Chapter 10—Heavenly Advocate Retains Human
Nature Forever
Christ ascended to heaven, bearing a sanctified, holy humanity.
He took this humanity with Him into the heavenly courts, and through
the eternal ages He will bear it, as the One who has redeemed every
human being in the city of God.—
The Review and Herald, March 9,
1905
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By His appointment He [the Father] has placed at His altar an
Advocate clothed with our nature. As our Intercessor, His office work
is to introduce us to God as His sons and daughters. Christ intercedes
in behalf of those who have received Him. To them He gives power,
by virtue of His own merits, to become members of the royal family,
children of the heavenly King.—
Testimonies for the Church 6:363,
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It is our privilege to contemplate Jesus by faith, and see Him
standing between humanity and the eternal throne. He is our Advocate,
presenting our prayers and offerings as spiritual sacrifices to God.
Jesus is the great, sinless propitiation, and through His merit, God and
man may hold converse together. Christ has carried His humanity into
eternity. He stands before God as the representative of our race.—
The
Youth’s Instructor, October 28, 1897
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Jesus could give alone security to God; for He was equal with
God. He alone could be a mediator between God and man; for He
possessed divinity and humanity. Jesus could thus give security to
both parties for the fulfillment of the prescribed conditions. As the
Son of God He gives security to God in our behalf, and as the eternal
Word, as one equal with the Father, He assures us of the Father’s love
to usward who believe His pledged word. When God would assure us
of His immutable counsel of peace, He gives His only begotten Son to
become one of the human family, forever to retain His human nature
as a pledge that God will fulfil His word.—
The Review and Herald,
April 3, 1894
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