{"id":11059,"date":"2022-06-12T13:29:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T13:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/?p=11059"},"modified":"2022-06-12T13:29:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T13:29:25","slug":"hold-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/hold-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold Fast!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10 June 2022, St Louis, USA [Ted Wilson]<\/p>\n<p>Hold fast to:<\/p>\n<p>1. The biblical truth that the Godhead is constituted by three divine and equal Persons who have and will exist from eternity to eternity.<\/p>\n<p>2. Simplicity in Christian lifestyle, personal dress, conduct in church life, and everyday activities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11061 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-10.jpg 630w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-10-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-10-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-10-350x197.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a>3. Biblical truths and their rele\u00advancy for today, despite persecution. Avoid issues that are distractions from God\u2019s last-day three angels\u2019 messages.<\/p>\n<p>4. Your careful observance of the seventh-day Sabbath commemorating biblical creation, accomplished by God recently in six literal days.<\/p>\n<p>5. A simple, healthy lifestyle, including a plant-based diet according to biblical and Spirit of Prophecy counsel.<\/p>\n<p>6. The unity in the church that God provides to all who focus their lives on Christ and His full biblical truth.<\/p>\n<p>7. God\u2019s biblical institution of marriage between one man and one woman. God\u2019s Word confirms biblical marriage, biblical human sexuality, and the biblical family as instituted by God at creation.<\/p>\n<p>8. In humility to biblical respect for church authority, showing respect for God working in His church through appropriate bodies and careful observance of Bible and Spirit of Prophecy counsel.<\/p>\n<p>9. Your great appreciation, use, and promotion of the Spirit of Prophecy\u2014the writings of Ellen G. White. This is a heavenly gift to this church.<\/p>\n<p>10. Biblical church growth principles as revealed in the Spirit of Prophecy.<\/p>\n<p>11. Your faithfulness to God\u2019s unique Advent movement, resisting any compromise with ecumenism and neutralisation of the pure Word of God.<\/p>\n<p>12. The core of our salvation and the everlasting gospel\u2014Christ\u2019s justifying righteousness by faith and His sanctifying righteousness by the Holy Spirit working in us.<\/p>\n<p>13. All the wonderful, Christ-centred 28 Fundamental Beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, including our understanding of prophecy.<\/p>\n<p>14. Your daily leaning on the Lord through personal Bible study and prayer. God\u2019s Word will sustain you in all that you face.<\/p>\n<p>15. Simple biblical church worship patterned after Revelation 4, giving glory only to God and not to human beings.<\/p>\n<p>16. Proactive and wide-scale circulation of heaven-inspired Spirit of Prophecy books.<\/p>\n<p>17. Your firm belief that Jesus is coming soon and that you are to get involved!<\/p>\n<p>18. Biblical inspiration, rejecting humanism and popular social culture that attempt to destroy God\u2019s revelation.<\/p>\n<p>19. The beauty of the sanctuary and its services which point to the everlasting gospel\u2014Jesus Christ, the Lamb slain on the cross.<\/p>\n<p>20. The biblical day\/year principle of interpreting biblical prophecy allowing the Bible to interpret itself.<\/p>\n<p>21. The historical biblical\/historical grammatical approach to interpreting Scripture, the only hermeneutical approach approved by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.<\/p>\n<p>22. The biblical and Spirit of Prophecy understanding that the shaking and sifting of God\u2019s church will take place before Christ returns.<\/p>\n<p>23. The precious understanding we are God\u2019s worldwide remnant Seventh-day Adventist Church in 200-plus countries supporting each other, avoiding the mission-destroying concept of congregationalism.<\/p>\n<p>24. The wonderful foundation of God\u2019s government based on love\u2014His eternal law including His Ten Commandments.<\/p>\n<p>25. God\u2019s special plan of health reform and comprehensive health ministry as you advocate a healthy lifestyle of God\u2019s eight natural remedies.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This article was originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/adventistreview.org\/gc-news\/hold-fast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adventist Review\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Photos: Jim Botha]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Hold Fast\u2019 Elder Wilson\u2019s key message to Session delegates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1577],"tags":[1136,795,1096,147],"class_list":["post-11059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-organisational-updates","tag-delegates","tag-gc-session","tag-general-conference","tag-ted-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11065,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11059\/revisions\/11065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}