Chapter 1—Ministers the Benefits of Complete
Atoning Sacrifice
These are our themes—Christ crucified for our sins, Christ risen
from the dead, Christ our intercessor before God; and closely con-
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nected with these is the office work of the Holy Spirit.—
Evangelism,
187
.
The great Sacrifice had been offered and had been accepted, and
the Holy Spirit which descended on the day of Pentecost carried the
minds of the disciples from the earthly sanctuary to the heavenly,
where Jesus had entered by His own blood, to shed upon His disciples
the benefits of His atonement.—
Early Writings, 260
.
Our Saviour is in the sanctuary pleading in our behalf. He is our
interceding High Priest, making an atoning sacrifice for us, pleading
in our behalf the efficacy of His blood.—
Fundamentals of Christian
Education, 370
.
Every one who will break from the slavery and service of Satan,
and will stand under the blood-stained banner of Prince Immanuel,
will be kept by Christ’s intercessions. Christ, as our Mediator, at the
right hand of the Father, ever keeps us in view, for it is as necessary
that He should keep us by His intercessions as that He should redeem
us with His blood. If He lets go His hold of us for one moment, Satan
stands ready to destroy. Those purchased by His blood, He now keeps
by His intercession.—
Manuscript 73, 1893
.
Thank God that He who spilled His blood for us, lives to plead
it, lives to make intercession for every soul who receives Him.... We
need to keep ever before us the efficacy of the blood of Jesus. That
life-cleansing, life-sustaining blood, appropriated by living faith, is
our hope. We need to grow in appreciation of its inestimable value,
for it speaks for us only as we by faith claim its virtue, keeping the
conscience clean and at peace with God.
This is represented as the pardoning blood, inseparably connected
with the resurrection and life of our Redeemer, illustrated by the ever-
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