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tained. The sinner is pardoned through repentance toward God and
faith in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. There is forgiveness of sin,
and yet the law of God stands immutable, eternal as His throne. There
is no such thing as weakening or strengthening the law of Jehovah. As
it has always been, so it is. It cannot be repealed or changed in one
principle. It is eternal, immutable as God Himself.—
Manuscript 163,
1897
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Satan endeavored to keep hidden from the world the great atoning
sacrifice which reveals the law in all its sacred dignity, and impresses
hearts with the force of its binding claims. He was warring against the
work of Christ, and united all his evil angels with human instrumentali-
ties in opposition to that work. But while he was carrying on this work,
heavenly intelligences were combining with human instrumentalities
in the work of restoration. The cross stands as the great center of
the world, bearing a certain testimony that the cross of Christ will be
the condemnation of every transgressor of the law of God. Here are
the two great powers, the power of truth and righteousness and the
working of Satan to make of none effect the law of God.—
Manuscript
61, 1899
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The death of Christ removes every argument that Satan could bring
against the precepts of Jehovah. Satan has declared that men could not
enter the kingdom of heaven unless the law was abolished, and a way
devised by which transgressors could be reinstated into the favor of
God, and made heirs of heaven. He made the claim that the law must
be changed, that the reins of government must be slackened in heaven,
that sin must be tolerated, and sinners pitied and saved in their sins.
But every such plea was cast aside when Christ died as a substitute
for the sinner.—
The Signs of the Times, May 21, 1912
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