It's a good message but remember, trying to reach heaven by obedience is attempting an impossibility. Getting to the root of it, we need a new heart, given to us by His grace through His Holy Spirit. Then the result of that new heart will be the fruit of obedience. We need a new birth daily.
From Chapter 17 "Nicodemus" from the book "Desire of Ages":
He who is trying to reach heaven by his own works in keeping the law is attempting an impossibility. There is no safety for one who has merely a legal religion, a form of godliness. The Christian's life is not a modification or improvement of the old, but a transformation of nature. There is a death to self and sin, and a new life altogether. This change can be brought about only by the effectual working of the Holy Spirit…
Through faith we receive the grace of God; but faith is not our Saviour. It earns nothing. It is the hand by which we lay hold upon Christ, and appropriate His merits, the remedy for sin. And we cannot even repent without the aid of the Spirit of God. The Scripture says of Christ, "Him hath God exalted with His right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins." Acts 5:31. Repentance comes from Christ as truly as does pardon.
How, then, are we to be saved? "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness," so the Son of man has been lifted up, and everyone who has been deceived and bitten by the serpent may look and live. "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the [176] world." John 1:29. The light shining from the cross reveals the love of God. His love is drawing us to Himself. If we do not resist this drawing, we shall be led to the foot of the cross in repentance for the sins that have crucified the Saviour. Then the Spirit of God through faith produces a new life in the soul. The thoughts and desires are brought into obedience to the will of Christ. The heart, the mind, are created anew in the image of Him who works in us to subdue all things to Himself. Then the law of God is written in the mind and heart, and we can say with Christ, "I delight to do Thy will, O my God." Psalm 40:8.
God himself says I will never forsake you. I will never let you out of my hands. Is God lying? Don't think so. Adventist believe they can participate in salvation. They can't
…but the man who prayed at the beginning, doesn't he know we ought to end our prayers in the name of Jesus? He just said 'amen'. Remember He is our intercessor.
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It's a good message but remember, trying to reach heaven by obedience is attempting an impossibility. Getting to the root of it, we need a new heart, given to us by His grace through His Holy Spirit. Then the result of that new heart will be the fruit of obedience. We need a new birth daily.
From Chapter 17 "Nicodemus" from the book "Desire of Ages":
He who is trying to reach heaven by his own works in keeping the law is attempting an impossibility. There is no safety for one who has merely a legal religion, a form of godliness. The Christian's life is not a modification or improvement of the old, but a transformation of nature. There is a death to self and sin, and a new life altogether. This change can be brought about only by the effectual working of the Holy Spirit…
Through faith we receive the grace of God; but faith is not our Saviour. It earns nothing. It is the hand by which we lay hold upon Christ, and appropriate His merits, the remedy for sin. And we cannot even repent without the aid of the Spirit of God. The Scripture says of Christ, "Him hath God exalted with His right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins." Acts 5:31. Repentance comes from Christ as truly as does pardon.
How, then, are we to be saved? "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness," so the Son of man has been lifted up, and everyone who has been deceived and bitten by the serpent may look and live. "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the [176] world." John 1:29. The light shining from the cross reveals the love of God. His love is drawing us to Himself. If we do not resist this drawing, we shall be led to the foot of the cross in repentance for the sins that have crucified the Saviour. Then the Spirit of God through faith produces a new life in the soul. The thoughts and desires are brought into obedience to the will of Christ. The heart, the mind, are created anew in the image of Him who works in us to subdue all things to Himself. Then the law of God is written in the mind and heart, and we can say with Christ, "I delight to do Thy will, O my God." Psalm 40:8.
God himself says I will never forsake you. I will never let you out of my hands. Is God lying? Don't think so. Adventist believe they can participate in salvation. They can't
…but the man who prayed at the beginning, doesn't he know we ought to end our prayers in the name of Jesus? He just said 'amen'. Remember He is our intercessor.
I admit that I was the fearful type (lost faith)…I turned from God. I turn to God now. π