Sabbath School Lesson 11 December 06-12, 2014 ssnet.org/ Getting Ready for the Harvest Memory Verse: Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for thr coming of the Lord draweth nigh. James 5: 6. Last Day Events page 156 Under the Garb of Christianity The strongest bulwark of vice in our world is not the iniquitous life of the abandoned sinner or the degraded outcast; it is that life which otherwise appears virtuous, honorable, and noble, but in which one sin is fostered, one vice indulged.... Genius, talent, sympathy, even generous and kindly deeds, may thus become decoys of Satan to entice souls over the precipice of ruin.—Education, 150 (1903).{LDE 156.1} Even in the Adventist Church Last Day Events, p. 156.2 (EGW) We have far more to fear from within than from without. The hindrances to strength and success are far greater from the church itself than from the world. Unbelievers have a right to expect that those who profess to be keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, will do more than any other class to promote and honor, by their consistent lives, by their godly example and their active influence, the cause which they represent. But how often have the professed advocates of the truth proved the greatest obstacle to its advancement! The unbelief indulged, the doubts expressed, the darkness cherished, encourage the presence of evil angels, and open the way for the accomplishment of Satan’s devices.—Selected Messages 1:122 (1887).{LDE 156.2} Lying Spirits Contradict the Scriptures Last Day Events, p. 156.3 (EGW) The saints must get a thorough understanding of present truth, which they will be obliged to maintain 157from the Scriptures. They must understand the state of the dead, for the spirits of devils will yet appear to them, professing to be beloved friends and relatives, who will declare to them that the Sabbath has been changed, also other unscriptural doctrines.—Early Writings, 87 (1854). {LDE 156.3}
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