Peter, thank you for the awesome quotes and insights. Do you know of other forms it is manifesting nowadays? What about the idea that everything we think, say, and do (while abiding in Jesus and partaking of the divine nature) is stained with sin and selfishness? Have you heard of this idea?

M: Peter, thank you for the awesome quotes and insights. Do you know of other forms it is manifesting nowadays? What about the idea that everything we think, say, and do (while abiding in Jesus and partaking of the divine nature) is stained with sin and selfishness? Have you heard of this idea?

P: Today many Christians teach that we are no longer under the Law but under grace, teaching people it is ok to sin. Also within Adventism I have heard people say that we will sin until Jesus comes again teaching people to feel comfortable when they sin. When through Christ we can have the victory over sin.

The religious services, the prayers, the praise, the penitent confession of sin ascend from true believers as incense to the heavenly sanctuary, but passing through the corrupt channels of humanity, they are so defiled that unless purified by blood, they can never be of value with God. They ascend not in spotless purity, and unless the Intercessor, who is at God's right hand, presents and purifies all by His righteousness, it is not acceptable to God. All incense from earthly tabernacles must be moist with the cleansing drops of the blood of Christ. He holds before the Father the censer of His own merits, in which there is no taint of earthly corruption. He gathers into this censer the prayers, the praise, and the confessions of His people, and with these He puts His own spotless righteousness. Then, perfumed with the merits of Christ's propitiation, the incense comes up before God wholly and entirely acceptable. Then gracious answers are returned. {1SM 344.2}