DRS PURNOMO
2007-05-05 12:56:22 UTC
An Age of Abounding Iniquity.--We live amid the perils of the last days.
Because iniquity abounds, the love of many waxes cold. The word "many"
refers to the professed followers of Christ. They are affected by the
prevailing iniquity and backslide from God, but it is not necessary that
they should be thus affected. The cause of this declension is that they do
not stand clear from this iniquity. The fact that their love of God is
waxing cold because iniquity abounds shows that they are, in some sense,
partakers in this iniquity, or it would not affect their love for God and
their zeal and fervor in this cause. {CG 439.1}
Influence of Debasing Books and Pictures.--Many of the young are eager
for books. They read everything they can obtain. Exciting love stories and
impure pictures have a corrupting influence. Novels are eagerly perused by
many; and, as the result, their imagination becomes defiled. In the cars
photographs of females in a state of nudity are frequently circulated for
sale. These disgusting pictures are also found in daguerrean saloons [photo
shops] and are hung upon the walls of those who deal in engravings. This is
an age when corruption is teeming everywhere. The lust of the eye and
corrupt passions are aroused by beholding and by reading. The heart is
corrupted through the imagination. The mind takes pleasure in contemplating
scenes which awaken the lower and baser passions. These vile images, seen
through defiled imagination, corrupt the morals and prepare the deluded,
infatuated beings to give loose rein to lustful
440
passions. Then follow sins and crimes which drag beings formed in the image
of God down to a level with the beasts, sinking them at last in perdition.
{CG 439.2}
Licentiousness the Special Sin.--A terrible picture of the condition of
the world has been presented before me. Immorality abounds everywhere.
Licentiousness is the special sin of this age. Never did vice lift its
deformed head with such boldness as now. The people seem to be benumbed, and
the lovers of virtue and true goodness are nearly discouraged by its
boldness, strength, and prevalence. {CG 440.1}
I was referred to Romans 1:18-32, as a true description of the world
previous to the second appearing of Christ. {CG 440.2}
It is sin, not trial and suffering, which separates God from His people
and renders the soul incapable of enjoying and glorifying Him. It is sin
that is destroying souls. Sin and vice exist in Sabbathkeeping families. {CG
440.3}
Satan's Attack on Youth.--It is the special work of Satan in these last
days to take possession of the minds of youth, to corrupt the thoughts and
inflame the passions; for he knows that by so doing he can lead to impure
actions, and thus all the noble faculties of the mind will become debased,
and he can control them to suit his own purposes. {CG 440.4}
An Index to the Future of Society.--The youth of today are a sure index
to the future of society; and as we view them, what can we hope for that
future? The majority are fond of amusement and averse to work. . . . They
have but little self-control and become excited and angry on the slightest
occasion. Very many in every age
441
and station of life are without principle or conscience; and with their
idle, spendthrift habits they are rushing into vice and are corrupting
society, until our world is becoming a second Sodom. If the appetites and
passions were under the control of reason and religion, society would
present a widely different aspect. God never designed that the present
woeful condition of things should exist; it has been brought about through
the gross violation of nature's laws. {CG 440.5}
The Problems of Self-abuse.--Some who make a high profession do not
understand the sin of self-abuse and its sure results. Long-established
habit has blinded their understanding. They do not realize the exceeding
sinfulness of this degrading sin. {CG 441.1}
Youth and children of both sexes engage in moral pollution and practice
this disgusting, soul-and-body- destroying vice. Many professed Christians
are so benumbed by the same practice that their moral sensibilities cannot
be aroused to understand that it is sin, and that if continued its sure
results will be utter shipwreck of body and mind. Man, the noblest being
upon the earth, formed in the image of God, transforms himself into a beast!
He makes himself gross and corrupt. Every Christian will have to learn to
restrain his passions and be controlled by principle. Unless he does this,
he is unworthy of the Christian name. {CG 441.2}
Moral pollution has done more than every other evil to cause the race
to degenerate. It is practiced to an alarming extent and brings on disease
of almost every description. Even very small children, infants, being born
with natural irritability of the sexual organs, find momentary relief in
handling them, which only increases the irritation
442
and leads to a repetition of the act, until a habit is established which
increases with their growth. {CG 441.3}
Lustful Propensities Are Inherited.--Parents do not generally suspect
that their children understand anything about this vice. In very many cases
the parents are the real sinners. They have abused their marriage privileges
and by indulgence have strengthened their animal passions. And as these have
strengthened, the moral and intellectual faculties have become weak. The
spiritual has been overborne by the brutish. Children are born with the
animal propensities largely developed, the parents' own stamp of character
having been given to them. . . . Children born to these parents will almost
invariably take naturally to the disgusting habits of secret vice. . . . The
sins of the parents will be visited upon their children, because the parents
have given them the stamp of their own lustful propensities. {CG 442.1}
A Bewitching Slavery.--I have felt deeply as I have seen the powerful
influence of animal passions in controlling men and women of no ordinary
intelligence and ability. They would be capable of engaging in a good work,
of exerting a powerful influence, were they not enslaved by base passions.
My confidence in humanity has been terribly shaken. {CG 442.2}
I have been shown that persons of apparently good deportment, not
taking unwarrantable liberties with the other sex, were guilty of practicing
secret vice nearly every day of their lives. They have not refrained from
this terrible sin even while most solemn meetings have been in session. They
have listened to the most solemn, impressive discourses upon the judgment,
which seemed to bring them before the tribunal of God, causing them
443
to fear and quake; yet hardly an hour would elapse before they would be
engaged in their favorite, bewitching sin, polluting their own bodies. They
were such slaves to this awful crime that they seemed devoid of power to
control their passions. We have labored for some earnestly, we have
entreated, we have wept and prayed over them; yet we have known that right
amid all our earnest effort and distress, the force of sinful habit has
obtained the mastery, and these sins have been committed. {CG 442.3}
Knowledge of Vice Is Spread by Its Victims.-- Those who have become
fully established in this soul-and-body-destroying vice can seldom rest
until their burden of secret evil is imparted to those with whom they
associate. Curiosity is at once aroused, and the knowledge of vice is passed
from youth to youth, from child to child, until there is scarcely one to be
found ignorant of the practice of this degrading sin. {CG 443.1}
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Because iniquity abounds, the love of many waxes cold. The word "many"
refers to the professed followers of Christ. They are affected by the
prevailing iniquity and backslide from God, but it is not necessary that
they should be thus affected. The cause of this declension is that they do
not stand clear from this iniquity. The fact that their love of God is
waxing cold because iniquity abounds shows that they are, in some sense,
partakers in this iniquity, or it would not affect their love for God and
their zeal and fervor in this cause. {CG 439.1}
Influence of Debasing Books and Pictures.--Many of the young are eager
for books. They read everything they can obtain. Exciting love stories and
impure pictures have a corrupting influence. Novels are eagerly perused by
many; and, as the result, their imagination becomes defiled. In the cars
photographs of females in a state of nudity are frequently circulated for
sale. These disgusting pictures are also found in daguerrean saloons [photo
shops] and are hung upon the walls of those who deal in engravings. This is
an age when corruption is teeming everywhere. The lust of the eye and
corrupt passions are aroused by beholding and by reading. The heart is
corrupted through the imagination. The mind takes pleasure in contemplating
scenes which awaken the lower and baser passions. These vile images, seen
through defiled imagination, corrupt the morals and prepare the deluded,
infatuated beings to give loose rein to lustful
440
passions. Then follow sins and crimes which drag beings formed in the image
of God down to a level with the beasts, sinking them at last in perdition.
{CG 439.2}
Licentiousness the Special Sin.--A terrible picture of the condition of
the world has been presented before me. Immorality abounds everywhere.
Licentiousness is the special sin of this age. Never did vice lift its
deformed head with such boldness as now. The people seem to be benumbed, and
the lovers of virtue and true goodness are nearly discouraged by its
boldness, strength, and prevalence. {CG 440.1}
I was referred to Romans 1:18-32, as a true description of the world
previous to the second appearing of Christ. {CG 440.2}
It is sin, not trial and suffering, which separates God from His people
and renders the soul incapable of enjoying and glorifying Him. It is sin
that is destroying souls. Sin and vice exist in Sabbathkeeping families. {CG
440.3}
Satan's Attack on Youth.--It is the special work of Satan in these last
days to take possession of the minds of youth, to corrupt the thoughts and
inflame the passions; for he knows that by so doing he can lead to impure
actions, and thus all the noble faculties of the mind will become debased,
and he can control them to suit his own purposes. {CG 440.4}
An Index to the Future of Society.--The youth of today are a sure index
to the future of society; and as we view them, what can we hope for that
future? The majority are fond of amusement and averse to work. . . . They
have but little self-control and become excited and angry on the slightest
occasion. Very many in every age
441
and station of life are without principle or conscience; and with their
idle, spendthrift habits they are rushing into vice and are corrupting
society, until our world is becoming a second Sodom. If the appetites and
passions were under the control of reason and religion, society would
present a widely different aspect. God never designed that the present
woeful condition of things should exist; it has been brought about through
the gross violation of nature's laws. {CG 440.5}
The Problems of Self-abuse.--Some who make a high profession do not
understand the sin of self-abuse and its sure results. Long-established
habit has blinded their understanding. They do not realize the exceeding
sinfulness of this degrading sin. {CG 441.1}
Youth and children of both sexes engage in moral pollution and practice
this disgusting, soul-and-body- destroying vice. Many professed Christians
are so benumbed by the same practice that their moral sensibilities cannot
be aroused to understand that it is sin, and that if continued its sure
results will be utter shipwreck of body and mind. Man, the noblest being
upon the earth, formed in the image of God, transforms himself into a beast!
He makes himself gross and corrupt. Every Christian will have to learn to
restrain his passions and be controlled by principle. Unless he does this,
he is unworthy of the Christian name. {CG 441.2}
Moral pollution has done more than every other evil to cause the race
to degenerate. It is practiced to an alarming extent and brings on disease
of almost every description. Even very small children, infants, being born
with natural irritability of the sexual organs, find momentary relief in
handling them, which only increases the irritation
442
and leads to a repetition of the act, until a habit is established which
increases with their growth. {CG 441.3}
Lustful Propensities Are Inherited.--Parents do not generally suspect
that their children understand anything about this vice. In very many cases
the parents are the real sinners. They have abused their marriage privileges
and by indulgence have strengthened their animal passions. And as these have
strengthened, the moral and intellectual faculties have become weak. The
spiritual has been overborne by the brutish. Children are born with the
animal propensities largely developed, the parents' own stamp of character
having been given to them. . . . Children born to these parents will almost
invariably take naturally to the disgusting habits of secret vice. . . . The
sins of the parents will be visited upon their children, because the parents
have given them the stamp of their own lustful propensities. {CG 442.1}
A Bewitching Slavery.--I have felt deeply as I have seen the powerful
influence of animal passions in controlling men and women of no ordinary
intelligence and ability. They would be capable of engaging in a good work,
of exerting a powerful influence, were they not enslaved by base passions.
My confidence in humanity has been terribly shaken. {CG 442.2}
I have been shown that persons of apparently good deportment, not
taking unwarrantable liberties with the other sex, were guilty of practicing
secret vice nearly every day of their lives. They have not refrained from
this terrible sin even while most solemn meetings have been in session. They
have listened to the most solemn, impressive discourses upon the judgment,
which seemed to bring them before the tribunal of God, causing them
443
to fear and quake; yet hardly an hour would elapse before they would be
engaged in their favorite, bewitching sin, polluting their own bodies. They
were such slaves to this awful crime that they seemed devoid of power to
control their passions. We have labored for some earnestly, we have
entreated, we have wept and prayed over them; yet we have known that right
amid all our earnest effort and distress, the force of sinful habit has
obtained the mastery, and these sins have been committed. {CG 442.3}
Knowledge of Vice Is Spread by Its Victims.-- Those who have become
fully established in this soul-and-body-destroying vice can seldom rest
until their burden of secret evil is imparted to those with whom they
associate. Curiosity is at once aroused, and the knowledge of vice is passed
from youth to youth, from child to child, until there is scarcely one to be
found ignorant of the practice of this degrading sin. {CG 443.1}
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