Chapter 117—The Christian's Watchword Dear Brother B, I was shown that you move much from feeling instead of from firm principle. You lack a deep and thorough experience in the things of God. You need to be wholly converted to the truth. When a man's heart is fully converted, all that he possesses is consecrated to the Lord. This consecration you have not yet experienced. You love the truth in word, but do not manifest that love in your deeds and by your fruits. Your acts, your deeds, are evidences of the sincerity of your love, or of your indifference to God, His cause, and your fellow men. 1T 690.1 How did Christ manifest His love for poor mortals? By the sacrifice of His own glory, His own riches, and even His most precious life. Christ consented to a life of humiliation and great suffering. He submitted to the cruel mockings of an infuriated, murderous multitude, and to the most agonizing death upon the cross. Said Christ: “This is My commandment, That ye love one another, as I hav…
"Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."
The EGW passage directly references the principle of judging by fruits, echoing Matthew 7:20.
"They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate."
The EGW passage discusses the manifestation of love through deeds, contrasting with a profession of faith without corresponding actions. This directly echoes the sentiment in Titus 1:16, which speaks of those who profess to know God but deny Him in their works.