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Library Articles

Do You Want to Know the Truth?

When men are convinced of a truth, and are looking for some way to avoid yielding obedience to it, they have a powerful ally at hand to help them. We are told that as the enemy nears the time when his work will be cut short by the coming of the Lord, he will work “with all unrighteous deception among those who perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved” (2 Thess. 2:10). ~Ellet J. Waggoner

Eating with the Dogs

"For this Gentile woman to come to the point where there was no “self” left in her means that she saw in Christ the principle of the cross. She was a follower of Christ in self-denial. She was experiencing with Him the principle of corporate repentance. In order for “self” to be denied, the Holy Spirit reveals everything there is whether out in the open or hidden beneath the surface. It is to see the sins of others as my own sins. This is our Day of Atonement repentance—the deeper meaning of our sanctuary truth—to which Jesus our priestly healer is leading us as a remnant people." ~Paul E. Penno

 

How Righteousness is Obtained

"How do we get it? —By faith. How else could we get it? Since it is impossible for any to get righteousness by the deeds of the law, it is evident that it must come by faith, as a gift. And this is in keeping with the statement that “the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Someone says that it doesn’t seem possible that we could get righteousness in this way. But think a moment; “sin” and “righteousness” simply denote our relation to God."  ~Ellet J. Waggoner

The Way of the Cross Leads Home

"I believe in the reality of the “wrath of God.” But where does it come in? As I see it in Scripture and the Spirit of Prophecy, God is not wrathful because men have rebelled against Him nor even because they crucified His Son. “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do” is His attitude toward that sin of mankind. His wrath will blaze forth when at the last the wicked attempt to exterminate God’s people! This is a willful, conscious re-crucifixion of Christ. The purpose of the second coming of Christ is that of a rescue operation, not a punishment expedition. The destruction of the wicked when they see His face is incidental."  ~Paul E. Penno

 

No Probation After Death

“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit; by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water” ( 1Pet. 3:18-20).

The Goodness of God

"The expression, “God is good,” is one that is in very common use among Christians, yet we are morally certain that very few receive the benefit from it that they might. To very many the expressions brings more dread than trust, and the reason is that they have an erroneous and limited, idea of what is meant by the term “good.”"  ~Ellet J. Waggoner

SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF HEARTACHE

"Tired of carrying guilt? Dead-end life? Amusement surfeit? Feeling like a human discard? Needing a drink or a fix so you can cope? There’s a life-giving Savior very near you: Already your Savior, if you don’t stop Him, He has already redeemed you. He has a right to do that; He loved you. He has Himself died as the payment for your sins—the real death."   ~Paul E. Penno

 

What the Righteousness of God Is

"In 1 Corinthians 1:30 we are told that Christ is made unto us righteousness as well as wisdom; and since Christ is the wisdom of God, and in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Colossians 2:9), it is evident that the righteousness which is made life to us is the righteousness of God. Let us see what this righteousness is." 
~Ellet J. Waggoner

Saints of God

Ellet J. Waggoner
The object of this article is not to lower anybody’s conception of sanctification, or saintship, but to elevate the conception of what it is to be a Christian; to impress upon the mind the fact that one who is not sanctified in Christ Jesus, and thus a saint of God, is not a Christian. Neither is it designed to discourage anybody. It would be false and cruel sympathy that would seek to encourage one by representing the Christian life as a low plane of living. The true way is to set forth the Christian life in its true light, and then point out the source of help.
 

Unknown or Unconscious Sin

Robert J. Wieland
The America of today seems incapable of persecuting people for their religious convictions. But prophecy indicates that multitudes of apparently liberty-loving people of today will tomorrow oppress the consciences of their fellowmen, choosing in principle to revive the horrors of the Dark Ages.