebody that's already got their
mind made up that Catholicism is a false

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religion.

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Because when you've already got your mind
made up, like I say, you can build a straw

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man.

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Basically what you do is you build up
Catholicism in a way that is just...

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It's very clear that it's erroneous.

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But when you actually listen to
Catholicism very closely, when you

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actually listen to their theologians,
they don't say it so clean cut.

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They actually use a lot of biblical
language and they say it in ways that

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sound almost right.

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The devil is crafty and he doesn't deceive
the multitudes that he does by being very

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blatantly a liar.

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He mixes his lies with truth.

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And so what I want to do is...

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You might think, oh, Seventh-day
Adventist.

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Well, you're going to look at the fact
that they keep the Sabbath.

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They say you've got to keep the Sabbath.

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No, I don't even want to go there.

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I know this.

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The devil hates two things with a passion
above all passions.

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What do you think I might be talking
about?

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He hates the Word of God and he hates the
atoning work of Jesus Christ.

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And if you want to really find out what
anybody's about, go to Catholicism.

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Now see, they won't say that they deny
Scripture.

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Oh, I know.

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I know Islam.

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I know that there are religions that do.

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But I'm talking a lot of the very
deceptive false religions that we

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encounter.

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Do Mormons say that they adhere to the
Scriptures?

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Yep.

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Do the Jehovah's Witnesses claim to adhere
to the Scriptures?

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Yes, their New World Translation,
which they would claim to hold to the

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Scriptures.

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Do Catholics claim to hold to the
Scriptures?

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You better believe they do.

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Do Seventh-day Adventists believe?

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Yeah, you better believe they do.

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They say so.

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You see, you're not going to go and find a
statement from these religions that says,

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Oh, we deny Scripture.

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Now see, we might paint a picture of them
as denying Scripture, and see,

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that's easy to knock, Oh, they deny the
Scriptures.

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They exalt.

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But you don't listen so much...

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I mean, you want to listen to what they
say.

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But you want to watch what they do.

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You want to look at their practice.

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But I want to hit these two things.

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What I did was I did some digging,
and I came up with what...

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You got to know that Ellen White was the
prophetess who started the Seventh-day

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Adventism.

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I mean, she supposedly had repeated words
from the Lord as a prophet.

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She believed in New Testament prophecy,
and believed that she was, in fact,

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a New Testament prophet, in accord with
Joel's prediction.

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She believed that that was the case.

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The Seventh-day Adventist church believes
that that is the case, and that God gave

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her words.

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And so I want to quote from her,
and I want to quote from their church

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positions, their church documents.

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Just on two things.

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The Scriptures and the atonement.

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Just those two things.

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Because the devil is going to attack right
at that point.

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Be certain.

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Oh, you can look at lots of different
things.

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You know, Jehovah's Witnesses,
they want to tell you you shouldn't get

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blood transfusion.

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We can always go and deal with these side
issues.

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Go to the heart of the matter.

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What do they say about the Word of God?

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What do they really believe about the Word
of God?

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What do they believe about the atonement
of Jesus Christ?

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Now listen to this.

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Scripture.

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Okay.

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Listen carefully.

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This comes from a document issued by the
Seventh-day Adventist church.

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In December 23, 1982.

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Listen to it.

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Seventh-day Adventist church's
understanding of Ellen White's authority.

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Exhibit 1.

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From the Adventist Review, December 23,
1982.

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Also appeared in ministry, February 1983.

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The inspiration and authority of the Ellen
G.

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White writings.

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Ten affirmations and ten denials on Ellen
White's authority.

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Issued by the Biblical Research Institute
of the General Conference of Seventh-day

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Adventists.

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A statement of present understanding.

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So as of the early 80's, and there's no
indication whatsoever that they've ever

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rescinded these views.

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This is what they believe.

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Now listen.

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Just listen to this.

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Listen for anything that sounds off.

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The Bible.

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The supreme standard.

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You good so far?

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Seventh-day Adventists.

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Just listen.

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Listen to this.

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Seventh-day Adventists fully support the
Reformation Principle of Sola Scriptura.

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You can let down your guard.

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Embrace them.

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My brothers in Christ, right?

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Isn't that just...

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I mean, see, things can sound so good.

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But you don't want to put down your guard.

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You want to listen.

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All the way to the end.

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The Bible as its own interpreter and the
Bible alone as the basis of all doctrines.

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So, let's join that together.

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Seventh-day Adventists fully support the
Reformation Principle of Sola Scriptura.

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The Bible as its own interpreter and the
Bible alone as the basis of all doctrines.

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Wonderful.

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The founders of the church developed
fundamental beliefs through study of the

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Bible.

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They did not receive these doctrines
through the visions of Ellen White.

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We got it from the Bible, not from Ellen.

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Ah, that sounds good.

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Her major role during the development of
their doctrines was to guide in the

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understanding of the Bible.

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So now her major role is to guide us in
our understanding of the Bible.

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So we need a woman prophetess to help
guide us in our understanding of the Bible

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and to confirm conclusions reached through
Bible study.

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To confirm conclusions reached through
Bible study.

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Okay.

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Perhaps that's okay.

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If somebody really comes alongside and
helps me to understand truly what the

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Bible says.

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But as soon as you introduce somebody that
I need to have help me, other than the

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Holy Spirit, come to the proper
conclusions, you start to wonder whether

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I'm studying the Bible and she helps me
come to conclusions or whether she comes

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with her conclusions and presses them on
my Bible study.

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But anyway, Article 17 of the same
document, The Gift of Prophecy.

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This is big because they believe that she
was a New Testament prophet.

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One of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is
prophecy.

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This gift is an identifying mark of the
remnant church and was manifested in the

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ministry of Ellen G.

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White.

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So, Holy Spirit?

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Did the Holy Spirit give a New Testament
gift of prophecy?

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Yes.

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Their conclusion, their assumption is
Ellen G.

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White received this gift.

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Now perhaps they test her, because doesn't
Scripture say we're supposed to test the

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spirits?

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We certainly are.

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We don't get any testing of the spirits
here, necessarily.

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Not by them, but in their own statements
that they make in this same document that

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I haven't told you about yet.

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You see if you can discern the spirits.

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So, as the Lord's messenger, her writings
are a continuing and authoritative source

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of truth.

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Which provide for the church comfort,
guidance, instruction, and correction.

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And if you know your Bibles, that is
subtly quoted right out of 1 Corinthians

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14.

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As to what New Testament prophecy is
supposed to do.

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Comfort, guidance, instruction,
correction is indeed what Paul says it

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should do.

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But did you hear what they said?

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Her writings are a continuing and
authoritative source of truth.

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Listen to their affirmations.

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They give a list of affirmations,
and then a list of denials.

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Listen to these things.

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1.

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We believe that Scripture is the divinely
revealed Word of God, and is inspired by

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the Holy Spirit.

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Go to the side door please.

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Did we lose them?

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Did you find them?

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How you doing?

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Okay, now that you...

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Listen, discern this.

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Here's what the church...

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This isn't what one of us thinks,
or some guy that wrote about them thinks.

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This is what their church says.

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Here are their affirmations.

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2.

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We believe that Scripture is divinely
revealed Word of God, and is inspired by

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the Holy Spirit.

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Okay, that's pretty good.

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3.

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We believe that the canon of Scripture is
composed only of the 66 books of the Old

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and New Testaments.

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Yeah, our statement of faith says
something almost identical to that.

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See, you can start to let your guard down.

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They're orthodox.

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4.

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We believe that Scripture is the
foundation of faith and the final

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authority in all matters of doctrine and
practice.

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We say something almost identical to that
in our statement of faith.

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5.

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We believe that Scripture is the Word of
God in human language.

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6.

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We believe that the Scripture teaches...

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Now watch the subtle shift right here.

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7.

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We believe that Scripture teaches that the
gift of prophecy will be manifest in the

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Christian church after New Testament
times.

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Hey, we got guys today.

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Like Mr. Grudem out here that's writing
books on New Testament prophecy for today.

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Reformed.

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And you could make a good, strong,
biblical argument based on especially 1

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Corinthians.

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But listen to this.

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Listen to the shift here.

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After saying we believe that Scripture
teaches that the gift of prophecy will be

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manifest in the Christian church after the
New Testament times.

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We believe that the ministry and writings
of Ellen White were a manifestation of the

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gift of prophecy.

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We believe that Ellen White was,
listen to this, was inspired by the Holy

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Spirit.

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And that her writings include guidance in
understanding the teaching of Scripture

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and application of these teachings with
prophetic urgency to the spiritual and

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moral life.

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When you say that Ellen White is inspired,

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whatever the New Testament prophets did,
however they were used, Scripture never

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calls them inspired.

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It only called the men inspired who wrote
Scripture.

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Now, listen to this.

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We believe that the purposes of the Ellen
White writings include guidance in

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understanding the teaching of Scripture,
application of these teachings with

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prophetic urgency.

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We believe that the acceptance of the
prophetic gift of Ellen White is important

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to the nurture and unity of the
Seventh-day Adventist church.

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We believe that Ellen White's use of
literary sources and assistance finds

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parallels in some of the writings of the
Bible.

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That's kind of an odd statement.

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It's like, well, what she did in her use
of sources and assistance we think can be

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backed up in some places in Scripture.

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And then there are denials.

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Listen to the first one.

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We do not believe that the quality or
degree of inspiration in the writings of

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Ellen White is different from that of the
Scriptures.

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Whoa.

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You see, it started good.

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But, here's the problem.

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Anybody who ever has said, We highly
cherish the Scriptures.

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We highly regard the Scriptures.

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But anybody who has ever had any writings
or any traditions that they have set

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alongside the Scripture that they have
claimed have had equal authority,

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It's a lie.

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It's a lie.

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You look practically, it's never equal
authority.

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Look at the Catholic Church.

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When the Catholic Church's traditions
conflict with Scripture, what do they do?

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They go with tradition.

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And they deny Scripture.

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Tradition says, we need idols of Mary.

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Oh, we're going to change the Ten
Commandments.

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Because we want to justify our idolatry.

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Well, yeah, we hold to the Scriptures,
but we believe it includes the Apocrypha.

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Because we believe it has things that help
substantiate purgatory.

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You see, you don't want to buy this.

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The Mormons can come along and tell you
that they adhere to Scripture.

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But it's their Book of Mormon that they
rest their souls on.

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The Bible doesn't say anything about the
things that they hold to primarily.

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The Bible doesn't say anything about the
devil being, what, the brother of Jesus?

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It doesn't say anything about some world
that you are going to inhabit in the

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future as you become like God.

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The Bible doesn't say anything about this
totally fictitious world that they have

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dreamt up.

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About supposedly Christ coming to this
hemisphere at a different time than He

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went to the other hemisphere.

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And went to be born in Bethlehem and did
His ministry in Canaan.

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Scripture doesn't say anything about that.

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You see, what happens is when people say,
well yes, it's Scripture plus.

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Be certain it's demonic.

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Be certain it's satanic.

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And be certain that the devil will have
them go with that which is extra-biblical,

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not with the Bible itself.

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See, it's a deception.

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It's a lie.

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Because what do they do in here?

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Well, eventually, where do they end up?

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They end up saying,

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Ellen, you heard it for yourself.

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We do not believe that the quality or
degree of inspiration in the writings of

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Ellen White is different from that of
Scripture.

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Listen to Ellen White herself.

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Jesus promised, now listen, listen very
carefully.

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This is her speaking.

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Not the church, but her herself.

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Jesus promised His disciples, now again,
listen for truth.

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Listen for deception.

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You tell me when something sounds off
here.

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Jesus promised His disciples, the
Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,

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whom the Father will send in My name,
He shall teach you all things and bring

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all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said to you.

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Did Jesus teach that?

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Most definitely.

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When He, the Spirit of Truth, has come,
He will guide you into all truth.

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Now see, listen to those two things.

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He will bring all things to your
remembrance.

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He will guide you into all truth.

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Now, I would just ask you this.

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That was being said to the disciples,
to the apostles, right before Jesus left.

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Which seems like it was Jesus preparing
the way for these guys to be the authors

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of New Testament Scripture.

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The Spirit would bring them into
remembrance.

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You and I didn't walk with Christ.

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The Spirit doesn't bring us into
remembrance, because we don't have that to

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remember, because we weren't there.

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But what the Spirit did was brought to
their mind, to their memory, everything

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that He did and everything that He said.

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So that they were able to pen these
things.

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She's applying what Jesus said to those
guys, to all of us universally,

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but to herself principally.

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Listen to this.

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And He will show you things to come.

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Scripture plainly teaches that these
promises, so far from being limited to

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apostolic days, extend to the church of
Christ in all ages.

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You see what she has to do?

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She has to take those words given to the
apostles and say, they're for all of us

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for all time.

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In other words, every one of us should
expect that if the Spirit of God can deal

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with us at any time and in any place in
this generation, the Spirit of God can

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come and bring us into remembrance and
guide us into all truth, just as with

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those apostles at first.

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Basically, she is opening the door for us
to be put in that same place with those

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apostles in the beginning.

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And what she does then, is she says that
this extends to the church of Christ in

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all ages.

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And how do we know it?

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Well, because the Savior assures His
followers, I am with you always,

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even to the end of the world.

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Matthew 28.

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Now that is a promise that is given to the
church to the end of the world.

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But that promise is not given.

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That's given in Matthew 28, when Christ is
going to ascend up to His Father,

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and He's given instruction to the whole
church before He leaves.

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That's different than John 14,
15, 16, when Jesus is giving His final

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words before His crucifixion to His
apostles, who He is preparing to have

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write Scripture.

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Now listen, here is Ellen White again.

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She says this.

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Notice her presupposition here.

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Little heed is given to the Bible.

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That's her assumption.

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Nobody's paying any attention to the Bible
today.

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Notice what she says.

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Little heed is given to the Bible,
and the Lord has given a lesser light,

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her, to lead men and women to the greater
light.

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Don't you like that?

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It takes her to lead us to the greater
light.

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Brethren, I'm telling you, when anybody
sets themselves up as the light to lead

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you to the light, be careful that light is
not darkness.

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Remember what Paul said.

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They come as angels of light.

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Does she identify herself as light?

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Oh yeah.

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As an angel of light.

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As a messenger of light.

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The Lord has given a lesser light to lead
men.

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See, she's putting herself in a position
to lead men.

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Her assumption, the assumption she wants
you to buy into, is, Oh!

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She's exalting Scripture.

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She calls it the greater light.

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So I'm comfortable.

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Let down your guard.

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Oh no.

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Be careful who sets themselves up as the
primary authority.

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When I say, God has put me in the place to
lead you to the light, who really is the

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primary light?

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Be very careful.

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Because I'm suddenly in the place where
I'm interpreting Scripture for you.

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Because I'm leading you to the light.

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I'm telling you what it means.

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You see, that's what the Catholic Church
does.

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You cannot depend on the Spirit of God.

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You need somebody to show you.

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Ah!

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The Bible's neglected.

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You see, that's the starting point.

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No, no.

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We're not neglecting.

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Folks in our church are not trying to
neglect the Bible.

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We're trusting that we can sit down with
this Book and the Spirit of God will lead

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us into truth.

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Isn't that what Scripture says?

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Isn't that what 1 Corinthians 2 says?

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Now that doesn't mean that we negate
teachers.

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But I'll tell you, John also says that we
don't need anybody to teach us.

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In other words, the Spirit of God does
things with us that we don't need men

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necessarily to intervene to take us to
truth.

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I know God raises up teachers in the
church.

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And they can be very helpful to us.

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She's the lesser light.

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Listen to this.

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These are her words again.

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The Word of God is sufficient to enlighten
the most beclouded mind.

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It may be understood by those who have any
desire to understand it.

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But, notwithstanding all this,
some who profess to make the Word of God

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their study are found living in direct
opposition to its plainest teachings.

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Then, to leave men and women without
excuse, God gives plain and pointed

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testimonies.

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Now, by the way, when she speaks about
testimonies, she's speaking about her

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writings.

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Her writings are called the Testimonies of
Jesus Christ.

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Those testimonies that she wrote are given
by God, she says, to bring men and women

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back to the Word that they have neglected
to follow.

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So it takes that.

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You see, it's not enough to say,
Oh, you're strained.

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Return to the Word.

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No, you need me to guide you back.

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God has raised me up to lead you back.

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The Testimonies that she wrote are to
bring plain lessons from the Word.

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These are her words again.

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In the Scriptures, God has set forth
practical lessons to govern the life and

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conduct of all.

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But though He has given minute particulars
in regard to our character, conversation,

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and conduct, yet in a large measure,
His lessons are disregarded.

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She loves to emphasize that.

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The Bible's disregarded.

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The Bible's not read.

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And so for all you disregarding people,
how cunning.

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You go to people, well, I know you're
ignoring them.

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You've been reading the Bible?

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Go up and down the street.

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Go to people's doors.

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You've been reading the Bible?

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No, I neglect it.

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Ah, we have a prophetess who's meant to
lead us back.

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That's why God raised her up.

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For people just like us.

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In the Scriptures, God has set forth
practical lessons to govern the life and

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conduct of all.

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But though He has given minute particulars
in regard to our character, conversation,

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and conduct, yet in a large measure,
His lessons are disregarded and ignored.

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Besides the instruction in His Word,
notice that, besides the instruction in

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His Word, the Lord has given special
testimonies.

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Again, that's what her writings are
called.

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The Testimonies of Jesus Christ.

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Besides the Word, the Lord has given
special testimonies to His people.

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Oh, not as a new revelation, but that He
may set before us the plain lessons of His

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Word.

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Notice how cunning that is.

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That little insertion.

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No!

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Not as any new revelation.

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See, that sounds bad.

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But then, you know what?

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You can say something, and it sounds
really good.

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And by your very next words, you can deny
the very thing that you said.

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But because you don't deny it in plain,
outright denial, you can feel like,

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well, it must not mean the opposite of
what just got said.

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Because, obviously, you wouldn't
contradict yourself that close.

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The very next thing that is stated is a
direct denial of the thing that was just

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said.

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Listen to this.

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Not as new revelation.

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Okay.

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As what?

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But that God may set before us plain
lessons of His Word in her writings,

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that errors may be corrected.

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Well, oh no, it's not revelation.

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But if you don't have this, you're not
going to figure out the errors that you

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might otherwise fall into because of your
inability to properly interpret Scripture.

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If you can't hear the exact error of the
Catholic Church...

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Now, Seventh-day Adventists hate
Catholics, and they blame all sorts of

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stuff.

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But can't you hear the very same thing the
Catholic Church said in the dark ages?

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Don't read your Bibles.

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You need somebody to interpret it.

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Otherwise, you're going to fall into
error.

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The common man cannot interpret.

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The common man just disregards Scripture.

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The common man is prone to all manner of
error.

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We're not talking about new revelation.

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No.

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But, if you want to avoid the error,
there's a lesser light to lead you to the

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greater light.

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That errors may be corrected, that the
right way may be pointed out, that every

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soul may be without excuse.

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Oh, that's why her writings are given.

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So that you might be without excuse.

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You see, without saying it, it's subtly
saying, Oh, if you just have the

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Scriptures, nobody understands the
Scriptures.

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You have an excuse to go wrong.

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But, once the lesser light comes,
well, now you don't have excuse.

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Brethren, these are dangerous words.

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But, so subtle and so mixed with,
Oh, yeah, we hold to Sola Scriptura.

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That is a lie.

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Sola Scriptura does not say that we need
the writings of Ellen G.

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White to figure out the errors we would
otherwise fall into in Scripture.

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That is an absolute denial.

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Now, let me tell you, in the few minutes
we have left, the atonement.

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Okay, Ellen White, this is subtle.

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Ellen White said, and I'm going to read to
you from her writings.

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This is concerning the atonement.

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She said this, Well, if you go back and
you look at Old Testament worship,

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when the lamb had its neck slit,
and the blood was poured out and the

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animal died, sin was not atoned for.

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Not until the high priest took the blood
into the Holy of Holies and threw the

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blood on the mercy seat.

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So, Jesus shedding His blood at the cross,

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that did not put away your sin.

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Christ had to enter the heavenly
sanctuary, where He is now using His blood

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to wash the sanctuary, and He is presently
in the process of atoning for us.

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And because it wasn't until the high
priest laid his hand on the scapegoat and

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imparted the sins to the goat,
and the goat was sent off, it won't be

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until the final day, when our sins are
laid on Satan, and he is thrown into

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oblivion, basically, that our atonement
will be full.

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She uses that imagery and would say,

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look, Christ's work is identical to that.

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And because sin wasn't actually atoned for
just when the blood was shed, the priest

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yet had to take it to the mercy seat.

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Christ had to take the blood into heaven,
where He is now working out our atonement,

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cleansing the temple.

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And it won't be until the last day that
sin not gets laid on Him, but sin gets

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laid on the devil.

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And then the devil, like the scapegoat was
sent out into the wilderness, the devil,

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they don't believe in eternal hell.

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They believe in annihilation.

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But he's sent off into some oblivion of
annihilation.

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If you look at that and you say,
well, what's wrong with that?

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The author of Hebrews would say,
there is a bunch wrong with that.

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Listen, Ellen White says this,
when Christ, now listen very carefully,

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when Christ, the mediator, burst the bands
of the tomb and ascended on high to

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minister for man, He first entered the
holy place, where by virtue of His own

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sacrifice, He made an offering.

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Now did you get that?

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He goes into the holy place, and there He
makes an offering.

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You say, well, isn't that what the Bible
teaches?

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Does the Bible teach that He made an
offering there?

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And listen to what the offering is.

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She says He made an offering for the sins
of men.

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Okay, I mean, sounds biblical.

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But you want to get your times down.

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Why?

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Because Scripture says, that He paid for
those sins once.

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And it's done.

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You say, well, why does it matter?

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Because as soon as you say that the
atonement is not complete yet,

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that Christ is still in heaven,
cleansing the temple, further working out

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our atonement, when you say that it's not
done yet, for one, you're denying the

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outright teaching of Scripture that says
it is done.

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But what you do is you massively open the
door for something.

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What you do is you open the door for our
works.

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And I'll show you exactly how that
happens.

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Listen to what she says.

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He made an offering for the sins of men.

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And you say, that sounds good.

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Listen to what the offering is.

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With intercession and pleadings,
when He went into the heavenly temple,

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here's His offering.

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He presented before God the prayers and
repentance and faith of His people.

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Purified by the incense of His own merits.

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And you can say, well, is there anything
wrong with that?

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Brethren, open your Bibles.

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Open your Bibles to Hebrews.

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It's so subtle.

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And it uses terminology that we're
familiar with, but the offering is said to

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be prayers and repentance and faith.

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You see, if He's in that heavenly temple,
and He is still further working out our

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atonement, and it's being worked out by
the offering of our faith, our repentance,

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and our prayers, guess what you just
opened the door for?

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Our works are playing a part in our
atonement.

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And it's so subtly thrown in.

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Now listen, she's not so subtle as we
further go on.

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But I just want you to hear the
subtleties.

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But listen to what Scripture says.

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Oh, brethren, Scripture is glorious.

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Hebrews 8.

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Hebrews.

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When you go to Hebrews 8.1, the point in
what we are saying is this.

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We have such a high priest.

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Has the high priest ascended so that He
might continue to make atonement for us by

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offering repentance and offering faith and
offering prayers?

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Is that what He does?

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Listen, I am not going to argue about
whether or not He purifies our prayers,

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our faith, and our repentance so that they
are acceptable to God.

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But be very careful here.

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What she is saying is that He is further
working out our atonement in the heavenly

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sanctuary by offering these things.

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Listen to what Hebrews 8 says.

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The point in what we are saying is this.

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We have such a high priest.

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One who is seated at the right hand of the
throne of the majesty in heaven.

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A minister in the holy places.

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In the true tent.

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Did He do a work in the true tabernacle?

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You better believe.

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For every high priest is appointed to
offer gifts and sacrifices.

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Thus it is necessary for the priest also
to have something to offer.

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Did you get that?

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Something to offer.

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Well, what is this offering?

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Look at Hebrews 7.27.

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What is this offering?

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Is it our prayers?

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Is it our faith?

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Is it our repentance?

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Like Ellen White says?

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Look at Hebrews 7.27.

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He has no need like those high priests to
offer sacrifices daily.

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Is He still doing something?

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Is He still offering sacrifices daily?

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Is He still working out our atonement?

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No!

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He has no need to do any sort of ongoing
work.

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First for His own sins.

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And then for those of the people.

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But notice that.

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He doesn't need to offer daily sacrifices
for the sake of His people.

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Since He did this, what?

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What?

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Once for all when He offered Himself.

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Once for all when He offered up Himself on
that cross.

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Once for all.

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Listen.

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Listen.

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Ellen White says now Christ is in the
heavenly sanctuary.

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What is He doing?

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What is He doing?

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I'll tell you what Hebrews teaches.

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He sat down.

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Why?

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After making purification for sin.

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What does Ellen White say?

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These are her own words.

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What does she say?

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Christ is in the heavenly sanctuary.

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And what is He doing?

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That's a tremendous question.

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He's making atonement for us.

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You know what?

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That's using biblical terminology.

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But you ought to be able to recognize
right away that is blasphemy.

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That is saying that His work on the cross
was not sufficient.

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His work on the cross needed something
added to it.

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I'm telling you.

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The devil will come after the Word of God
and he comes after the atonement of Jesus

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Christ.

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And it can come in ever so subtle
terminology.

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Biblical sounding terminology.

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This is what she says.

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He's making atonement for us.

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How is He presently making atonement for
us?

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Cleansing the sanctuary from the sins of
the people.

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Now did you hear?

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See what he does.

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What she is saying is, it's the prayers of
the people and the faith of the people and

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the repentance of the people that has to
be offered.

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And He's up there and He's scrubbing it.

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He's making it clean.

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And thereby working out our atonement.

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Our atonement takes our prayers,
our faith, our repentance.

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Yes, He has to add something to it.

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But our atonement is being worked out.

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You see how she cunningly brought works
right into that picture.

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She goes on to say, Then we must enter by
faith into the sanctuary with Him.

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In other words, He's there working out our
atonement for us.

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We have to enter in with Him.

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See how it's making us part and parcel.

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We must commence the work in the
sanctuary.

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We must go to work too.

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We must commence the work in the sanctuary
of our souls.

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We're to cleanse ourselves from all
defilement.

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Does that sound familiar?

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It better, because that's what we've been
looking at in 1 Corinthians 7.

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We must cleanse ourselves from all
filthiness of the flesh and spirit,

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perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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You see how she subtly brought a Pauline
text and made it into our joint effort

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with Christ in working out our atonement.

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Brethren, I'm telling you, this is a
direct attack on the cross and it's

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blasphemous.

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And it immediately introduces works.

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Now listen to this.

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Satan will come and tempt you.

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But you give way to his temptations.

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What then?

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Why come and humble your hearts in
confession and by faith grasp the arm of

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Christ in the heavenly sanctuary.

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Trust Him.

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That's what she's saying.

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Trust Him up there.

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Continuing to work out your atonement.

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Believe that Christ will take your
confession and hold up His hands before

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the Father.

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Hands that have been bruised and wounded
in our behalf.

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And He will make an atonement for all who
will come with confession.

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You see again, our confession.

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It's absolutely necessary in order for
atonement to take place.

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You've got to have that.

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You've got to have the confession.

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The confession is the root of the Master.

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Look Father, look at the wound.

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This is how He's working out the
atonement.

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Not an atonement that's already complete.

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Brethren, the author of Hebrews.

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Watch what he does.

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You saw it there in 727.

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He did this once for all when He offered
Himself up.

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Follow this.

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Follow this over to Hebrews 9.12.

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He entered once for all into the holy
places.

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Not by means of the blood of goats and
calves, but by means of His own blood.

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Thus, He secured an eternal redemption.

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You see, it's secured.

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That eternal covenant has been secured,
or the eternal redemption rather,

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has been secured by means of His own
blood.

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It's secured.

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Brethren, listen to Ellen White's words.

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The blood of Christ, while it was to
release the repentant sinner from the

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condemnation of the law, was not to cancel
the sin.

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It would stand on record in the sanctuary
until the final atonement.

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You see, what happened on the cross was
not final atonement.

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The final atonement is not going to happen
until Christ is done cleansing,

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and until the last of our sins are laid
upon the head of Satan, who is Ellen's

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scapegoat.

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She says this, The blood of Christ,
while it was to release the repentant

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sinner from the condemnation of the law,
was not to cancel the sin.

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It would stand on record in the sanctuary
until the final atonement.

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So, in the type, the blood of the sin
offering removed the sin from the

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penitent, but it rested in the sanctuary
until the day of atonement.

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She says this, She admits, While the sin
offering pointed to Christ as a sacrifice,

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and the high priest represented Christ as
a mediator, the scapegoat typified Satan,

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the author of sin, upon whom the sins of
the truly penitent will finally be placed.

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When the high priest, by virtue of the
blood of the sin offering, removed the

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sins from the sanctuary, he placed them
upon the scapegoat.

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When Christ, by virtue of His own blood,
removes the sins of His people from the

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heavenly sanctuary, which that's what He's
doing now, He's up there in the sanctuary,

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perhaps she believes it was completed by
1844.

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Now, something further is being required
to bring all of this to pass before the

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final judgment.

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It's all very convoluted.

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But at the close of Christ's ministration,
He will place our sins upon Satan,

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who in the execution of the judgment must
bear the final penalty.

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The scapegoat was sent away into a land
not inhabited, never to come again to the

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congregation of Israel.

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So will Satan be forever banished from the
presence of God and His people,

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and he will be blotted from existence in
the final destruction of sin and sinners.

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She says this, The intercession of Christ
in man's behalf, in the sanctuary,

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above, is as essential to the plan of
salvation as was His death upon the cross.

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By His death He began the work,
which after His resurrection He ascended

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to complete in heaven.

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We must by faith enter within the veil,
whether the forerunner is for us entered.

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There the light from the cross of Calvary
is reflected.

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There we may gain a clearer insight into
the mysteries of redemption.

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The salvation of man is accomplished at an
infinite expense to heaven.

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The sacrifice made is equal to the
broadest demands of the broken law of God.

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That all sounds good.

58:49.320 --> 58:52.060
Jesus opened the way to the Father's
throne.

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Through His mediation the sincere desire
of all who come to Him in faith may be

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presented before God.

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And yet she's saying, The shed blood of
Christ does not cancel sin.

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It's only Jesus ascending and continuing
to do that work there.

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Only then.

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She says, For eighteen centuries this work
of ministration continued in the first

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apartment of the sanctuary.

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The blood of Christ pleaded in behalf of
penitent believers, secured their pardon

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and acceptance with the Father.

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Yet their sins still remained upon the
books of record.

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Did you hear that?

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For eighteen centuries, up till 1844,
you know what happened?

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She predicted Christ would return.

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And when He didn't come back, she invented
this convoluted idea that for eighteen

01:00:02.800 --> 01:00:08.680
centuries, the work of ministration
continued in the first apartment of the

01:00:08.680 --> 01:00:17.320
heavenly sanctuary degrading the
wonderful, or rather, the blood of Christ

01:00:17.320 --> 01:00:23.640
during those eighteen centuries pleaded in
behalf of penitent believers, secured

01:00:23.640 --> 01:00:28.220
their pardon and acceptance with the
Father, yet their sins still remained upon

01:00:28.220 --> 01:00:29.320
the books of record.

01:00:30.460 --> 01:00:35.060
As in the typical service, there was a
work of atonement at the close of the

01:00:35.060 --> 01:00:35.340
year.

01:00:35.340 --> 01:00:39.560
So, before Christ's work for the
redemption of men is completed,

01:00:40.180 --> 01:00:43.740
there is a work of atonement for the
removal of sin from the sanctuary.

01:00:44.020 --> 01:00:45.300
This is her big thing.

01:00:45.900 --> 01:00:50.440
This is the service which began when the
2300 days ended.

01:00:50.600 --> 01:00:53.920
At that time, as foretold by Daniel the
prophet, our high priest entered the Most

01:00:53.920 --> 01:00:58.840
Holy to perform the last division of his
solemn work to cleanse the sanctuary.

01:00:59.520 --> 01:01:03.820
See, that started in 1844, and now it
still goes on.

01:01:03.820 --> 01:01:08.040
And remember, there's got to be confession
on our part, and there's got to be our

01:01:08.040 --> 01:01:11.620
prayers, and there's got to be faith,
and there's got to be repentance that are

01:01:11.620 --> 01:01:18.120
being thrown in the mix to bring about the
fulfillment of all of this atoning work.

01:01:20.590 --> 01:01:22.740
You go to Hebrews 9.25.

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Let's go to 24.

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Christ has entered, not into holy places
made with hands, which are copies of the

01:01:35.010 --> 01:01:39.010
true things, but into heaven itself,
now to appear in the presence of God on

01:01:39.010 --> 01:01:39.690
our behalf.

01:01:40.910 --> 01:01:46.150
Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly as
the high priest enters the holy places

01:01:46.150 --> 01:01:47.810
every year with blood not his own.

01:01:48.190 --> 01:01:49.770
There's no ongoing work.

01:01:50.950 --> 01:01:54.870
For then he would have had to suffer
repeatedly since the foundation of the

01:01:54.870 --> 01:01:55.150
world.

01:01:55.450 --> 01:02:01.790
For as it is, he has appeared once for all
at the end of the ages to put away sin by

01:02:01.790 --> 01:02:03.690
the sacrifice of himself.

01:02:04.230 --> 01:02:05.570
How does it get put away?

01:02:05.730 --> 01:02:07.710
By the sacrifice of himself.

01:02:08.510 --> 01:02:16.230
Brethren, what is the offering that God
had Christ offer to him?

01:02:16.790 --> 01:02:17.970
What is the offering?

01:02:18.370 --> 01:02:19.370
Is it our prayers?

01:02:19.690 --> 01:02:20.650
Is it our faith?

01:02:20.890 --> 01:02:21.870
Is it our confession?

01:02:22.250 --> 01:02:23.230
Is it our repentance?

01:02:23.690 --> 01:02:28.470
Is that what we're told here in the book
of Hebrews?

01:02:28.470 --> 01:02:30.130
What is the offering?

01:02:30.530 --> 01:02:31.990
Look at what the offering is.

01:02:33.570 --> 01:02:35.030
Hebrews 7.27.

01:02:35.550 --> 01:02:44.690
We saw it was not to offer sacrifices
daily, first for his own sins,

01:02:46.190 --> 01:02:53.910
but to offer a sacrifice once for all when
he offered up himself.

01:02:54.870 --> 01:02:56.210
What's the offering?

01:02:56.210 --> 01:02:56.310
What's the offering?

01:02:59.210 --> 01:03:05.250
If you go to Hebrews 9.12, what's the
offering?

01:03:05.950 --> 01:03:09.610
He entered once for all into the holy
places, not by means of the blood of goats

01:03:09.610 --> 01:03:11.450
and calves, but by means of his own blood.

01:03:11.650 --> 01:03:12.730
What's the offering?

01:03:12.990 --> 01:03:14.170
It's his own blood.

01:03:14.530 --> 01:03:17.430
It's not the blood of goats and calves.

01:03:17.730 --> 01:03:19.390
He's secured in eternal redemption.

01:03:19.830 --> 01:03:22.950
If the blood of goats and bulls and the
sprinkling of defiled persons with ashes

01:03:22.950 --> 01:03:27.550
was ever sanctified for the purification
of the flesh, how much more will the blood

01:03:27.550 --> 01:03:31.290
of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit,
offered what?

01:03:33.290 --> 01:03:33.850
Himself.

01:03:35.330 --> 01:03:36.650
Did he offer our prayers?

01:03:37.090 --> 01:03:39.790
Is that how our atonement is accomplished?

01:03:39.890 --> 01:03:43.510
By the offering of our confession,
our faith, our repentance, our prayers.

01:03:43.950 --> 01:03:46.670
It's by the offering of himself.

01:03:48.290 --> 01:03:49.670
That's what he says there.

01:03:49.670 --> 01:03:52.790
He offered himself without blemish to God.

01:03:53.210 --> 01:03:56.570
How much more will that purify our
conscience from dead works to serve the

01:03:56.570 --> 01:03:57.170
living God?

01:03:57.890 --> 01:04:01.730
He's the mediator of a new covenant so
that those who are called may receive the

01:04:01.730 --> 01:04:05.770
promised eternal inheritance since the
death has occurred that redeems them from

01:04:05.770 --> 01:04:10.010
the transgressions committed under the
first covenant.

01:04:11.190 --> 01:04:14.310
You go back and look in Hebrews 9.25-26
again.

01:04:16.810 --> 01:04:17.610
What's offered?

01:04:18.130 --> 01:04:18.530
Himself.

01:04:19.250 --> 01:04:21.350
It wasn't to offer himself repeatedly.

01:04:21.810 --> 01:04:24.630
No, it was to offer himself once.

01:04:28.980 --> 01:04:32.000
As the high priest enters the holy places
every year with blood not his own.

01:04:32.120 --> 01:04:33.020
See, it's blood.

01:04:33.660 --> 01:04:36.180
Then he would have had to suffer
repeatedly since the foundation of the

01:04:36.180 --> 01:04:36.380
world.

01:04:37.520 --> 01:04:41.980
For as it is, he appeared once for all at
the end of the ages to put away sin by the

01:04:41.980 --> 01:04:43.200
sacrifice of what?

01:04:43.380 --> 01:04:44.300
What is the offering?

01:04:44.460 --> 01:04:45.900
What is the sacrifice again?

01:04:45.900 --> 01:04:46.820
Himself.

01:04:47.960 --> 01:04:49.440
That's the offering.

01:04:51.760 --> 01:04:53.560
Or you can go further.

01:04:53.680 --> 01:04:58.520
Hebrews 9.28 So Christ having been offered
once.

01:04:58.920 --> 01:05:00.060
What was offered?

01:05:00.560 --> 01:05:02.760
My prayers, my faith, my repentance?

01:05:03.240 --> 01:05:06.260
No, Christ having been offered.

01:05:06.820 --> 01:05:08.920
What was offered to the Father?

01:05:09.800 --> 01:05:14.660
Christ offered a body God prepared for
Him.

01:05:14.660 --> 01:05:15.960
His blood.

01:05:16.380 --> 01:05:22.380
Brethren, Christ having been offered once
to bear the sins of many.

01:05:22.640 --> 01:05:24.620
Does the devil bear our sins?

01:05:25.000 --> 01:05:26.620
He bore our sins.

01:05:27.360 --> 01:05:29.400
He is the scapegoat.

01:05:30.120 --> 01:05:31.960
Our sin was laid on Him.

01:05:33.560 --> 01:05:38.300
And they've now been cast as far away as
the east is from the west.

01:05:40.100 --> 01:05:41.540
Not to deal with sin.

01:05:42.720 --> 01:05:43.680
Notice this.

01:05:44.480 --> 01:05:47.760
He's not further working out this
atonement.

01:05:48.380 --> 01:05:52.280
You see, Ellen White would have us to
believe that He's going to work this

01:05:52.280 --> 01:05:55.300
atonement all the way until the last day.

01:05:55.780 --> 01:06:00.420
But let me tell you, when He comes,
it's not to finish the atonement.

01:06:00.920 --> 01:06:02.760
You see what it says there at the end of
28?

01:06:02.980 --> 01:06:04.040
Not to deal with sin.

01:06:04.140 --> 01:06:05.640
He's done dealing with sin.

01:06:05.800 --> 01:06:07.180
He dealt with that once.

01:06:08.180 --> 01:06:10.960
But to save those who are eagerly waiting
for Him.

01:06:11.980 --> 01:06:14.340
Or how about you go to chapter 10.

01:06:14.580 --> 01:06:15.240
Look at this.

01:06:16.580 --> 01:06:22.580
Verse 5, "...sacrifices and offerings you
have not desired, but a body you have

01:06:22.580 --> 01:06:23.420
prepared for Me.

01:06:23.540 --> 01:06:27.280
In burnt offerings, sin offerings,
you take no pleasure." Then I said,

01:06:27.320 --> 01:06:30.260
"...Behold, I have come to do your will,
O God." What is that will?

01:06:31.120 --> 01:06:34.740
"...And it is written Me of the scroll of
the book." When He said, "...And above,

01:06:35.200 --> 01:06:40.000
you have neither desired nor taken
pleasure in sacrifices and offerings,

01:06:40.340 --> 01:06:42.080
and burnt offerings and sin offerings.

01:06:42.740 --> 01:06:46.840
Those are offered according to the law."
Then He added, "...Behold, I have come to

01:06:46.840 --> 01:06:50.180
do your will." He does away with the first
in order to establish the second.

01:06:50.840 --> 01:06:53.180
And by that will, we've been sanctified.

01:06:53.320 --> 01:06:53.680
How?

01:06:53.940 --> 01:06:54.940
Through an offering.

01:06:55.600 --> 01:06:55.820
What?

01:06:56.300 --> 01:06:57.440
How have you been sanctified?

01:06:57.580 --> 01:07:00.000
This is not talking about progressive
sanctification.

01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:04.360
This is talking about being set aside once
and for good.

01:07:04.960 --> 01:07:07.380
A people set aside by Christ.

01:07:07.500 --> 01:07:09.340
This is a positional reality.

01:07:09.880 --> 01:07:10.800
And how does it happen?

01:07:10.880 --> 01:07:11.940
By what sacrifice?

01:07:12.240 --> 01:07:12.880
Your prayers?

01:07:13.140 --> 01:07:13.820
Your repentance?

01:07:14.060 --> 01:07:14.720
Your faith?

01:07:14.920 --> 01:07:16.380
That's blasphemous.

01:07:16.600 --> 01:07:17.460
What does it say?

01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:25.980
Through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ.

01:07:26.680 --> 01:07:28.300
Once for all.

01:07:28.300 --> 01:07:29.240
Not ongoing.

01:07:30.020 --> 01:07:32.740
Not some perpetual cleansing.

01:07:33.660 --> 01:07:39.260
Or 18th century cleansing in the first
part of the sanctuary.

01:07:39.340 --> 01:07:42.700
Only to enter the second part in 1844.

01:07:42.880 --> 01:07:49.640
Now to sanctify the inner sanctuary,
the Holy of Holies, until He comes again.

01:07:50.220 --> 01:07:53.120
Needing our repentance and our faith and
our confession.

01:07:53.520 --> 01:07:54.260
None of that.

01:07:54.480 --> 01:07:56.780
There is no ongoing atonement,
brethren.

01:07:57.740 --> 01:07:59.120
It's once for all.

01:07:59.760 --> 01:08:02.200
Through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ.

01:08:02.820 --> 01:08:05.060
Every priest stands daily at His service.

01:08:05.540 --> 01:08:09.720
You see, she would have us to believe He's
doing His ongoing service.

01:08:10.420 --> 01:08:10.960
None of that.

01:08:11.580 --> 01:08:13.940
She would have us to believe He's still
standing.

01:08:15.160 --> 01:08:16.480
Do you recognize that?

01:08:18.440 --> 01:08:21.360
You see, she failed to mention that,
right?

01:08:22.000 --> 01:08:25.420
She wants to take that picture out of the
Old Testament.

01:08:25.420 --> 01:08:27.220
Well, you tell me this.

01:08:27.240 --> 01:08:34.180
When the high priest was in the first part
of the temple, and when he was in the

01:08:34.180 --> 01:08:36.880
second part of the temple, did he ever sit
down?

01:08:38.040 --> 01:08:38.560
No.

01:08:38.740 --> 01:08:39.980
There was no chair there.

01:08:40.160 --> 01:08:41.380
He never sat down.

01:08:41.480 --> 01:08:42.780
You know why he never sat down?

01:08:42.900 --> 01:08:44.320
Because his work wasn't done.

01:08:44.540 --> 01:08:46.040
That's what she wants us to believe.

01:08:46.220 --> 01:08:47.500
His work's not done.

01:08:48.520 --> 01:08:50.500
But Hebrews 1 puts an end to it.

01:08:50.680 --> 01:08:52.880
Hebrews 1 shuts Ellen White's mouth.

01:08:53.630 --> 01:08:55.300
He sat down.

01:08:55.840 --> 01:08:59.020
After he made purification for sins,
it's done.

01:08:59.480 --> 01:09:00.520
He finished it.

01:09:01.620 --> 01:09:07.540
If he's still in the inner sanctum,
in the Holy of Holies, still purifying it,

01:09:07.820 --> 01:09:10.320
he doesn't sit down.

01:09:13.180 --> 01:09:23.220
Brethren, Hebrews 10.12 10.11 Every priest
stands daily at his service, offering

01:09:23.220 --> 01:09:26.460
repeatedly the same sacrifices,
which can never take away sins.

01:09:26.640 --> 01:09:32.380
If he's up there doing something that once
and for all doesn't take away sins,

01:09:32.480 --> 01:09:33.640
you know what Scripture teaches?

01:09:34.140 --> 01:09:36.120
Then it can never take away sin.

01:09:38.560 --> 01:09:41.380
If it wasn't finished at the cross,

01:09:45.340 --> 01:09:48.760
then there's nothing more that he can do
that will take it away.

01:09:49.180 --> 01:09:55.160
Because if that didn't finish it,
if he's still doing more, you see the

01:09:55.160 --> 01:09:55.520
argument?

01:09:56.040 --> 01:10:00.140
If he's still standing, if he's still
doing the work of a high priest,

01:10:01.370 --> 01:10:05.120
then it can't take away sins.

01:10:06.060 --> 01:10:07.980
And that's actually what she says.

01:10:09.520 --> 01:10:11.160
They're still on the books.

01:10:13.400 --> 01:10:17.120
I'm telling you, this is damnable.

01:10:18.880 --> 01:10:26.880
Look at 10.12 When Christ had offered for
all time a single sacrifice for sins,

01:10:27.920 --> 01:10:34.000
He sat down at the right hand of God,
waiting from that time until His enemies

01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:35.160
should be made a footstool.

01:10:35.440 --> 01:10:37.220
He's not working out our atonement.

01:10:38.260 --> 01:10:39.040
That's done.

01:10:39.040 --> 01:10:42.100
Why does He sit and wait now?

01:10:45.490 --> 01:10:48.870
He sits until He is totally conquered.

01:10:51.490 --> 01:10:59.970
For by a single offering, He's perfected
for all time those who are being

01:10:59.970 --> 01:11:00.870
sanctified.

01:11:02.810 --> 01:11:06.790
Ellen says, no, He's up there working and
you've got to work with Him.

01:11:07.070 --> 01:11:08.010
Better jump in.

01:11:08.010 --> 01:11:15.710
And if you don't, you're not going to make
it.

01:11:16.890 --> 01:11:19.250
Because it depends on you and Him.

01:11:20.250 --> 01:11:24.370
And as soon as you say that anything that
Christ did depends on anything you do,

01:11:25.050 --> 01:11:25.730
you've undone.

01:11:27.970 --> 01:11:32.890
That might sound good to say, well,
He's got to show His wounds.

01:11:34.270 --> 01:11:37.310
Yeah, but if He's working out atonement,
it takes your confession.

01:11:38.230 --> 01:11:40.590
Run from that like the plague.

01:11:41.970 --> 01:11:43.370
Run from it.

01:11:44.150 --> 01:11:45.150
Abominate it.

01:11:45.710 --> 01:11:46.250
Hate it.

01:11:47.830 --> 01:11:49.210
It's bad.

01:11:58.560 --> 01:12:05.700
She says, Important truths concerning
atonement may be learned from a typical

01:12:05.700 --> 01:12:07.140
Old Testament service.

01:12:08.000 --> 01:12:13.940
A substitute was accepted in the sinner's
stead, but the sin was not canceled by the

01:12:13.940 --> 01:12:14.940
blood of the victim.

01:12:16.820 --> 01:12:23.680
You see, she goes back and she looks at
that and she says, the high priest had to

01:12:23.680 --> 01:12:33.340
take the blood and actually had to go into
the Holy of Holies and cleanse.

01:12:35.420 --> 01:12:40.840
And until that happened, the blood didn't
take away any sin.

01:12:43.400 --> 01:12:45.840
It's very crafty.

01:12:47.760 --> 01:12:56.400
But then what she does, is she leaves us a
picture of Christ still doing it and

01:12:56.400 --> 01:12:57.580
needing to do it.

01:12:59.320 --> 01:13:01.100
And therefore, He's not finished.

01:13:02.060 --> 01:13:03.860
And He never sits down.

01:13:04.800 --> 01:13:08.040
He has not completed purification for
sins.

01:13:09.360 --> 01:13:15.120
And it opens up the door for our works to
enter in.

01:13:15.300 --> 01:13:18.960
Because like she says, it needs our faith,
our repentance, our confession,

01:13:19.080 --> 01:13:19.660
our prayers.

01:13:30.040 --> 01:13:31.780
Just one more here.

01:13:34.840 --> 01:13:41.680
As anciently the sins of people were by
faith placed upon the sin offering and

01:13:41.680 --> 01:13:47.920
through its blood transferred in figure to
the earthly sanctuary, so in the new

01:13:47.920 --> 01:13:54.920
covenant, the sins of the repentant are by
faith placed upon Christ and transferred,

01:13:55.100 --> 01:13:58.620
in fact, to the heavenly sanctuary.

01:14:00.580 --> 01:14:05.700
See, our sins are transferred there where
He still has to make atonement for them

01:14:05.700 --> 01:14:06.480
there.

01:14:07.720 --> 01:14:13.700
And as the typical cleansing of the
earthly was accomplished by the removal of

01:14:13.700 --> 01:14:19.900
the sins by which it had been polluted,
so the actual cleansing of the heavenly is

01:14:19.900 --> 01:14:25.500
to be accomplished by the removal or
blotting out of the sins which are there

01:14:25.500 --> 01:14:26.460
recorded.

01:14:26.820 --> 01:14:27.800
You see what she's saying?

01:14:28.120 --> 01:14:30.860
Every time we sin, it gets recorded in
heaven.

01:14:30.860 --> 01:14:38.920
Every time you and I sin now, it stains
the heavenly temple.

01:14:40.760 --> 01:14:42.680
Dirt goes there.

01:14:44.080 --> 01:14:50.380
And so Christ has to go back and scrub it
away.

01:14:50.960 --> 01:14:57.480
And then you sin again, and He has to go
back and scrub it away.

01:14:58.440 --> 01:14:59.880
And His work's not done.

01:15:01.820 --> 01:15:07.940
But before this can be accomplished,
there must be an examination of the books

01:15:07.940 --> 01:15:10.520
of record to determine who through
repentance...

01:15:10.520 --> 01:15:12.840
Notice how subtle again our works come in.

01:15:14.120 --> 01:15:24.140
This can't be done until the books are
looked at to determine who through

01:15:24.140 --> 01:15:32.400
repentance of sin and faith in Christ are
entitled to the benefits of His atonement.

01:15:34.420 --> 01:15:39.580
You see, in the end, it's really based on
you.

01:15:41.620 --> 01:15:46.440
The cleansing of the sanctuary,
therefore, involves a work of

01:15:46.440 --> 01:15:48.620
investigation, a work of judgment.

01:15:49.280 --> 01:15:55.760
This work must be performed prior to the
coming of Christ to redeem His people.

01:15:56.500 --> 01:16:00.300
This is necessary to redeem you.

01:16:03.100 --> 01:16:06.900
For when He comes, His reward is with Him
to give to every man according to his

01:16:06.900 --> 01:16:07.400
works.

01:16:08.320 --> 01:16:15.220
Thus, those who followed in the light of
the prophetic word, her word, she is the

01:16:15.220 --> 01:16:23.040
prophet, saw that instead of the coming to
the earth at the termination of the 2,300

01:16:23.040 --> 01:16:29.720
days in 1844, Christ then entered the most
holy place of the heavenly sanctuary to

01:16:29.720 --> 01:16:36.960
perform the closing work of atonement
preparatory to His coming.

01:16:38.280 --> 01:16:47.020
Your atonement's not yet complete by Ellen
White's estimation and won't be until the

01:16:47.020 --> 01:16:47.740
second coming.

01:16:50.380 --> 01:16:53.160
I was reading you her words.

01:16:54.420 --> 01:16:55.660
This is no straw man.

01:16:56.500 --> 01:16:57.540
This is her.

01:16:59.600 --> 01:17:01.780
It is salvation by works.

01:17:02.180 --> 01:17:05.500
It is a denial of the atonement of Jesus
Christ.

01:17:06.320 --> 01:17:11.620
And it is her setting herself up as the
lesser light to lead you to the greater

01:17:11.620 --> 01:17:12.040
light.

01:17:12.440 --> 01:17:21.660
Which, that's just a mirage for really
saying, you can't know the greater light

01:17:21.660 --> 01:17:27.320
except by me, which makes me the authority
to interpret it for you, which in the end

01:17:27.320 --> 01:17:28.920
makes me the real authority.

01:17:30.640 --> 01:17:33.100
Don't fall for that garbage.

01:17:33.760 --> 01:17:35.420
That's a mirage.

01:17:35.560 --> 01:17:37.220
That's smoke screens.

01:17:38.160 --> 01:17:45.200
That's a way of saying something that
sounds good, but it's just like the

01:17:45.200 --> 01:17:45.960
Catholic Church.

01:17:46.100 --> 01:17:49.080
Oh yeah, we hold Scripture high.

01:17:50.080 --> 01:17:54.480
Which, after all, you need us to interpret
it for you.

01:17:55.180 --> 01:17:57.320
So in the end, who is really the
authority?

01:17:58.100 --> 01:18:04.220
It never ends up being the Word,
because where your prophet, or prophetess,

01:18:04.740 --> 01:18:11.420
or pope, or church council, or church
tradition disagrees with Scripture,

01:18:11.420 --> 01:18:12.580
who do they go with?

01:18:13.800 --> 01:18:18.960
And if you don't think Ellen White doesn't
disagree with Scripture based on the

01:18:18.960 --> 01:18:24.460
teaching of Hebrews on the atonement,
she is diametrically opposed to it.

01:18:25.240 --> 01:18:27.120
But who would she have you believe?

01:18:27.540 --> 01:18:36.500
Oh, well you can't interpret those things
unless her lesser light helps you to see

01:18:36.500 --> 01:18:39.500
through the errors that we all fall into.

01:18:39.500 --> 01:18:41.000
We all neglect Scripture.

01:18:41.160 --> 01:18:42.140
We're all prone to error.

01:18:43.340 --> 01:18:46.640
God had to send her to leave us without
excuse.

01:18:49.300 --> 01:18:51.180
You see what's subtly being said?

01:18:51.560 --> 01:18:56.600
Oh no, well, Ellen, I went to Scripture
and I found out He sat down.

01:18:58.220 --> 01:19:00.540
I find out our atonement's done.

01:19:01.480 --> 01:19:02.300
Once for all.

01:19:06.470 --> 01:19:13.370
Well, see, you're really only without
excuse if you deny her teaching.

01:19:13.610 --> 01:19:14.650
That's what she's saying.

01:19:16.250 --> 01:19:21.910
You're not without excuse if you go to
Hebrews and come up with a wrong

01:19:21.910 --> 01:19:22.430
conclusion.

01:19:22.770 --> 01:19:31.390
You're without excuse if she with her
extra light comes along and you don't

01:19:31.390 --> 01:19:32.590
agree with her.

01:19:32.790 --> 01:19:34.090
Then you're without excuse.

01:19:37.730 --> 01:19:38.230
Beware.

01:19:42.390 --> 01:19:49.030
Satan, he paints his errors with
Scriptural words and terminology.

01:19:50.090 --> 01:19:53.810
But I went after the two primary things
tonight.

01:19:55.070 --> 01:20:00.530
When Satan attacks, yea hath God said.

01:20:01.130 --> 01:20:02.270
It's been that way from the beginning.

01:20:03.070 --> 01:20:06.090
He goes after the Word of God.

01:20:07.530 --> 01:20:10.610
And he goes after the atonement of Jesus
Christ.

01:20:10.830 --> 01:20:15.970
Every false religion on the face of this
earth attacks the atonement of Jesus

01:20:15.970 --> 01:20:16.450
Christ.

01:20:16.610 --> 01:20:18.730
The Person and the work of Christ.

01:20:19.250 --> 01:20:20.950
Everyone without exception.

01:20:21.770 --> 01:20:22.050
Why?

01:20:23.410 --> 01:20:27.910
Because Satan can't leave that alone
because it's the heart of the Gospel.

01:20:29.030 --> 01:20:32.170
He's not going to go out here and mess
with the periphery things because if

01:20:32.170 --> 01:20:38.350
people look and say No, this doesn't have
anything to do with my faith, with my

01:20:38.350 --> 01:20:40.450
prayers, with my confession, with my
repentance.

01:20:40.790 --> 01:20:43.350
It is Christ alone on that cross.

01:20:43.630 --> 01:20:44.710
He paid for it.

01:20:44.870 --> 01:20:45.610
It's done.

01:20:45.830 --> 01:20:46.790
It is finished.

01:20:47.250 --> 01:20:48.990
There's no further work of atonement.

01:20:49.270 --> 01:20:50.690
My hope is there.

01:20:51.990 --> 01:20:59.210
My faith, my repentance, my confession,
my prayers, those are granted by God.

01:20:59.210 --> 01:21:00.490
Those are gifts of God.

01:21:01.170 --> 01:21:02.630
That's God at work in me.

01:21:04.310 --> 01:21:08.930
But my atonement was 100% completed at
that cross.

01:21:09.690 --> 01:21:10.990
And my faith is there.

01:21:11.110 --> 01:21:11.930
That is my hope.

01:21:12.250 --> 01:21:16.050
You see, Satan can't leave that alone
because if he just goes after blood

01:21:16.050 --> 01:21:21.930
transfusions and you believe that,
you're going to heaven.

01:21:23.310 --> 01:21:25.170
He means to destroy you.

01:21:27.250 --> 01:21:30.850
Not just keep you from getting blood
transfusions when you get sick.

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Somebody come along, no matter who they
say, I mean, you want to know whether

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somebody's a cult?

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Go look at what they truly teach about the
Word of God and about the atonement of

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Jesus Christ.

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Oh, there's other primary places.

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But those two are fundamental.

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They are the foundations.

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You go wrong at either of those,
it's damnable and you watch out.

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Anybody substitute any other authority for
the Word of God, anybody in any way,

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shape, or form, attack.

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You know John said it.

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If you deny Jesus Christ, you're in
trouble.

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And to deny Him is simply to redefine Him
or His work.

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That's denying Christ.

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Not to say, oh, I don't believe Jesus
Christ ever existed.

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That's not the only way.

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That's not even the primary way that the
antichrists were denying Jesus.

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They acknowledged Jesus was a real person.

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They denied that He was the Christ.

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They denied that He was the Son of God.

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They denied essential realities about His
person.

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That's damnable.

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So, this young lady, I would say to you,
please, run from the church, suppose it,

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run from the Seventh-day Adventist church
like your life depends on it.

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Because it does.

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Flee from it like the plague.

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Flee from it as you love your soul.

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Flee from it.

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Father, I pray, may somebody deceived,
somebody have their eyes opened.

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I pray, Lord, in Christ's name,
Amen.