True Revival: The - Centro de Pesquisas Ellen G. White

True Revival: The Church's Greatest Need

Ellen G. White

2010

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Ellen G. White (1827-1915) is considered the most widely translated American author, her works having been published in more than 160 languages. She wrote more than 100,000 pages on a wide variety of spiritual and practical topics. Guided by the Holy Spirit, she exalted Jesus and pointed to the Scriptures as the basis of one's faith.

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Contents

Information about this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi Chapter 1--Calls for a Revival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

The Church's Greatest Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Opening the Door to the Adversary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 We Are in the Day of Atonement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 The Church to Arise and Repent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Reformation Accompanies Revival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Simple Agencies Will Be Used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Chapter 2--Conversions--Fake or Real . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Power of the Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 A New Lifestyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Counterfeit Revivals--What's the Difference? . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Why Be Deceived? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Can God's Law Be Changed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Alienated and Reconciled--How Does it Happen? . . . . . . . . . 18 Sanctification--Who Does the Work? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 No Room for Boasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Counterfeit Sanctification--Is It "Only Believe"? . . . . . . . . . . 22 Sanctification--Total Commitment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 A Changed Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 No Longer Condemned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Chapter 3--How to Be a Born-again Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Faith--Belief and Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Can I Repent Without Help? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Faith is More Than Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Righteous in Him . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 What Repentance Is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Who Wants to Repent? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Amazing Grace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Fit to Be Saved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Is There Anything Between Me and God? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Good Works the Fruit of Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 In His Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

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Chapter 4--God Has Rules Too . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Our Unique Responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Obeying Brings Happiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Beyond "Thou Shalt Nots" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Chapter 5--The Balance in Faith and Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 A Living Testimony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 What Is My Part? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 A Do-nothing Faith? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Evenly Balanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 After My Best--What? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Like Two Oars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Present a Balanced Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Chapter 6--Saved Only "In Christ" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 "He Will Save Me Now" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Why Worry? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 This You Can Count On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Peter's Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Never Be "Satisfied" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Connection With Christ--Pretended or Real? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 It's Personal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Pruning the Branches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Chapter 7--Beware the Counterfeits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 This Is The Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Why Aren't Miracles Enough? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Healing Can Be From the Devil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 False "Tongues" Identified in 1864 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Drums, Dancing, and Noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Bodies Out of Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Nudity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Confusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Order Versus Impressions and Feelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Satan's Slaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 "Inspired" By Drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Pantheism, Spiritualism, and Free Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Irrational Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Pretending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Claims to Holiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Whose Voice Can I Trust? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

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