Name: Jobeth Karl G.

Cadao Date: August 27, 2023

ID No.: 230713 Code: MACR 101
Program: Juris Doctor I

Assignment. Critique Paper.

“I Used to be Perfect”
George Knight

George Knight started his lecture with a strong statement, “I used to be

Perfect”. Owing to this statement was because he is Seventh-day Adventist
and because Jesus was going to come, and he wanted in all sincerity to be
ready. In short, he wanted translation faith, translation character, and
translation protection. As a converted Seventh-day Adventist, Knight
witnessed how the church was being challenged by the enemy. How
temptations gatecrash the church as well as the people within it. He also gave
emphasis on how sin attacks God’s authority hence the importance of
Commandments keeping in the last days. Furthermore, he cited Revelation
chapter 14 as his key text reference, which was divided into three parts: (1)
The Lamb and the 144,000 (2) The Three Angels' Messages (3) Jesus coming
from the clouds of heaven. Perhaps, this lecture sermon of George Knight
discusses some of the most fundamental issues surrounding salvation by
reflecting on his own early battles with legalism.

Oftentimes, people want to be perfect. However, because of their desire

to be perfect, they become more vulnerable to the enemy’s temptations. As
Knight states his paradox in my perfection, the more people thought about my
perfection, the more self-centered they became. The more people thought
about their perfection the more negative they became. The more people
thought about their perfection, the more judgmental they became. The more
people thought about their perfection the more the harsher they became. Put
simply, the harder people try, the worse they become. Needless to say, it was
difficult to live with because people try to be perfect. Nevertheless, people
were trying to perfectly reproduce the character of Christ and people came
fairly close to reproducing the character of the devil.

People sought to be perfect in front of God. However, in doing so,

people forget that what God really wants is for us not to be perfect but to be
the most loving people in the face of the earth. A sign of sanctification is
absorbing the love of even with people you don’t know, agree with, or like.
Let us not be confused with perfection such as doing what we think is the
likeness of God to the point where we become hypocrites and Pharisees
because that is where temptations and sins come to action. The way to
salvation is not by perfection but by love. Moreover, God doesn’t want people
to change just the outside self but also the inside. People might seem perfect
on the outside but sinner on the inside, and that is not what a Christlike
character portrays. As SDAs, we have to be known as the people who love
Jesus and as people who love other people.