https://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2023:2Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ223_04.pdf

--- Mark Finley says that these passages in Deuteronomy 6:2 and Ecclessiastes 12:13-14 and Psalm 119:73-74 reveal a linkage between fearing God and keeping His commandments. Edward Heppenstall in his book Christ our High Priest said exactly the same as Finley here below. Adventists speaks the same no matter from which generation. Right?

---Fearing God is an attitude of reverential respect that leads us to obedience. Heaven’s urgent appeal is for those saved by grace to be obedient to God’s commands (Eph. 2:8–10).

---Grace does not free us from obeying the commands of God.

---The gospel sets us free from the law’s condemnation, not from our responsibility to obey it. There are Sunday keeping professors who said the same.

---Grace not only delivers us from the guilt of our past, but it also empowers us to live godly, obedient lives in the present. The apostle Paul declares that “we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations” (Rom. 1:5, NKJV). This is the true double grace message of Adventism in balance. Calvin only emphasize the first grace reception of Christ in heaven on our behalf and made that a gift to us in us so that our deeds is not necessary to focus on. Not so, said Ellen White in Salvation 4.1. Calvin is 1.1. Two sides of the same coin. Not only one. Right? Reformer Bucer tried to tell Calvin that but he did not want to listen properly on this. They were talking about Romans 8:3-4. In us.

---There are some people who have the strange idea that salvation by grace somehow negates the law of God or minimizes the necessity for obedience. They believe that any talk about obedience is legalism.

---They have declared, “All I want is Jesus.” The question is, which Jesus? A Jesus of our own making, or the Jesus of Scripture?

---The Christ of Scripture never leads us to downplay His law, which is the transcript of His character.

---The Christ of Scripture never leads us to minimize the doctrines of the Bible, which reveal more clearly who He is and His plan for this world.

---The Christ of Scripture never leads us to reduce His teaching to pious platitudes that are nonessential. Christ is the embodiment of all doctrinal truth. Jesus is truth incarnated. He is doctrine lived out.

---Revelation’s final appeal calls us through faith in Jesus to accept the fullness of everything He offers. It calls us to “fear God,” which is expressed by faith in His redeeming power to empower us to live godly, obedient lives.

---When a person is rich and secular and downplay the role of obedience, lifestyle and keeping the law of God, then that person is the same as a wolf in sheep-clothes.

---A wolf in sheep-clothes is a person that acts like an Adventist but is actually in mind, heart and lifestyle not one secretly when the other Adventists cannot see them.

---But by their fruits they will be found out.

---What is a true Adventist then? Sabbath keeping. And the fruits of the Spirit in Galatians 5 and the agape love of God in 1 Corinthians 13. Then after that you will see other things like not pig eating, vegetarianism impact, tithe consciousness, Sabbath School lesson preparation, eager to go early to church. Keeping the Sabbath faithfully and carefully.