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Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear. -1 Timothy 5:20
ADULTERY -
PEDOPHILE
-ADMISSION OF GUILT-
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Notice below in this email that was sent by the wife of Craig Kalkofen (Ade) how she claims (and Craig agrees) that since King David committed adultery and then repented; Craig can now stay on the pulpit after committing adultery with a 12 year old girl. Yet notice what it says in Proverbs 6:32-33. It says, "But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away." Pray for the people that trust Craig as "pastor" as they are condoning his sins as well as endangering their own eternal lives. What Craig and Ade are hiding from them is that king David was not a pastor. There is a BIG difference! Worse yet, what they're also not saying is Ellen White actually prophesied that the wicked would claim to be sorry and forgiven for committing adultery so as to stay active in the church. It's amazing how Craig is doing EXACTLY as Sister White said the wicked will do! Right down to "refusing to listen to reproof!" Notice this... "I saw that the seventh commandment
has been violated by some who are now held in fellowship by the church. This
has brought God’s frown upon them. This sin is awful in these last days, but
the church has brought God’s frown and curse upon it by regarding the sin so
lightly. I saw it was an enormous sin and there have not been as
vigilant efforts made as there should have been to satisfy the displeasure of
God and remove His frown by taking a strict, thorough course with the offender.
It has had an awful, corrupting influence upon the young. They see
how lightly the sin of breaking the seventh commandment is regarded, and the
one who commits this horrid sin thinks that all he has to do is to confess that
he was wrong and is sorry, and he is then to have all the privileges of the
house of God and be held in embrace or fellowship of the church. {Ms, 1854, par.3} "Never was this sin regarded by God as being so exceedingly sinful as at the present time. Why? Because God is purifying unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. It is at the very time when God is purifying this peculiar people unto Himself that [unsanctified] individuals step in among us. Notwithstanding the straight truths they have heard--the terrors of the Word of God set before them, and all the blazing truth for these last days calculated to arouse Israel--they sin with a high hand, give way to all the loose passions of the carnal heart, gratify their animal propensities, disgrace the cause of God, and then confess they have sinned and are sorry! And the church receives them and says "Amen" to their prayers and exhortations, which are a stink in the nostrils of God, and cause His wrath to come upon the camp. He will not dwell in their assemblies. Those who move on thus heedlessly, plastering over these sins, will be left to their own ways, to be filled with their own doings. Those who anciently committed these sins were taken without the camp and stoned to death. Temporal and eternal death was their doom; and because the penalty of stoning to death is abolished, this sin is indulged in beyond measure and is thought to be a small offense. It is impossible for E to be fellowshiped by the church of God. He has placed himself where he cannot be helped by the church, where he can have no communion with, nor voice in, the church. He has placed himself there in the face of light and truth. He has stubbornly chosen his own course, and refused to listen to reproof. He has followed the inclinations of his corrupt heart, has violated the holy law of God, and has disgraced the cause of present truth. -Ms 3, 1854. "If he repents ever so heartily, the church must let his case alone. If he goes to heaven, it must be alone, without the fellowship of the church. A standing rebuke from God and the church must ever rest upon him that the standard of morality be not lowered to the very dust.--1T 215. CLICK HERE FOR MANY MORE QUOTES |
Please pray for Craig and Ade. They seriously need to repent. We are so close to the end that if they do not make things right now they may never do so and their precious souls will be forever lost. This is not a game. Jesus really is coming back very soon and they, like so many others, think they are safe in their sin by claiming to be forgiven when they never truly repented. They can lie to us, but they canot life to Jesus who reads their hearts! Billions will soon be lost forever and we all need to pray for them!
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Notice the unedited "testimonies to the church" quotes confirming once a minister commits adultery he must never be allowed on the pulpit again for the rest of his life.
"What saith the law? "Thou shalt not commit adultery." Exodus 20:14. When a man professing to keep God's holy law, and ministering in sacred things, takes advantage of the confidence his position gives him and seeks to indulge his base passions, this fact should of itself be sufficient to enable a woman professing godliness to see that, although his profession was as exalted as the heavens, an impure proposal coming from him was from Satan disguised as an angel of light. I cannot believe that the word of God is abiding in the hearts of those who so readily yield up their innocency and virtue upon the altar of lustful passions. [2T 457-460 (1868).]
"When ministers thus take advantage of the confidence the people place in them and lead souls to ruin, they make themselves as much more guilty than the common sinner as their profession is higher. In the day of God, when the great Ledger of Heaven is opened, it will be found to contain the names of many ministers who have made pretensions to purity of heart and life and professed to be entrusted with the gospel of Christ, but who have taken advantage of their position to allure souls to transgress the law of God.--5T 143.
"I have no real ground of hope for those who have stood as shepherds to the flock, and have for years been borne with by the merciful God, following them with reproof, with warnings, with entreaties, but who have hid their evil ways, and continued in them, thus defying the laws of the God of heaven by practicing fornication. We may leave them to work out their own salvation with fear and trembling, after all has been done to reform them; but in no case entrust to them the guardianship of souls. False shepherds! Oh, can it be that the men who have been engaged in this work for a long time will corrupt their ways before the Lord after great experience and special light?--TM 428.
Please understand, Craig and Ade lied for 5 years about this adultery and pedophlia. Below she admits her husband committed adultery and since Craig is supposed to step down as pastor, yet refuses, according to SOP, he is still in sin as he can no longer be a pastor after committing adultery. Yet, he claims to still be a pastor to this day in direct violation of God's will. What some noticed is that Craig and Ade do admit to adultery with a 12 year old girl below, but NEVER do they mention the pedophilia / child molestation of that little girl at all. The below admission confirms that even as they admit their sin, they also cover up how bad it actually was by refusing to mention the adultery was done with a 12 year old little girl.
Here is the letter that was sent to sister Novi from Ade. It was translated into English by sister Novi. And the Cuebano language was left intact for those in the Philippines that are unaware of all this so as to prove it was not changed in any way. Also note that Ade is using mostly EDITED SOP that they know the Jesuits in the SDA church wrote to change what Ellen White said to make it appear that it is ok for Craig to stand as pastor after committing adultery. They even use the claim that David was never removed from the throne. What they left out was, a king is NOT a pastor and adultery and child molestation are not the same thing. Craig and Ade are purposely twisting SOP and Scripture to make the sin of adultery and pedophilia as if it is NO BIG DEAL for a pastor to commit. Yes, the pastor can be forgiven if he repents. But according to a clear "thus saith the Lord" he must never stand behind a pulpit for the rest of his life.
THE LETTER:
Pastor Nic, below is Ade’s email. She sent me quotes about the minister who violated the 7th commandment when to remove them from the office etc...
I will also put the translation in parenthesis. She even admitted that craig did commit a sin but already forgiven.
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 8:17 AM Craig.Ade
Kalkofen <ckade247@gmail.com>
wrote:
Bing, first i come in peace
and hope na naa na final closure kato latest nimo nga gisulti
sa ako sa viber
about ni craig. It's unbelievable na imoha nasad gibalik but
it's not
impossible na mahitabo ni kay mintras naa pa ni mga demons
they will continue
to poke on our weaknesses in order to accomplish their
purpose. But if you
overcome d nani mahitabo pa kaykay ani past sins na repented
na.
(Bing, first I come in peace hoping that there will be a final closure regarding the latest that you speak to me on viber about craig. Its unbelievable that you are asking this again, but its not impossible that will happen because there are still demons what will continue to poke on our weaknesses in order to accomplish their purpose. Buf if you overcome this wont happen again to open up past sins that was already repented)
Kini nga email is a
compilation about sa unsa ang kabobot-on sa Ginoo about ana
hari, pari,
disciple or unsa nga gi anoint by laying of hands nga kon
makasala sila bisan
unsa pa nga sala unsa mahitabo nila kon dili sila mag repent.
Naa daghan
kaau example sa nagpatuyang wala matandong sa rebuke, wala mag
repent ug klaro
kaau nga gipulihan sila sa ilang katungdanan either by death
or litiral nga
gipulihan like Saul. Pero daghan sad diay kayo na record nga
mga nakasala pero
nag repent wala sila pulihi sa ilang position or gihukasan
sila sa
katungdanan.
(This email is a compilation
about whats the will of God
regarding the king, priest, disciple or whatever annointed by
laying of hands
when they commit sin, whatever sin that they committed, if they
wont repent
what will happen to them. There are many examples of those who
continue to sin
and was not moved by rebuke, did not repent and its clear they
got replaced
either by death or literally removed like Saul. But there are
also several recorded
that sinned and repented they were not removed from the position
or removed
from the responsibility.)
The reason nga akoa jud ni
gihagoan ug study tungod kay nabalaka ko sa imong gitoohan.
First, nag gamit ka
quote nga wa man lang nimo basaha tarung unsa pasabot. It
tells me the Holy
Spirit did not inspire you to use that quote. Infact na
misapply pa gani nimo
sa case ni craig. It tells me too nga wala ka nag study. Igo
ra ka namunit ug
quote ug gibato nimo dritso without gathering another witness
to support your
belief nga insakto but Thus saith the Lord I hope and pray na
makasabot naka
finally. Kay nag discuss nata sauna pero wala pa diay to
nasabtan therefore
karon with Thus saith the Lord as support makasabot naka.
Nabalaka ko if this
kind of spirit of faultfinding and criticism will continue to
develop. This
needs to stop now. Honestly it’s going too far already. You
are heading the
wrong direction so please stop and pray and repent and
overcome this evil
trait. It is not nice na ang past sin imoha pa gikaykay. If
you did this to
craig, you can do it to papa and the rest of them who at one
point have fallen
into sin. Who wants to be around that? Wala jud not even me.
(The reason I am working hard to study this is because I am worried about your beliefs. First, you used a quote that you did not read well what it meant. It tells me the Holy Spirit did not inspire you to use that quote. In fact you misapplied it to craig's case. It tells me too that you did not study. You only picked a quote and throw it directly without gathering another witness to support your belief thats right but Thus saith the Lord I hope and pray that you will finally understand. Because we discussed this before but you did not understand therefore now with Thus saith the Lord as support you will understand. I am worried if this kind of spirit of faultfinding and criticism will continue to develop. This needs to stop now. Honestly its going too far already. You are heading the wrong direction so please stop and pray and repent and overcome this evil trait. It is not nice that the past sin you are digging. If you did this to Craig, you can do it to the rest of them who at one point have fallen into sin. Who wants to be around that? No one not even me. )
Why did God forgive David
and did not remove him from office? He should have been
removed, according sa
quote nga imong gigamit. Gi question nimo ang ways sa Ginoo.
What if sa imoha
ni nato e apply ang pag ukay ukay sa imong past sin? Unsa pud
kaha imong
bation? Malipay ba ka? Or you will feel torn apart?
Betrayed? Imong
igsoon sa pagtoo makabuhat sa imoha ana d ba ka magool bation
nimo nga giyodyod
ka paubos imbis nakamove on naka balikon nasad ang imong sala.
Sounds familiar
diba. Namatay nalang kadugayan d na,
kon naa mi mga sayop nga mga choices ug naa man gani sala then
rebuke ayaw pag
comment sa likod nganong d ko nimo mapangutana nga pwd ra man
matubag ug unsa
jud ang nahitabo dili kay dritso ra ka assume nya comment
dayon, react dayon
unya most of the time magmahay ra ba kay d mao ang
gipangsulti. Ug kon masayop
mi wala man pud mi nag claim ug infallibility. We are just
humans kinsa man
nato d masayop sa mga choices. I hope d nalang unta mi mutaas
ma end nani diri
kay daghan pa kaau ko ka busyhan daghan pa kaau pending nga
mga work pero
nisalga nalang jud ni ky importante jud ni ma address. I
hope dili nami
makadungog anang kaykay anang sala nga hagbay ra gipapas. If
you still have a
problem about it pagpresent nalang dritso It is written Thus
saith the Lord
hukasan katungdanan ang mga nakasala bisan nag repent. Dili ng
isa ra ka quote
dritso conclude. Taas na kaayo ang agony ni craig d nalang
dungagan kaykay ky
hagbay ra gipapas. Makita man pud guro nimo fruits niya nga
nag repent na cya.
Ug kini dili lang para ka craig kondili sa tanan nga nakasala
including our two
brothers nga grabe sad naagian or sa uban kon makasala man
gani aron dili pud
ni mahitabo sa ilaha nga bisan past na gikaykay gihapon.
Tumanon nato gisulti
sa Ginoo maghinolsol mangayog pasaylo kalimtan na miagi. It’s
time to stop
tearing other people down for this is a work of Satan, draw
close to Christ and
glorify Him. Matag usa naa ta mga kaluyahon ug kinahanglan
maka overcome na ta
tanan ASAP by the power of God.
(Why did God forgive David and did not remove him from office? He should have been removed, according to the quote that you used. You questioned the ways of God. What if we apply this to you and we will dig your past sin? what will you feel? are you going to be happy? or you will feel torn apart? betrayed? Your brother in Christ will do that to you wont you feel sad like youre being dragged down although you already moved on and then your past sin will be repeated. .... If we made wrong choices and if ever there was sin then rebuke, dont comment behind the back, why you did not asked me I can answer what really happened not directly assume and then comment right away, you reacted right away most of the time will regret because the wrong information. And if we are wrong, we did not claim of infallibility. We are just humans, who doesnt make wrong choices. I hope this wont be long and will end here because I am very busy, I have so much pending work, but I have to address this because this is very important. I hope we WONT HEAR THAT SIN THAT HAS BEEN ERASED. If you still have a problem about it present directly with an It is written Thus saith the Lord ripped off from the position THOSE WHO SINNED ALTHOUGH HE ALREADY REPENTED. Not use only one quote and then conclude. The agony of Craig has been long, dont add and dig because IT HAS BEEN ERASED. You can maybe see his fruits that HE ALREADY REPENTED. And this is not just for Craig but also for all who commited sin including our two brothers that had been thru a lot or others that if they commit sin so this wont happen to them where their past is being digged still. Let us obey what God said that if the person repented and asked forgiveness the past will be forgotten. Its time to stop tearing other people down for this is a work of Satan, draw close to Christ and glorify Him. Each of us has a weakness and needs to be overcomed asap by the power of God.)
Dili na nako e explain matag
quote below. I ask the Holy Spirit to impress you so you can
understand,
confess and repent. I will let the truth explain and not my
own words. I hope
the book of this matter is going to finally close.
Salamat sa tanan ninyo help.
Ang Ginoo na magbalos.
I forgive you wala ko masuko nabalaka
kaau ko unsa mahitabo kon dili ka mag usab ani. Mao ra to.
(I wont explain each quote below. I ask the Holy Spirit to impress you so can understand, confess and repent. I will let the truth explain and not my own words. I hope the book of this matter is going to finally close. Thank you for your help, God will repay. I forgive you, I am not upset, I am worried what will happen to you if you wont change this. This is all. )
When does
God remove an anointed one from his office?
a.
Sons
of Eli (unruly, removed from office by death in the battle)
But Eli allowed his children to control him. The
father
became subject to the children. The curse of transgression was
apparent in the
corruption and evil that marked the course of his sons. They had no proper
appreciation of the character of God
or of the sacredness of His law. His service was to them a
common thing.
From childhood they had been accustomed to the sanctuary and its
service; but
instead of becoming more reverent, they had lost all sense of
its holiness and
significance. The father had not corrected their want of
reverence for his
authority, had not checked their disrespect for the solemn
services of the
sanctuary; and when they reached manhood, they were full of the
deadly fruits
of skepticism and rebellion. { PP 575.2}
Eli was a good man, pure in morals; but he was too
indulgent.
He incurred the displeasure of God because he did not strengthen
the weak
points in his character. He did not want to hurt the feelings of
any one, and
had not the moral courage to rebuke and reprove sin.
His sons were vile men; yet he did
not remove them from their position of
trust. These sons profaned the house of God. He knew
this, and felt
sad in consequence of it, for he loved purity and righteousness;
but he had not
sufficient moral force to suppress the evil. He loved peace and
harmony, and
became more and more insensible to impurity and crime. But the
great God takes
thematter in hand himself. When the rebuke falls upon him,
through the
instrumentality of a child, he accepts it, feeling that it is
what he deserves.
He does not show any resentment toward Samuel, the messenger of
God; he loves
him as he has done, but condemns himself. { GW92 82.3 }
Though wholly unfit for the office, they were
placed as
priests in the sanctuary to minister before God. The Lord had
given the most
specific directions in regard to offering sacrifices; but these
wicked men carried their disregard of authority into the
service of
God, and did not give
attention to
the law of the offerings, which were to be made in the most
solemn manner.
{ PP 576.1}
The sons of Eli feared
not God, nor honored their father;
These unfaithful priests also transgressed God’s
law and
dishonored their sacred office by their vile and
degrading practices; yet they
continued to pollute by their presence the tabernacle of God. Many
of the people, filled with indignation at the corrupt course of
Hophni and
Phinehas, ceased to come up to the appointed place of worship.
Thus the service
which God had ordained was despised and neglected because
associated with the
sins of wicked men, while those whose hearts were inclined to
evil were
emboldened in sin. Ungodliness, profligacy, and even idolatry
prevailed to a
fearful extent. { PP 576.4}
They saw the grief of their father, but their hard hearts
were not touched.
They heard his mild admonitions, but
they
were not impressed, nor would they change their evil
course though warned of
the consequences of their sins. Had Eli dealt justly with
his wicked sons, they would have been rejected from the priestly
office and
punished with death. Dreading thus to bring public disgrace and
condemnation
upon them, he sustained them in the most sacred positions of
trust. He still
permitted them to mingle their corruption with the holy service
of God and to
inflict upon the cause of truth an injury which years could not
efface. But
when the judge of Israel neglected his work, God took the matter
in hand. { PP
577.1}
The guilty sons of Eli were slain in battle. { GW92
83.1 }
b.
Sons
of Aaron (unruly, self-indulgent, intoxicated with wine
removed from office by
death)
Nadab and Abihu had not in their youth been trained
to habits
of self-control. The father’s yielding disposition, his lack of
firmness for
right, had led him to neglect the discipline of his children. His sons had
been permitted to follow inclination. Habits of
self-indulgence, long
cherished, obtained a
hold upon them which even the responsibility
of the most sacred office had not power to break. They had not been taught
to respect the authority of their father, and they did not
realize the
necessity of exact obedience to the requirements of God. Aaron’s
mistaken
indulgence of his sons, prepared them to become the subjects of
divine
judgments.—Patriarchs and Prophets, 360. { CE 227.1 }
Leviticus 10:1-2 And Nadab and Abihu, the
sons of
Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and
put incense
thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he
commanded them not.
And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and
they died before
the LORD
Nadab and Abihu were men in holy office; but by the use of
wine their minds became so
clouded that they could not distinguish between
sacred and common things. By the offering of “strange fire” they
disregarded
God’s command, and were slain by his judgments. { CTBH 28.4 }
Another
application of the sins of Nabad and
Abihu
The most corrupt principles are strengthened by
this
un-Scriptural way of raising means. And this is as Satan would
have it. Men are
repeating the sin of Nadab and Abihu. They are using common
instead of sacred
fire in the service of God. The Lord accepts no such offerings.
{ CS 205.1}
Do not, because you are among unbelievers, become careless
in your words; for they are
taking your measure. Study the instruction
given to Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron. They “offered
strange fire before
the Lord, which He commanded them not.” Taking common fire they
placed it upon
their censers. … Canvassers should remember that they are
working with
the Lord to save souls, and that they are to bring no commonness
or cheapness
into His sacred service. Let the mind be filled with pure, holy
thoughts, and
let the words be well chosen. Hinder not the success of your
work by uttering
light, careless words.—Manual
for Canvassers, 23, 24. { CEv 91.3 }
Like Nadab and Abihu, their sensibilities are so
blunted that
they make no difference between the sacred and common. Holy and
sacred things
are brought down upon a level with their tobacconized breaths,
benumbed brains,
and their polluted souls, defiled through indulgence of appetite
and passion.
Professed Christians eat and
drink, smoke and chew tobacco,
and become gluttons
and drunkards, to gratify appetite, and still talk of overcoming as Christ
overcame!—Redemption; or the Temptation of Christ, 82-86. { Te
45.4}
The character of self-indulgence of the sons of
Aaron did not
come by chance nor two times nor three. It is a long cherished
habits and it
became a character and eventually they were removed from office.
We cannot find
a single record from Bible that a priest or apostle or a prophet
who committed
a particular sin was removed from office immediately. But we can
prove that
those removed from office were due to their continual disregard
to the warnings
and reproof from God. None of those who repented were removed.
c.
Saul
– unrepentant removed from office and replaced
Test of faith – failed
Saul had failed to bear the test of faith in
the trying situation at Gilgal, and had brought dishonor upon
the service of
God; but his errors were not yet irretrievable, and the Lord
would grant him
another opportunity to learn the lesson of unquestioning faith
in His word and
obedience to His commands. { PP 627.1}
Test of obedience (kill all Amalekites) 1 Sam
15:3
1 Sam
15:9
But Saul and
the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the
oxen, and of the
fatlings, and the lambs, and all [that was] good, and would not
utterly destroy
them: but every thing [that was] vile and refuse, that they
destroyed
utterly.
God was still merciful to Saul, gave him a chance
to
repent:
Samuel cherished a hope that, upon reflection, Saul
might
become conscious of his sin, and by repentance and humiliation
be again
restored to the divine favor. But when the first step is taken
in the path of
transgression the way becomes easy. Saul, debased by his disobedience,
came to meet Samuel with a lie upon his lips. He exclaimed,
“Blessed be thou of
the Lord: I have performed the commandment of the Lord.” { PP
630.2}
As the king heard this fearful sentence he cried
out, “I have
sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and
thy words:
because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.” Terrified
by the
denunciation of the prophet, Saul acknowledged his guilt, which
he had before
stubbornly denied; but he still persisted in
casting blame upon the people, declaring that he had sinned
through fear of them. { PP 631.3}
Result of his persistent disobedience to God’s
command:
1 Sam
15:23 For
rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is
as] iniquity and
idolatry. Because thou hast
rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also
rejected thee from [being] king.
d.
Peter
– denied Jesus but repented and forgiven
Three times Peter had openly denied his Lord, and
three times
Jesus drew from him the assurance of his love and loyalty,
pressing home that
pointed question, like a barbed arrow to his wounded heart.
Before the
assembled disciples Jesus revealed the depth
of Peter’s repentance, and showed how thoroughly humbled was the
once boasting disciple. { LHU 224.2}
e.
David
– adultery and ordered to kill Uriah, repented and forgiven
The prophet’s
rebuke
touched the heart of David; conscience was aroused; his
guilt appeared in all
its enormity. His
soul was bowed in penitence before God. With
trembling lips he said, “I have sinned against the Lord.” All
wrong done to
others reaches back from the injured one to God. David had
committed a grievous
sin, toward both Uriah and Bathsheba, and he keenly felt this.
But infinitely
greater was his sin against God. { PP 722.1}
But the history of David furnishes no countenance
to sin. It
was when he was walking in the counsel of God that he was called
a man after
God’s own heart. When he sinned, this ceased to be true of him until by
repentance he had returned to the Lord.
{ PP 723.1}
f.
Judas – long cherished sins,
betrayed Jesus, did not repent
Infinite love could do no more to bring Judas to
repentance, and save him from
taking this fatal step. If this service of
his Master, in humbling Himself to wash the feet of the worst
sinner, did not
break his heart, what more could be done? It was the last act of love that
Jesus could evidence in behalf of Judas. Infinite
love could not compel Judas to repent, confess his sin,
and be saved. Every
opportunity was granted him. Nothing was left undone that
could be done to save him from the snare of Satan ( The Review
and Herald, June
14, 1898 )
Though Jesus knew Judas from the beginning, He
washed his
feet. And the betrayer was privileged to unite with Christ in
partaking of the
sacrament. A long-suffering Saviour held out every inducement
for the sinner to
receive Him, to repent, and to be cleansed from the defilement
of sin. This
example is for us. When we suppose one to be in error and sin,
we are not to
divorce ourselves from him. By no careless separation are we to
leave him a
prey to temptation, or drive him upon Satan’s battleground. This
is not
Christ’s method. It was because the disciples were erring and
faulty that He
washed their feet, and all but one of
the
twelve were thus brought to repentance. { DA 655.4}
What did
God say to those ministers who fell into sin (7th
commandment))?
This is
written in the books of heaven, and in a little time your case
will be decided,
whether your name shall be blotted out from the Book of Life or
not. It
certainly will be unless you are a converted man, and
humble your soul before
God, and confess your sins, and turn unto the Lord with
your whole heart, and
purge from you every impure thought and corrupt action. Says the
True Witness, “I know thy works.” Do not
attempt to teach the people until you are a changed man,
until you have in
humble penitence sought the Lord with true contrition of
soul, and have a new
heart. { TSB 194.3}
I tell you the
truth, Elder Butler, that unless there
is a cleansing of the soul temple
on the part of many who claim to believe and to preach the
truth, God’s
judgments, long deferred, will come. These debasing sins have
not been handled
with firmness and decision. There is corruption in the soul,
and, unless it is cleansed by the blood of
Christ,
there will be apostasies among us that will startle you. { TSB
193.1}
What you need,
my brother, is a pure and holy heart. Cease
at once from attempting to teach the truth until you
know that in the strength
of God you can overcome lust. { TSB 195.2}
The Lord
calls upon you, my brother, to
step down from the work, leave
the walls
of Zion, or be a converted man.
{ TSB 197.1}
[Kani
na minister nagplano na
iyang anakan ni na babaye didto sa langit which is a
spiritualistic idea kay
wala na baya minyoanay sa langit. Ang babaye dili iya asawa.
Gisultihan cya nga
mag-usab wala siya giingnan kuhaan siya katungdanan bisan mag
usab pa siya]
To
all who are indulging in these
unholy fancies I would say, Stop, for
Christ’s sake, stop right where you are. You are on
forbidden ground. Repent, I
entreat of you, and be converted. { TSB 200.3}
May
the Lord help you is my prayer.
Now is
the time to fight the good fight of
faith. Now is the time to wrestle against the prompting of
the natural heart.
Now is your time to be as true as steel to your marriage
vows, refusing, in
thought, word, or deed, to spoil your record as a man who
fears God and obeys
His commandments. You
have been imbibing spiritualistic ideas. But
if you will now turn wholly to God, the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ will be
imparted to you, and truth will triumph in your life.—Letter
231, 1903. { TSB
201.4}
Lastly:
Invitation
to Work in Another
Country [A letter written to a repentant minister who had broken
the seventh
commandment.]—Dear Brother V: I have this morning received and
read your
letter, and if I do not answer at once I fear it will pass from
my mind....
In
regard to your changing your
location, I would mention to you England. There is a large field
and but few
workers, plenty of work to be done in which all may act a
part—all of your
family, if they desire to give themselves to the Lord and act a
part in His
cause. You will find room enough to work,
and if you go forth to labor in meekness and humility,
redeeming the past
errors of your life, God will accept you. There is need of
laborers in England, and the advantage of that country over
other parts of
Europe is that our American brethren do not have to work through
an
interpreter.
Should
you come to England you will
certainly find work enough to do, and God is merciful; He pities
our weakness;
He forgives our transgressions; and, if we will only live humble
and penitent,
if we will cease from evil and do well, the Lord will approve.
May the Lord
teach you and work for you. Letter 41, 1886
God’s
promise to the repentant:
In
like manner you are a sinner.
You cannot atone for your past sins; you cannot change your
heart and make
yourself holy. But God promises to do all this for you through
Christ. You
believe that promise. You confess your sins and give yourself to
God. You will to
serve Him. Just as surely as you do this, God will fulfill His
word to you. If
you believe the promise,—believe that you are forgiven and
cleansed,—God
supplies the fact; you are made whole,
just as Christ gave the paralytic power to walk when the man
believed that he
was healed. It is so if you believe it. { CSA 30.3 }
Romans
3:25
Whom God hath set forth [to be] a
propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his
righteousness for the
remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of
God;