05/08/2023
Who will send conviction to the minds of hearers?
“Preach the word, and the Lord by His Holy Spirit will send conviction to the minds of
the hearers. The word is: "And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord
working with them, and confirming the word with signs following." Mark 16:20.” {E. G.
White, Testimonies Volume 9, p. 141} 1909
Is the Holy Spirit described as a third being besides God and Christ?
“Let them be thankful to God for His manifold mercies and be kind to one another.
They have one God and one Saviour; and one Spirit--the Spirit of Christ--is to bring
unity into their ranks.” {E. G. White, Testimonies Volume 9, p. 189} 1909
Are we to discard the earlier truths regarding the personality of God and Christ?
“He who denies the personality of God and of his Son Jesus Christ, is denying God and
Christ. "If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall
continue in the Son, and in the Father." If you continue to believe and obey the truths
you first embraced regarding the personality of the Father and the Son, you will be joined
together with him in love.” {E.G. White, Review and Herald, March 8, 1906 par. 19}
What fact were the fallen angels seeking to obscure in heaven?
“Angels were expelled from heaven because they would not work in harmony with God.
They fell from their high estate because they wanted to be exalted. They had come to
exalt themselves, and they forgot that their beauty of person and of character came from
the Lord Jesus. This fact the [fallen] angels would obscure, that Christ was the only
begotten Son of God, and they came to consider that they were not to consult Christ.
One angel began the controversy and carried it on until there was rebellion in the
heavenly courts, among the angels.” {E. G. White, This Day With God, p. 128} 1910
(Note: Is this FACT still being obscured by some today? Who is behind such efforts?)
What did Christ gain in His incarnation? How was He a Son in a ‘prior sense’?
“In His humanity He was a partaker of the divine nature. In His incarnation He gained
in a new sense the title of the Son of God. Said the angel to Mary, "The power of the
Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of
thee shall be called the Son of God" (Luke 1:35). While the Son of a human being, He
became the Son of God in a new sense. Thus He stood in our world--the Son of God,
yet allied by birth to the human race.” {E. G. White, The Signs of the Times, August 2,
1905. Quoted in Selected Messages Book 1, pp. 226, 227}
What is the ‘older’/prior sense in which the pre-incarnate Christ was God’s Son?
“He was the Majesty of heaven, the only-begotten Son of God. Yet "God so loved the
world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16.” {E. G. White, Testimonies Volume 9, p.
208} 1909
