Sermon Tone Analysis

Is this the year that Jesus will finally return?

“Should we advance in spiritual knowledge, we would see the truth developing and expanding in lines of which we have little dreamed, but it will never develop in any line that will lead us to imagine that we may know the times and the seasons which the Father hath put in His own power.

Again and again have I been warned in regard to time setting.

There will never again be a message for the people of God that will be based on time.

We are not to know the definite time either for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit or for the coming of Christ.”

1SM, p 188

“Christ is waiting with longing desire for the manifestation of Himself in His church.

When the character of Christ shall be perfectly reproduced in His people, then He will come to claim them as His own.”

COL p 69

Is this the year we will be more like Jesus?

“The church became a vitalizing power.

Believers, themselves re-converted, were a living power for God and for His kingdom.

A new song was put into their mouth, even praise to our God.

Every one converted saw in his brethren and sisters the faces of angels.

One interest prevailed, one subject of emulation swallowed up all others,—to be like Christ, to do the works of Christ.

The earnest zeal felt was expressed in kindly helpfulness, in kindly looks, and brotherly love.

All strove to see who could do the most for the enlargement of Christ’s kingdom.”

(AUCR, June 1, 1900)

Matthew 7:28-29

“Instead of living in expectation of some special season of excitement, we are wisely to improve present opportunities, doing that which must be done in order that souls may be saved.

Instead of exhausting the powers of our mind in speculations in regard to the times and seasons which the Lord has placed in His own power, and withheld from men, we are to yield ourselves to the control of the Holy Spirit, to do present duties, to give the bread of life, unadulterated with human opinions, to souls who are perishing for the truth.”

The Review and Herald, March 22, 1892

“Unity with Christ establishes a bond of unity with one another.

This unity is the most convincing proof to the world of the majesty and virtue of Christ and of His power to take away sin.”

Unity with Christ establishes a bond of unity with one another.

This unity is the most convincing proof to the world of the majesty and virtue of Christ and of His power to take away sin.

White, E. G. (1977).

Mind, Character, and Personality (Vol. 1, p. 30).

Southern Publishing Association.

“Unity is the strength of the Church.”

“Unity is the sure result of Christian perfection.”

“It is never difficult to do what we love to do, but to take a course directly against our inclinations is lifting a cross.

Christ prayed that His disciples might be one as He was one with the Father.

This unity is the credentials of Christ to the world that God sent Him.”

5TM, p 94