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sin can be endowed with life only through the work wrought out upon
the cross by the Author of our salvation.—
Manuscript 31, 1890
.
Hanging upon the cross Christ was the gospel.... This is our
message, our argument, our doctrine, our warning to the impenitent,
our encouragement for the sorrowing, the hope for every believer. If
we can awaken an interest in men’s minds that will cause them to fix
their eyes on Christ, we may step aside, and ask them only to continue
to fix their eyes upon the Lamb of God.—
Manuscript 49, 1898
.
Gather up the strongest affirmative statements regarding the atone-
ment made by Christ for the sins of the world. Show the necessity for
this atonement.—
Evangelism, 187
.
The fact that the companions of Christ in His crucifixion were
placed the one on His right hand and the other on His left is a significant
one; His cross is placed in the very center of the world.—
Manuscript
52, 1897
.
Christ and Him crucified, is the message God would have His
servants sound through the length and breadth of the world. The law
and the gospel will then be presented as a perfect whole.—
The Review
and Herald, September 29, 1896
.
Never should a sermon be preached, or Bible instruction in any line
be given, without pointing the hearers to “the Lamb of God, which
taketh away the sin of the world.”
John 1:29
. Every true doctrine
makes Christ the center, every precept receives force from His words.—
Testimonies, vol. 6, p. 54.
To remove the cross from the Christian would be like blotting out
the sun from the sky. The cross brings us near to God, reconciling us
to Him.... Without the cross, man could have no union with the Father.
On it depends our every hope.—
The Acts of the Apostles, 209, 210
.
The study of the incarnation of Christ, His atoning sacrifice, and
mediatorial work, will employ the mind of the diligent student as long
as time shall last.—
Gospel Workers, 251
.
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Christ crucified for our sins, Christ risen from the dead, Christ
ascended on high, is the science of salvation that we are to learn and
to teach.—
Testimonies for the Church 8:287
.
No discourse should ever be presented without presenting Christ
and Him crucified as the foundation of the gospel.—
Testimonies for
the Church 4:394
.