Saving Faith
"If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved”
"If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved”
"If you would gather together everything that is good and holy and noble and lovely in man, and then present the subject to the angels of God as acting a part in the salvation of the human soul or in merit, the proposition would be rejected as treason" (1888 Materials p. 816.1).
The preaching of Christ and Him crucified is the preaching of the power of God, and therefore it is the preaching of the Gospel, for the Gospel is the power of God. ... The conclusion therefore is that the Gospel is the revelation of Jesus Christ in men.
The church has no right to make laws for itself, nor for anybody else, for in that case the body would be assuming the functions of the head, and the result would be a monster. The business of the church, and of all in it, is to obey the Head, and not to rule.
There is no difficulty whatever in the Scriptures [regarding this question]; the difficulty comes in the attempt to reconcile the truth of the Bible with an impossible theory of human invention.
"Although connection with the church is proper and a source of great benefit to the individual when the church is not in a fallen state, his relation to God and to the Gospel is the same as though he were living alone upon an island in the midst of the sea."
There is a "rumor" that has become popular in the Church - that James was confused about the gospel and had mostly an Old Covenant understanding - that he was not truly a New Covenant writer.
There was one thing at which our Lord Himself marveled while here on the earth, and that was unbelief.
One of the most wonderful things about the Gospel is its simplicity. There is nothing complicated about it. It consist of principles, not of rules; and these principles are so few and easily comprehended that children of tender years can understand them.
Whoever therefore is armed with the mind with which Christ resisted temptation, suffers with Him; and he conquers with Him also.