What a promise is here made upon condition of obedience! Do you have to cut loose from friends and relatives in deciding to obey the elevated truths of God’s word? Take courage, God has made provision for you, His arms are open to receive you. Come out from among them and be separate, and touch not the unclean, and He will receive you. He promises to be a Father unto you. Oh, what a relationship is this! higher and holier than any earthly tie. If you make the sacrifice, if you have to forsake father, mother, sisters, brothers, wife, and children for Christ’s sake, you will not be friendless. God adopts you into His family; you become members of the royal household, sons and daughters of the King who rules in the heaven of heavens. Can you desire a more exalted position than is here promised? Is not this enough? Said the angel: “What could God do for the children of men more than He has already done? If such love, such exalted promises are not appreciated, could He devise anything higher, anything richer and more lofty? All that God could do has been done for the salvation of man, and yet the hearts of the children of men have become hardened. Because of the multiplicity of the blessings with which God has surrounded them, they receive them as common things and forget their gracious Benefactor.” {1T 510.2}

Hvilket løfte, der her er givet på betingelse af lydighed! Har I afskåret jer fra venner og slægtninge og er besluttet på at adlyde Guds ords ophøjede sandheder? Fat mod, Gud har gjort tilvejebringelser for jer, hans arme er åbne for at tage imod jer. Skil jer ud, vær adskilt og rør ikke den urene, så vil han tage imod jer. Han lover at være en Fader for jer. Oh, hvilken forbindelse er der! højere og helligere end nogen jordiske bånd. Hvis I gør ofret, hvis I forlader fader, moder, søstre, brødre, hustru og børn for Kristi skyld, vil I ikke være venneløs. Gud optager jer i sin familie; I bliver medlemmer af himlenes kongelige husstand, sønner og døtre af den Konge som regerer over himlenes himle. Kan I ønske dig noget højere end det som er lovet her? Er dette ikke nok? Englen sagde: "Hvad kunne Gud gøre mere for menneskenes børn end hvad han allerede har gjort? Hvis en sådan kærlighed, så ophøjede (511) løfter ikke værdsættes, kunne han så finde på noget højere, noget rigere og mere ædelt? Alt hvad Gud kunne gøre er blevet gjort for menneskenes frelse og menneskernes hjerter blev alligevel forhærdet. Fordi de er omgivet af en så stor mangfoldighed af velsignelser fra Gud, tager de imod dem, som noget almindeligt og glemmer deres elskværdige Velgører."