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SAVED BY HIS LIFE

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · May 31, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 22.

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SAVED BY HIS LIFE.

By M. C. Israel

1. How can man be reconciled to God, and have his sins forgiven? "By the death of His Son." Rom. 5:10. See also 2 Cor. 5:21; Gal. 3:13.
2. After receiving pardon for our past sins, how are we saved from sinning? "Much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life." Rom. 5:10.
3. What is Christ to all who receive Him? "The Word," "the Life." John 1:1, 4.
4. What does Christ say of His words? "They are spirit, and they are life." John 6:63.
5. What is there inseparably connected with the Word that gives life? "It is the Spirit that quickeneth," or giveth life. See Eph. 2:1, 5, 6.
6. The Holy Spirit and life are contained in the Word of God. "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." John 6:63. "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God," "God breathed." 2 Tim. 3:16. "He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost." John 20:22. God's breath is life, and the Word given by it is life.
7. What was God's purpose in establishing His law for the intelligent beings of the universe? "Which if a man do, he shall live." Lev. 17:4, 5. It was "ordained to life." Rom. 7:10. "Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life." Rev. 22:14.
8. What results from the transgression of the law? "Sin is the transgression of the law." 1 John 3:4. "The wages of sin is death." "And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death." Rom. 6:23; 7:10.
9. Whose words did Christ speak, that were spirit and life? "The Father which sent Me, He gave Me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that His commandment is life everlasting." John 12:49, 50.
10. The Word and the Spirit being life, and inseparable from each other, when we receive the Spirit, what will it cause us to do? "I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them." Eze. 36:27.
11. The law of God, the obedience to which gives life, was in Christ's heart? "I delight to do Thy will, O my God; yea, Thy law is within my heart." Ps. 40:8.
12. The same law is in the hearts of all His children. "Saith the Lord, I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them." Heb. 10:15, 16.
13. It is the same Spirit of life that was in Christ Jesus that delivers us from the law of sin that is in our members. "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." Rom. 8:2. His death, and His life in us, make us also free from the condemnation of the law of God.
14. What did Christ's example while here in the flesh do for sin in our flesh? "Condemned sin in the flesh." Verse 3.
15. If we receive this Spirit of life from Christ Jesus, and walk in it, what will it cause to be fulfilled in us? "That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." Verse 4. See also Eze. 36:27: "Cause you to walk in My statutes."
16. If the Word is spirit and life, should we not search the Word and take in large draughts of its life-giving spirit? "Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are they which testify of Me." John 5:39. "If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink. . . . This spake He of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive; for the Holy Ghost was not yet given." Verses 37-39. NOTE.—By receiving the Word, we receive Christ and the Spirit of life that is in Him; this keeps us from committing sin. See 1 John 3:4-9.
17. What will the Spirit do for all who receive it? "Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities." It "searcheth the hearts," and "maketh intercession" for us "according to the will of God." Rom. 8:26, 27.
18. Is God willing to give us His Holy Spirit so fully that we can live without breaking His law? "He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" Verse 32. "How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?" Luke 11:13.
19. What company will be found, when the Lord comes, bearing all the fruits of the Spirit? "They are without fault before the throne of God." "Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." Rev. 14:5, 12.
20. In order to be found in this company, what command of Christ must we obey? "Receive ye the Holy Ghost." John 20:22. M. C. ISRAEL.