YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN by C. P. Whitford

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 19, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 12.

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YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN

By C. P. Whitford

C. P. WHITFORD

(Orlando, Fla.)

I. Do WE belong to ourselves?—“Ye are bought.” I Cor. 6: 19, 20.

2. Who purchased us?—Christ “gave himself for us.” Titus 2: 13, 14.

3. Whom were we serving when Christ bought us?—“The prince of the power of the air.” Eph. 2: 2. We were “children of disobedience;” and by nature the “children of wrath.” V. 3.

4. Did Christ purchase us because we were good? Rom. 5: 8; I Tim. 1: 15.

5. Did Christ purchase anything besides us?—Yes; He purchased our sins. Gal. 1: 3, 4. “All unrighteousness is sin.” I John 5: 17.

6. What does He want of us and our sins?—He wants to redeem us from all iniquity, all unrighteousness, all sin, so that when sin is destroyed, we shall not be destroyed with it. Titus 2: 14. Our sins, and all that we have and are, belong to the Lord, but He will not take us nor our sins against our will. Deut. 30:19. “Choose life.”