If we're sinning, and the Holy Spirit brings that to our attention, we should repent. Even if we're not sinning (to our knowledge) we may (and should) repent for others, along the lines of the quote I cited.

Thank you.

Dear friends,

While the campmeetings are spiritual gatherings or assemblies, they are not a replacement of the Holy Convocations at His appointed times, according to Leviticus 23 and Numbers 28 and 29.

Just like the 7th day Creation Sabbath, the appointed times were meant to be kept according to the Luni-Solar Barley Harvest Calendation as restored by the Millerites in 1844.

The calendar used to ascertain the date of October 22 1844 for the 10th day of the 7th month, was not the Gregorian Calendar since October 22 would be the 22nd of the 10th month. A Biblical, Astronomical, Chronological and Historical study of this date can be found in the Grace Amadon Collection available at the Center for Adventist research at Andrews University and also online, which confirms these facts and is the basis of our beliefs as SDA.

Accordingly, campmeetings, while fulfilling an aspect of spiritual gatherings for the Church every year, do not replace His true appointed times based on His true sanctuary calendation. These appointed times are statutes according to Leviticus 23 and are meant to be kept.

With His love,

odette

Dear friend,

The Most Holy Place and the work of our Great High Priest since October 22, 1844 is the positive answer to this question. It is possible to stop sinning. Not only it is possible, but we must stop sinning.

This however, is only the first step of the sanctuary message. 1. The Court and Holy Place experience which brings the repentant sinner to ackonwledge his need of a Savior, a Redeemer, since he cannot redeem himself. This is the first step: Justification at the altar of burnt offering in the Court and at the laver: CONTINUAL ATONEMENT. -- the born again experience.

2. Then, the steps to Christ of sanctification in the Holy Place: a daily process of a lifetime of being filled with the Spirit (candlestick) - feeding upon His Word (shewbread) and prayer and meditation at the altar of encense. This is CONTINUAL INTERCESSION.

3. According to Patriarchs and Prophets, page 357, "The blood of Christ while it was to release the repentant sinner from the condemnation of the law, was not to cancel the sin; it would stand in the sanctuary until the final atonement."

4. Therefore, although his sins were forgiven once the sinner came repentant to offer his sacrifice at the sanctuary, he understood that the record of his sins were to remain in the sanctuary till the Great Day of Atonement, which according to our belief as SDA and based on the prophecy of Daniel 8:14 and 9:24-27, this is the final work to be accomplished for the dead since 1844 and soon, noone knows how soon, it will be done for the living: the removing of the records of our sins -- tendancies to sin, bent to evil, knowlege of evil. Then, and only then, God's people will have reached the character He has been looking for to vindicate His Holy Name or Character. Probation closes a short while before His coming.

5. When Christ throws the censor and declares "it is finished", according to Early Writings, page 36, He comes out of the Most Holy Place, "Michael stands up" Daniel 12:1 and the plagues start falling. Noone will boast then of sinlesness because the body will not be changed till the Second Coming - but the character will have been made perfet before probation closes.

6. This is the solution to the sinless character: FINAL ATONEMENT, FINAL INTERCESSION.

With His Love,

odette

Do you believe having "tendencies to sin, bent to evil, knowledge of evil" makes us guilty of sinning in the sight of God?

Do you believe God requires us to observe "these appointed times"?