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Selected Messages Book 3

Ellen G. White

1980

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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 A Word to the Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Section 1--The Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Chapter 1--What Is the Church? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

God Has an Organized Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Chapter 2--Unity in the Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Present a United Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Unity Our Creed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Not to Draw Apart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 What Heaven Ratifies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Chapter 3--Independent Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Departing From the Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Strength From Concerted Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Counsel Together--Compare Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Practice in the Early Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Independence a Delusion of Satan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Thorough Organization Essential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Section 2--Principles of Inspiration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Chapter 4--The Primacy of the Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Chapter 5--Experiences in Receiving the Visions . . . . . . . . 34 Chapter 6--Glimpses of How the Light Came to Ellen White 39 Chapter 7--Presenting the Divinely Revealed Message . . . . 46 Chapter 8--The Question of Influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Chapter 9--Defining Sister White's Judgment and the

Word of the Lord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Sister White's Opinion? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Chapter 10--On Being an Inspired Messenger . . . . . . . . . . . 66 After Ellen White's Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Chapter 11--The Reception of the Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Two Typical Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Section 3--The Preparation of the Ellen G. White Books . . . . 79 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

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Chapter 12--Literary Assistants in Work of Ellen G. White . 81 The Work of Marian Davis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Chapter 13--The Testimonies for the Church . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Ellen G. White Desired Language Correctly Used . . . . . . 88 Letters to Help Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Chapter 14--Initial Steps in Writing and Publishing The Great Controversy Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

The 1858 Great Controversy Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Spiritual Gifts, Volumes III and IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Chapter 15--A Running Account of Ellen G. White's

Experience in Writing on the Life of Christ in 1876 . . . 93 Chapter 16--Expanding the Great Controversy Presentation 99

The 1888 Edition of The Great Controversy . . . . . . . . . . 101 Chapter 17--The Experience of E. G. White in Preparing

The Desire of Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Notations From Letters and Diaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Meeting Criticisms of The Desire of Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Chapter 18--Comments While at Work on the Conflict

Series Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 The Result of Visions Spanning Her Lifetime . . . . . . . . . 109 Constructive Criticisms Appreciated (1885) . . . . . . . . . . 109 Books Sought Giving Order of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Holy Spirit Traced Truths on Ellen White's Heart . . . . . . 110 The 1911 Revision of The Great Controversy . . . . . . . . . 110 Section 4--The Incarnation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Chapter 19--The Incarnation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 The Completeness of Christ's Humanity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Christ Descended to the Level of Fallen Humanity . . . . . 116 Was Christ Capable of Yielding to Temptation? . . . . . . . 117 God Sent a Sinless Being to This World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Man Created With Sinless Moral Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Sickness of Others Carried Vicariously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Christ's Sinlessness Disturbed Satan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Our Fallen Human Nature Connected With Christ's

Divinity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Tempted as Children Today Are . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 What the Incarnation Accomplishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

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