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Chapter 23
18-25
. See
EGW comment on Matthew 27:15-26
.
20-23
. See
EGW comment on Matthew 27:22, 23
.
23, 24
. See
EGW comment on Matthew 27:25, 26
.
26
. See
EGW comment on Matthew 27:32
.
33
. See
EGW comment on Matthew 27:38
.
38
. See
EGW comment on Matthew 27:37
.
40-43. Salvation in the Last Hours of Life
—Some among the
redeemed will have laid hold of Christ in the last hours of life, and
in heaven instruction will be given to these, who, when they died,
did not understand perfectly the plan of salvation. Christ will lead
the redeemed ones beside the river of life, and will open to them
that which while on this earth they could not understand (
Letter 203,
1905
).
42, 43. Dying Sinner Lays Hold on Dying Saviour
—To the
last of His work Christ is a sin-pardoner. At deepest midnight, as the
Star of Bethlehem was about to sink into oblivion, lo there shines
amid the moral darkness with distinct brightness the faith of a dying
sinner as he lays hold upon a dying Saviour.
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Such faith may be represented by the eleventh hour laborers who
receive as much reward as do those who have labored for many
hours. The thief asked in faith, in penitence, in contrition. He asked
in earnestness, as if he fully realized that Jesus could save him if He
would. And the hope in his voice was mingled with anguish as he
realized that if He did not, he would be lost, eternally lost. He cast
his helpless, dying soul and body on Jesus Christ (
Manuscript 52,
1897
).
44
. See
EGW comment on Matthew 27:45
.
45
. See
EGW comment on Matthew 27:51
.
46
. See
EGW comment on Matthew 27:50
;
19:30
.
46, 47
. See
EGW comment on Matthew 27:45, 46
.
47
. See
EGW comment on Matthew 27:54
.
139