Warnings Against Sensational Teachings and Emotional Religion

THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH IS BROUGHT TO VIEW IN PROPHECY IN THE SETTING OF CONFLICT, FOR SATAN, THE DRAGON, WAGES RELENTLESS WAR AGAINST THOSE WHO "KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS."

THE GREAT ADVERSARY KNOWS THAT IF HE IS SUCCESSFUL IN MISLEADING AND CONFUSING SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS, HE FRUSTRATES THE PURPOSES OF GOD.
HIS ATTACKS ARE USUALLY OF AN INSIDIOUS CHARACTER, AND OFTEN OF A NATURE, TENDING TO LEAD SINCERE MEN AND WOMEN TO SUCH EXTREMES, THAT THEY WILL BELIEVE A LIE.

THE MANY WARNINGS THAT FANATICISM IS TO BE REPEATED, SERVE TO ALERT THE CHURCH TO ITS DANGERS;

AND THE COUNSELS THE MESSENGER OF THE LORD HAS GIVEN,
CONCERNING VARIOUS TYPES OF FANATICAL OUTBREAK AND EMOTIONAL RELIGION, ARE OF GREAT SERVICE NOW IN SAFEGUARDING THE FLOCK.

THESE COUNSELS ARE OF PARTICULAR VALUE NOW,
AND WILL BE MORE ESSENTIAL AS WE NEAR THE EARTH'S CLOSING DAYS,

WHEN SATAN, THROUGH ONE SCHEME AND DEVICE AFTER ANOTHER, WILL ATTEMPT TO DECEIVE THE VERY ELECT.--WHITE TRUSTEES.

Take for instance...The Danger of Speculative Ideas


There is a time of trouble coming to the people of God, but we are not to keep that constantly before the people, and rein them up to have a time of trouble beforehand.
There is to be a shaking among God's people; but this is not the present truth to carry to the churches.
It will be the result of refusing the truth presented. {2SM 13.1}

1st class  The ministers should not feel that they have some wonderful advanced ideas,
and unless all receive these,
they will be shaken out,
and a people will arise to go forward and upward to the victory.

2nd class Satan's object is accomplished just as surely when men run ahead of Christ, and do the work He has never entrusted to their hands,
as when they remain in the Laodicean state, lukewarm, feeling rich and increased with goods, and in need of nothing.

The two classes are equally stumbling blocks. {2SM 13.2}

Some zealous ones, who are aiming and straining every energy for originality, have made a grave mistake in trying to get something startling, wonderful, entrancing, before the people, something that they think others do not comprehend;
but often, they do not, themselves, know what they are talking about.
They speculate upon God's Word, advancing ideas that are not a whit of help to themselves or to the churches.
For the time being, they may excite the imagination; but there is a reaction, and these very ideas become a hindrance.
Faith is confounded with fancy, and their views may bias the mind in the wrong direction.
Let the plain, simple statements of the Word of God be food for the mind; this speculating upon ideas that are not clearly presented there, is dangerous business.--Undated manuscript 111. {2SM 13.3}

The danger that threatens our churches is that new and strange things will be brought in, things that confuse the minds of the people, and give them no strength, at the very time when they most need strength in spiritual things. Clear discernment is needed, that things, new and strange, shall not be laid alongside of truth, as a part of the burden of the message to be given at this time.
The very messages we have been giving to the world are to be made prominent. --An Appeal for Canvassers, pp. 1, 2. {2SM 14.1}
 
The question is:  What are "The Very Messages"?