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Testing Truths

This document provides an outline for Pastor Claudius Morgan to use when presenting key Seventh-day Adventist doctrines to new members or interested individuals. It includes sections on the Sabbath, state of the dead, and law and grace that provide biblical support and suggestions for how to present each topic in a Christ-centered manner focused on bringing cognitive balance by helping the individual understand Jesus' relationship to that doctrine. The overall aim is to present doctrines that separate the SDA Church from others but do so in a way that emphasizes why each truth is important to Jesus.

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Testing Truths

This document provides an outline for Pastor Claudius Morgan to use when presenting key Seventh-day Adventist doctrines to new members or interested individuals. It includes sections on the Sabbath, state of the dead, and law and grace that provide biblical support and suggestions for how to present each topic in a Christ-centered manner focused on bringing cognitive balance by helping the individual understand Jesus' relationship to that doctrine. The overall aim is to present doctrines that separate the SDA Church from others but do so in a way that emphasizes why each truth is important to Jesus.

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Pastor Claudius Morgan

€ Sabbath
€ Law and Grace
€ State of the dead
€ Sanctuary (Investigative Judgment)
€ Healthful living
€ 2nd coming (Signs, Manner [Rapture
Theory], Promise)
€ Baptism
€ Spirit of Prophecy
€ The Millennium
If these Biblical truths separate
us from the other religious
denominations then they must be
presented before and after an
individual is accepted as a
member of the SDA Church.
€The Law
€The Sabbath
€The state of the dead
1.Present the law as something good that makes
us happy.
€ Proverbs 29:18 - Where there is no vision, the
people perish: but he that keepeth the law,
happy is he.
2.Show that Jesus died to save us from
transgressing the law and not from keeping it.
€ 1John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin
transgresseth also the law: for sin is the
transgression of the law.
€ Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law
there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for
by the law is the knowledge of sin.
3.Show that the confusion in Christianity stems
from two misunderstandings:
There were two distinct important laws:
The ceremonial law which was nailed to the
cross.
The moral law written with God’s finger.

€ 2 Kings 21:8 Neither will I make the feet of


Israel move any more out of the land which I
gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do
according to all that I have commanded them,
and according to all the law that my servant
Moses commanded them.
4.The death of Jesus shows the eternal
nature of the law.

€ Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to


destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not
come to destroy, but to fullfil.

€ Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do,


in that it was weak through the flesh, God
sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful
flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the
flesh:
5. When we love Jesus, we demonstrate this
love by willing obedience.

€ John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my


commandments.
1. Show that the Sabbath is a sign of
creation and re-creation.
Ezekiel 20:12 Moreover also I gave them
my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and
them, that they might know that I am the
LORD that sanctify them.
2.Show that the Sabbath was in Eden before
sin, continued through the ages and will be
in Eden restored after the termination of
sin.
3.Show that Sunday keeping came from Rome
and is man-made. Make the issue clear and
simple: Will you follow Jesus or man?
4.Show the blessings one gets from keeping the
Sabbath.

€ Isaiah 58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the


sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day;
and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the
LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing
thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor
speaking thine own words:
€ Isaiah 58:14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the
LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high
places of the earth, and feed thee with the
heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the
LORD hath spoken it.
5.In presenting the change of the Sabbath, simply
charge the apostate church with the change. Do not
call names!

€ There is danger that our ministers will say too much


against the Catholics and provoke against themselves
the strongest prejudices of that church. There are many
souls in the Roman Catholic faith who are looking with
interest to this people; but the power of the priest over
his charges is great, and if he can prejudice the people
by his stay-away arguments, so that when the truth is
uttered against the fallen churches they may not hear
it, he will surely do it. But as laborers together with
God, we are provided with spiritual weapons, mighty to
the pulling down of the strongholds of the enemy.--
Letter 39, 1887. {Ev 574.2}
6.Present the Sabbath truth as a testimony.
This is very effective. Tell people in a
casual way, why you keep the Sabbath. Do
not press for a decision until you are sure
that the person has sufficient facts to make
an intelligent decision.
7.Your presentation must be highly christocentric.
Show that the Sabbath is important to Jesus and
that is why He kept it. What is important to
Jesus MUST be important to the person that
believes in Him.
€ Luke 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he
had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he
went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and
stood up for to read.
€ Matthew 12:8 For the Son of man is Lord even of
the sabbath day.
1.Establish the fact that no one has eternal
life in himself and that life after death
comes only through Jesus.
€ John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they
might know thee the only true God, and Jesus
Christ, whom thou hast sent.
2. Establish the meaning of a soul.
€ Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of
the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul.
3. Show clearly what happens to a person
at death.
€ Job 7:9 As the cloud is consumed and
vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the
grave shall come up no more.
4.Use the story of Lazarus; it shows that man
goes to the grave after death and can only
be raised by the power of Jesus.
5.Show that man’s only hope in the first
resurrection is dying in Christ.
€ 1Corinthians 15:13 But if there be no
resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not
risen:
€ 1Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die,
even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
6.Expose the devil’s deception.
€Genesis 3:4 And the serpent said
unto the woman, Ye shall not
surely die:
€2 Corinthians 5:8 We are
confident, I say, and willing rather
to be absent from the body, and
to be present with the Lord.
7.End the sermon by celebrating the second
coming of the Lord and the events that will
accompany His parousia.
€ 1Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself shall
descend from heaven with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel, and with the trump of
God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
€ 1Thessalonians 4:17 Then we which are alive
and remain shall be caught up together with
them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the
air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
€In presenting testing truths, the
preacher’s aim is to achieve cognitive
balance. For example, if a person
loves Jesus and Jesus loves the
Sabbath but the person does not
value the Sabbath, then there is a
state of imbalance.
€Get the prospect to love
Jesus deeply
€Present each testing truth as
being important to Jesus.
€Provide your prospect with
an opportunity to express
his/her acceptance of the

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