How Enter the Kingdom

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 27, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 52.

How Enter the Kingdom

1752.—How Enter the Kingdom.

What is the law of admission in the kingdom, or the church of Christ? S.

Jesus states it in Mark 1:15, "Repent ye, and believe in the Gospel." Peter states it in Acts 2:38, "Repent ye, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins;" and in 3:19, "Repent ye therefore, and turn again that your sins may be blotted out." Paul, in Acts 20:21, "Repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ." Repentance is godly sorrow for sin, and turning away from it. "Sin is the transgression of the law." 1 John 3:4. True repentance, therefore, is turning from transgression of the law to obedience to the law. Faith lays hold upon the power and righteousness of Jesus Christ, which brings us into harmony with the law, and that faith is expressed in baptism, or union with Christ; that we may bring forth the fruit of righteousness unto God. Rom. 7:4; 8:4.