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Mimi:
March 2, 2007
Welcome to the Remnant-Online !!!
"At a time when many are facing difficult trials and some are confused we need to set our eyes upon Jesus and what He has prepared for us. Here is a view of the Paradise of God. Let us not barter away our inheritance for a mess of pottage!
I saw the exceeding loveliness and glory of Jesus. His countenance was brighter than the sun at noonday. His robe was whiter than the whitest white. How can I . . . describe to you the glories of heaven, and the lovely angels singing and playing upon their harps of ten strings! The wonderful things I there saw I cannot describe. Oh, that I could talk in the language of Canaan, then could I tell a little of the glory of the better world. Language is altogether too feeble to attempt a description of heaven. As the scene rises before me, I am lost in amazement. Carried away with the surpassing splendor and excellent glory, I lay down the pen and exclaim, "Oh, what love! what wondrous love!" The most exalted language fails to describe the glory of heaven or the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.
Human language is inadequate to describe the reward of the righteous. It will be known only to those who behold it. No finite mind can comprehend the glory of the Paradise of God. If we could have but one view of the celestial city, we would never wish to dwell on earth again.
Here we saw the tree of life and the throne of God. Out of the throne came a pure river of water, and on either side of the river was the tree of life. On one side of the river was a trunk of a tree, and a trunk on the other side of the river, both of pure, transparent gold. At first I thought I saw two trees. I looked again, and saw that they were united at the top in one tree. So it was the tree of life on either side of the river of life. Its branches bowed to the place where we stood, and the fruit was glorious; it looked like gold mixed with silver.
There are ever-flowing streams, clear as crystal, and beside them waving trees cast their shadows upon the paths prepared for the ransomed of the Lord. There the wide-spreading plains swell into hills of beauty, and the mountains of God rear their lofty summits. On those peaceful plains, beside those living streams, God's people, so long pilgrims and wanderers, shall find a home.
I saw another field full of all kinds of flowers, and as I plucked them, I cried out, "They will never fade." Next I saw a field of tall grass, most glorious to behold; it was living green and had a reflection of silver and gold, as it waved proudly to the glory of King Jesus. Then we entered a field full of all kinds of beasts--the lion, the lamb, the leopard, and the wolf, all together in perfect union. We passed through the midst of them, and they followed on peaceably after.
Then we entered a wood, not like the dark woods we have here; no, no; but light, and all over glorious; the branches of the trees moved to and fro, and we all cried out, "We will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods." We passed through the woods, for we were on our way to Mount Zion. . . .
On the mount was a glorious temple. . . . There were all kinds of trees around the temple to beautify the place: the box, the pine, the fir, the oil, the myrtle, the pomegranate, and the fig tree bowed down with the weight of its timely figs--these made the place all over glorious. . . .
And I saw a table of pure silver; it was many miles in length, yet our eyes could extend over it. I saw the fruit of the tree of life, the manna, almonds, figs, pomegranates, grapes, and many other kinds of fruit. I asked Jesus to let me eat of the fruit.
All come forth from their graves the same in stature as when they entered the tomb. Adam, who stands among the risen throng, is of lofty height and majestic form, in stature but little below the Son of God. He presents a marked contrast to the people of later generations; in this one respect is shown the great degeneracy of the race. But all arise with the freshness and vigor of eternal youth. . . . Restored to the tree of life in the long-lost Eden, the redeemed will "grow up" (Mal. 4:2) to the full stature of a race in its primeval glory." - Last Day Events
Here are a few ongoing discussions in the Bread of Life forum ...
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Abide in Me and I in You
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Behold a Shaking
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000015.html
Bible Interpretation
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Bible Translations
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Being Born Again
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000072.html
Christ and Him Crucified
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000025.html
Discipline
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000033.html
The Fourth Commandment
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000082.html
The Gospel and Salvation
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000012.html
The Health Message in the Light of the Cross
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000065.html
The Hebrew Sanctuary
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000019.html
The Investigative Judgment
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000064.html
Justification by Faith
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000037.html
The Latter Rain
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000002.html
Lesser Light
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000006.html
Marriage
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000043.html
The Narrow Road
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000084.html
Re-baptism and Communion
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000075.html
Revelation 14:1-5
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000097.html
Romans 7
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Sabbath
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000059.html
Sanctuary
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000019.html
Satan's Great Lie
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000046.html
Second Coming
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000067.html
Sinless Human Perfection
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000060.html
Science and Creation
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000021.html
Science - Does Satan Influence Science?
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000017.html
Steps to Eternal Life
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000031.html
Truth Lost
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000083.html
Unconditional Love
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000031.html
The United Nations
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000073.html
Willow Creek
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000040.html
“The greatest want of the world is the want of men. Men who will not be bought or sold. Men who in their inmost souls are true and honest. Men who do not fear to call sin by its right name. Men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole. Men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.” Ed. 57
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Mimi:
April 5, 2007
Welcome to The Remnant-Online !!!
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In this issue:
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Satan's Delusions in the Great Controversy
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The Scriptures a Safeguard
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Nature Lessons by Young People
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The Remnant-Online Topic Links
Satan's Delusions
Satan commenced his deception in Eden. He said to Eve, "Ye shall not surely die." This was Satan's first lesson upon the immortality of the soul, and he has carried on this deception from that time to the present, and will carry it on until the captivity of God's children shall be turned. Adam and Eve in Eden partook of the forbidden tree, and then the flaming sword was placed around the tree of life, and they were driven from the garden, lest they should partake of the tree of life, and be immortal sinners. The fruit of this tree was to perpetuate immortality. Who of the family of Adam have passed that flaming sword and have partaken of the tree of life? Not one of the family of Adam has passed that flaming sword and partaken of that tree; therefore there is not an immortal sinner. The soul that sinneth, it shall die an everlasting death--a death from which there will be no hope of a resurrection; and then the wrath of God will be appeased.
Today, we hear many teachings that the soul that sins shall not die, that it is impossible to keep the law of God. God understands our desire to keep the law and that is good enough. On that day when these appear before Christ, He shall say "Depart from Me ye workers of iniquity, I never knew you." The soul that sinneth shall indeed perish unless it is brought to repentance.
Another lie at which we marvel and that Satan has succeeded in making men believe that the words of God, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die" (Ezekiel 18:4), mean that the soul that sinneth it shall not die, but live eternally in misery.
Satan told his angels to make a special effort to spread the lie first repeated to Eve in Eden, "Ye shall not surely die." And as the error was received by the people, and they were led to believe that man was immortal, Satan led them on to believe that the sinner would live in eternal misery. Then the way was prepared for Satan to work through his representatives and hold up God before the people as a revengeful tyrant--one who plunges all those into hell who do not please Him, and causes them ever to feel His wrath; and while they suffer unutterable anguish, and writhe in the eternal flames, He is represented as looking down upon them with satisfaction. Satan knew that if this error should be received, God would be hated by many, instead of being loved and adored; and that many would be led to believe that the threatenings of God's Word would not be literally fulfilled, for it would be against His character of benevolence and love to plunge into eternal torments the beings whom He had created.
Another extreme which Satan has led the people to adopt is entirely to overlook the justice of God and the threatenings of His Word, and to represent Him as being all mercy, so that not one will perish, but that all, both saint and sinner, will at last be saved in His kingdom.
In consequence of the popular errors of the immortality of the soul and endless misery, Satan takes advantage of another class and leads them to regard the Bible as an uninspired book. They think it teaches many good things, but they cannot rely upon it and love it, because they have been taught that it declares the doctrine of eternal misery.
Another class Satan leads on still further, even to deny the existence of God. They can see no consistency in the character of the God of the Bible, if He will inflict horrible tortures upon a portion of the human family to all eternity. Therefore they deny the Bible and its Author, and regard death as an eternal sleep.
There is still another class who are fearful and timid. These Satan tempts to commit sin, and after they have sinned, he holds up before them that the wages of sin is not death but life in horrible torments, to be endured throughout the endless ages of eternity. By thus magnifying before their feeble minds the horrors of an endless hell, he takes possession of their minds, and they lose their reason. Then Satan and his angels exult, and the infidel and atheist join in casting reproach upon Christianity. They claim that these evils are the natural results of believing in the Bible and its Author, whereas they are the results of the reception of popular heresy.
The Scriptures a Safeguard
God knew that Satan would try every art to destroy man; therefore He had caused His word to be written out, and had made His purposes in regard to the human race so plain that the weakest need not err. After having given His word to man, He had carefully preserved it from destruction by Satan or his angels, or by any of his agents or representatives. While other books might be destroyed, this was to be immortal. And as we near the close of time, when the delusions of Satan have increased, the Bible is so available that all who desire might have a copy, and, if they will, might arm themselves against the deceptions and lying wonders of Satan.
God had especially guarded the Bible; yet when copies of it were few, learned men had in some instances changed the words, thinking that they were making it more plain, when in reality they were mystifying that which was plain, by causing it to lean to their established views, which were governed by tradition. But, the Word of God, as a whole, is a perfect chain, one portion linking into and explaining another. True seekers for truth need not err, for not only is the Word of God plain and simple in declaring the way of life, but the Holy Spirit is given as a guide in understanding the way to life therein revealed.
God sets before man life and death. He can have his choice. Many desire life, but still continue to walk in the broad road. They choose to rebel against God's government, notwithstanding His great mercy and compassion in giving His Son to die for them. Those who do not choose to accept of the salvation so dearly purchased, must be punished. But, God will not shut them up in hell to endure endless misery, neither will He take them to heaven; for to bring them into the company of the pure and holy would make them exceedingly miserable. But He will destroy them utterly and cause them to be as if they had not been; then His justice will be satisfied. He formed man out of the dust of the earth, and the disobedient and unholy will be consumed by fire and return to dust again. The benevolence and compassion of God in this matter should lead all to admire His character and to adore His holy name. After the wicked are destroyed from off the earth, all the heavenly host will say, "Amen!"
Satan looks with great satisfaction upon those who profess the name of Christ, yet closely adhere to the delusions which he himself has originated. His work is still to devise new delusions, and his power and art in this direction continually increase. He led his representatives, the popes and the priests, to exalt themselves, and to stir up the people to bitterly persecute and destroy those who were not willing to accept his delusions. Oh, the sufferings and agony which the precious followers of Christ were made to endure! Angels have kept a faithful record of it all. Satan and his evil angels exultingly told the angels who ministered to these suffering saints that they were all to be killed, so that there would not be left a true Christian upon the earth. The church of God was then pure. There was no danger of men with corrupt hearts coming into it, for the true Christian, who dared to declare his faith, was in danger of the rack, the stake, and every torture which Satan and his evil angels could invent or inspire in the mind of man.
How is it today? Persecution in most of the world lingers, so we have men with corrupt hearts in the church. But, soon it shall not be. When the Holy Spirit is poured out upon God's church (see Ezekiel 36 and 37), persecution shall no longer linger. Then, many will flee from the wrath of those who are offended by a pure people reflecting the Truth of heaven.
Today is the day that we are given to prepare for the days ahead. Let us be faithful witnesses to those who are weak in the faith and those who know not Jesus.
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~*** Nature Lessons by Young People ***~
The Remnant Online will begin publishing art work submitted by our young people. Here are the guidelines for submissions:
* Art work must be accompanied by a short written statement expressing a spiritual lesson seen in the art work.
* Submissions may be a photograph, painting in any medium-oil, water color, colored pencil, charcoal, or a drawing. All work needs to be submitted as a jpg not to exceed 1,000 x 1,000 pixels and a resolution of 300 dpi. Publishing will reduce the size and resolution to conform to our space requirements.
* Any young person may participate if they have a sponsor who is a registered member of The Remnant Online. All submissions to be made by the sponsor via e-mail to webmaster@remnant-online.com
* Spiritual lessons must be in harmony with Scripture. Sponsor to work with young person prior to submission. TRO will be the final judge of the suitability of each submission.
* Submissions will be published online and will not be used for other purposes unless agreed to by the young person and parents.
* Each young person who submits an entry will receive a personal note of encouragement and suggestions from a professional artist that will help them develop their skills as an artist. All correspondence will be through the sponsor. No age limitations nor skill level. This is a program to encourage all of our young people. We would like a first name, age, and a city if parents desire this. Otherwise we will accept submissions with just a first name. Due to the problems with the internet we are trying to maintain a separation between our young people and the internet. We will work with parents in any way that will achieve this. All submissions will be published on our homepage remnant-online.com or a linked page. This program is not associated with the bulletin board.
Current Discussions at The Remnant Online--
The FDA still doesn't know where all the contaminated imported wheat gluten ended up, though it appears unlikely any made it into human food.
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Heart Disease......"Putting a stent in the most narrowed area in the artery doesn't really address the underlying problem..."
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Abide in Me and I in You
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Behold a Shaking
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000015.html
Bible Interpretation
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000038.html
Bible Translations
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Being Born Again
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000072.html
Christ and Him Crucified
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000025.html
Discipline
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000033.html
The Fourth Commandment
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000082.html
The Gospel and Salvation
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000012.html
The Health Message in the Light of the Cross
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000065.html
The Hebrew Sanctuary
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000019.html
The Investigative Judgment
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000064.html
Justification by Faith
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000037.html
The Latter Rain
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000002.html
Lesser Light
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000006.html
Marriage
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The Narrow Road
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000084.html
Re-baptism and Communion
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Revelation 14:1-5
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000097.html
Romans 7
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Sabbath
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000059.html
Sanctuary
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000019.html
Satan's Great Lie
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000046.html
Second Coming
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000067.html
Sinless Human Perfection
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000060.html
Science and Creation
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000021.html
Science - Does Satan Influence Science?
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000017.html
Steps to Eternal Life
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000031.html
Truth Lost
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000083.html
Unconditional Love
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000031.html
The United Nations
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000073.html
Willow Creek
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000040.html
“The greatest want of the world is the want of men. Men who will not be bought or sold. Men who in their inmost souls are true and honest. Men who do not fear to call sin by its right name. Men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole. Men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.” Ed. 57
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Mimi:
May 8, 2007
To the Remnant-Online !!!
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In these final hours of probation for the sons of men, when the fate of every soul is so soon to be decided forever, the Lord of heaven and earth expects His church to arouse to action as never before. Those who have been made free in Christ through a knowledge of precious truth, are regarded by the Lord Jesus as His chosen ones, favored above all other people on the face of the earth; and He is counting on them to show forth the praises of Him who hath called them out of darkness into marvelous light. The blessings which are so liberally bestowed, are to be communicated to others. The good news of salvation is to go to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.
We desire to encourage this by providing a fellowship area to study and organize our efforts that we might, as a people, hasten the soon coming of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
We do not provide this fellowship area for debating or idle talk. We have a work to do and we are looking for those who have a burden for souls as we do.
The Word of God is our rule and by this we shall test all things. The Spirit of Prophecy has been entrusted to the Seventh-day Adventist Church to be a blessing to our world. We will follow the counsels given for ministry and actively teach those things God has seen fit to give for our edification and the salvation of those in darkness.
Please join with us in our efforts to work with God in preparing a people to receive Jesus at His second coming.
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In this Issue:
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Fruits of the Spirit
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Nature Lessons by Young People
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The Remnant-Online Topic Links
Fruits of the Spirit
Works Reveal Conversion
We are to form characters after the divine Model, Jesus Christ, and bring every power and capability of our natures into subordination to him in this life, that we may through him have a right hold of the future immortal life. "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent." Those who have a character that will be found worthy of a place in the kingdom of God, will be those who have become acquainted with God, who have obeyed the explicit directions given in his word. They will be entitled to a seat at the marriage supper of the Lamb.
The only way in which we can distinguish between the true Christian and the pretender to Christianity is by the fruit of the life. The works will testify whether or not Christ, the hope of glory, is formed within. Everyone who enters the kingdom of heaven will have been tested and proved. Judas was one who was favored in being associated with Christ and his disciples. He was with Jesus during the time of his public ministry, and he possessed qualities of character that would have made him a blessing to the church had he but submitted to the discipline that Jesus desired him to have. He was privileged to have the same advantages as did John and the other disciples, and might have been benefited by the education and training of the greatest Teacher the world ever knew.
In Christ he beheld a character that was pure, harmless, and undefiled, and his heart was drawn out in love for his Master. But the light that was shed upon him from the character of Christ, brought with it the responsibility of yielding up every natural or acquired trait that was not in harmony with the character of Christ. In this Judas did not stand the test. The love of the world was deeply rooted in his heart, and he did not give up his love for the world, nor surrender his ambition to Christ. He never came to the point of surrendering himself fully to Jesus. He felt that he could retain his own individual judgment and opinion. While he accepted the position of the minister of Christ, yet he never brought himself under the divine moulding of Christ. He clung to his objectionable traits of character, and indulged in his own sinful habits, and, instead of becoming pure and Christlike, he became selfish and covetous. Selfishness became the controlling power of his life.
Judas listened to the lessons which Christ gave to his disciples and to the multitudes, and he did not offer any opposition, or seem to question their importance. He made no outward murmur until the time that Mary anointed the feet of Jesus. The record says: "Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. There they made him a supper; and Martha served; but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein."
In the circumstance of Mary's anointing Jesus' feet, the plague spot of Judas' character was revealed. The crisis had come in the life of Judas, and the ruling trait of character took its supremacy over every other trait. Covetousness, which is idolatry, had been cultivated, and had strengthened in his heart, and when temptation came upon him, he was held under its control. The temptations of Satan will ever thus meet a response from the elements of depravity that are in the human character that have not been resisted and overcome. The covetous greed that Judas had indulged for years, now held in control and overpowered every other characteristic of his nature. He harmonized with the drawings of Satan, and evil triumphed as he yielded to temptation. Although he was professedly a follower of Jesus, yet he was in heart strengthening the evil of his character. Jesus knew every transgression, and he now looked sorrowfully upon him who was numbered with the twelve, and who was yet not a doer of the words of Christ.
The disciples could not discern the evil of Judas' heart; only the eye of God could discern the hidden motive, the unholy desire. When an impure thought is welcomed, an unholy desire cherished, a rebellious purpose formed, the purity of the soul is stained and its innocence is ruined, temptations prevail, and hell triumphs. "Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death." A man is tempted to sin when some attractive object or indulgence is presented to him, and he is drawn to overstep principle, and to violate his conscience in doing that which he knows to be wrong. This was what Judas was doing. He had no oil in his vessel with his lamp. He professed to have a deep interest in the welfare of the poor, but all his professions were pretenses, mere hypocrisy. He wanted to give others the impression that he was a very pious man, but the fact was that he was nothing else than a self-conceited sinner.
It was his day to seek grace and purity and holiness; but he failed to seek them. He did not cultivate humility, and die to the world. He did not cultivate hope and love, and manifest pure devotion to God. He did not obtain a strong, noble character, full of faith and holy endeavor, but permitted the wild, unsanctified elements of character to prevail. During his whole life he continually repeated acts of selfishness, though wearing the garb of religion.
Those who are satisfied in having merely a form of religion, who do not carry out the lessons of Christ in their practical life, make manifest the weakness of their character when trial and temptation come upon them, and they prove that they were not Christians. Every duty that is performed in love to Jesus, in simplicity and humility, divested of all selfishness, has its effect on the character and shapes it after the divine Model. Through faithfulness in the Christian life the soul is braced to withstand sudden assaults of temptation; for the true Christian learns to depend upon Christ for strength and grace. When the first temptation is met and resisted, the second is more easily met and resisted. We may be able to resist every temptation that assails the heart by calling upon our mighty Deliverer.
It is not in the power of Satan to force anyone to sin. Sin is the sinner's individual act. Before sin exists in the heart, the consent of the will must be given, and as soon as it is given, sin is triumphant, and hell rejoices. But there is no excuse for sin, either great or little. Christ has been provided as the tempted one's refuge. "For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted."
"For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."
Temptation is not sin, and is no indication that God is displeased with us. The Lord suffers us to be tempted, but he measures every temptation, and apportions it according to our power to resist and overcome evil. It is in time of trial and temptation that we are enabled to measure the degree of our faith and trust in God, and to estimate the stability of our Christian character. If we are easily jostled and overcome, we should be alarmed; for our strength is small. Let us consider the words of comfort that have been left on record for our instruction: "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." God has apportioned the temptation in proportion to the strength he can supply, and he never permits us to be tempted beyond our ability to resist or to endure. "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation." "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him." Through prayer and the word of God we shall be enabled to overcome temptation.
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~*** Nature Lessons by Young People ***~
The Remnant Online will begin publishing art work submitted by our young people. Here are the guidelines for submissions:
* Art work must be accompanied by a short written statement expressing a spiritual lesson seen in the art work.
* Submissions may be a photograph, painting in any medium-oil, water color, colored pencil, charcoal, or a drawing. All work needs to be submitted as a jpg not to exceed 1,000 x 1,000 pixels and a resolution of 300 dpi. Publishing will reduce the size and resolution to conform to our space requirements.
* Any young person may participate if they have a sponsor who is a registered member of The Remnant Online. All submissions to be made by the sponsor via e-mail to webmaster@remnant-online.com
* Spiritual lessons must be in harmony with Scripture. Sponsor to work with young person prior to submission. TRO will be the final judge of the suitability of each submission.
* Submissions will be published online and will not be used for other purposes unless agreed to by the young person and parents.
* Each young person who submits an entry will receive a personal note of encouragement and suggestions from a professional artist that will help them develop their skills as an artist. All correspondence will be through the sponsor. No age limitations nor skill level. This is a program to encourage all of our young people. We would like a first name, age, and a city if parents desire this. Otherwise we will accept submissions with just a first name. Due to the problems with the internet we are trying to maintain a separation between our young people and the internet. We will work with parents in any way that will achieve this. All submissions will be published on our homepage remnant-online.com or a linked page. This program is not associated with the bulletin board.
Current Discussions at The Remnant Online--
The FDA still doesn't know where all the contaminated imported wheat gluten ended up, though it appears unlikely any made it into human food.
http://remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum24/HTML/001681.html
Now scientists create a sheep that's 15% human
http://remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum24/HTML/001676.html
Heart Disease......"Putting a stent in the most narrowed area in the artery doesn't really address the underlying problem..."
http://remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum15/HTML/000565.html
Spring in the North
http://remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000201.html
1844
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000013.html
144,000
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000005.html
Abide in Me and I in You
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000016.html
Behold a Shaking
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000015.html
Bible Interpretation
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000038.html
Bible Translations
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000058.html
Being Born Again
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000072.html
Christ and Him Crucified
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000025.html
Discipline
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000033.html
The Fourth Commandment
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000082.html
The Gospel and Salvation
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000012.html
The Health Message in the Light of the Cross
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000065.html
The Hebrew Sanctuary
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000019.html
The Investigative Judgment
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000064.html
Justification by Faith
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000037.html
The Latter Rain
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000002.html
Lesser Light
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000006.html
Marriage
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000043.html
The Narrow Road
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000084.html
Re-baptism and Communion
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000075.html
Revelation 14:1-5
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000097.html
Romans 7
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000001.html
Sabbath
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000059.html
Sanctuary
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000019.html
Satan's Great Lie
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000046.html
Second Coming
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000067.html
Sinless Human Perfection
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000060.html
Science and Creation
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000021.html
Science - Does Satan Influence Science?
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000017.html
Steps to Eternal Life
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000031.html
Truth Lost
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000083.html
Unconditional Love
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000031.html
The United Nations
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000073.html
Willow Creek
www.remnant-online.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000040.html
“The greatest want of the world is the want of men. Men who will not be bought or sold. Men who in their inmost souls are true and honest. Men who do not fear to call sin by its right name. Men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole. Men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.” Ed. 57
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Mimi:
The Remnant Online Newsletter
March 2008
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Hello! We have missed you!
"We are nearing the end of this earth's history, and the different departments of God's work are to be carried forward with much more self-sacrifice than has yet been practiced. The work for these last days is a missionary work. Present truth, from the first to the last letter of its alphabet, means missionary effort. The work to be done calls for sacrifice at every step of advance. The workers are to come forth from trial, purified and refined, as gold tried in the fire." Review and Herald, Nov. 18, 1902.
Have you noticed that the prophecies are fast fulfilling and Jesus will be here soon? The world is fast becoming as it was at the time of Noah. We have been here far too long. We are now making our choice, and we shall soon discern between him that serveth God, and him that serveth Him not. Read the fourth chapter of Malachi, and think about it seriously. The day of God is right upon us. The world has converted the church. Both are in harmony, and are acting on a shortsighted policy.
“Protestants will work upon the rulers of the land to make laws to restore the lost ascendancy of the man of sin, who sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. The Roman Catholic principles will be taken under the care and protection of the state. This national apostasy will speedily be followed by national ruin. The protest of Bible truth will be no longer tolerated by those who have not made the law of God their rule of action. Then will the voice be heard from the graves of martyrs, represented by the souls which John saw slain for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ which they held; then the prayer will ascend from every true child of God, “It is time for thee, Lord, to work, for they have made void thy law.” GCB, January 1, 1900
Come and work with us to hasten the soon coming of Jesus!
Some of the Discussions at The Remnant Online~~~
Social Hall
Ernie Knoll- Prophet of God?
"And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: and on My servants and on My handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit; and they shall prophesy." Acts 2: 17, 18 (Joel 2:28)
We have been studying the dreams of Brother Ernie Knoll in an attempt to discern if he is a prophet of God or a false prophet. He has had 30 dreams over the last three years. Come and see. Share with us if you think Brother Ernie is a prophet.
Worship Forum
How Should We Worship
"Some are not satisfied with a meeting unless they have a powerful and happy time. They work for this and get up an excitement of feeling. But the influence of such meetings is not beneficial. When the happy flight of feeling is gone, they sink lower than before the meeting because their happiness did not come from the right source. The most profitable meetings for spiritual advancement are those which are characterized with solemnity and deep searching of heart; each seeking to know himself and earnestly, and in deep humility, seeking to learn of Christ." 1MCP 39.
Laodicea Forum
Beyond Belief, In Our Church
"Every time we fall or sin we become unjustified. This is another common misunderstanding about justification. It is a monstrous teaching that has no support from the Word of God." Elder Jack Sequeira.
It is important that we understand the gospel of grace. Does grace save one while sinning or does salvation require repentance?
Questions on Doctrine
After a 40-year hiatus, the book “Seventh-day Adventists Answer Questions on Doctrine” is back in print. Andrews University Press, part of the church-owned university and seminary in Berrien Springs, Michigan, recently released the 597-page, annotated edition of the book. Now you can get MP3s of the presentations made at the QOD seminar.
Bread of Life Forum
Separation of Church and State
The Ten Commandments, the great law of God, is the basis of all righteous and good laws. Those who love God's commandments will conform to every good law of the land. While all good laws conform to the law of God, is there any law that would conform to one of the commandments that would not be good if made the law of the land? What are the principles involved in the separation of church and state?
Spring is a reminder of the "new life" that comes with Christ … and the new earth that shall one day replace this old one. Winter shall soon pass and all tears shall be wiped away! Look up, for our redemption draweth nigh!!
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Mimi:
The Remnant Online Newsletter
April 2008
If I know everything there is about the ins and outs of righteousness by faith and Grace is not ever-present, working in my life – what good is that knowledge?
If I know everything there is about last day events and can recite for memory the 2300-day prophecies explaining each and have not the power of Grace in my life – what good is that knowledge?
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 1 Cor. 13:1-6.
Message to the Laodicean Church (Seventh-day Adventist Church today)
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. Rev 3:14-22
Current Discussions
In Public Boards
· Sabbath is becoming an Issue. World Net Daily posts Sabbath Sunday Debate on their homepage.
http://remnant-online.com/smf/index.php?topic=7513.0
· California governor outraged over court's decision to jail parents that home school their children
http://remnant-online.com/smf/index.php?topic=7473.0
· Amazing Facts television broadcasting 24/7 over the internet
http://remnant-online.com/smf/index.php?topic=7525.0
· Time to plant those tomatoes. Join our Gardening Tips discussion in the Nature Forum.
http://remnant-online.com/smf/index.php?topic=3814.0
· Ever wonder about your Bible? In Bible Translations we are looking the New King James Version. Is it as faithful to truth as the King James?
http://remnant-online.com/smf/index.php?topic=783.0
· Warning!!! Do want to buy a computer with Vista loaded on it?
http://2remnant-online.com/smf/index.php?topic=3005.0
· Warning!!! Do not buy a HD DVD player or recorder.
http://remnant-online.com/smf/index.php?topic=7421.0
· Ever wonder about the "free software" being offered?
http://remnant-online.com/smf/index.php?topic=2965.0
· Know anyone with Alzheimer's, you soon will. It is the 8th leading cause of death in the US according to Loma Linda. Do we look for a cure or can it be prevented?
http://remnant-online.com/smf/index.php?topic=3455.0
· Prayer fails and girl dies without treatment. Will the parents face jail time?
Prayer Fails
Current Discussions
In "SDA" Private Forums
Seventh-day Adventist "Bible" soon to be published – See Andrews Study Bible
Ernie Knoll dreams tell church members to with hold tithe from church if church is misusing tithe. Social Hall Forum (board)
Ought evangelistic meetings be moved to the church for Sabbath services without telling the attendees? Worship Forum
Is the Christian Coalition working with legislators to pass a national Sunday law? End Time Prophecies Forum
Seventh-day Adventist Minister hands in credentials and becomes a Roman Catholic. Laodicea Forum
Remarks from George Knight …
"The perfectionistic, fundamentalistic sub-denominations within the denomination still largely rely on Ellen White for their theology and have no problem viewing her as an infallible commentary on the Bible. This sector of Adventism has even developed an Ellen White Study Bible that has Ellen White notes and marginal references. Such a Bible would have been totally rejected in early Adventism. Even though the Study Bible is published by an independent group it is unfortunately marketed by the main denominational publisher. Some years ago I persuaded the publishing house administration to drop its marketing of the Ellen White Study Bible on the grounds that Ellen White would vigorously object to it from what we know of her principles historically. But after some months the publishing house president phoned me, notifying me that they were reversing their decision because there was a demand for the Study Bible and it sells well. So much for higher principles!" George Knight
http://remnant-online.com/smf/index.php?topic=7558.0
Last Chance! Western Union is expensive, so now is the time to be included in our donation!
Brother Martin Kiogora has been doing evangelism in Kenya. He and his country have been experiencing great trial. We do not solicit funds for our own work, but we feel impressed to make a call for help for our dear Brother. We have opened a special forum for this purpose that we might give an accounting of any funds received and when they have been forwarded to our brother. Any member who donates any amount will receive access to this forum. Please make this a matter of prayer and consider that a large number of small donations can add up to provide help for our dear brother. You may read of his work in the Testimonies Forum His user name is godsgraceatwork. Contact administrator@remnant-online.com to arrange for donations and access to the forum. Thank you.
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Jesus is "even at the door."
Let us Pray for revival in our families and churches.
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