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The Saving Power of Jesus, March 31
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my
strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I
rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest
upon me.
2 Corinthians 12:9
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Our precious Saviour has invited us to join ourselves to Him and
unite our weakness with His strength, our ignorance with His wisdom,
our unworthiness with His merit.
Rigid precision in obeying the law would entitle no man to enter the
kingdom of heaven.
There must be a new birth, a new mind through the operation of the
Spirit of God, which purifies the life and ennobles the character. This
connection with God fits man for the glorious kingdom of heaven. No
human invention can ever find a remedy for the sinning soul.
There must be a power working from within, a new life from above,
before men can be changed from sin to holiness. That power is Christ.
His grace alone can quicken the lifeless faculties of the soul, and attract
it to God, to holiness.... The idea that it is necessary only to develop the
good that exists in man by nature, is a fatal deception. “The natural man
receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto
him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
1 Corinthians 2:14
.... Of Christ it is written, “In him was life; and the
life was the light of men”—the only “name under heaven given among
men, whereby we must be saved.”
John 1:4
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Acts 4:12
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Paul the apostle ... longed for the purity, the righteousness, to which
in himself he was powerless to attain, and he cried out, “O wretched man
that I am! who shall deliver me from this body of death?”
Romans 7:24
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margin. Such is the cry that has gone up from burdened hearts in all
lands and in all ages. To all, there is but one answer, “Behold the Lamb
of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”
John 1:29
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