No Excuse - Be the Light

To the Sabbath keeping followers of Christ : God may hold accountable those who set the wrong example. Yet this becomes no excuse for us regarding our own sinful choices or rejection of the Holy Spirit. Don't let the enemy make you feel sorry for yourselves as if a victim of a bad church environment. Be the light among the darkness around you instead.

"Many of the Sabbathkeeping Adventists in ----- have been very weak. They have been miserable representatives of the truth. They have not been an honor to the cause of present truth, and the cause would have been better off without them. You have taken the unconsecrated lives of Sabbathkeepers as an excuse for your occupying a position of doubt and unbelief.

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I was shown that those who are trying to obey God and purify their souls through obedience to the truth are God's chosen people, His modern Israel. God says of them, through Peter: “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” "

Testimonies 2:109.1