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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Remember Your Name!

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To independent groups or ministries who have found themselves somewhat distant from official church connection and have accepted tithe for support. Contact your local church and local conference and return to a warm and appropriate relationship refusing to accept tithe and encouraging members to return their tithe through the storehouse of the local church. Remember your name!

To church members who are bitter or angry because another church member offended you and to churches where there are open fights, jealousies, and tensions: Remember your name and implement God's ministry of reconciliation and unity outlined in Matthew 18, John 17, and II Corinthians 5. Thank you Elder [Jan] Paulsen for your words last night urging us to be unified in Christ.
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REMEMBER YOUR NAME

Sabbath Sermon, October 9, 2010, Ted N C Wilson
2010 Annual Council, Silver Spring, Maryland



P.S.

No name which we can take will be appropriate but that which accords with our profession and expresses our faith and marks us a peculiar people. The name Seventh-day Adventist is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God and those who worship the beast and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast. It is because the saints are keeping all ten of the commandments that the dragon makes war upon them. If they will lower the standard and yield the peculiarities of their faith, the dragon will be at peace; but they excite his ire because they have dared to raise the standard and unfurl their banner in opposition to the Protestant world, who are worshiping the institution of papacy.

Testimonies for the Church Volume I, p. 223.

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1 comment:

  1. Arsenio A. Lembert Jr.8:39 PM

    What's a name worth?

    “And now also,” said the prophet, “the ax is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.” Not by its name, but by its fruit, is the value of a tree determined. If the fruit is worthless, the name cannot save the tree from destruction. John declared to the Jews that their standing before God was to be decided by their character and life. Profession was worthless. If their life and character were not in harmony with God’s law, they were not His people. DA, 107.

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