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EGW ON
THE BOOK OF LIFE

“Your name may be kept so pure that it cannot justly be connected with anything dishonest or unrighteous, but will be respected by all the good and pure, and it may be written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, to be immortalized among the holy angels.”  AG:111.

 

“The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, powers infinite and omniscient, receive those who truly enter into covenant relation with God.  They are present at every baptism, to receive the candidates who have renounced the world and have received Christ into the soul temple.  These candidates have entered into the family of God, and their names are inscribed in the Lamb’s Book of Life.”  AG:143.

 

“Delay not to make an entire consecration to God, that your names may be recorded in the Lamb’s Book of Life.”  AY:70.

 

“By the king’s examination of the guests at the feast is represented a work of judgment.  The guests at the Gospel feast are those who profess to serve God, those whose names are written in the Book of Life [Notice again, only those who “profess to serve God” will be placed into the Lamb’s Book of Life].  But not all who profess to be Christians are true disciples.  Before the final reward is given, it must be decided who are [blotted out] fitted to share the inheritance of the righteous.”  COL:310.

 

“Christ values acts of heartfelt courtesy.  When any one did Him a favor, with Heavenly politeness He blessed the actor.  He did not refuse the simplest flower plucked by the hand of a child, and offered to Him in love.  He accepted the offerings of children, and blessed the givers, inscribing their names in the Book of Life.”  CSW:145; DA 564; DG:237.

 

“The converted student has broken the chain which bound him to the service of sin, and has placed himself in right relation to God.  His name is enrolled in the Lamb’s Book of Life.”  CT:496; FE:514.

 

“The Book of Life contains the names of all who have ever entered the service of God.”  FLB:210; GC88:480; GC:480; LHU:326.

 

“Those who have had knowledge and talent, and yet have delighted in controversy and unholy strife, will not have a place with the redeemed. . . They desired to do some great work, that they might be admired and flattered by men, but their names were not written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.  ‘I know you not,’ are the sad Words that Christ addresses to such.  But those whose lives were made beautiful by little acts of kindness, by tender words of affection and sympathy, whose hearts recoiled from strife and contention, who never did any great work in order to be lauded of men, these are found recorded in the Lamb’s Book of Life.”  FLB:370.

 

GC:486:  “Sins that have not been repented of and forsaken will not be pardoned, and blotted out of the Books of Record, but will stand to witness against the sinner in the day of God.”

 

“ ‘And at that time shall Michael stand up, the Great Prince which standeth for the children of Thy people:  and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time:  and at that time Thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the Book,’ (Daniel 12:1).  By this we see the importance of having our names written in the Book of Life.”  HP:344.

 

“The names of all those who have once given themselves to God are written in the Book of Life, and their characters are now passing in review before Him.”  HS:138; LHU:326.

 

“We want the deep movings of the Spirit of God in our hearts, that we may not only be able to secure for ourselves the white raiment, but that we may so influence others that their names may be entered in the Book of Life, never to be blotted out.”  HS:140; LHU:326.

 

“We should be with Him in this work and be cleansing the sanctuary of our souls of all unrighteousness, that our names may be written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, that our sins may be blotted out [of the Book of Records] when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.”  LHU:216.

 

“Young men of today may become as precious in the sight of the Lord as was Samuel.  They may have their names enrolled in the Book of Life, to be looked upon with pleasure by the Monarch of the Universe and the angelic host.”  LHU:339.

 

ST, August 6, 1885; HP:360; ST, August 6, 1885:  “When we become children of God, our names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and they remain there until the time of the Investigative Judgment.”

 

RH, November 1, 1850 (also found in EW:52):  “The Books are opened, the Book of Life and the Book of Death; the Book of Life contains the good deeds of the saints, and the Book of Death contains the evil deeds of the wicked.”

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