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Selected Messages Book 1
God has made every provision that His purpose in the creation of
man shall not be frustrated by Satan. After Adam and Eve brought
death into the world by their disobedience, a costly sacrifice was
provided for the human race. A higher value than that they originally
possessed was placed upon them. By giving Christ, His only-begotten
Son, as a ransom for the world, God gave all heaven.
The acceptance of Christ gives value to the human being. His
sacrifice carries life and light to all who take Christ as their personal
Saviour. The love of God through Jesus Christ is shed abroad in
the heart of every member of His body, carrying with it the vitality
of the law of God the Father. Thus God may dwell with man, and
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man may dwell with God. Paul declared, “I am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which
I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved
me, and gave himself for me” (
Galatians 2:20
).
If through faith man becomes one with Christ, he can win life
everlasting. God loves those who are redeemed through Christ, even
as He loves His Son. What a thought! Can God love the sinner as He
loves His own Son?—Yes; Christ has said it, and He means just what
He says. He will honor all our drafts if we will grasp His promise
by living faith, and put our trust in Him. Look to Him, and live. All
who obey God are embraced in the prayer which Christ offered to
His Father, “I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it:
that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in
them” (
John 17:26
). Wonderful truth, too difficult for humanity to
comprehend!
Christ declares: “I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall
never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst” (
John
6:35
). “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which
seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and
I will raise him up at the last day” (
John 6:40
). “Verily, verily, I say
unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life” (
John 6:47
).
“Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye
have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is
meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh,
and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living
Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me,