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The 1888 Message-3
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August 28 - The 1888 Message-3

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. John 13:35, RSV.

For the past two days we have been examining the core of the 1888 message from a letter written in 1895. Today we want to look at it from a diary entry Ellen White penned in February 1891.

"Many of our ministers," she mused, "have merely sermonized, presenting subjects in an argumentative way, and scarcely mentioning the saving power of the Redeemer. Not having themselves partaken of the living bread from heaven, their testimony was destitute of nourishment, destitute of the saving blood of Jesus Christ, which cleanseth from all sin. Their offering resembled the offering of Cain. . .

'Why is not He presented to the people as the living Bread? Because He is not abiding in the hearts of many of those who think it their duty to preach the law. . .The church has been starving for the Bread of life.

"Of all professed Christians, Seventh-day Adventists should be foremost in uplifting Christ before the world. . .The law and the gospel, blended, will convict ot sin. God's law, while condemning sin, points to the gospel, revealing Jesus Christ. . . In no discourse are [the law and the gospel] to be divorced. . .

"Why, then, is there manifested in the church so great a lack of love. . .? It is because Christ is not constantly brought before the people. His attributes of character are not brought into the practical life. . .

"There is danger of presenting the truth in such a way that the intellect is exalted, leaving the souls of the hearers unsatisfied. A correct theory of the truth may be presented, and yet there may not be manifested the wramth of affection that the God of truth requires. . .

"The religion of many is very much like an icicle-freezingly cold. . .They can not touch the hearts of others, because their own hearts are not surcharged with the blessed love that flows from the hearts of Christ. There are others who speak of religion as a matter of the will. They dwell upon stern duty as if it were a master ruling with a scepter of iron,-a master stern, inflexible, all-powerful, devoid of the sweet, melting love and tender compassion of Christ"(MS 21, 1891).

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Help us, Father, to get the picture of wht the gospel is all ahout and what it is to do in our lives. Amen.
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