The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland

ace.
Hence He must become "Immanuel, God with
us" not God with the sinless Adam. Here is where
the problem is, and here the Son of God must come
in order to solve it, all the way to where we are. He
can redeem only that which He assumed.
If God has called the Seventh-day Adventist
Church to proclaim "the everlasting gospel" to
"every nation, kindred, tongue, and people" in this
time of the cleansing of the sanctuary, this truth of
the cross must find central place in our message.
Our Evangelical friends are hungering to
understand it. We must no longer deprive them of
the blessing they deserve. This is "the beginning"
of that light which must yet lighten the earth with
glory, the fourth angel's message. "Of all
professing Christians, Seventh-day Adventists
should be foremost" in proclaiming that larger truth
of the cross. Our spiritual impotence in the face of
the world's desperate need is due to our failure to
behold Christ as He truly is, and to present Him
thus to the hungering multitudes. There is grave
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