People who wish to excuse themselves from obeying the Fourth Commandment as it reads, will often say that Sunday commemorates the work of redemption, because Christ rose on the first day of the week, while the seventh day commemorates creation, and since redemption is greater than creation, it is better to observe the first day than the seventh.
I would speak in warning to those who have stood for years resisting light and cherishing the spirit of opposition. How long will you hate and despise the messengers1 of God’s righteousness? God has given them His message. They bear the word of the Lord. There is salvation for you, but only through the merits of Jesus Christ. The grace of the Holy Spirit has been offered you again and again.
"OUT of the depths have I cried unto Thee, 0 Lord." Ps. 130:1. And he did not cry in vain. The depths from which he cried were the depths of sin; for he said, "If Thou, Lord, shouldst mark iniquity, 0 Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared." "Let Israel hope in the Lord; for with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him is plenteous redemption. And He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities." So out of the depths of iniquity we may cry to the Lord, with the assurance that He will gladly help us.
"The principle of looking to 'the church' for spiritual guidance is the principle of the Papacy, and is consistent with papal assumptions and claims,—implying as it does that God is far off from mankind, so that he needs a vice-regent here to carry on his work." E. J. Waggoner.
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No one has anything in him out of which righteousness can be made. Thus the righteousness of God is put, literally, into and upon all that believe. Then they are both clothed with righteousness, and filled with it, according to the Scripture. In fact, they then become "the righteousness of God" in Christ. And how is this accomplished? God declares His righteousness upon the one who believes. To declare is to speak.
Abraham expected to offer Isaac for a burnt-offering, and expected then to see Isaac rise from the ashes and go back with him.
"The knowledge of what the Scripture means when urging upon us the necessity of cultivating faith, is more important than any other knowledge that can be obtained."
Faith is the depending upon the word of God only, and expecting that word only, to do what the word says.
In 1898 and 1899, A. T. Jones wrote, in the Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, a series of articles on Faith.
He used a statement by Ellen G. White as the basis for this series and they are well worth the reading and understanding.
Faith is the expecting the word of God to do what the word says, and depending upon that word to do what the word says.
When this is clearly discerned, it is perfectly easy to see how it is that "faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."