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No, Adventists have to demonstrate their loyalty to God by keeping the law.

Here is Ellen's declaration in the Review and Herald as late as 1901.

God will test all, even as he tested Adam and Eve, to see whether they will be obedient.

Our loyalty or disloyalty will decide our destiny.

But the plea, I cannot keep the commandments, need never be presented to God, for before him stands the Savior, the marks of the crucifixion upon his body, a living witness that the law can be kept.

It is not that men cannot keep the law, but that they will not.

And again, that's Ellen White in the Review and Herald, May 28, 1901, Article A, Paragraph 8.

No, Adventism is not a version of Christianity.

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Our guest today is Pastor Ted Wilson, who served as his ministry began in 1974 as a pastor in New York and grew to include leadership roles in Africa, the Euro-Asia Division, and the Review and Herald Publishing Association before he went on to serve as president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists for 15 years from 2010 to 2025.

He currently also serves as a member of the Weimar University Board of Trustees.

Pastor Wilson, thank you so much for taking time to join us here today.

where the members believe, and they read Ellen White's writings, that she talks about how hereditary and cultivated tendency to evil can be cut off from the character.

This is in Review and Herald, April 24, 1900.

And so that same year, the people in Indiana were like, Hereditary inculcated tendency to evil can be eradicated from our character, she says.

They thought hereditary, that means flesh.

But we need to be working on that.

We need to be surrendering daily and dying to self daily.

And the Review and Herald, June 10, this is the last one, 1902.

She says, are we seeking for that fullness of Christ's character? Are we seeking for His fullness, ever pressing toward the mark set before us, the perfection of His character? Are we seeking this? When the Lord's people reach this mark, they will be sealed in their foreheads, filled with His Spirit.

Well, the Lake Union Conference, where Jones is, Jones is in Battle Creek, the Lake Union Conference is having a constituency meeting, and they take this up because there's this paper that's being circulated with these various attacks.

And this is in the Review and Herald, May 24, 1906.

So just less than two months after Jones puts this out.

This is A.G. Daniels that's writing.

Here we stand.

Our guest today is Pastor Ted Wilson, who served as his ministry began in 1974 as a pastor in New York and grew to include leadership roles in Africa, the Euro-Asia Division, and the Review and Herald Publishing Association before he went on to serve as president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists for 15 years, from 2010 to 2025.

He currently also serves as a member of the Weimar University Board of Trustees.

Pastor Wilson, thank you so much for taking time to join us here today.

We have 652, "Take up his cross daily and follow me." And then 2 Corinthians 3:18, "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image." This is actually a quotation of Ellen White.

It's from the Review and Herald, January 19, 1864.

It says, "Be- But with all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory." And then she puts in brackets, "character to character." Those are her brackets there.

"Just as by the Spirit of the Lord." Okay? And you know, as I think of that, I think of from His character, from our character to His character, that's the transformation that's taking place.

"The purity, the holiness of the life of Jesus as presented from the word of God possesses more power to reform and transform the character than do all the efforts put forth in punishing the sins and crimes of men and the sure results." So by looking at Jesus, it has more power to transform us than anything else.

That's why we're called to spend a, a thoughtful hour, which, which is our next section, communion with Christ in, in secret prayer.

Matthew 6:6, "But when you pray, go into your room, and when you shut your door, pray to your Father who's in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly." Line 727 from the Review and Herald, December 31, 1908, "Prayer is a necessity, for it is the life of the soul.

Family prayer, public prayer have their place, but it is secret communion with God that sustains the soul life." Okay? And then line 731, "You will receive more strength by spending one hour each day in meditation, mourning over your failings and hard corruptions, and pleading for God's pardoning love and the assurance of sins forgiven, than you would by spending many hours and days in studying the most able authors." Now, for that promise that you mentioned, that statement, um, line 740 from Signs of the Times, April 14, 1890, "You should keep your mind filled with the precious promises of God.