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-The mission statement tells what God is doing now to achieve His vision.
+The mission describes in a nutshell what God is doing now to fulfill His vision. It defines movement toward the final goal.
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-**"To reveal God's character of love, to expose and defeat Satan's plans, and to reconcile and restore fallen humanity through the atoning sacrifice of Jesus."**
+**"To reveal God's character of love, to expose and defeat Satan's plans, and to restore fallen humanity through the atoning sacrifice of Jesus."**
-===== Demonstrate to the universe My character of love through Jesus =====
+> Through the plan of salvation, a larger purpose is to be wrought out even than the salvation of man and the redemption of the earth. Through the revelation of the character of God in Christ, the beneficence of the divine government will be manifested before the universe, the charge of Satan against God refuted, the nature and result of sin made plain, and the perpetuity of the law fully demonstrated. Satan had declared that the law of God was faulty, and that the good of the universe demanded a change in its requirements. In attacking the law, he thought to overthrow the authority of its Author, and gain for himself the supreme allegiance. But through the plan of salvation, the precepts of the law were to be proved perfect and immutable, that at last one tide of glory and love might go up throughout the universe, ascribing glory and honour and praise to Him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb forever and ever. (BEcho July 15,  1893, par. 3).
+===== Reveal God's character of love =====
 > And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation." Exodus 34:6-7
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 > Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." John 14:6
-===== Seek and save lost people =====
+> The Godhead was stirred with pity for the race, and the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit gave themselves to the working out of the plan of redemption. In order fully to carry out this plan, it was decided that Christ, the only begotten Son of God, should give Himself an offering for sin. **What line can measure the depth of this love?** God would make it impossible for man to say that He could have done more. With Christ He gave all the resources of heaven, that nothing might be wanting in the plan for man's uplifting. Here is love—the contemplation of which should fill the soul with inexpressible gratitude!  Oh, what love, **what matchless love**! The contemplation of this love will cleanse the soul from all selfishness. It will lead the disciple to deny self, take up the cross, and follow the Redeemer." (PH148 5.3).
-> for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. Luke 19:10
-> But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
-===== Reconciles people to Myself =====
+> The plan of salvation, devised prior to the beginning of time, **expresses the love of Christ to man**, the devotion of the Son to the Father's glory. “To the intent that now the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.” This eternal purpose embodied before the universe the glory of the divine love in the salvation of man. (ST November 21,  1892, par. 8).
-> Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:18-19
+===== Expose and defeat Satan's plans =====
-===== Sanctify people through My truth =====
-> Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. John 17:17
+===== Redeem fallen humanity =====
-===== Works through people as My ambassadors =====
+===== What Finished When? =====
-> And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. Matthew 24:14
+Jesus' sacrifice on the cross was for everyone. It was complete. The agreement made between God and Jesus was fulfilled. Jesus secured salvation for “whoever believes.” But Jesus' work did not end. His work continued in the Holy Place, then in 1844 progressed to the Most Holy Place in the most solemn work of the Investigative Judgment.
-Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth--to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people Revelation 14:6
+[[what_finished_when|What Finished When?]]
-Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. 2 Corinthians 5:20
-For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, you are God's building. 1 Corinthians 3:9
-How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,  Who bring glad tidings of good things!" Romans 10:14-15
-"Through all ages God has spoken and worked by human instrumentalities. God has given to men their faculties, and he expects them to use them and by use to improve their abilities. They are to employ these faculties in rescuing truth from the rubbish of error where it has been made to serve the cause of the great adversary. The gems of truth are imperishable, and the Lord would have them gathered up and placed in their proper relation, that they may embellish and adorn the doctrine of Christ our Saviour. Truth is to be communicated from one human agent to another and to be molded into the life and character of those who receive it, in order that glory may redound to God. Truth that has found its proper setting, flashes brilliant rays of divine light into darkened minds, and meets the wants and necessities of the minds and hearts of fallen men who could not be reached by any other agency. It is by living out the truth in human life that souls are to be reached. As the Son of God in human form was perfect in his life, so he requires that his followers shall be perfect in their lives. He was made in all things like unto his brethren. He hungered, he thirsted, he was weary, he slept, he wept, and yet he was the blameless Son of God, he was God in the flesh. He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin, and we have not a high-priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities. He knows how to succor those that are tempted. In living out the truth of God, man is continually assured that supernatural help will be granted to him, and that while he retains his human nature, yet through an unseen agency he receives the impress of the divine nature through the truth as it is in Jesus." (RH October 23,  1894, par. 9).